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"Why, Dolly, I have learned to be easily contented, and you see at present I live upon you." "Yes," groaned Poole, "but that can't go on for ever; and, besides, you promised that you would leave me in peace as soon as I had got Darrell to provide for you." "So I will. Zounds, sir, do you doubt my word? So I will. But I don't call exile 'a provision' Basta!
The cavalry squadrons rode on the left of the infantry, and were commanded by Nicolas Basta, a man who had been trampling upon the Netherlanders ever since the days of Alva, with whom he had first come to the country.
He answered, politely, "Were fickle Fortune waiting to conduct me to the summit of my ambition, I would detain her a few hours to enjoy society so charming; but M. Granger forgets he is addressing a domestic." "Stubborn in your pride to the last! What am I to think of one who holds all sympathy in contempt?" "Basta!" he fiercely exclaimed.
The Church had responded nobly, and had cared for these poor little waifs from infancy, and until they were large enough to be sent to their new home. "Caramba!" exclaimed a by-stander to his companion. "What will become of the pobrecitos in that heathen country? I grow cold to think of it," he added with a shiver. "Basta, Juan!" said his friend. "What do you know about it?
"No, no, signore, non basta! I can fish all night. Once the wine has warmed me, I can " "But I want to try it." "Oh, signore, what would the signora say? You are a stranger. You will take cold, and then the signora will blame me and say I did not take proper care of my padrone." But Delarey was determined.
[Footnote 1: Sagredo, who had lately arrived as ambassador extraordinary, thus describes the power of Cromwell: "Non fa caro del nome, gli basta possedere l'autorit
He had barely left to him sufficient command of his mouth to cry "Basta!" and so the affair ended. "Senor Hamersley," said the man who had so effectively befriended him, after they had returned from the encounter, and were drinking a bottle of Paso wine in the posada, "may I ask where you intend going when you leave Chihuahua?"
He then travelled in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, England, and Holland, studying the military forces and tactics of each country. "On his return to Bohemia he took service under the Emperor Rudolph and joined the army of General Basta in Hungary, where he distinguished himself greatly at the siege of Grau.
"Basta," said he, laughing, "'tis for your sins I do it, not for mine." "Hear you that?" said the friar. "Show me the whip that can whip the vanity out of man's heart! The young monkey; how knoweth he that stranger is a sinner more than he?" "Father," said Gerard, "surely this is not to our Lord's mind. He was so pitiful." "Our Lord?" said the friar, crossing himself. "What has He to do with this?
'Basta! one ought not to call so slight a thing a story. Well, it's all one. But it's true. Observe me well, gentlemen, it's true. That which glitters is not always gold; but what I am going to tell, is true. He repeated this more than once.
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