United States or Laos ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Have mercy on her!" she breathed. "If Thy anger is not yet appeased, turn it from her and strike my grey head." Presently she lay down beside Vera, with her arm around her neck. Vera woke occasionally, opened her eyes, and closed them again. She pressed closer and closer to Tatiana Markovna as if no harm could befall her within the circle of those faithful arms.
"I am glad of that, señora, for I am an American." The woman and girl both started back as in fear and then came forward again. "How did you come here, señor?" "I fell from a horse and sprained my ankle. I tried to walk and must have fainted." "Have you friends in Moreno?" "I did have, but they have gone and I want to get to Vera Cruz." "Vera Cruz is a long way, señor.
I'm getting old now, and they can't treat me as a child any longer. I'll show them. I know what I'll do if I can't have the friends I want and if Vera is always managing me I'll go off to Boris." "My dear Nina," I said, "you mustn't do that. You don't care for him." "No, I know I don't but I will go if everybody thinks me a baby. And Durdles Durdles, please make him like me your Mr. Lawrence."
Was it here that the haughty Don Juan de Vera, coming to demand for the Catholic kings the arrears of tribute due them from the Moor, "paused to regard its celebrated fountain" and "fell into discourse with the Moorish courtiers on certain mysteries of the Christian faith"? So Washington Irving says, and so I once believed, with glowing heart and throbbing brow as I read how "this most Christian knight and discreet ambassador restrained himself within the limits of lofty gravity, leaning on the pommel of his sword and looking down with ineffable scorn upon the weak casuists around him.
She gave her hand, but drew it rapidly back as he pressed it to his lips. "We will see," she said. "But if you don't keep your word, we will see " "Say all you have to say, Vera, or my head will go to pieces." Vera looked long at the prospect before her before she ended with decision: "Then however dearly I love this place, I will leave it." "To go where?" "God's world is wide. Au revoir, Cousin!"
Napoleon, following his own thought, had already approached the Austrian archduke and his imperial brother with regard to the former's candidacy, and had trusted to chance as to the complications that might arise with his allies. It was not long before these became clearly defined. The first meeting of the allies had taken place on January 10 at La Tejeria, a short distance from Vera Cruz.
True, they suspected Marjorie's four chums and Leila and Vera as having been among those who broke up the hazing party. They cherished an erroneous belief, however, that there were at least fifteen or twenty of the invaders.
The forces I have under my orders in the whole of this republic, except the troops immediately under Major-General Taylor, only give me means of holding Tampico, Vera Cruz, Puebla, Chapultepec, and this capital."
Dainty had postponed the actual "good-by" until a week after Dorothy and Nancy should have begun the school year at Glenmore. She knew that Vera Vane was a host in herself, her friend and chum, Elfreda was nearly her equal in active wit, and high spirits, and at least a few of the other pupils would have already formed a speaking acquaintance with the two new girls.
There was two or three among 'em of a better sort than the others. The best of 'em was the carpenter, an old Dutchman. 'Leetle boy, he used to say to me, 'you keep yourself out of the sight of de skipper. Bad man dat. Me much surprise if you get to de end of dis voyage all right. You best work vera hard and give him no excuse to hit you.
Word Of The Day