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The father will recognize them. I had done a good day's work, señor; since she is worth to me the hundred thousand piasters which you are about to pay me. Now, let the marriage take place to-morrow." "What does this mean?" asked Martin Paz of himself, still swimming in the shadow. "Here is my pocket-book, with the hundred thousand piasters take it, Master Samuel," replied André Certa to the Jew.
Milleflores might well say to André Certa that his betrothed had nothing of the Jewess but the name, for she was a faithful specimen of those admirable señoras whose beauty is above all praise. The duenna, an old Jewess, whose countenance was expressive of avarice and cupidity, was a devoted servant of Samuel, who paid her liberally.
The mestizo raised his arm, but the Indian succeeded in seizing it before it had struck. The moment was horrible. André Certa in vain attempted to disengage himself; Martin Paz, with supernatural strength, turned against the mestizo the poignard and the arm which held it, and plunged it into his heart. Martin Paz arose all bloody. The place was free, the soldiers flying in every direction.
A pedant angler, I call him, a plaguy angler, so let him huff away, and turn we to thee and to thy sweet charm in fishing for men. How often, studying in thy book, have I hummed to myself that of Horace Laudis amore tumes? Sunt certa piacula quae te Ter pure lecto poterunt recreare libello.
And if envious Time have something done to blur the bloom upon the cheek, or blot the clear transparent purity of skin, sunt certa piacula, there are not wanting means for helping a mortal Diva to some of the prerogatives of immortality in these respects.
Suddenly the glances of Don Vegal rested on a young girl, enveloped in a black mantle, reclining in a calêche. "Who is that beautiful person?" asked he of the father. "It is the betrothed of André Certa, the daughter of the Jew Samuel." "She! the daughter of the Jew!"
The conversion of the young girl was the most important thing to him; he saw it assured by her union with André Certa, and he sought to accustom her to the idea of this marriage, the conditions of which he was far from respecting. At last the day so joyous for some, so sad for others, had arrived. The mestizo, meanwhile, proudly held up his head, and scarcely looked at those of his own class.
"Tempora certa modosque, et, quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias, praeponens ultima primis Invenias etiam disjecti membra poetae." he will never the more lose himself for that; the very pieces will be fine by themselves.
When I see People copying Works which, as Horace has represented them, are singular in their Kind, and inimitable; when I see Men following Irregularities by Rule, and by the little Tricks of Art straining after the most unbounded Flights of Nature, I cannot but apply to them that Passage in Terence: ... Incerta haec si tu postules Ratione certa facere, nihilo plus agas, Quam si des operam, ut cum ratione insanias.
Sarah constantly manifested toward him a haughty indifference; but he cared not for it, considering her as an article of sale, for which he had paid a hundred thousand piasters. And yet André Certa suspected the Jew, and with good reason; if the contract was dishonorable, the contractors were still more so.
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