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But undismayed by this, the gallant Chilian forthwith destroyed the boom, and then discovered that he had lost his second spar, and consequently was unable to torpedo the ship herself. The Union then opened a smart machine-gun fire, and the Guacolda was compelled to beat a retreat, much to Lieutenant Goni's annoyance.
You never hear a hard word said about him, and sure's there's a heaven he is in it." Chilian held up his finger. Then he signed a paper that had to go back, and asked if the cargo of the Ulysses was in good shape. Elizabeth called him downstairs after that. There was a poor man wanting some sort of a position and Chilian promised to look out for him.
Go off for day's rides, take sails up and down, there were so many places. She was brimming over with joy. Chilian was called up in the night by Mother Taft. "She's had a stroke. And she seemed so smart yesterday. She even laughed over some school stories Cynthia told. That child's brought her flowers every morning, and she's softened so much to her.
"Aye," said the girl with the White Man's blood, "my right hand is for this" and the knife sank home into Malia's yellow bosom. "A cold bosom for you to-night, Macy O'Shea," she laughed, as the value of a tun of oil and a bag of Chilian dollars gasped out its life upon the matted floor. The native drum was beating.
"I have heard it took days to get over it." Meanwhile, downstairs Elizabeth had studied her Cousin Chilian. "The child is not at all pretty," she began rather sharply. "And her mother was considered a beautiful young woman, I believe." "Yes; but a long voyage and shipboard living may not be conducive to the development of beauty. And children seldom are at that age."
That first business having been satisfactorily achieved, Lord Cochrane proceeded to Concepcion, there to ask and obtain from its Chilian governor, General Freire, a force of two hundred and fifty soldiers, under Major Beauchef, a French volunteer. In Talcahuano Bay, moreover, he found a Chilian schooner, the Montezuma, and a Brazilian brig, the Intrepido.
"Cousin Chilian, if you had not been in the world, or if you hadn't been willing to take me I don't think father knew much about Cousin Giles why, I must have gone to strangers." There were tears in her eyes, and a sweet melancholy in her voice. She had so much to tell Cousin Eunice that it seemed really as if she had taken the journey with them.
These litigations cost me, directly, upwards of £.14,000, and indirectly, more than double that amount; for, in order to meet the expenses, I was compelled to dispose of property at a great sacrifice, amongst which the loss arising from the sale of my residence and grounds in the Regent's Park alone was upwards of £.6,000 whilst that on other property also sacrificed was as much more; thus, in place of receiving anything for my efforts in the cause of Chilian and Peruvian independence, I was a loser of upwards of £.25,000, this being more than double the whole amount I had received as pay whilst in command of the Chilian squadron: in other words, not only did I obtain no compensation for my services in Chili but was, in addition, compelled to sacrifice all I afterwards earned in Brazil to satisfy claims arising from seizures made under the authority of the Chilian Government!
The return of the squadron was announced by me to the Government in the following letter: The anxious desires of His Excellency the Supreme Director are now fulfilled, and the sacrifices of the Chilian people are rewarded. The naval power of Spain in the Pacific has succumbed and is extinguished, the following vessels having surrendered to the unceasing efforts of the squadron of this Free State:
The captain had declared his intention of setting sail under cover of darkness, so as to escape an attack from a Chilian ship should one offer to dispute his passage. That afternoon Jack saw Plum to bid him goodbye, feeling sorry to part with his honest friend. The latter actually cried. "Hang it, Jack! I've a mind to go with you.
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