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There are those who believe that republicanism is also rampant and that the Carlist agitation masks republican doctrines, and that Weyler will be dictator. This may be. But Don Carlos seems nearer the throne than he has been at any time during his career.
I recorded that dream for the bachelors of Britain, and conjured them to make haste to propose for her not that the Carlist war was hurrying to a close; but I have remarked that girls inclined to be plump at eighteen sometimes develop excessive embonpoint about eight-and-twenty. On inquiry, I found a key to the enigma which had filled me with sweet excitement.
"Juan Antonio's other daughter marries a cousin of hers, a merchant of Haro, and has three children, two boys and a girl. The girl enters a nunnery, one of the boys dies in the Carlist war and the other goes into business and leaves for America. "This fellow, Juan Manuel Nunez makes a regular fortune and marries a native and has two daughters: Augusta and Margarita.
She gave him the friendly little nod of a comrade but she did not look at him. The next morning Cousin Peligros took her departure from Torre Garda. "I wash my hands," she said, with the usual gesture, "of the whole affair." As her maid was seated in the carriage beside her she said no more. It remained uncertain whether she washed her hands of the Carlist war or of Juanita.
I never sleep at night not a wink but lie and think of my troubles. Julia will not obey me. I have warned her not to rouse me to anger and she laughs at me. She persists in seeing this terrible Esteban Larralde a Carlist, if you please. 'We are all as God made us, said Concha 'with embellishments added by the Evil One, he added, in a lower tone. 'And now I am going to see General Vincente.
This second one is Spanish from the Carlist War; the third is the French legion; the fourth I received in Hungary. Afterward I fought in the States against the South; there they do not give crosses." Falconbridge took the paper and began to read. "H'm! Skavinski? Is that your name? H'm! Two flags captured in a bayonet attack. You were a gallant soldier."
I was with him when he was wounded; I am a Carlist. I am here on the same mission as yourself; to spy what the vermin are doing." "Ha! good; ramble on, and don't notice me. It is dangerous." He sauntered along the causeway, hands in pockets and whistling, and presently popped into a tavern, and I re-entered the fonda.
Meanwhile, as this chapter is written, reports from Spain tell of unprecedented Carlist activity. They are arming themselves. Arms are pouring across the frontier in such quantities as to show that the Carlists are preparing for an early rising, and all of the actions and utterances of the leader show that they are only waiting for a favorable opportunity to begin the revolution.
Over to the right we could see the church-spire of Oyarzun, and the smoke curling from the chimneys; a little farther on we passed the debris of a diligence on the wayside; the telegraph wires along the route were broken down, and the poles taken away for firewood; we dived under a railway bridge, but never a Carlist saw we during the continuous brief mad progress over the eight miles from Renteria to the rise into Irun.
The least recompense, he calculated, which could be awarded to him for that exploit by his Majesty Charles VII. was the Order of the Golden Fleece; and a very appropriate order too. There was a set of Carlist sympathizers known to the fighting-men as "ojaladeros," or warriors with much decoration in the shape of polished buttons.
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