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"Yes, Angela. I have loved you since the day we first met; every day my love grows stronger and deeper, and unless you love me in return, and will be my wife, I cannot stay; I must go go at once." "Quipai, señor," said Angela, archly, at the same time giving me her hand. "Quipai! I don't quite understand unless you mean " "Quipai," she repeated, her eyes brightening into a merry smile.

"'Is that a friar passing? said Don Pedro, looking downwards into the crowded plazza, with humorous concern. "'Well for our northern friend, Dame Isabella's Inquisition wanes in Lima, laughed Don Sebastian. 'Proceed, Senor. "'A moment! Pardon! cried another of the company.

All I could learn was that they had known my mother quite slightly and that they had been much surprised when I was brought to them with the request that they would adopt me." "Do you desire to tell me, señor, why you left England?" asked Donna Elvira. "Yes; I want to," said Derrick, after a moment or two's silence. "I feel as if I wanted to confide in someone.

He saw me at once and bowed and smiled; and then observing Donna Maria, he lifted his cap from his head, and addressing himself to her in Spanish, began to converse with her as though she were an old friend. "Senor," said Maria, after the first words of greeting had been spoken between them; "you must permit me to present to you my father's most particular friend, and my own, Mr.

While they were waiting for the arrival of the Captain-General in a hut outside the town, the gobernadorcillo was saying, "To tell who was right and who was wrong, is not an easy matter. Yet if Señor Ibarra had used more prudence " "If Padre Damaso had used half the prudence of Señor Ibarra, you mean to say, perhaps!" interrupted Don Filipo.

Among the number of those by whom Rodaja, as I have said, was constantly surrounded, was an acquaintance of his own, who permitted himself to be saluted as the Señor Doctor, although Thomas knew well that he had not taken even the degree of bachelor.

"There can be no question," said Don Fernando on this, "but that Senor Don Quixote has spoken very wisely, and that with us rests the decision of this matter; and that we may have surer ground to go on, I will take the votes of the gentlemen in secret, and declare the result clearly and fully."

"It is the wine of Xeres, Señor Cotter," he said, "and you can judge how precious it is, as it must be a full five thousand miles from its birthplace." He handed the little cup in grandiose manner to Paul, and Paul, meeting his humor, accepted it in like fashion.

And now, since you cannot possibly get back to Senor Montijo's place to-night, I think perhaps you cannot do better than come home with me; I can put you both up quite easily."

Despite our bonds Carmen and I contrived to shake hands, or rather, touch fingers, for it was little more. "We shall meet again." I whispered. "If I had known that he would not take your parole I would not have given mine. Let courage be our watchword. Hasta mañana!" "Pray take a seat, Señor Fortescue, and we will have a talk about old times in Spain.