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Goya noted it with a boldness that meant but one thing friends high in power. This was the case. He was admired by the king, Charles IV, and admired who knows how much! by his queen, Marie Louise of Parma, Goya painted their portraits; also painted the portraits of the royal favourite and prime minister and Prince de la Paz, Manuel Godoy favourite of both king and queen.
1 It bore the following legend: AQUI YACE EN POCA TIERRA AL QUE TODO LE TEMIA EL QUE LA PAZ Y LA GUERRA EN LA SUA MANO TENIA. OH TU QUE VAS A BUSCAR COSAS DIGNAS DE LOAR SI TU LOAS LO MAS DIGNO AQUI PARE TU CAMINO NO CURES DE MAS ANDAR. which, more or less literally may be Englished as follows: "Here in a little earth, lies one whom all did fear; one whose hands dispensed both peace and war.
"No," she answered, "I don't like dancing, and they give an odious ballet to-night 'La Revolte au Serail." There was a moment's silence. "Two years ago Adam would not have gone to the Opera without me," said Clementine, not looking at Paz. "He loves you madly," replied Thaddeus. "Yes, and because he loves me madly he is all the more likely not to love me to-morrow," said the countess.
Miles and miles away they went until the horses could go no farther. Then they stopped for the night at a little inn overflowing with strangers, where they heard that Vesuvius was pouring forth lava, and where they could see the lurid glare of its flames reddening the evening sky. They were saved. My mission was fulfilled." Paz stopped; but Leo was unsatisfied. "And what became of them?
I think I shall allow Paz to see you, for, as he is so unhappy, it will divert him to serve you while you remain with us, and perhaps, too, he can suggest something suitable for your food. I ought to have thought of this before."
The day following, having tacked into a deep gulf, an Indian was seen who, notwithstanding the violence of the wind, was skilfully manoeuvring a light canoe. This Indian was invited to come on board, was loaded with presents by the admiral, and then put on shore again, at one of the harbours of Hispaniola, now called the Puerto de Paz.
"My son had then no pity on my tears," said the Sambo, "since he suffered me for so long a time to believe in his death?" "Is it on the eve before a revolt that Martin Paz, our chief, should be found in the camp of our enemies?" Martin Paz replied neither to his father, nor to Manangani. "So our most important interests have been sacrificed to a woman!"
But his poignard had encountered the Malay poignard of the Indian; at the fire which flashed from this shock, André saw the arm of Martin Paz suspended over his head, and immediately rolled on the earth, his arm pierced through. "Help, help!" he exclaimed. The door of the Jew's house opened at his cries.
As peal on peal of thunder resounded and the electric lights of nature played tag over the plain, the horses became more and more unmanageable and at last stampeded, with old Paz muttering Mexican curses and chasing after them wildly. After the storm passed, Josephine waited in vain for Paz and the bronchos, and then debated whether she should walk toward her home or back to the corrals.
The Indians of the plains and the mountains had awaited with impatience the triumph of the revolt; on learning the failure of their brethren, they fell a prey to a gloomy despair; hearing that they had been betrayed by Martin Paz, they uttered yells of rage; when they saw that they had a victim to be sacrificed to their anger, they burst forth in cries of joy and followed the company of the old Indian.
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