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And the ideas she has about everything, particularly about lianas " Fragoso, started on this subject, would not have been able to stop himself, and Lina would have been the object of a good many enthusiastic declarations, had Torres not quitted the chair for another customer. "What do I owe you?" asked he of the barber. "Nothing," answered Fragoso.
Four of the boats, in charge of the pilot, Benito, Fragoso, and Manoel, divided the river between the Rio Negro and the Bar of Frias into four portions. They set to work to explore its very bed.
AT FIVE O'CLOCK in the evening Fragoso was still there, and was asking himself if he would have to pass the night on the spot to satisfy the expectant crowd, when a stranger arrived in the square, and seeing all this native gathering, advanced toward the inn. For some minutes the stranger eyed Fragoso attentively with some circumspection.
"To be sure!" answered Torres. "Our compatriot is not going to stop at the frontier," said Fragoso, "he is going on to Manaos." "Well, then," replied Benito, "if you will come on board the jangada you will be well received, and I am sure my father will give you a passage." "Willingly," said Torres; "and you will allow me to thank you in advance."
A month afterward the fazender, his wife, his son, Manoel and Minha Valdez, Lina and Fragoso, departed by one of the Amazon steamers for the immense establishment at Iquitos of which Benito was to take the management. Joam Dacosta re-entered his home with his head erect, and it was indeed a family of happy hearts which he brought back with him from beyond the Brazilian frontier.
"Certainly not, he is going to stay on board, Miss Lina, but you wold oblige me by not calling him my friend!" "But you undertook to ask a passage for him before he had shown any intention of doing so." "Yes, and on that occasion, if you would like to know what I think, I made a fool of myself!" "Quite so! and if you would like to know what I think, I do not like the man at all, Mr. Fragoso."
"Did he sleep here?" asked Fragoso. "Yes," answered the tavern-keeper. "Is he here now?" "No. He has gone out." "But has he settled his bill, as a man would who has gone for good?" "By no means; he left his room about an hour ago, and he will doubtless come back to supper." "Do you know what road he took when he went out?"
But, ere this was done, a ceremony had to take place on the jangada the marriage of Manoel and Minha, the marriage of Lina and Fragoso. To Father Passanha fell the duty of celebrating the double union which promised so happily. In that little chapel the two couples were to receive the nuptial benediction from his hands.
Manoel," answered Fragoso, with comic gravity, "it appears that there is or rather formerly was a trunk of 'turuma, which every year at the same time descended the Rio Negro, stopping several days at Manaos, and going on into Para, halting at every port, where the natives ornamented it with little flags.
As to Fragoso, he could not have the same reason for going to Ega as had taken him to Tabatinga, which is a place of little importance compared to this.
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