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But she hasn't seemed like herself lately; and this forenoon she hugged and kissed me ever so many times, and cried. When I asked her what was the matter, she said she was thinking of the pleasant times when Papasito querido was alive. Do you think she was unhappy?" "She told me once she was homesick for Madame Guirlande," replied Tulee. "Did she?
"Querido," she murmured, caressingly, "why do you pretend not to see me when I pass?" "Because I don't love thee any more," said Nostromo, deliberately, after a moment of reflective silence. The hand on the mare's neck trembled suddenly. She dropped her head before all the eyes in the wide circle formed round the generous, the terrible, the inconstant Capataz de Cargadores, and his Morenita.
In many places, especially in the Ukraine, the seat of learning that had suffered most from the ravages of the Cossacks, the state of morals sank very low, owing to the teaching of Jacob Querido, the self-proclaimed son of the pseudo-Messiah Shabbataï Zebi, "that the sinfulness of the world can be overcome only by a super-abundance of sin."
DON EDUARDO. ¿No ve usted que así se pierde toda esperanza y toma uno al cabo su partido? BRUNO. Cuando hay partido que tomar, no digo que no. DON EDUARDO. Ahora quisiera yo que usted, mi querido Bruno.... DON EDUARDO. Me concediera una gracia que le voy a pedir y que será probablemente la última que le pediré en mi vida. BRUNO. Si está en mi arbitrio....
Me venga, Federico; me venga, mi querido!" shrieked poor Maria, with a supernatural energy, and with such piercing distinctness that it was heard shrill even above the rolling thunder. I turned to look at Maria another flash. It glanced on the crucifix which the old priest had elevated at the foot of the bed, full in her view. It was nearer, the thunder was louder.
"That the cibolero will shortly start for the Plains to be gone, perhaps, for several months, cutting up buffalo-beef, tricking the Indians, and such-like employments." "Ho! that's not so bad." "So you see, querido camarado, there's no need for violence in the matter. Have patience time enough for everything.
Then feet running away then I came out Ah, querido mio, that thou shouldst be torn from thy mother thus!" "And you don't know ?" "No, no no ah, that my heart should break with sorrow " "Hush, mother! 'Twas Apodaca! He is powerful and Estan would not come into the Alliance.
"Either Flora or I sing it almost every moonlight night." She sang it in very pure Italian. Then turning round on the music-stool she looked at her father, and said, "Now, Papasito querido, what shall I sing for you?" "You know, dear, what I always love to hear," answered he. With gentle touch, she drew from the keys a plaintive prelude, which soon modulated itself into "The Light of other Days."
DON EDUARDO. No, hija, que para castigar con dignidad a un acreedor que se insolenta hay siempre que empezar por pagarle. DOÑA MATILDE. ¡Siempre! DON EDUARDO. ¿No ves que si no, se puede creer que uno ha querido zafarse a un mismo tiempo del acreedor y de la deuda?
Some twenty-five minutes later Don Luis returned; and so colourless were his lips, so wild his eyes, so dreadfully agitated his entire appearance that I saw in a moment something had gone very radically wrong somewhere. Dona Inez saw it too, and approaching, laid her hand soothingly upon his arm as she anxiously asked: "What is it, Luis? What is the matter, mi querido? Tell me; I can bear it."
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