Margarita's Chemise

Margarita was the pampered daughter of Don Raimundo Pareja, a very rich aristocrat, who in 1765 was General Collector of Callao, the port of Lima. Margarita was one of those young women of Lima who with their beauty charmed all the men and the devil himself.
About this time there arrived from Spain a dashing young felow named Luis Alcazar, who had a bachelor uncle in Lima, an extremely rich and proud Aragonese. Naturally until the time time for inheriting his uncle came about, our Luis was poorer than a church mouse.

During the procession of Santa Rosa, Luis met the lovely Margarita. The young lady filled up his eyes and pierced his heart. Luis told her many fine things and although she did not say yes or no, her smiles made it plain that the young man was very much to her taste.
The truth of the matter is that they fell madly in love.
As lovers forget that arithmetic exists, Luis did not consider his poverty an obstacle in the consummation of their love, and he went to see Ma...