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It was a Senor Van Loo Don Paul the boy called him, and they talked of the boy's studies in the old days as if indeed, but for the stranger being a caballero and man of the world as if he had been his teacher."
"You must pardon me, Lieutenant; but as the proverb hath it, strange countries, strange manners; my friend here, Padre Carera, brings a message from El Senor Picador Cangrejo, one of our magnates, that he will consider it an especial favour if you will can on him, either this forenoon or tomorrow."
According to his account Haydn said that "the composition was due more to what Señor Milton wrote than to his own invention, for it showed every motif so marvellously that on reading the instructions he seemed to read the music itself." If the Marquis was not boasting, we must confess that the ingenuous Haydn was not so ingenuous as has been thought, and that he knew how to flatter his patrons.
Then turning to the curate he exclaimed, "Ah, senor curate, senor curate! do you think I don't know you? Do you think I don't guess and see the drift of these new enchantments? Well then, I can tell you I know you, for all your face is covered, and I can tell you I am up to you, however you may hide your tricks.
And do not suppose, senor, that I apply the term vulgar here merely to plebeians and the lower orders; for everyone who is ignorant, be he lord or prince, may and should be included among the vulgar. He, then, who shall embrace and cultivate poetry under the conditions I have named, shall become famous, and his name honoured throughout all the civilised nations of the earth.
The corregidor then ordered that every one else should quit the room, and leave him alone with the landlord. This being done, he resumed his questions. "What servants have you in your inn, landlord?" "Señor, I have two Gallegan wenches, a housekeeper, and a young man who gives out the oats and straw, and keeps the reckoning." "No more?" "No, señor."
"Yer d-did n't mean that f-fer me, did yer?" There was something so deeply pathetic about the tone in which he asked this as to hurt her, and the slender fingers still clasping his sleeve suddenly closed more tightly. "Señor, you mus' not say dat; you mus' not tink dat. No, no! I speak that only in fun, señor nevah I believe dat, nevah.
The man looked at me in consternation. "Why, how on earth did you come to know of that rascally transaction, senor?" he demanded. "Because," said I, "I happened to be in command of the Dolores at the time, and was one of those who were left to perish in her. She was a prize, and I had been given charge of her, with orders to take her to Sierra Leone." "How extraordinary!" he exclaimed.
She was in the habit of giving what she was pleased to call "musical teas" at her home. Jane, to whom Mr. and Mrs. Cole had taken a marked fancy, was often invited to those teas and, because the Coles were "among our nicest people," she was permitted by the school authorities to attend. At one of those teas Senor Miguel Carlos Speranza was the brightest star.
This time he was answered by a dry laugh from Nostromo. "You seem much concerned at a very natural thing, senor doctor. I wonder why? It is very likely that before long we shall all get shot one after another, if not by Sotillo, then by Pedrito, or Fuentes, or Gamacho. And we may even get the estrapade, too, or worse quien sabe? with your pretty tale of the silver you put into Sotillo's head."
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