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Take a change. Come down to Monterey for a day or two with me, and bring miss De Haro with you for company." The old lady recognized the situation. Thatcher was now a man of vast possibilities. In all maternal daughters of Eve there is the slightest bit of the chaperone and match-maker. It is the last way of reviving the past. She consented, and Carmen De Haro could not well refuse.
"Ez fer my princerples, I glory In hevin' nothin' of the sort. I ain't a Whig, I ain't a Tory, I'm jest a Candidate in short." "Monterey," however, proved an even more successful election cry than "Tippercanoe."
The north-west coast of America was made by La Perouse, in latitude sixty degrees north: from this latitude he carefully traced and examined it to the Spanish settlement of Monterey. an extent of coast of which Cook had had only a transient and imperfect view.
She certainly knew he was liable to go at any time, in exactly the way he did go. Why, she even had a doctor down from 'Frisco to Monterey when they were there about a year ago introduced him as an old friend and had him stay around three days just to give her a private professional opinion on his chances.
Major Hardie still commanded at San Francisco and above; Company F, Third Artillery, and Shannon's company of volunteers, were at Monterey; Lippett's company at Santa Barbara; Colonel Stevenson, with one company of his regiment, and the company of the First Dragoons, was at Los Angeles; and a company of Mormons, reenlisted out of the Mormon Battalion, garrisoned San Diego and thus matters went along throughout 1847 into 1848.
The Apaches, who had heard of our exploits, shewed us great respect; but what still more captivated their good graces, was the Irishman's skill in playing the fiddle. It so happened that a Mexican officer having, during the last fall, been recalled from Monterey to Santa Fe, had left his violin.
There is here a larger proportion of two-story buildings than is seen in either Saltillo or Monterey. There are also a college, a hospital, and a theatre. It has several plazas and many churches. The cathedral is quite modern, having been erected within the last forty years; it faces the Plaza Mayor, where there is a bronze statue of the patriot Hidalgo.
The plaza in the centre of the city was the citadel, properly speaking. All the streets leading from it were swept by artillery, cannon being intrenched behind temporary parapets. The house-tops near the plaza were converted into infantry fortifications by the use of sand-bags for parapets. Such were the defences of Monterey in September, 1847.
We re-embarked for Monterey at dusk, when the distant horn of the Bay was totally obscured. It is seldom more than a half-imagined point, jutting out into a haze between two shades of blue. Stars watched over us, sharp, clear stars, such as flare a little when the wind blows. But the wind was not blowing for us.
He stared at her. "Truly, señorita, but you do not hide your cards. And why, then, should I fall in love with you?" "Because I am different from the women of Monterey." "A good reason why I should not. I have been in every town in California, and I admire no women but those of my city." "And because you will hate me first." "And if I hate you, how can I love you?" "It is the same.
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