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"Go first, please; we can get through sooner that way." They progressed from room to room, thoroughly exploring the dense throng about the auctioneer, but without finding either Gheta, Anna Mantegazza or the bull-fighter. "I can't think how she could have forgotten me!" Lavinia declared with increasing annoyance. "It's clear that they have all gone." "Don't agitate yourself," Cesare Orsi begged.
A bull-fighter. Hacienda. A large estate. Alfalfa. A species of grass valuable as fodder for horses and cattle. Rodeo. Cattle market. 167, 1. Tête-
It is the smartest boy that gets the hero part everywhere; he is head guide in Switzerland, head miner in Nevada, head bull-fighter in Spain, etc.; but I knew a preacher's son, seven years old, who once selected a part for himself compared to which those just mentioned are tame and unimpressive.
"'Señor, if you will tell me who is Torellas? asked Cogan in English. "'Torellas' Ferrero pointed toward the door 'he departed only one moment ago. "'Señor, I saw, and thank you. But who is he? "'Torellas? Who ees Torellas? Not only Ferrero, but every bull-fighter in the place took a peek at Cogan. Ferrero looked around the room to make sure the others had heard.
Arsene Lupin, the man of a thousand disguises: in turn a chauffer, detective, bookmaker, Russian physician, Spanish bull-fighter, commercial traveler, robust youth, or decrepit old man.
We are the best riders on the plains; we cannot do that." "I can," affirmed the bull-fighter, with emphasis. "He is boasting! he is a fool," shouted several. "Let us see!" cried one. "Give him a horse; there is no danger." "Give me my own horse, and I will show you." "Which is your horse?"
I visited this worthy and conversed with him for some time through the wicket of the dungeon. He recognized me, and reminded me of the victory which I had once obtained over him, in the trial of our respective skill in the crabbed Gitano, at which Sevilla the bull-fighter was umpire.
In less than an hour Concepcion was on the road accompanied by two troopers, who were ready enough to travel in company with a man of his reputation. For in Spain, if one cannot be a bull-fighter it is good to be a smuggler. At sunset the great heat culminated in a thunderstorm, which drew a veil of heavy cloud across the sky, and night fell before its time.
There they were associated with the look and dress of a torrero, and our coachman, though an old Castilian of the austerest and most taciturn pattern, may have been in his gay youth an Andalusian bull-fighter. Our pride in our equipage soon gave way to our interest in the market for sheep, cattle, horses, and donkeys which we passed through just outside the city.
Cogan, of course, was dressed like any other bull-fighter, and being dark-haired and pretty well tanned wasn't to be picked out easily, especially as he buried himself to the eyes in his place of refuge.
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