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There was no one in the guard-room; but as the priest turned back to the corridor, his quick ear was suddenly startled by the unhallowed and inconsistent sounds of a guitar. A monotonous voice also the Comandante's evidently was raised in a thin, high recitative. The Padre passed hastily through the guard-room, and opened the door of the passage leading to the garden slope.
There was an old cannon on the beach near the national warehouse. That had been secretly loaded and promptly at twelve o'clock was to be fired off. Immediately the revolutionists would seize their concealed arms, attack the comandante's troops in the cuartel, and capture the custom-house and all government property and supplies. "I was nervous all the morning.
I don't understand her: she frightens me." "That is of your conscience! It is that you would understand the Dona Leonor your dear Miss Keene better! Ah! silence, imbecile! this Dona Barbara is even as thou art a talking parrot. She will have that the Comandante's secretary, Manuel, shall marry Mees Chubb, and that the Doctor shall marry my sister.
Our practical friend Banks, in his zealous attempts to impress the Comandante's secretary, who knows a little English, with the importance of Mr. Brimmer's position as a large commission merchant, has, I fear, conveyed only the idea that he was a kind of pawnbroker; while Mr. Markham's trade in hides has established him as a tanner; and Mr.
Roblado could not think of time he was too eager to be rich; but Don Ambrosio had listened to his daughter's appeal, and there lay the cause of the captain's trouble. Perhaps the Comandante's influence with Don Ambrosio might be the means of overruling this decision and hastening the wished-for nuptials. Roblado was therefore but too eager to lay his superior under an obligation.
And Miss Pasa, her daughter, that went to school in the States she brought back some civilized notions in the way of footgear. And there's the comandante's sister that dresses up her feet on feast-days and Mrs. Geddie, who wears a two with a Castilian instep and that's about all the ladies.
I must try and get hold of some of the Comandante's stock; but I'm out of favor with the old man since Winslow and I wrecked that fishing-boat on the rocks off yonder. He always believed we were trying to run off, like Captain Bunker. That's why he stopped our shipbuilding, I really believe." "All the same, we might have had it built and ready now but for our laziness.
Dicky, being thoroughly imbued with the martial spirit, stooped and drew the comandante's sword, which was girded about him, and charged his foe. He chased the standing army four squares, playfully prodding its squealing rear and hacking at its ginger-coloured heels. But he was not so successful with the civic authorities.
Do you mean to say they don't know any history later than our old Revolutionary War? Haven't they heard of the United States among them? Nor California that we took from them during the late war?" "Nor how we licked 'em out of their boots, and that's saying a good deal," whispered Crosby, glancing at the Comandante's feet. Senor Perkins raised a gentle, deprecating hand.
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