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Updated: May 7, 2025
On the contrary, as he approached the cuartel, he saw strange sights, and heard sounds corresponding. Everything was in confusion soldiers rushing to and fro, uttering seditious cries. Among these were "Viva Santa Anna!" "Viva el General Armijo!" "Viva el Coronel Uraga!" Beyond doubt it was a pronunciamento.
Pantaloons of guingon with a red fringe, a blue-spotted blouse shirt, and the cuartel cap you have here their disguise, in harmony with their deportment; watching and betting, making disturbance and talking of maintaining the peace.
I'm a rich man, I tell ye!" "Vell," remarked Vanderzee with stolid calm. "If you puy a monkey in some oder blaces, don'd pring him here to me. You vant me droubles to haff der bolice mit, hey? A few trinks you get, der sun your het in, und dronk der Cuartel in und my license I loose maype."
Despite the fact that the moon was shining brightly in the heavens, the young man stumbled on every stone in the solitary and deserted street. Near the cuartel he saw some soldiers with their bayonets fixed, talking excitedly. He passed by unseen. In the tribunal, blows, cries, wails, and curses were heard. The alferez's voice drowned all the others. "Put him in the stocks!
He had a pleasant word for everybody that didn't bother him with questions. He made one or two acquaintances, but kept mostly to himself; never got any letters from America, but there were two from Hong Kong, perhaps more. If he wrote letters himself, he posted them in town. They never went with the company mail from the cuartel.
As time is an object, he speedily terminates his carousal with the subaltern; who, dismissed, returns to the military cuartel. Soon as he is gone the colonel again seats himself, and lighting a fresh cigar, continues smoking. For several minutes he remains silent, his eyes turned upwards, and his features set in a smile.
I guess you had better wait over for her," Clay said. "I'll engage your passage, and, in the meantime, Captain Stuart here will see that they treat you well in the cuartel." The men around the table started, and sat motionless looking at Clay, but Burke only took his pipe from his mouth and knocked the ashes out on the heel of his boot. "What am I going to the cuartel for?" he asked.
At first, the news was heard with terror; afterward, came tears and lamentations. The members of the families of the prisoners were running about madly. They would go from the convent to the cuartel from the cuartel to the tribunal, and not finding consolation anywhere, they filled the air with cries and moans. The curate had shut himself up because he was ill.
"Just as surely as I meet him," said the Southerner ominously, "on my word of honor " "Wait a moment," broke in the other sharply. "Don't commit yourself until you've heard me. Just around the corner from here is a cuartel. It isn't a nice clean jail like ours at home. Fleas are the pleasantest companions in the place.
The boy spoke the truth; the prisoner had snatched his bayonet from a passing Constabulary private, and, turning into the cuartel, made for the provincial treasurer, who was busy inside. Him he chased out, getting over the ground with extraordinary rapidity, considering his wounds and hobbles; when we turned to look, the prisoner had come out and was running for just anybody.
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