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'Held a prisoner by a band of savage Indians subdued by the spell of her wonderful voice' wouldn't that make great stuff? But I guess I quit the game winner, anyhow there ought to be a couple of thousand dollars in that sack of gold dust I collected as encores, don't you think?" He left her at the door of the little Hotel de Buen Descansar, where she had stopped before.
Must we admit that in latitude 11 1/4 and 12 1/2 degrees a fourth chain, the most northerly of all, formerly stretched out in the direction of the island of Hermanos, by Blanquilla, Los Roques, Orchila, Aves, Buen Ayre, Curacao and Oruba, towards Cape Chichivacoa? These important problems can only be solved when the chain of islands parallel with the coast has been properly examined.
Curiosity and the world and such nonsense as love and romance are not for us. Go to bed at once and tie a stocking round your throat that you have not a frog in it tomorrow morning when you sing 'Glory be to God on High. Buen Dias!" Reprinted from Out West by permission. YES. I understand; you are M'siu the Notary, M'siu the Sheriff has told me.
"There are only ruins there, senor." "That's just what I want to see." "We shall never get to Valentia to-night." "Here's a crown; we shall get there to-morrow." The crown settled everything, and the man exclaimed, "Valga me Dios, es un hombre de buen!" I saw the massive walls still standing and in good condition, and yet they were built during the second Punic War.
'God keep you, my master! said the chief herdsman, who was young, and buen mozo, and had as good a head as ever was set on two shoulders. 'Anda, hombre! said Don Pedro, 'I am a dead man; and so he told the herdsman all that the King had said. 'Oh, is that all? said the knowing mozo. 'I can get you out of the scrape.
Of these the principal were the Santo-Cristo, the Jesus-Maria, the Santo Sacramento, La Concepcion, the San Juan, the Virgen de la Solitud, and the Nuestra Senora del Buen Socorro. This 'silver fleet' was moored under the guns of the 'chief castle, San Cristobal, the mean work at the root of the mole.
In a second line, farther from the shore, and speculating on the appetite that salt air awakens in dyspeptics, came the more pretentious and the more permanent structures of the restaurants and eating-places, with stairways and verandas, façades of ornate but inexpensive stucco, masking the frailty of such pomp under ostentatious names: The Paris Hotel and Restaurant, The Miramar, The Fonda del Buen Gusto; and between these pedants of summer-time gastronomy, the lunch-rooms of the natives, huts with roofs of matting, rickety tables with wine jugs in the center, and outdoor kitchens, dispensing shell-fish with vinegar dressing from Saint John's day till mid-September, under signs of delightfully capricious spelling: Salvaor and Neleta, wines, bears and likers.
October the 21st, we went to see the Buen Retiro. The Duke de Medina de las Torres, who has the keeping of this house of the King's from his Majesty, sent two of his gentlemen to show us all that belongs thereunto.
The marls, as the smell indicates, are pyritous and bituminous at the same time; and the petroleum springs at the Buen Pastor, and in the island of Trinidad, proceed probably from these same beds of alpine limestone.
He heard faint echoes inquiring for Don Tiburcio de Espadaña, the name of Juanito Pelaez, but they sounded to him like distant bells, the confused noises heard in a dream. It was necessary to tell him that they had reached Plaza Santa Cruz. The sala of the Pansiteria Macanista de Buen Gusto that night presented an extraordinary aspect.
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