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Again there were the difficulty of ascertaining perfectly how the Senor Johnson looked. If the Senor Johnson was Americano, doubtless there were other Americanos who had resembled him. It was possible. The Senor Corwin had doubtless observed for a little space a caballero who was here, as it were, in the instant of the appearance of Senor Johnson? Possibly there was a resemblance, and yet
When we arrived at Nice, and an impertinent policeman got me into a corner, so to speak, and tried to put me through the catechism, I simply said, "No speakee Frenchee Mistress Americano," and at that he shook his head and wrote it down in a note-book about as large as a grocer's ledger.
On their return to the fonda, they found Master Manuel too far gone with aguardiente, and a general animosity to the average Americano, to be of any service. So they worked alone, with pen, ink, and paper, in the stuffy, cigarrito-clouded back room of the fonda.
She had mended much since his return, and her eyes as she looked up at him held the same flashing, fiery tenderness which in the long ago had caused her to renounce Castilian traditions and become the bride of an Americano.
"In what respect?" "As they are caused by my regard for Signora Florinda." "It is well to assume a virtue, if we have it not," said the Italian, scornfully. "I assume nothing, Signor Petro." "Flatter not yourself that you can escape me by this assumed tone of feeling, Signor Americano." "You have my answer, signor."
You must know, Signor Squire, I kept school in the early part of my life." "Non e possible!" exclaimed the vice-governatore, astonishment actually getting the better of his habitual good breeding; "you must mean, Signor Americano, that you gave lessons in the art of rigging and sailing luggers." "You never was more mistaken, Signore.
"It is an Americano! Death to the American pigs!" The occupants of the boats were Spaniards. The position in which Clif found himself was so startlingly unexpected and so full of peril that for a brief instant it almost unnerved him.
Also there will be the riding of bulls; and the prize for the most skillful rider will be a silver-mounted quirto of beautiful design. "Immediately after these various contests" Dade could see the tensing of interest among his listeners then "there will be a contest with riatas between Don José Pacheco and Señor Jack Allen, an Americano vaquero from Texas.
Reaching her house, he learned from a bystander that she had gone out to walk with the Americano, and then he thought he discovered them entering the distant church. He set off at once in pursuit, asking himself with an anxiety which almost made him faint, "Are they to be married?"
The detail, passing along the creek on the other bank from them, scattered, and with Bob next the creek. Bob shook his gun aloft. "I can wuk her now!" Another lull came, and from the thicket arose the cry of a thin, high, foreign voice: "Americano Americano!" "Whut regiment you b'long to?" the voice was a negro's and was Bob's, and Grafton and Crittenden listened keenly.
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