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"Your father was in the Mexican War?" said Orde, to change the trend of his own thoughts. "He was a most distinguished officer. I believe he received the Medal of Honour for a part in the affair of the Molina del Rey." "What command had he in the Civil War?" asked Orde. "I fooled around the outskirts of that a little myself."
If everybody were as generous as you, we could give a statue of Terpsichore in gold to Mademoiselle Legrand." "If you should ever want one of Carpeaux's groups for yourself, my child," said Molina, "you may go to the studio in a cab to look at it, and fetch it away with you in your own coupé."
Dona Elvira and Dona Sol, I go with your favour. God grant that this marriage may please your father! Having said this the good Moor returned to Molina.
The knowledge of possibilities is what is called the 'knowledge of mere intelligence'; that of events occurring actually in the progress of the universe is called the 'knowledge of intuition'. And as there is a kind of mean between the merely possible and the pure and absolute event, to wit, the conditional event, it can be said also, according to Molina, that there is a mediate knowledge between that of intuition and that of intelligence.
Pichereau, with his look of a Calvinistic preacher, was throwing from behind his spectacles glowing looks in the direction where Marie Launay stood listening to and laughing at the badinage of Molina. Some newspaper reporters, scenting a handy paragraph, came sauntering up to overhear some fragment of the conversation between the minister of yesterday and him of to-day.
He extended his hand in turn towards the sheet of paper to which Molina had just signed his name, saying to Marie Launay as he did so: "Let me have it, if you please, mademoiselle." Granet began to laugh. "Ah! ah!" he cried, "you are really going to write down under Monsieur Gigonnet's signature the name of the Minister of the Interior?" "Oh! bless me!" said Vaudrey, laughing, "that is true!
"They might ask ten," said Molina, smiling. "They would give it!" "And you wish me to subscribe to your Algerian gas?" asked Vaudrey. The fat Molina burst out into loud laughter this time. "I? I simply wish to give you the opportunity to make a fortune!" "How?" "That is one scheme. I will bring you four, five, ten of them! I have another, the Luxemburg coal. A deposit equal to that of Charleroi.
Such as are inclined to inquire more minutely into the civil institutions of this wonderful people, will find them detailed in the work of the Abbé Molina, together with a minute account of the natural productions of Chili. Of the Origin, Manners, and Language of the Chilese.
Some of the languages of the country, and perhaps all, had names for iron; in official Peruvian it was called quillay, and in the old Chilian tongue panilic. “It is remarkable,” observes Molina, “that iron, which has been thought unknown to the ancient Americans, has particular names in some of their tongues.” It is not easy to understand why they had names for this metal, if they never at any time had knowledge of the metal itself.
On Thursday the 3rd of April, 1664, we took our leave of the assistant and the rest of that noble company at Seville. The Conde de Molina, who was Asistente of Seville, presented me with a young lion; but I desired his Excellency's pardon that I did not accept of it, saying I was of so cowardly a nature, I durst not keep company with it.
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