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Our manager in the Argentine is an old and valued friend, and I would stake my life on his fidelity. Nothing would induce us to think even of sending a detective out to spy upon him." "I am beginning to believe that I should like to meet Mr. Bayley again," I remarked.
"Probably yes, sir. Chile or the Argentine there's no extradition treaty there." "But even then," broke in the Secretary with a nervous frown "there are ways other ways?" "Oh, yes." Frawley, picking up a paper-cutter, stood by the mantel tapping his palm. "Oh, yes there are other ways! So it's Bucky well, I warned him!"
There was not much that he could do for him; but he felt that Toffy was conscious, and that he liked to have his old friend near him. He never altered his position as he kneeled, for his arm was under the dying man's head, and it seemed a more comfortable place for it than the poor Argentine woman's hard pillow.
The policy of Dom Pedro's government is to intervene Paraguay between Brazil and the Argentine Confederation in order to prevent a clashing of interests between his empire and its late ally. In the mean time, Paraguay is loaded with heavy debts, contracted under Brazilian auspices since the war, in the shape of loans and obligations which must weigh her down for a long time.
Out in the Camp there was an impression of fecundity, of earth and animal alike, that seem to relegate poverty and its kindred ills to a past that would never return; while down in the Port the growth of the city went on like the bursting of some magic, monstrous flower. It was impossible not to share in some degree the pride of the braggart Argentine.
Governor-General Sidney Harrington had a ruddy outdoors-man's face and a ragged gray mustache; in his old tweed coat spotted with pipe ashes, he might have been any of a dozen-odd country-gentlemen of von Schlichten's boyhood in the Argentine. His face was composed enough for the part, too.
"You look worried, dear," said Eleanor. "I am worried," admitted Suzanne; "not worried exactly, but anxious. You see, my birthday happens next week " "You lucky person," interrupted Eleanor; "my birthday doesn't come till the end of March." "Well, old Bertram Kneyght is over in England just now from the Argentine.
A year after his arrival in the country he was naturalized, took service in the Argentine army, and married an Indian girl, who was then nursing twin babies six months old two boys, be it understood, for the good wife of the Commandant would have never thought of presenting her husband with girls.
He could not be said to have taken it to his own surprise, since he had prepared himself for it, and for other such steps to follow it, knowing that they must become feasible in time. He had been given to understand that what the Argentine, in common with some other countries, needed most was neither men nor capital, but intelligence.
"They are both at the palace," replied Lord Argentine, "and have both been laid up with slight injuries received during the conflagration; but I believe nay, I am sure they will get out to-day." "That is well," replied Mr. Bloundel; "and now let me congratulate you, Leonard that is, my lord how strange such a title sounds! on your new dignity.
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