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But how old do you think I am?" she asked. "You must be twelve or thirteen." "You are a malicious joker, Senor Moncada, You know that I am almost seventeen." "I don't. How should I know it?" "Because I told your friend Alzugaray...." "All right, but I don't ask my friend what you have told him." "It doesn't interest you? Very good. You are very polite. But your politics do interest me.
To be in Castro Duro and not visit Don Caesar Moncada's house is a veritable crime of lese-art. Senor Moncada, who is a most intelligent person, has gathered in his aristocratic residence a collection of precious things, old pictures, antiques, sculptures of the XV and XVI Centuries, badges of the Inquisition.
The high-bred elegance of this gentleman, together with his complete acquaintance with the Portuguese language and manners, had won the intimacy of old Moncada, and, alas! the heart of the inexperienced Zilia, who, beautiful as an angel, had as little knowledge of the world and it's wickedness as the lamb that is but a week old.
Moncada," such was their usual tenor, "acknowledges Mr. Gray's letter of such a date, notices the contents, and requests Mr. Gray to persist in the plan which he has hitherto prosecuted on the subject of their correspondence." On occasions where extraordinary expenses seemed likely to be incurred, the remittances were made with readiness. That day fortnight after Mrs.
Many of Moncada's emissaries, on knowing that Caesar was wounded and his campaign going badly, had passed over to the other party. Only Moncada could have rallied that flight. His most faithful gave one another uneasy looks, hoping some one would say: "Come along!" so that they could all have gone. Camacho alone kept up the spirits of the meeting.
Hugo de Monçada sent a ball after the pinnace, which went through her mainsail, but did no damage, and the pinnace again disappeared behind the English ships. So a Spanish officer describes the scene. The English story says nothing of the pinnace; but she doubtless came and went as the Spaniard says, and for sufficient purpose.
The vessel was captured and Moncada slain, and the English admiral hastened to the assistance of Drake. "It was well," says Froude, "that no more time was wasted over so small a matter. Lord Howard had already delayed too long for his fame.
Captain Rivera y Moncada, with whose march from the peninsula we are already familiar, was appointed governor; and at the same time that he received his instructions, August 17, 1773, Captain Juan Bautista de Anza was authorized to attempt the overland journey from Sonora to Monterey.
Gray's death, fifty pounds were received, with a note, intimating that it was designed to put the child R. M. into proper mourning. The writer had added two or three words, desiring that the surplus should be at Mr. Gray's disposal, to meet the additional expenses of this period of calamity; but Mr. Moncada had left the phrase unfinished, apparently in despair of turning it suitably into English.
"I am leaving her with her millions and going away to Spain." During the night Caesar Moncada and Alzugaray chatted in the train. Alzugaray was praising this first Quixotic sally of his friend's. "We are going to cross the Rubicon, Caesar," he said, as he got into the train. "We shall see."
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