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That's easy, why not go to the dark room? There we can do it without anyone bothering us. I've been waiting for you to come there for several days." `Those visits to the dark room are just what I have to talk to you about." Chencha interrupted their conversation to inform them that the Loboses had just arrived at the party, and everyone was waiting for them to cut the bread. So Tita and Pedro had no choice but to postpone their conversation and carry the bread to the dining room, where it was anxiously awaited. As they crossed the hallway, Tita saw her mother, motionless beside the door to the dining room, throwing her a furious look. She was petrified. Pulque began to bark at Mama Elena, who was walking toward Tita threateningly. The fur on the dog's back was sticking straight up from fear and he was backing away, on the defensive. In his excitement, he put his back leg into the brass spittoon that stood at the end of the hall, next to the fern, and when he tried to run away, he knocked it over, spraying its contents in every direction. The uproar he created drew the attention of the twelve guests, who were all sitting together in the living room. Alarmed, they looked out into the hall, and Pedro was forced to explain that Pulque did this type of inexplicable thing lately, perhaps because he was getting old, but that everything was under control. Nevertheless Paquita Lobo could see that Tita was on the verge of fainting. She asked someone else to help Pedro carry the bread to the dining room since she saw that Tita was not feeling well. She took her arm and led her to the living room. She made Tita sniff some smelling salts, and soon she had recovered completely. They then decided to go to the dining room. Before leaving, Paquita detained Tita briefly and asked: `Are you feeling all right? I notice you still seem a little dizzy, and the look on your face! If I didn't know - I 1/ perfectly well that you are a decent girl, I would swear that you are pregnant." Tita, laughing and trying to appear casual, replied to her. `Pregnant? Only you would think of something like that! And what does the look on my face have to do with it?" "I can tell from a woman's eyes the minute she becomes pregnant." Tita was grateful to Pulque who again rescued her from an awkward situation, since the incredible commotion that broke out on the patio kept her from having to continue this conversation with Paquita. Besides Pulque's barking she could hear the sound of several horses galloping. All the guests were already in the house. Who could it be at this hour? Tita hurried to the door, opened it, and saw what Pulque was making such a fuss over, a person riding at the head of a hand of
evolutionary soldiers. When they got close enough, she could see that the person in charge of that troop was none other than her sister Gertrudis. At her side rode the man who had carried her off years ago, Juan Alejandrez, now a general. Gertrudis got down from her horse and as if no time at all had passed, said confidently that since she knew it was the day they cut the Three Kings' bread, she had come for a good cup of freshly whipped hot chocolate. Tita, deeply moved, embraced her and led her straight to the table to grant her wish. In this house they made hot chocolate like nobody else's, since they took so much care with every step in making it, from its preparation to the whipping of the chocolate, yet another critical procedure. Inexpert beating can turn an excellent-quality chocolate into a disgusting dr she had recovered completely. They then decided to go to the dining room. Before leaving, Paquita detained Tita briefly and asked: `Are you feeling all right? I notice you still seem a little dizzy, and the look on your face! If I didn't know - I 1/ perfectly well that you are a decent girl, I would swear that you are pregnant." Tita, laughing and trying to appear casual, replied to her. `Pregnant? Only you would think of something like that! And what does the look on my face have to do with it?" "I can tell from a woman's eyes the minute she becomes pregnant." Tita was grateful to Pulque who again rescued her from an awkward situation, since the incredible commotion that broke out on the patio kept her from having to continue this conversation with Paquita. Besides Pulque's barking she could hear the sound of several horses galloping. All the guests were already in the house. Who could it be at this hour? Tita hurried to the door, opened it, and saw what Pulque was making such a fuss over, a person riding at the head of a hand of revolutionary soldiers. When they got close enough, she could see that the person in charge of that troop was none other than her sister Gertrudis. At her side rode the man who had carried her off years ago, Juan Alejandrez, now a general. Gertrudis got down from her horse and as if no time at all had passed, said confidently that since she knew it was the day they cut the Three Kings' bread, she had come for a good cup of freshly whipped hot chocolate. Tita, deeply moved, embraced her and led her straight to the table to grant her wish. In this house they made hot chocolate like nobody else's, since they took so much care with every step in making it, from its preparation to the whipping of the chocolate, yet another critical procedure. Inexpert beating can turn an excellent-quality chocolate into a disgusting drink, either by under- or overcooking, making it too thick or even burnt.
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that she had finally managed to sub
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you're excited-you're shaking and I
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kitchen table and were taking the e
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Tita on the other hand had always b
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She felt powerless against it, feel
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the whispers in the church, and she
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ed, on which the nuptial sheet was
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others it was easier. She just pret
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of the others, obviously the captai
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This woman desperately needed a man
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had swooped down on the ranch, set
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griddle, the sound of Tita's melodi
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frightened by stories of La Llorona
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