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"The preparation of Porto Ferrajo is celebrated among the mariners of the Mediterranean, and, should the Frenchman venture within reach of your shot, I expect to see him unrigged faster than if he were in a dock-yard. As for ze leetl' Ving-and-Ving, in my opinion, while the frigate is busy with these batteries, it might be well for us to steer along the shore on the east side of the bay until we can get outside of her, when we shall have the beggars between two fires. That was just what Nelson did at Aboukir, Signor Podest
We had not stood more than five minutes under the gloomy shade of the thick foliage when a dark figure glided noiselessly up to us. "Ah, here you are!" said Jack as Avatea approached. "Now, then, tell her what we've come about, and don't waste time." "I understan' leetl' English," said Avatea in a low voice. "Why, where did you pick up English?" exclaimed Jack in amazement.
And when I was a vara leetl child, I did use to do nothing else but wander about, and dream, and dream, and get lost, and could not find my way back. Oh, I could tell you of a thousand things. I could talk all the day of that bright, bright time when my padre was like a noble; so rich he was, and living in his grand castello."
"Voila, messieurs," exclaimed Monsieur Le Compte, flourishing his arm, with an air of unsurpassed generosity; "you shall be master here, so soon after we shall go away, and take our leetl' property wid us!" "He's d d generous, Miles," growled Marble, in my ear. "He'll leave us the island, and the reef, and the cocoa-nuts, when he has gone off with our ship, and her cargo.
"Hus-s-sh! my dear sair; not so loud, if you please," answered Lobo, hastily leaving his boat and coming half-way up the gangway ladder again. "Dere is a leetl' creek about two mile pas' de point, on de nort' bank of de river.
"I have two leetl menus weez me," said Cavalcadour to Mrs. Gashleigh. "Minews yes, oh, indeed?" answered the lady. "Two little cartes." "Oh, two carts! Oh, we," she said. "Coming, I suppose?" And she looked out of the window to see if they were there. Cavalcadour smiled.
We had not stood more than five minutes under the gloomy shade of the thick foliage when a dark figure glided noiselessly up to us. "Ah! here you are," said Jack, as Avatea approached. "Now, then, tell her what we've come about, and don't waste time." "I understan' leetl English," said Avatea in a low voice.
"But that must have been long ago?" "Oh, long, long ago. I was vara leetl a child; and it was long ago. Then the padre went to Cuba." "Cuba! What! have you been there?" "Oh, many, many years." "Across the Atlantic far away in Cuba?" "Far, far away," said Dolores, her sweet voice rising to a plaintive note; "far away in Cuba oh, many, many years!
We had not stood more than five minutes under the gloomy shade of the thick foliage when a dark figure glided noiselessly up to us. "Ah! here you are," said Jack, as Avatea approached. "Now, then, tell her what we've come about, and don't waste time." "I understan' leetl English," said Avatea, in a low voice.
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