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Every word Peytel said might be true, and yet Louis Rey might not have committed the murder; or every word might have been false, and yet Louis Rey might have committed the murder. "Then," says Mr. Substitute, "how many obstacles are there to the commission of the crime? And these are
The effort failed, and the two generals remained ever after cold and indifferent towards each other, if not actually hostile. The battle of Molino del Rey was fought on the 8th of September. The night of the 7th, Worth sent for his brigade and regimental commanders, with their staffs, to come to his quarters to receive instructions for the morrow.
"I have struck Senor Don Inocencio on the head." "The Penitentiary?" said Pepe Rey. "Yes." "Does he live in that house?" "Why, where else should he live?" "And the lady of the sighs " "Is his niece, his housekeeper, or whatever else she may be. We amuse ourselves with her because she is very tiresome, but we are not accustomed to play tricks on his reverence, the Penitentiary."
El Rey, the King, that almost mythical sovereign, who was ignorantly adored as the personification of wisdom and beneficence, no matter how cruelly Viceroys might misgovern, or Captains-General oppress, was it possible to conceive him a captive, the signer of his own humiliation, the renouncer of his immemorial rights?
The 21st we came in sight of Point Garachina, in lat. 7° 20' N. The land here being high and rocky, and without trees near the shore. Within the point there is plenty of oysters and muscles. About twelve leagues from this point are the islands called Islas del Rey, or the Pearl Islands.
When the carrying of the mail is entrusted to such a giddy-pate, how can things be expected to go well? I will speak to the governor of the province so that he may be careful what kind of people he puts in the post-office." Caballuco, shrugging his shoulders, looked at Rey with the most complete indifference. One day he entered the house with a letter in his hand.
Yet there must be something else here something that you do not possess, since you have come to look for it among us." Rey felt the cut. His soul was on fire. He found it very difficult to show his aunt the consideration to which her sex, her rank, and her relation to himself entitled her.
"That I will do willingly," replied Monipodio. The Braves of the Hampa were a horde of ruffians principally Andalusians; they formed a society ready to commit every species of wrong and violence. The perrillo, or "little dog," was the mark of Julian del Rey, a noted armourer of Toledo, by birth a Morisco.
This family was one of remarkable spirit; and this has descended to the posterity of the old cavaliers even unto this day. Colonel McIntosh, who fell at Molino del Rey, in our recent war with Mexico, was one of this family. He had all the spirit and chivalry of his ancestors.
"Excellent wisdom, I am sure," said Rey, as his eyes settled upon the Glow-worm. She drained a glass of wine, and sank into a chair in a still huddled fashion. There was something unnatural in the fixed inclination of her head. She had betrayed herself, and watched Rey now out of the corners of her eyes and in dissolving fear quivering under his stare and voice.
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