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They lifted the stricken Pell, and carried him away. The distasteful business finished, Lopez turned to Gilbert. "Now, zen, you all right some more, eh?" he asked. Gilbert could not understand. "I guess so," he said, "I I thought you were captured!" "Me?" said Lopez in surprise, "It is not me, ees my double!" "Your double?" Gilbert, amazed, answered. "Ees idea what I get from ze moving pitchers."
"Yes, they aren't bad comrades," said the other amicably. "In '53, when I was with Lopez in Cuba, I had a little black mare that was just as well worth dying for as a woman or a man or most causes, but, damn me! she died for me carried me past a murderous ambuscade, got a bullet for her pains, and never dropped until she reached our camp!" He coughed. "What pleasant weather!
"That's the time you saw my lead, and went me one better. Sure there have been horses climbing that slope one, two, three of 'em. And Lopez, he had only two; so it can hardly be him. I wonder now if that measly tenderfoot, Peg " "Look up yonder!" interrupted Bob, suddenly pointing again. "I saw the bushes moving along the edge of the top there. Somebody's got an eye on us right now, Frank.
He at the same time time obtained the release of the Austrian soldiers still retained as prisoners, and of Prince Salm-Salm, lying under sentence of death since the execution of the emperor. As for the traitor Lopez, instead of the two thousand ounces of gold that he expected, he got only seven thousand dollars.
He told them all the news of their own social set; and in such vivid times something happened every day. There had been betrothals and marriages, quarrels and entertainments; and Lopez, as a fashionable young man of wealth and nobility, had taken his share in what had transpired. Antonia felt unspeakably grateful to him.
And the master's words betrayed a certain bitterness, as though he were thinking of something very different from what he was saying. Then he began to discuss the merits of López de Sosa, as if he were already a member of the family. "A good boy, isn't he, Pepe? A little stupid for us, unable to talk for ten minutes without making us yawn, a fine fellow, but not our kind."
The viceroy equipped a fleet and its crew with the most necessary things in Puerto de la Navidad, in the southern sea, under charge of a worthy and reliable man, Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, a citizen of Mexico and a native of the province of Guipuzcoa.
Tell him it's for my children I'm a-speaking, who won't have bread in their very mouths if their father's squeezed dry like a sponge! Sure, if you'd tell him this, he wouldn't go on!" Then she paused a moment, looking up into the other woman's face. "He'd have some bowels of compassion; wouldn't he now?" "I'll try," said Mrs. Lopez. "I know you're good and kind-hearted, my dear.
He had a large pleasant room in which to sit, looking out from the ground floor of Stone Buildings on to the gardens belonging to the Inn, and here, in the centre of the metropolis, but in perfect quiet as far as the outside world was concerned, he had lived and still lived his life. At about noon on the day following that on which Lopez had made his sudden swoop on Mr.
"Come along," said Lopez. "By George, you are in a blue funk," said the other. "I can hear your teeth chattering." Lopez, who was beginning to be angry, walked on and said nothing. It was too absurd, he thought, for real anger, but he kept a little in front of Wharton, intending to show that he was displeased. "You had better run away at once," said Wharton.
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