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The devout procession, like the parade that heralds the coming of a circus to town, seemed to recall to the sinful, backsliding population of the Cabañal that at seven A. M. sharp Jesus and his mother would meet hence the name Encuentro in the middle of the Calle de San Antonio, in front of the "Side of Bacon," the tavern of tio Chulla.
And since he felt a hankering for it, the profession of his father and his grandfather was good enough for him; and tio Borrasca, an old skipper who had been a great friend of tio Pascualo, thought so too.
In the end only one was not accounted for the boat of tio Pascualo, the most thrifty saver of all the savers in the Cabañal, a man, decidedly, with an eye for money, a fisherman in winter and a smuggler in summer, a great skipper, and a frequent visitor to the coasts of Algiers and Oran, which he spoke of always as "across the way," as though Africa were on the sidewalk across the street.
"What! cross-grained and out of humour, sweetest? Come, sit here on my knee and listen, while I whisper some good news." "Unless you address me more decently, Benito Villegas, I shall not speak to you at all." "Good news! what then?" put in Tio Pedro, in a coaxing voice. "My fortune is made. I have found powerful friends here upon the Rock.
But before getting to the reply, the carpenter again looked up from his paper and, with a smile of canny superiority, observed to his speechless expectant audience: "That is a d d lie!" Though the Rector had also spent whole afternoons at the feet of that man of letters, he now failed to notice tio Gori at all.
From the Cabo de San Antonio to the Cabo de Canet, the gulf did not have a hole nor a shallow that tio Batiste did not know all about. Turn him into a smelt and toss him overboard, and he'd tell you where he was, the minute he got to the bottom! The top of the water might be a closed book to other people; but he could read, from the looks of it, just what there was underneath.
"Give my regards to Margalida, Tío Ventolera, and tell her to have my dinner brought over right away." The sailor replied with a shrug of his shoulders without turning his face, and Jaime walked along the beach in the direction of the tower. His feet, shod in hempen sandals, crunched on the gravel at the edge of the wash from the surf.
But for something of that other kind, all he wanted, all he wanted! Somehow or other, this business of cheating the government always appealed to tio Mariano! A man's job! The Rector timidly outlined what he thought he ought to have, stopping every other word, as though he were afraid of asking too much. But his uncle took the short cut to the conclusion. Boat? He had the boat. Very well!
But you, thief and smuggler, I will bring the police upon you and your accomplice, who has just tried to murder me with his knife." Tio Pedro turned ghastly pale at the sergeant-major's words. He had evidently no wish for a domiciliary visit, and would have been glad to be well rid of McKay. "Let him be!
Temple, who came up at that moment, and, laying a hand on Arthur's shoulder, said: "Now we will go into my den and have a glass of that sherry. I know no less temptation than Tio Pepe could take you away from Miss Dallas." "Thank you awfully," said the young lady. "Why should you not give Miss Dallas herself an opportunity to decline the Tio Pepe?"
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