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On the contrary, she went quite round on her heel, hauling up on the other tack far enough to bring the two vessels exactly dos a dos. Captain Digges ordered two of the quarter-deck nines to be run out of the stern-ports; and it was well he did, for it was not in nature for men to be treated as our friends in the brig had been served, without manifesting certain signs of ill-humour.

Later we looked back and would have sworn them part of the Dos Cabesas system, did we not know them to be at least eight miles' distant from that rocky rampart. It is always that way in Arizona. Spaces develop of whose existence you had not the slightest intimation. Hidden in apparently plane surfaces are valleys and prairies.

It copies the faults of Mafra, the tall drum, the poor dome, and the towers with bulbous tops. More vicious, indeed, than the Estrella, but much more original and picturesque, is the Torre dos Clerigos at Oporto, built by the clergy in 1755. It stands at the top of a steep hill leading down to the busiest part of the town.

With the beginning of the Claustro dos Filippes the work of João de Castilho comes to an end. He had been actively employed for about forty years, beginning and ending at Thomar, finishing Belem, and adding to Alcobaça, besides improving the now vanished royal palace and even fortifying Mazagão on the Moroccan coast, where perhaps his work may still survive.

To add to the charm of the window, the space between the top of the arch and the framing is filled in with those beautiful tiles embossed with vine-leaves. Going up again to the Sala dos Arabes, a door in the northern wall leads to a passage running northwards to the chapel. About half-way along the passage another branches off to the right towards the great kitchen.

I thanked him, professing my surprize at finding such humanity in a gaol in misfortunes; adding, to let him see that I was a scholar, 'That the sage ancient seemed to understand the value of company in affliction, when he said, Ton kosman aire, ei dos ton etairon; and in fact, continued I, 'what is the World if it affords only solitude?

It concerned a marvelous new oil well, the "Almas Perderse," which had just been discovered in the richest part of the Mexican petroleum fields, and which was reputed to be the greatest potential producer since the famous "Dos Bocas" itself.

M., was a beauty. People alter." "A bad conscience, Mr. Morton, is " "My dear, can't you walk faster?" "If you had my corns, Mr. Morton, you would not talk in that way!" The happy pair sank into silence, only broken by sundry "How d'ye dos?" and "Good mornings!" interchanged with their friends, till they arrived at the inn. "Let us go up quickly," said Mrs. Morton.

When Cicero's brother Quintus divorced his wife Pomponia, he had a good deal of trouble in finding means to return her portion. The law of dos comprised a great number of rules, and is a difficult subject. The penalty was merely nominal, but it was accompanied by what the Romans called Infamia. Fannia showed on this occasion that she was a better woman than Marius took her to be.

BRUNO. ¡Cómo se quieren! Como dos tortolillos ... y el amo, a pesar de eso, y sin saber por qué, los separa y los ... vaya, no hiciera otro tanto Herodes el Ascalonita. DOÑA MATILDE. Por Dios, papá, déjese usted ablandar. DON PEDRO. No, no; nunca consentiré en semejante bodorrio. DOÑA MATILDE. ¿Pues no lo aprobaba usted antes? DON PEDRO. No sabía entonces lo que ahora.