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He must have known, of course, that I was in Rio Medio. His presence was to be feared, and his absence itself was growing formidable. "But what do you think he will do? How do you think he will act?" I would ask, a little bewildered by my responsibility. Carlos could not tell precisely.
As a rule the highest classes mix well with strangers; not so the medio ceto who, under a constitutional regime, rule the roast. Men with small fixed incomes have little to thank us for; we make things dear, and we benefit only the working men.
And we, the braves of Rio Medio, will suffer no foreigner to make headway with our ladies. Yet this Andalusian is preferred because he is a humble friend of the great Don, and because he is for a few days given the command. I ask you, Señor, what is the radical difference between me, the sailing captain of this vessel, and him, the fighting captain for a few days?
About $10,000 will do the trick. Have you got the money? "'Me? says I. 'I've got one Chili dollar, two real pieces, and a medio. "'Then if you've any last words, utter 'em, says that old reb. 'The roster of your financial budget sounds quite much to me like the noise of a requiem. "'Change the treatment, says I. 'I admit that I'm short.
He betrays in his quick conception of an author's mood and meaning a delicacy so extreme, an organization so nervously alive to beauties and discords, and a religious sentiment so cultured to the last degree of feeling, that we dread lest we shall encounter the weakness, morbidness or bigotry that naturally results from the contact of such a soul with the passions of everyday life, recalling the oft-quoted 'Medio in fonte leporum'
And so Gracian is quite right in saying that the only way to win affection from people is to show the most animal-like simplicity of demeanor para ser bien quisto, el unico medio vestirse la piel del mas simple de los brutos. Balthazar Graeian, Oraculo manual, y arte de prudencia, 240.
"Going ashore," he asked, "'long of that Puffing Billy?" "What business is it of yours'" I mumbled sulkily. Sudden and intense threatening came into his yellow eyes: "Don't you ever come to you know where," he said; "I don't want no spies on what I do. There's a man there'll crack your little backbone if he catches you. Don't yeh come now. Never." "Rio Medio?"
The Commission, acting on the principle in medio tutissimus ibis, drew a line through the midst of the disputed territory, or, in other words, set aside Mr. Keate's award and interpreted the dispute in favour of the Boers. This decision was accepted by all parties at the time, but it has not resulted in the maintenance of peace.
He wept aloud for his love lost, for his vengeance defeated, for the dreams gone out of his life, for the inaccessible consummation of his desire. "And, you know, with all these affairs, he feels himself wobbling in his socket," Sebright began again, after musing for a while. Indeed, the last events in Rio Medio were endangering his position.
Having got this number of soldiers at his disposal, he placed three hundred in garrison at Medio, and two hundred at Thurium, with the design that they should fall into the hands of the king, and serve hereafter as hostages.