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Don
Silvio
was
a
ganadero
,
--
a
grazier
,
on
a
grand
scale
.
So
grand
that
his
ganaderia
was
leagues
in
length
and
breadth
,
and
contained
within
its
limits
many
thousands
of
horses
and
horned
cattle
.
He
lived
in
a
large
rectangular
one-storied
house
--
more
resembling
a
jail
than
a
dwelling
--
surrounded
by
extensive
enclosures
--
corrales
.
It
was
usually
a
quiet
place
;
except
during
the
time
of
the
herradero
,
or
cattle-branding
;
when
for
days
it
became
the
scene
of
a
festivity
almost
Homeric
.
These
occasions
were
only
of
annual
occurrence
.
At
all
other
times
the
old
haciendado
--
who
was
a
bachelor
to
boot
--
led
a
tranquil
and
somewhat
solitary
life
;
a
sister
older
than
himself
being
his
only
companion
.
There
were
occasional
exceptions
to
this
rule
:
when
his
charming
sobrina
rode
across
from
the
Rio
Grande
to
pay
him
and
his
sister
a
visit
.
Then
the
domicile
of
Don
Silvio
became
a
little
more
lively
.
Isidora
was
welcome
whenever
she
came
;
welcome
to
come
and
go
when
she
pleased
;
and
do
as
she
pleased
,
while
under
her
uncle
's
roof
.
The
sprightliness
of
her
character
was
anything
but
displeasing
to
the
old
haciendado
;
who
was
himself
far
from
being
of
a
sombre
disposition
.
Those
traits
,
that
might
have
appeared
masculine
in
many
other
lands
,
were
not
so
remarkable
in
one
,
where
life
is
held
by
such
precarious
tenure
;
where
the
country
house
is
oft
transformed
into
a
fortress
,
and
the
domestic
hearth
occasionally
bedewed
with
the
blood
of
its
inmates
!
Is
it
surprising
that
in
such
a
land
women
should
be
found
,
endowed
with
those
qualities
that
have
been
ascribed
to
Isidora
?
If
so
,
it
is
not
the
less
true
that
they
exist
.
As
a
general
thing
the
Mexican
woman
is
a
creature
of
the
most
amiable
disposition
;
douce
--
if
we
may
be
allowed
to
borrow
from
a
language
that
deals
more
frequently
with
feminine
traits
--
to
such
an
extent
,
as
to
have
become
a
national
characteristic
.
It
is
to
the
denizens
of
the
great
cities
,
secure
from
Indian
incursion
,
that
this
character
more
especially
applies
.
On
the
frontiers
,
harried
for
the
last
half
century
by
the
aboriginal
freebooter
,
the
case
is
somewhat
different
.
The
amiability
still
exists
;
but
often
combined
with
a
bravourie
and
hardihood
masculine
in
seeming
,
but
in
reality
heroic
.
Since
Malinché
,
more
than
one
fair
heroine
has
figured
in
the
history
of
Anahuac
.
