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But say nothing to the men; for if they believe a volcano lies yonder we shall hardly get them to cross. 'Yet, said Morales, 'by your leave, Captain, that is no volcano, but such a cloud as might well rest over the thick moist woodlands of which the Englishman told me. 'Well, that we shall discover by God's grace, Gonsalvez made answer. 'You will cross thither? I asked.
I paused, with my eyes upon Master d'Arfet's hands, which were hooked now like claws over the table which his fingers still pressed: and this gesture of his put a sudden abominable thought in my mind. "Yes, he wishes to buy his wife's grave. Ask him " I cried, and with that I broke off. But Gonsalvez nodded. "I know," said he softly, and turned to the Englishman.
"Miss Howe," she said in the quick, clicking syllables of her race, "Sister Margaret wishes you to come immediately to the surgical ward. A case has come in, and Miss Gonsalvez is there, but Sister Margaret will not be bothered with Miss Gonsalvez.
"I salute you for an honest gentleman; but I may not grant your wish." "It is curious," Master d'Arfet repeated once more, and looked at us queerly, as if seeking to excuse his weakness in our judgment. "So small a difficulty!" Gonsalvez bowed. "You have taught us this, Sir, that the world speaks at random, but in the end a man's honour rests in no hands but his own."
Therefore to leave you in error concerning my purpose would be cheating: and, Sir, I have never cheated in my life. At the risk then, or the certainty, of losing my dearest wish I must tell you this I do not forgive my wife Anne or Robert Machin: and though I would be buried in their grave, it shall not be beside them." "How then?" cried Gonsalvez and I in one voice.
My cousin" here he turned towards me "this gentleman or, as I must now learn to call him, this most reverend Doctor of Philosophy, Gil Gonsalvez de Covadonga found me some days ago stretched unconscious beside the highroad to Tordesillas, and in two ways has saved my life: first, by conveying me to this hiding-place, for the whole terrain was occupied by Marmont's troops, and I lay there in my scarlet tunic, a windfall for the first French patrol that might pass; and, secondly, by nursing me through delirium back to health of mind and strength of body."
But their good fortune was not yet at an end: for off the Barbary coasts they fell in with and captured a Spaniard containing much merchandise and two score of poor souls ransomed out of captivity with the Barbary corsairs. 'And among them, said my friend Gonsalvez, 'your Highness will find this one old man, if I mistake not, to be worth the charges of two such expeditions as ours.
Me they left to rule Porto Santo. 'And if we never come back, said Gonsalvez, 'you will tell the Prince that something lies yonder which we would have found, but our men murdered us on the way " "My dear brother Bartholomew," Gonsalvez broke in, "you are wearying Master d'Arfet, who has no wish to hear about me."
I am speaking of reasonably fertile land, and hardly need to point out that in offering any such price for mere barren foreshore I invite you to believe me half-witted. But, as we say at home, he who keeps a fancy must pay a tax for it: and a man of my age with no heir of his body can afford to spend as he pleases." Gonsalvez stared at him, and from him to me, with a puzzled frown.
"How is it possible for people, beholding that glorious Body, to worship any Being but Him who created it?" Right word for word! Well, they made a lens for that glorious Body and fried old Gonsalvez with it. Were you looking on?" "No," said Ruth, and shivered. "Well, I did perforce.
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