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I felt, too, the dangers of the gentlemen of the Amarilla Club, who had made me honorary member, and had treated me with uniform regard and civility, both in my capacity of Consular Agent and as Superintendent of an important Steam Service. Miss Antonia Avellanos, the most beautiful and accomplished young lady whom it had ever been my privilege to speak to, was not a little in my mind, I confess.
Captain Mitchell would lie back in the chair, casting around looks of satisfaction, and tender over the table a case full of thick cigars. "Try a weed with your coffee. Local tobacco. The black coffee you get at the Amarilla, sir, you don't meet anywhere in the world.
She stood on the edge of the sidewalk with her hands clasped lightly, and nodded to him as he followed after the carriage. And now the windows of the Amarilla Club were dark. The last spark of resistance had died out. Turning his head at the corner, Charles Gould saw his wife crossing over to their own gate in the lighted patch of the street.
"Maybe he'll come to a better conclusion regarding Nelson Haley." "I don't care who stole the coins. We want 'em back," growled the druggist, preparing to lock them all out. The trio separated on the corner. Hopewell was greatly depressed as he walked on with Janice Day. "I I hope that Amarilla will not hear of this evening's performance. I declare!
"Heaven itself wills it. Providence is on our side," wrote Father Corbelan; there was no time to reflect upon or to controvert his statement; and if the discussion started upon the reading of that letter in the Amarilla Club was violent, it was also shortlived. In the general bewilderment of the collapse some jumped at the idea with joyful astonishment as upon the amazing discovery of a new hope.
And all the time our saviour Barrios sat in the Amarilla Club drinking punch at an open window. Esprit fort our Barrios. I expected every moment your uncle to launch an excommunication there and then at the black eye-patch in the window across the Plaza. But not at all. Ultimately the troops marched off.
I believe they think a lot of him in Rome. Now let us go to the Amarilla Club, just across the Plaza, to get some lunch." Directly outside the cathedral on the very top of the noble flight of steps, his voice rose pompously, his arm found again its sweeping gesture. "Porvenir, over there on that first floor, above those French plate-glass shop-fronts; our biggest daily.
Her nimble fingers were just as busy as any other ten in the room; but her tongue had been idle. "They say it's never too late to mend," quote 'Rill Scattergood; "but I am afraid that Mr. Miner, and Mr. Jones, and some of the rest of the storekeepers are too old to mend or be mended!" "Ain't you right, now, Amarilla!" sniffed her mother. "'Tain't only the storekeepers," declared Mrs.
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