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I think, from your voice, you are an Americano. I am friendly to your people you will not molest me, and I will not harm you." "My friend, I rather doubt your word. These are stormy times for a man to venture out in search of cattle, so far from San Antonio.". "I could tell you a piece of news that would satisfy you that I run less risk than yourself.
And then they brought in another and placed the two side by side, and Cogan jumped over the pair of them, at which they all shouted 'Bueno, bueno, Americano! and Ferrero slapped him on the back and told him he must stay with them and practice bull-fighting. "Cogan had another question. Was not the mounted capeador Juan Roca a brother of Luis Roca, the hat dealer?
Some of them cursed him for an Americano, but the majority were too hugely elated at the prospect of a keg of ram to say more to him than to hurry up with it. "He did hurry up with a vengeance, for in five minutes he and the mate had each loaded a bomb gun with a heavy charge of sheet-lead slugs.
"Part of them we drove off most and scattered them. We saw the Brazos pony, too," and Benito looked from beneath heavy lashes in the direction of the bookkeeper. "Where?" asked Grayson. "One of Pesita's officers rode him an Americano. Tony and I saw this same man in Cuivaca the night the bank was robbed, and today he was riding the Brazos pony." Again the dark eyes turned toward Bridge.
In the description of the island of Cuba, given in the Mercurio Americano, and in the Historia Natural de la Isla de Cuba, published at the Havannah by Don Antonio Lopez Gomez, the two groups are placed on the southern coast of the island.
"The lazy Señor Americano is awake at last, Pablo," I called. "Come up hither, and we will talk about the buying of thy rain-coat, and about the buying of the Wise One's beans." The boy jumped up as though a spring had been let loose beneath him, and his shame and confusion were so great that I was sorry enough that I had made my little joke upon him.
Never yet have I seen a man fight so fierce and so hard as this Americano. He may be the devil himself, but his claws are clipped now. And here he lies till he does as we want, or " The young Mexican did not finish his sentence, but the gleam in his eyes was significant. Pablo stooped till his eyes were close to those of the bound man. "Señor, shall I take the gag from your mouth?
"Signor Americano," said the duke, "it shall share the Tribune with our best pictures, and shall be prized alike with them." Now the Tribune, so called, was a small apartment of the duke's gallery devoted to the gems of his collection, and so named after a similar appropriation in the departments of the grand gallery of Florence.
If we meet in fair battle and I am his master, then you will realize how much superior I am to the boasting Americano you thought you cared for. In time you will learn to love me a thousand times more deeply than you ever loved him." "It's plain you reckon all women on the standard of such women as you have known.
Luigi felt a strong hand clasp his wrist and feel for his pulse. Then came the full belief that this was no dream, but reality, and that it was the Tyrant, the Americano himself, who laid hands on him. With a frantic effort he sprang up and tried to close his fingers around his enemy's throat! But firm, powerful hands gripped his shoulders and forced him quietly down in his bed.
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