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Saul Chadron was at breakfast next morning when Maggie the cook appeared in the dining-room and announced a visitor for the señor boss. Maggie's eyes were bulging, and she did a great deal of pantomime with her shapely shoulders to express her combined fright, disgust, and indignation.
Yet, senor, it contains a heart many times bigger than the mean thing which beats in the breast of that brute connection of mine of which I am ashamed, though I opposed that marriage with all my power. Well, the misguided woman suffered enough. She had her purgatory on this earth God rest her soul."
The guileless blue eyes were alive with eagerness. "Well, he's right, of course, about not being in danger," said Mr. Grimm. "If he came with credentials as special envoy this government must respect them, even if Señor Alvarez dies, and leave it to his own government to punish him.
Then, as she gently laid me back on my pillow, and adjusted the sheet my only covering about my throat, she continued: "Now the Senor must sleep; and when he awakes Mama Elisa will have some nice nourishing broth ready for him very good, ah! very good indeed, to make him strong again."
Clinton's son called on me and invited me to their house.... I have been introduced to Señor Rocafuerto, the Spaniard who made so excellent a speech before the Bible Society last May. He is a very handsome man, very intelligent, full of wit and vivacity.
They could hardly get near the booth at first, because there was quite a little crowd around it, but they squirmed under the elbows of the grown people, and right beside the brasero eating a piece of candied sweet potato, and talking to Doña Teresa, whom should they see but the Señor Maestro? Tonio wished he hadn't come.
"And what, Senor Nicholas, are you not going to join us?" asked Ben of his old messmate Flowers, who winced, Ben observed, whenever thus addressed. "Art not to be tempted by the prospect of fighting the Dons, man, and pocketing some of their gold? Thou canst speak their lingo, for I have heard thee talk it in thy sleep."
Perhaps before the journey comes to an end we may be able to show you how grateful we are.” “It is nothing worth talking about,” Stephen said. “In a journey like this, comrades may well save each other’s lives more than once.” “That is true, señor; but it is our duty to save your life if need be, and it is turning the tables upon us for you to be the means of saving ours.
Now, Señor Rodriguez has just telephoned asking that I send a man to the legation at once. The gold was kept there over night; or perhaps I should say that the señor intended to keep it there over night." Mr. Campbell stared at Mr. Grimm for a moment, then: "Miss Thorne, you know, is a guest at the legation, that is why I am referring the matter to you." "I understand," said Mr. Grimm.
"Tell me, Senor Don Alvaro," said Don Quixote, "am I at all like that Don Quixote you talk of?" "No indeed," replied the traveller, "not a bit." "And that Don Quixote-" said our one, "had he with him a squire called Sancho Panza?" "He had," said Don Alvaro; "but though he had the name of being very droll, I never heard him say anything that had any drollery in it."
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