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"Ah, senhor, that proves you to be a stranger here, for his name is known from the Atlantic to the Pacific chiefly, however, on the east side of the Cordillera, and on the Pampas. He is an outlaw at least he is said to be so; but one cannot believe all one hears. Some say that he is cruel, others that he is ferocious among men, but never hurts women or children."

"Well, senhor," said the latter as they walked away, "you have heard it all, though not just in the way I had intended!" "But tell me, Pedro, is this all true?" "Substantially it is as you have heard it described, only I have had more people than old Ignacio and his boy to work my silver-mine.

It seems impossible, as Senhor Lopes justly observes, to get at the truth of all this at present, and I think it best to abandon the subject and pass on to consider the events of the reign of Sadasiva, which lasted from 1542 to 1567. It is pretty evident that each chronicler acquired his knowledge "from stories transmitted from mouth to mouth and disfigured in the process."

Unable to endure the place after his wife's death, Senhor Santos had taken ship to Victoria, there to seek fresh fortune with results as indifferent as my own.

This is he." From a breast pocket he drew a small grain-leather notebook, from which he extracted an unmounted photograph. The superintendent looked into the pictured face of a full-cheeked, wide-mouthed, square-jawed man with a slightly blasé expression and a half-cynical smile. After studying it a minute he nodded and handed it back. "As you say, senhor, a man who never has had to work."

Nay, nay, Senhor Da Costa, the world loves not battering-rams." And as the old physician spoke, Uriel began dimly to suspect that he had misconceived human life, taken it too earnestly, and at his heart was a hollow aching sense of futile sacrifice.

For a moment Senhor Poritol appeared to hover like a timid bird; then he seated himself on the edge of a chair, only the tips of his toes touching the floor. His eyes danced brightly. "To begin with, Mr. Orme," he said, "I am charmed to meet you very charmed." He rolled his "r's" after a fashion that need not be reproduced.

And even Quintilian in the perfection of his Rhetoric lays it down that not only in the division of the words his orator should draw, but that with his own hand he should know how to sketch and draw; and hence it is, Senhor M. Angelo, that you may at times call a great man of letters or a great preacher a good painter; and a great draughtsman you may call a man of letters, and whosoever most penetrates into real antiquity will find that painting and sculpture were both called painting, and that in the time of Demosthenes they called writing ’antigraphia,’ which means drawing, and it was a word common to both these sciences, and that the writings of Agatharco can be called the painting of Agatharco.

If they choose to go, I suggest that you place yourselves entirely in their hands and give them free rein. You would look far for better men." "And we're lucky to get them," Knowlton acquiesced. "To them and to you we shall be greatly indebted." "Not to me, senhor," the coronel demurred "I do nothing but bring you men together. Theirs is the risk. 'Tonio! Find Pedro and Lourenço.

"I'm glad you have given in, senhor," said Pedro, "for it saves me the trouble of dragging you there by force, in order that I may have the pleasure of seeing how you will look under the influence of a surprise." "A surprise, Pedro?" "Yes. But come; the ball is about to begin."