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He had married his own niece, Francisca Pizarro, illegitimate daughter of the Marquis Francisco, by a daughter of the great Inca, Huayna Capac. The woman was a half-sister of Atahualpa and Huascar. By this questionable means, the family of the Pizarros, with certain dignities, restored for their Peruvian service, was perpetuated in Spain. Hernando died at the age of one hundred and four.
Elena refused to eat, but her sister's presence roused her, and she turned her face to the wall and burst into tears. "Nonsense!" said Francisca, kindly. "Do not cry, my sister. What is a lover? The end of a little flirtation? My father will find thee a husband a strong fair English husband like mine. Dost thou not prefer blondes to brunettes, my sister?
Monica and St. Augustin, and many other noble works. "The amount of labour, thought, and attention," says Mrs. Grote, "which Scheffer brought to the production of the 'Francisca, must have been enormous.
When we turned out of the little piazza, our driver was obliged to take off one of our team of three horses driven abreast, so that we could pass through the narrow and crooked streets, or rather lanes of blank walls. With cracking whip, rattling wheels, and shouting to clear the way, we drove into the Strada di San Francisca, and to an arched gateway.
Francese, or French land, appears for the first time in any publication, on two maps hereafter mentioned, printed in 1540, under the Latin form of Francisca. It is called in the manuscript cosmography and charts of Jean Alfonse, terre de la Franciscane. An earlier map by Baptista Agnese, described by Mr.
However, from the time of Verrazano we find on the old maps the names of Francisca and Nova Gallia as a recognition of the claim of France to important discoveries in North America.
How many unconsidered other progeny, male or female, there may have been, God alone knows possibly, nay probably, a goodly number. The eldest son was named Francisco. His mother, who was not married to his father indeed not married to anybody at any time so far as I can find out was a peasant woman named Francisca Gonzales. Francisco was born about the year 1471.
If my mistress, or my shepherdess I should rather say, chance to be called Anne, I will celebrate her under the name of Anarda; if Francisca, I will call her Francenia; and if Lucy, Lucinda, and so forth. And Sancho Panza, if he has to enter into this fraternity, may celebrate his wife Teresa Panza by the name of Teresayna." Don Quixote laughed at the turn given to the name.
"I think the country will feel its loss, but that is not my business, and since there is nothing to keep me here, I shall be glad to get away." "It would be prudent to go soon," Francisca remarked in a low voice. "I do not see why. I am no longer important enough for your friends to meddle with me." "You are very modest, señor, if you are not rather dull.
Every arch is adorned with a soft and delicious drapery of leaves and tendrils; the fair and outraged child of art is cherished and caressed by the gracious and bountiful hands of Mother Nature. As we came away, little Francisca plucked one of the five-pointed leaves of the passion-flowers and gave it to La Senora, saying reverentially, "This is the Hand of Our Blessed Lord!"
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