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This was stabbed repeatedly and adroitly by the pin, until all the powder remained in the coca-ball; and then the pin was withdrawn, wiped, and restored to its place, along with the stopper of the gourd. Guapo now remained quietly "ruminating" for a period of about forty minutes for this is about the time required for chewing a mess of coca-leaves.
And as they walked slowly towards the inn, he told her of Pépe and his coca-leaves; of the Peruvian Indians' use of them to resist hunger and fatigue; and of how the little man had given his all, which he could not replace, to help la señorita roja over the roughness of her way. "I had to keep a little in a bit of paper to satisfy him," said Dick.
He gave you all his coca-leaves because he regarded you as El Cojeante's woman that's all." "Do you?" asked Amaryllis, and her colour for the first time matched her head-gear. "For to-day of course," he answered. "You're my daughter and don't you forget it." Amaryllis, if the word may be used of a sound so pleasant, giggled.
Some are filled with chopped straw, like any stuffed crocodile in a show; others contain precious coca-leaves and powdered fragments of shell, which were doubtless placed there so that the defunct might receive nourishment up to the time when his soul should once more have rejoined the body.
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