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Carramba! if I find this sleepy-head," he added, holding out his long knife, the blade of which glittered through the darkness, "so much the worse or, perhaps, so much the better for him for I shall send him where he may sleep forever." "Mil diablos!" thought Pepe, "this fellow is a philosopher! By the holy virgin I am long enough here."
His girdle was made of three hundred ells and a half of silken serge, half white and half blue, if I mistake it not. His sword was not of Valentia, nor his dagger of Saragossa, for his father could not endure these hidalgos borrachos maranisados como diablos: but he had a fair sword made of wood, and the dagger of boiled leather, as well painted and gilded as any man could wish.
What in the name of a thousand diablos is the reason these confounded doctors will mention their guesses about "a case," as they call it, and all its conceivable possibilities, out loud before their patients?
The sleek black head of Culvera swung quickly round till his black eyes met the blue ones of Yeager. He flung his hand straight out toward the Anglo-Saxon. "Mil diablos! What a dolt I am. It's the very man, and I've been racking my brain to think where I met him before." Yeager laughed hardily. "I've got a better memory, señor.
San Jago! Diablos! Where did you come from?" Ned had never before heard himself called by all those pet names, but he knew at a glance that this was no other than Anita, formerly the cook of Señora Tassara, and believed to be a devoted friend of the family. "Anita!" he exclaimed.
"Diablos!" exclaimed the astonished Mexican, as he struck back a heavy blow with the cudgel which remained in his hand. Ned parried as well as he could with his machete, but there was some force left in the stick when it reached his head, and down he went. He had made a discovery at that very moment, however.
"No!" reflects the gaucho, despairingly; "we can expect no help from him. And who else is there to give it? Who, besides, would have the power to serve us, even if the will be not wanting? No one, I fear. Mil Diablos! it's a black look-out, now the very blackest!"
With a bottle between them, he and Billy Keogh would sit on the porch of the little consulate at night and roar out great, indecorous songs, until the natives, slipping hastily past, would shrug a shoulder and mutter things to themselves about the "Americanos diablos." One day Johnny's mozo brought the mail and dumped it on the table.
As it is, there's no fear of discovery, even were the cibolero himself to make his appearance " "Roblado!" cried the Comandante, interrupting him, and speaking in a deep earnest voice. "Well?" inquired the captain, regarding Vizcarra with astonishment. "I have had a dream a fearful dream; and that not the ravings of the girl it is that is now troubling me. Diablos! a fearful dream!"
What in the name of a thousand diablos is the reason these confounded doctors will mention their guesses about "a case," as they call it, and all its conceivable possibilities, out loud before their patients?
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