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From the first he had drawn attention, and now at the drumming of the tankard most faces turned his way. Nevil spoke to Drake beneath his breath; the latter bending towards Alonzo Brava, addressed him in a very low tone. Brava, deeply annoyed, on the point of signalling his servitors to "quietly persuade from the table his drunken guest, listened, though still frowning.
He took his full share of the tremendous applause that broke out at the end, almost before the lovers had sung the last note of their parts, but the public made it clear enough that most of it was for Margaret, by yelling out, 'Brava, la Cordova! again and again. The tenor was led off through the house by the maid at last, and Margaret was left to sing 'Caro nome' alone.
You must confess that nothing could have been more right. I had a mind to shout `Brava! Brava! but I did not do that. I took a piece of cake and went out to bribe the Fyne dog into some sort of self-control.
"With your permission, señor, I will say good-night. You will understand, I think, that I would be alone." "That we must all understand," said Alonzo Brava. "Our good wishes travel with you, señor."
They then sailed on within sight of Fuego, an island so called from a mountain, about the middle of it, continually burning, and, like the rest, inhabited by the Portuguese; two leagues to the south of which lies Brava, which has received its name from its fertility, abounding, though uninhabited, with all kinds of fruits, and watered with great numbers of springs and brooks, which would easily invite the possessours of the adjacent islands to settle in it, but that it affords neither harbour nor anchorage.
Ferne's hand closed upon the hilt which Nevil had silently offered, and he turned to salute his antagonist, whose pallor now matched his own. "Are you that English knight?" demanded Brava with dry lips. "Then in courtesy alone will we cross blades no more!" The steel clashed, the points fell, and Spaniard and Englishman bowed gravely each to the other. "I thank you," said Ferne hoarsely.
Clarence Copperhead's mind, as he stretched his big limbs before the drawing-room fire after dinner, and said "Brava!" when the ladies sang. He knew "Brava" was the right thing to say. He liked to be at the Hall, which he had never visited before, and to know that it was undeniable gentry which surrounded him, and which at the piano was endeavouring to gain his approbation.
Moll stopped and says with some passion: "I would turn back now and go over those mountains the way we came to ride through France in my fine gown like a lady." "Brava! bravamente!" says the Don, in a low voice, as she steps on in front of us, holding her head high with the recollection of her former state. "She was ever like that," whispers Dawson, with pride.
"Purely so!" she answered earnestly. "Then it's the most wonderful recovery I ever saw. Why, at Cannes, she was hollow-eyed, pale, and thin as a willow-wand; now she looks well, she knows how she is herself but if she feels as spry as she looks, she's in first-rate training!" I laughed. "I DO feel spry, Colonel," I said. "Life seems to me like summer sunshine." "Brava!" exclaimed Mr. Challoner.
If I keep on as I am I shall be sure to reach land of some sort, in time, and when I wish to return home I can set the indicator to the northwest and that will take me directly back to Boston." This was good reasoning, but the rash youth had no idea he was speeding over the ocean, or that he was destined to arrive shortly at the barbarous island of Brava, off the coast of Africa.
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