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Se vera VM. que yo no escribo Portugues ni aun lo hablo, pero, haviendo aprendido el Castellano, no nos faltará medio de communicar y tener conversacion. Ruego se escuse esta carta escrita sin tinta, porque un Indio dexo caer mi tintero y quebrose. Dios le dé a VM. muchos años de salud. Entretanto, tengo el honor de ser Su mas obedeciente servidor, CARLOS WATERTON.
The blanketed one showed himself a true diplomat. "Call one of your white men, that there may be two and two," he gestured. And he added, with the first words he had spoken since they met, "Hablo espanol?" Well, if he spoke Spanish, thought Luck, why the deuce hadn't he done it at first?
"Yes, sir." "How old are you?" "Not quite twenty-six." "What's your name?" "Herbert Strange!" "Ah? One of the Stranges of Virginia?" "No, sir." There was another long pause, during which the older man's eyes wandered once more over the shed and the piles of wool, coming back again to Strange. "You should pick up a little Spanish." "I've been studying it. Hablo Español, pero no muy bien." Mr.
DOÑA MATILDE. No; ciertamente que no ... con todo hay ocasiones en que uno debe estar tan absorbido, que necesariamente olvida cosas tan vulgares como el almorzar y el comer. A lo menos yo hablo por mí, y puedo asegurar a usted que ni siquiera ha pasado esta mañana por mi cabeza el que había cacao en Caracas. ¡Ay, Eduardo, está usted demasiado tranquilo!
The blood is not yet dry upon them the wet surface glitters in the sun! We view them with singular emotions mine perhaps more singular than any. I endeavour to identify some of those ghastly trophies. I am but too satisfied at failing. "Hablo Castellano?" cries the savage chieftain in broken Spanish. I am not surprised at being addressed in this language by a prairie Indian.
"Can we get anything to eat here?" asked Keith. They all smiled again most amiably. The elder swept off his hat with a free gesture. "A piedes ouestros, senora," he said, "pero no hablo Ingles. Habla usted Espanol?" Keith understood the last three words. "No," he shook his head violently, "no Espanol. Hungry." He pointed to Nan, then to himself: "She, me, hungry."
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