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It was cloudy and threatening when we left Fonda at half-past seven the next morning, and by ten the rain began to fall so heavily and steadily that the roads, none too dry before, were soon afloat. It was slow going. At St. Johnsville we stopped to buy heavier rubber coats.
Her arms dropped and caught up the mantilla with a quick but not ungraceful sweep, and in apparently a single movement she was draped, wrapped, and muffled from waist to crown as before. With a slight inclination of her head, she said in quite another voice: "Si, senor. Bueno! I make the 'otel the Fonda in my hoose manana to-morrow! Tonight I and Sanchicha make the bed for us 'ere.
Fonda, in the brightest, most impersonal way, defended the unpopular measure, pointing out the immense advantage the country at large must derive from the success of the bill, and, while appealing to the statesmen gathered at her board to set her right when she made mistakes, she couldn't be expected to keep up with every bill while her head was full of Cuba, assailed the weak points in those statesmen's arguments.
CHRISTMAS DAY in a Mohammedan city passed with nothing to mark it except deluges of rain. The fonda had not grown upon us; and when two Moorish houses in the city at last presented themselves, the result of weeks of inquiry, we decided to take one, if, as was apparently the case, a garden-house outside the city was not to be had for love or money. The Moors all told us it was impossible.
But he was quite grateful to you he seemed to lean on you." "Did he?" She had made Lawrence feel uncomfortable again in the region of the heart, but he was deliberately stifling pity, as five years ago, in a Peruvian fonda, he had subdued his filial tenderness and grief. He was not callous: if he had had the earlier cable he would have sailed for home without delay.
It was singular, too, that Richards's description of the girl was that of a different and superior type the hidalgo, or fair-skinned Spanish settler. If this was true, what was she doing there and what were her relations to the Ramierez? The next afternoon he went to the fonda.
"Who's there?" and was answered, courteously, by a deep, gruff voice in Spanish, "It is I, señor, Jose Rosado." "Are you a guest of 'La Fonda'?" said I, for I had learned that this was the name of the inn, and was a little doubtful whether I had fallen into the hands of friend or foe. "Ha! ha! ha!" with a long explosion of guttural sounds, was my only answer.
But I will draw from my stock only the barest outlines, sufficient to keep in continuity the movement of my story. When we reached Caughnawaga Mr. Cross and his party were waiting for us at the trading store of my godfather, good old Douw Fonda.
The General saw the other three regiments trooped, told Visscher to bring the supply-wagon with the rear, and then, with Isaac Paris, Jelles Fonda, and myself, galloped to the head of the column, where Spencer and Skenandoah with the Oneida Indians were. So marching swiftly, and without scouts, we started forth at about nine in the morning.
I had learned at Fonda's that young Philip Cross was cutting a great swath, socially, in the Valley, and that he was building a grand mansion, fully as large as Johnson Hall, nearly at the summit of the eminence which crowned his patent. Major Fonda was, indeed, contracting to furnish the bricks for what he called the "shimlies," and the house was, by all accounts, to be a wonderful affair.
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