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Updated: June 25, 2025
However, the morning soon came when we were to bid adieu to it all, and in the hurry and scurry of it and the race down to the station in the motor for we were late, Ethel's maid having forgotten an important hat perhaps we forgot all our peaceful happiness in our feverish speculations on our voyage across the Atlantic to that distant South American Republic, Aquazilia, and its mountain capital, Valoro.
"I think the latter have consoled him for many disappointments." "Whom did he marry?" I asked. "A very beautiful French lady," he replied, "whose husband, a French nobleman, had come to Aquazilia to try and make his fortune, and had died in the effort." "Poor man!" I commented. "And Don Juan married his widow?"
It was settled that we should start from Liverpool to Monte Video, thence make our way by rail across country to our destination, Valoro, a beautiful city in the mountains of Aquazilia, in the neighbourhood of which we were told we should get splendid sport.
Yes, I believed she could, she looked capable of persuading the angels themselves, in her dress of white silk, cut rather low, with a string of pearls round her neck worth about the value of the winner of the Derby. Towards the last few days of our stay in Aquazilia, when we were all, even Lady Ethel, surfeited with dancing, and St.
"He made a fight for the custody of the child which was coming, as I doubt not he thought that he could have a greater hold over me if he had it, but this request was flatly refused, and he sailed away from Aquazilia the richer by a great income, but bought at the price of a loving woman's happiness." The old queen stopped and wiped the tears from her eyes.
Of course, there cannot be a doubt but that the train was held up solely to obtain it; the taking of the hundred dollars a head was simply a ruse to cover the other. Old Frampton says such a raid on a train is a thing unheard of now in Aquazilia." "Yes," I answered, "but it came to a good round sum all the same.
On this occasion I took in to dinner a grave and important donna with a distinct beard and moustache. I was told that she was a model of piety and that all or nearly all pious old ladies in Aquazilia had beards and moustaches!
Queen Inez, as you no doubt know, was a Princess of Istria; the royal line of Aquazilia was simply a collateral branch of the great Imperial House of Dolphberg.
"Upon opening the other packet, which I shall leave you with this, you will find a small carved casket which is locked; with it you will find sufficient money for your journey of which presently. "Mr. Anstruther, I want you to take the casket to Aquazilia and to deliver it to the person to whom it is addressed." "Aquazilia!"
He had no sooner disappeared into the little room, the door of which he left slightly open, when I mentally consigned the green lizards and, in fact, the whole lacertilian family to a place warmer than the plains of Aquazilia in summer even, and sat idly wondering how long it would be before I saw Dolores again.
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