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At the east end is a great reredos given by Ayres and containing figures of himself and of his wife Dona Guiomar de Castro, while opening from the north side of the nave is a beautiful domed chapel built by Dona Antonia de Vilhena as a tomb-house for her husband, Diogo da Silva, who died in 1556. In it also lies his elder brother Lourenço, seventh lord of Vagos.
Probably she did not even know who he was, he said; he was her relation; his mother was a Peralta, a first cousin of her unhappy father, Colonel Peralta. He had come to see her with his daughters to invite her to make his house her home during her stay in Buenos Ayres. He also wished to help her with her affairs, which, his friend the General had informed him, were in some confusion.
Ayres tells us: "You cannot get men fitted for the work at present salaries, and you have to put tremendous powers into the hands of men like those we have." Yet into the hands of men lower in character than the lowest of the police force was committed, in large part, the operation of Ordinance 12, 1857, recommended by Mr.
From this place they discovered and conquered the country to a great extent, even to the mines of Potosi and the town of La Plata , which is at the distance of 500 miles from Buenos Ayres.
I had money enough left of my wages to pay my fare to Buenos Ayres at least perhaps to Bahia; and surely the steamship would stop somewhere along the east coast. Pedro jabbered to the Patagonians, and the wind having fallen light they got out the paddles and set to work. I showed them each a silver dollar and they went at it like college athletes.
There was a difference in the Journal after Tompkins took the place of assistant editor, and a very perceptible difference; it was not for the better. About three months after Mr. Everton had dismissed Ayres from his establishment, a gentleman said to him, "I am told that the young man who formerly assisted in your paper is in very destitute circumstances." "Ayres?" "Yes. That is his name."
What made the feat more adroit was the fact of his having permitted a looker-on to select the horse for him to bestride before the whole lot were driven out. The endurance of the gaucho is also striking; and I have been told of a man, well known at Buenos Ayres, having ridden a distance of seventy leagues that is to say, two hundred and ten miles in one day to that city.
In the voyage of discovery made in 1746 in the St Antonio from Buenos Ayres to the Straits of Magellan, the Jesuits who accompanied the expedition found one of these tents or houses of the dead.
"Has your last year's crowd broken up?" "Oh, no! We're all too fond of one another for that. Of course we're in different houses now, some of us, and we've all made lots of new friends down on the campus. Do you know Madeline Ayres?" Miss Hale nodded. "I'm glad you know her, Betty; she's a splendid girl. And how is your protege, Miss Watson, getting on nowadays?" "Beautifully."
"And Judith seemed so intent on watching them she hardly answered me intelligently." "There is something up between those two," declared Winifred Ayres. "I know it, and I guess Judy knows it too." "But what have they to do with the fighting messengers?" demanded Jane, now utterly bewildered from the snarled account.
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