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Don Pepe, extremely interested, too, looked over her shoulder with a smile that, making longitudinal folds on his face, caused it to resemble a leathern mask with a benignantly diabolic expression. "Would not the muchachos of Hernandez like to get hold of this insignificant object, that looks, por Dios, very much like a piece of tin?" he remarked, jocularly.

El monopolio ejercido por el hombre sobre las funciones públicas, ha sido, como otras tantas instituciones ahora desaparecidas, basado en la fuerza y violencia y con el fin de perpetuarlo se parapeta detrás de la muralla de prejuicios levantada a costa del tiempo y del orden de cosas establecido, lanzando de allí los dardos de la sátira y del ridículo contra aquéllos que demandan la cesación de ese estado de violencia.

"What is it, Don Picador?" at length we could hear Campana say, "what is it? Is it my poor dear Maria who is worse, or what speak, man may my wife enter?" "Si, si yes, yes," said the afflicted Don Picador "yes, yes, let her go in send for I am unable to think or act send one of my people back post to Santiago for the doctor haste, haste. Sangre hecha sangre por la boca."

In the Por San Maria Colville found masks and dominoes filling the shop windows and dangling from the doors. A devil in red and a clown in white crossed the way in front of him from an intersecting street; several children in pretty masquerading dresses flashed in and out among the crowd. He hurried to the Lung' Arno, and reached the palace where Mrs.

The Pacific binds the hills of California in a sapphire zone, unflecked by a single sail in sight, save the retreating trader, which is flitting around "Punta de los Pinos." It is July, 1840. The Mexican ensign flutters in the plaza of Monterey, the capital of Alta California. Miguel Peralta dismounts and crosses himself, murmuring, "Sea por Dios y la Santissima Virgen." His duty is done.

That Ellice is now a miserable woman, I have no doubt; for truly: 'Quien se casa por amores, ha de vivir con dolores. Of course you understand Spanish?" "No, sir; but no matter; I take it for granted that you intend some thrust at my mother, and I have heard quite enough." "Don't know Spanish?

The following passage from the opening speech of Theophilus will illustrate the conception to which I have alluded of God as a liege lord against whom one might seek revenge on sufficient provocation, and the only revenge possible was to rob him of a subject by going over to the great Suzerain, his deadly foe: "N'est riens que por avoir ne face; Ne pris riens Dieu et sa manace.

At the second door of the mud-and-straw building he paused to add in an awe-struck whisper: "Take off your hat and wait until he calls you in." Instead I stepped toward the entrance, but the teniente snatched at the slack of my shirt with a gasp of terror: "Por Dios! Take off your revolver! If the colonel sees it...."

"Take care what you say, señor, or por Dios There is no English general to whom you can appeal for protection now. What are you doing here?" "Not much good, I fear. Your men brought me: I had not the least desire to come, I assure you."

"Spare the women; shoot every rebel; do not touch the foreigners unless they resist!" With yells of "Abajo De Sylva!" "Morto por revoltados!" the assailants closed in. Neither side owned magazine rifles, so the fight was with machetes, swords, and bayonets when the first furious hail of lead had spent itself. No man thought of quarter, nor ceased to stab and thrust until he fell.