*
* _La divisa_. A knot of ribbon, the colour of which
indicates the pasturage from which each bull comes. This
knot of ribbon is fastened into the bull's hide with a sort
of hook, and it is considered the very height of gallantry
to snatch it off the living beast and present it to a woman.
"The bull avenged me. Lucas was knocked down, with his horse on his
chest, and the bull on top of both of them. I looked for Carmen, she had
disappeared from her place already. I couldn't get out of mine, and I
was obliged to wait until the bull-fight was over. Then I went off to
that house you already know, and waited there quietly all that evening
and part of the night. Toward two o'clock in the morning Carmen came
back, and was rather surprised to see me.
"'Come with me,' said I.
"'Very well,' said she, 'let's be off.'
"I went and got my horse, and took her up behind me, and we travelled
all the rest of the night without saying a word to each other. When
daylight came we stopped at a lonely inn, not far from a hermitage.
There I said to Carmen:
"'Listen--I forget everything, I won't mention anything to you. But
swear one thing to me--that you'll come with me to America, and live
there quietly!'
"'No,' said she, in a sulky voice, 'I won't go to America--I am very
well here.
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