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Reinaldo -- '' `` Do not refuse , my Prudencia , if thou lovest me . Wilt thou do it ? '' `` Sure , my Reinaldo . '' The family retired early in its brief seasons of reclusion , and at ten o'clock Casa Grande was dark and quiet . Reinaldo opened his door and listened cautiously , then stepped softly to the green bench and felt beneath for the lump of tallow . It was there . He returned to his room and swung himself from his window into the yard , about which were irregularly disposed the manufactories of the Indians , a high wall protecting the small town .