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An hour later Indiman came in and joined me in the library. "Now, then!" I said, impatiently, after waiting to see him mix a high-ball and light a tremendously black breva. Indiman is a little provoking at times with his infinite deliberation. "Where were we?" he began. "Ah, yes, I had my theory about finding the chap who wrote out that message.
The contest was one of several days' continuance: when at last it was terminated by a capitulation, all Mexico rang with rejoicing; and Santa Anna, then not thirty-five years of age, received the military rank which he now holds General of Division. Breva Reséña Histórica, p. 280. See King's Proclamation, printed at Havana, 6th September, 1831. See note 1. In the Stage and out of the Stage.
The breva, or fair-weather wind, from the north was blowing freshly yet softly down the lake. The afternoon sun was burning on Bellaggio, on the long terrace of the Melzi villa, on the white mist of fruit-blossom that lay lightly on the green slopes above San Giovanni.
Actively engaged through life as a politician and a soldier, he has found time to readjust the whole complicated system of Mexican laws, and, in a series of volumes of autocratic decrees, he has drawn from that chaotic mass a new system of jurisprudence, that will stand as a monument of his genius as long as the Mexican nation shall continue. Bréva Reséña Histórica, by Gen. Tornel.
They drive Orpheus off the stage and slay him. Returning they sing a chorus, which is the finale of the opera. "Ciascun segua, O Bacco, te; Bacco, Bacco, oé, oé! Di corimbi e di verd'edere Cinto il capo abbiam cosi Per servirti a tuo richiedere Festiggiando notte e di. Ognun breva: Bacco e qui: E lasciate bere a me. Ciascun segua, O Bacco, te." This chorus is translated by Symonds.
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