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The law compels all of a certain age either to serve in the army or to become national soldiers on which account some of these Godos are to be found amongst us. Myself. Are there many in Madrid of the Carlist opinion? Baltasar.
"The Godos have passed through it, and as we were Patriots they burned down a large part, and killed most of us. Look at yonder woman; she alone survives of all her family. You see almost all the remaining inhabitants," and the speaker uttered a bitter laugh. "I can feel for you, for I am a Patriot," I answered; "and I want to find my way to the army of General Bolivar."
I immediately inquired whether they had seen any fugitives from the Spaniards making their way to the mountains. "Yes, senor; many and good cause they had to run, for the Godos put to death all they caught. We ourselves got away just in time from our cottage, which the cruel barbarians burned. They would have killed us had we remained."
"They are those of unfortunate people who were attempting to escape from the Godos," observed Padillo. "The mountains hereabouts are full of the skeletons of those who have thus perished. But Heaven will punish our oppressors." All we saw must have died on their first day's journey across the Paramo. Those only who had strong mules, or who had found shelter in the tambo, could have escaped.
And you will rejoice to hear, senor, that the last news which reached us is that the general has beaten the accursed Godos; though whether it is true I know not. Good news never travels so fast as ill news." I tried to cheer my new friend, and he undertook to obtain some refreshments for us. "You may enter any of the houses you please, for most of them are empty; but to mine you are welcome."
He told us that as he was coming over the mountains from a village on this side of the river, to which he had escorted some travellers, he had heard firing, and concluded that there had been a fight between some Liberals and the Godos. "I hope the last were well beaten," he muttered, looking at Uncle Richard's military cap. "So do I," I observed. "You do not take us for Godos?"
"It is impossible to withstand the Godos." "Nothing is impossible to brave men fighting in a just cause," answered Uncle Richard. Embracing his wife and Rosa, to whom we had already bidden farewell, he joined us in the courtyard, where we sat our horses ready to start.
During the first half of the seventeenth century, Spaniards of ancient blood and high civilisation came to Trinidad, and re-settled the island: especially the family of Farfan 'Farfan de los Godos, once famous in mediaeval chivalry if they will allow me the pleasure of for once breaking a rule of mine, and mentioning a name who seem to have inherited for some centuries the old blessings of Psalm xxxvii.
Dr Sinclair thinks it prudent to keep in hiding while the Godos occupy Popayan, in case the monster Murillo should order his arrest. I lately heard that he was well, in spite of the trying life he, in common with so many other Patriots, is obliged to lead." "And Dona Dolores?" I asked.
"We must make for the mountains immediately; there will be less risk of the Godos looking for us there," he said, when we had got between some high convent walls, where no one was likely to overhear us. One thing was certain, we must get to a distance from the city before daybreak. On that point we were all agreed.
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