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Si la política es una noble ocupación de la vida, ciencia y arte de hacer la felicidad de los pueblos, justo es que la mujer contribuya con cuanto quiera y con cuanto pueda a lograr esa felicidad.
Proper prize-crews were now told off to the three prizes Ryan being placed in charge of the Mercedes; Gowland, the master's mate, in charge of the Dona Hermosa; and Good, one of the midshipmen, in charge of the Felicidad and the order to weigh and proceed in company was given.
The Barracouta and the Felicidad sailed together on the evening of the eighteenth of December, and, the captain having given Ryan a pretty free hand, parted company off the shoals of Saint Ann; the schooner keeping her luff and heading about south-south-west, while the brig bore away on a south-east-by-south course for Cape Palmas; the idea being that we should do better apart than together.
DON EDUARDO. No veo el por qué había yo de estar fuera de mí cuando me lisonjeo con la esperanza de que su padre de usted, que es íntimo amigo de mi tío, me concederá esa linda mano, en cuya posesión se cifra toda mi felicidad. DOÑA MATILDE. ¿Y si se la niega a usted?
BRUNO. Bueno, iré; pero lo mismo me ha dicho usted en otras ocasiones, y luego la tal felicidad se vuelve agua de borrajas. DOÑA MATILDE. ¡Bruno! BRUNO. Iré, iré, no hay que atufarse por eso. DOÑA MATILDE. ¡Estos criados antiguos, que nos han visto nacer, se toman siempre unas libertades!... DON EDUARDO. En justo pago de las cometas que nos han hecho, o de las muñecas que nos han arrullado.
For, as fate would have it, the Barracouta had fallen in with the Felicidad with the French schooner Mouette in company as a prize the latter vessel having pursued the Felicidad out of the creek, only to find that she had caught a Tartar, which captured her after a short but determined struggle and from her the Barracouta's people had learned all particulars of our somewhat disastrous enterprise, including the news that I was missing, and was believed to have been killed in the unsuccessful attack upon the schooner in the creek.
The casualties were rapidly multiplying on both sides, yet we were slowly driving the Frenchmen forward, when they were unexpectedly reinforced by a crowd of at least sixty people who had come alongside in boats from the other craft, boarding on the larboard side of the schooner, on which side, as it had been impossible for us to reach it with the Felicidad, the nettings had not been triced up, and in an instant we found ourselves confronted by overwhelming odds.
We remained in harbour a trifle over three weeks while the necessary alterations were being effected during which time, owing to the unremitting vigilance and skill of "Paddy" Blake, our doctor, we lost only one man through fever and then, all being ready, the Felicidad was commissioned, Ryan, our second lieutenant, being given the command of her, with to my great delight myself as his chief officer, Pierrepoint and Gowland being our shipmates.
This effect was further heightened by Ryan having very wisely insisted that not a spar or rope of the schooner should be altered or interfered with in any way, saving of course where it needed refitting; those therefore who happened to know the Felicidad would recognise her at once; and it was our business so to conduct ourselves that they should not suspect her change of ownership until too late to effect an escape.
To this salute we of course made no reply, as our business was not to make war upon the natives unless absolutely compelled to do so, and three minutes later, having taken as much room as the width of the creek would permit, our helm was eased over and the Felicidad swept round toward the object of her first attack, which was the schooner flying French colours.
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