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'Mother of God! these Guardias Civiles! The two guards came clambering down the face of the rock. Concepcion glanced at his late companion writhing in the sharpness of death. 'Here or at Ronda, to-day, or to-morrow, what matters it? muttered the quiet-eyed man at Conyngham's side. The Englishman turned and looked at him. 'They will shoot me too, but not now.
Then master and dog took a walk down the Calle del Pozo Blanco, where the saddle and harness-makers congregate; where muleteers must come to buy those gay saddle-bags which so soon lose their bright colour in the glaring sun; where the guardias civiles step in to buy their paste and pipe-clay; where the great man's groom may chat with the teamster from the mountain while both are waiting on the saddler's needle.
All along its bank, to the point where it enters the Argentine territory, had Francia established his military stations, styled guardias, where sentinels kept watch at all hours, by night as in the day.
But shortly after sunrise, and just as they advance guard reached the summit, they discovered your party ascending, and, mistaking your uniformed soldiers for guardias, the leader lined a dozen of his men along the ridge, and opened on you, while his mayordomo rushed the pack mules of the conducta back down the trail they had come.
'He has one, said Vara, taking up a fine, picturesque attitude, with his right hand at his waist where the deadly knife was concealed in the rolls of his faja. 'Then he is fortunate, said the General, with his most winning smile; 'why do you come to me, my friend. 'I require two men, answered Concepcion airily, 'that is all. 'Ah! What sort of men. Guardias Civiles? 'The Holy Saints forbid!
Levantó y organizó un batallón de artesanos, denominado de "Bravos," y cuando los restos del brillante cuerpo de ejército debelado en Padierna retirábanse en confusión ante las bayonetas del vencedor, el anciano de cerca de sesenta años, fuerte y valeroso y resuelto como en los días de su juventud, se apostaba a la cabeza de sus guardias nacionales en el convento de Churubusco, deteniendo el paso al enemigo hasta quemar el último cartucho y recibirle impávido con los brazos descansando sobre las armas.
Is it more human to accompany a criminal to the gallows than to accompany him through the difficult path which leads from vice to virtue? Are not spies, executioners and Guardias Civiles paid? The latter institution, besides being an evil, also costs money." "My friend, neither you nor I, although we wish it, can accomplish it." "Alone we are nothing, it is true.
Amongst the measures adopted for the extirpation of banditti, was the establishment of the guardias civiles, a species of gendarmerie, dressed upon the French model, and who, from their stations in towns, patrol the roads and wander about the country in the same prying and important style observable amongst their brethren of the cocked hat north of the Pyrenees.
But the admiral made use of the currents, and by the exercise of consummate seamanship took his three vessels clear of the danger and out into the open sea. The islands of Tobago and Granada were sighted, receiving the names of "Asuncion" and "Concepcion." Then the rocks and islets to the westward came in view, named the "Testigos" and "Guardias," and the island "Margarita."
The attendant, with an odd smile, procured the necessary articles, and when the Englishman was ready led the way downstairs. He was a solemn man from Galicia, this, where they do not smile. In the patio of the great house, once a monastery, now converted into a barrack for the Guardias Civiles, a small man of fifty years or more stood smoking a cigarette.
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