"Duena" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with us, but she considerately, or by chance, kept by herself. Madre Moreno had allowed her niece and myself a freedom of intercourse not at all in keeping with Californian customs, but she took upon her the duties of duena at Bolinas, so that the many visitors should find no chance for wonder or remark. Catalina and the others of my household, went ...
— The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria • Charles A. Gunnison
... California! Her father had gambled away his last acre, his horse, his saddle, the serape off his back; then sent his motherless girl to his brother, and buried himself in Mexico. Don Antonio took the child to his heart, and sent for a widowed cousin to be her duena. He bought her beautiful garments from the ships that touched the port, but had no inclination to gratify her famous longing to hang ropes of pearls in her soft black hair, to wind them about her white neck, and band them above ...
— The Splendid Idle Forties - Stories of Old California • Gertrude Atherton |
