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A darling little watch! just like this one of mine! 'O Alda, you should not have let her. It is too much. Fernan wanted to give Lance a watch, but Felix would not let him. 'Yes, but he is not like Uncle Thomas, and it makes you like me. 'That we shall never be quite again, sighed Wilmet. 'Oh! a little setting off, and trimming up! I've brought down lots of things. Aunt Mary said I might.
The general ordered these people to be well entertained, and they eat and drank willingly of whatever was set before them; after which, by means of Fernan Alvarez, who could speak their language, he learned that the island to which they belonged was called Monsambicke, or Mozambique, on which was a town full of merchants, who traded with the Moors of India, who bring them silver, linen cloth, pepper, ginger, silver rings, many pearls, and rubies; and that, from a country behind, they procure gold.
He was thoroughly worn out, and his victory was not such as to enliven his spirits. He took up the drawing that lay on the table, and gazed on it in a sort of dreamy fascination. 'You have checked him this time, said Mr. Audley. 'Here or there, I will never bet again, said Fernan solemnly. 'God help me to keep the resolution!
Four Portuguese remained at Martavan, among whom was Juan Falcam; who, instead of assisting Fernan Mendez Pinta, sent by Pedro de Faria, the commander of Malacca, to confirm the peace which subsisted with the late king of Martavan, accused him to the governor of the town as an enemy to the king of the Birmans.
The concluding paragraph of this story is especially interesting in the light of the present agitation for unbound books and a eulogy of the old Franklin Square Library. Fernán Caballero is the pseudonym of Mrs.
'I cannot stay to discuss that now, Alda, said Felix. 'I have a great deal to do, and Fernan is waiting for me. I shall come back in time. 'Oh, I wish I could come with you now! Dear Fernan! Tell him I have borne it all for his sake, but it is such an age since I saw him!
These words of the author reveal better than we could explain his aim and method. He is a follower of Fernan Caballero, in so far as he has devoted himself to illustrate the every-day life of the Spanish people. The former writer has filled her pages with brilliant pictures of the life of Andalusia.
I thought some of us might be asked to the Rectory in the evening. 'My dear Alda, as if such a thing ever happened! 'Ah! you see I have been so long away as to forget my Lady's manners. 'Mr. Audley is going, and Fernan was asked, but he is not anything like well enough. So when Mamma and the little ones go to bed, we are to come down and spend the evening with him.
After a hard struggle the infidel was overborne and slain, and the victor turned to Don Fernan Gonzalez: 'Take his horse and his armour, he said, 'and tell the Cid it was you who killed him; I will not gainsay you. And, as cowards are generally liars also, Don Fernan gladly snatched at the crown of glory that belonged to another.
'I know, Lance, you once made such a promise, and kept it. I trust you entirely. But before, it would have been cruel to keep you from that sick boy; now this would be mere running into temptation for your own amusement. 'Harry is not much better off than Fernan was, said Lancelot, wistfully. 'Poor fellow! very likely not; but it would be more certain harm to yourself than good to him.
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