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Before the adventurers could have protested, had they a desire to do so, there were a number of officers and the crew of the San Paulo on the small deck. With a flourish, the officer who had done the questioning drew his sword. Waving it in the air with a dramatic gesture, he exclaimed: "You're our prisoners! Resist and my men shall cut you down like dogs! Seize them, men!"
Then he said with decision: "Seal these letters, Cecil. I will take them to Natalie myself." "You will, then, see her again?" asked Cecil while folding the letters. "You will render the parting more painful!" "I will it!" said Paulo, with decision, and, taking the letters, he left the room with a firm and resolute step. He found Natalie in her room.
Lord Cochrane went to the Moro San Paulo on the 26th, leaving the Maria de Gloria to overlook the port, and then the Portuguese fleet ventured out for a few days. It dared not show fight, however, and was driven back by the flag-ship, which returned on the 2nd of June.
Dolores was, or at least seemed to be, that rarest creature among women an unconscious beauty. She could pass a mirror without even a glance at it. Dolores Paulo had everything she wanted.
The pilot instantly sprung to the helm, and in a few moments we felt our paddle-box brushing against the wall of forest into which we had nearly driven headlong. Fortunately, the water was deep close up to the bank. Early in the morning of the 10th of September we anchored in the port of St. Paulo, after five days' quick travelling from Ega. St.
'Do you come from the Southern States, Professor? she asked, innocently seeking for an explanation of her wonder. 'Southern States, Miss Paulo? No, madam. I am from the Wild West I have nothing to do with the South. Why did you ask? 'Because I thought there was a tone of the Spanish in your accent, and I fancied you might have come from New Orleans. I am a sort of Spaniard, you know.
It happened, however, that Rossi, who was unaccustomed to play the part of Lancelotto, felt timid at appearing in a character so little suited to him. Hearing this, Signor Salvini, with exquisite politeness and good-nature, volunteered to take the insignificant part, relinquishing the grand rôle of Paulo to his junior in the profession.
"For you no excuse will be necessary," responded Paulo, pressing the delicate tips of her fingers to his lips. "Only be quite yourself, perfectly true and open, inoffensive and cheerful! Forget that you are in an assemblage; imagine yourself to be in our garden, under the trees and among the flowers, and speak to people as you speak to your trees and flowers."
On the 2nd of June, to my great satisfaction, the Portuguese returned to port, and I felt certain that so soon as the fireships in preparation at the Moro San Paulo were ready, the destruction of the whole was inevitable the Portuguese naval officers being of the same opinion, whatever might be the official boasts of the military Commandant.
"Yes, dear Gelid, so sure as you have been landed down on your posteriors now ah you shall be handed down to your posterity hereafter, by that pestilent little scamp Cringle. Ah, Tom, I know you. Paul, Paul, it will be paulo postfuturum with you, my lad." Here we were interrupted by my steward's entering with his tallow face. "Dinner on the table, sir." We adjourned accordingly.
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