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Then the whole party crossed over from Halfmoon Bay into the valley of San Mateo Creek. Thence they turned to the south to go around the head of the bay, passing first over into the Cañada del Raymundo, which skirts the foot of the mountain.
The man was already in a third-class compartment and as he stood with his head out of the window, Mademoiselle was chatting with him. Truly his stay in Montauban had not been long. The instant Rivero caught sight of the fellow's face, he exclaimed: "Holy Madonna! Why, it is Mateo Sanz, the motor-bandit. We've been searching everywhere for him!
In one instant Carmen's quick, deft hands had stripped the slender little body; and while Mateo and Feliu were finding dry clothing and stimulants, and Miguel telling how it all happened quickly, passionately, with furious gesture, the kind and vigorous woman exerted all her skill to revive the flickering life.
Alice often left in his efficient hands her household tasks. Sometimes she and Benito took an outing of a Saturday afternoon, for there was now a pleasant drive down the Peninsula along the new San Bruno turnpike to San Mateo. The Windhams were returning from such a drive in the pleasant afternoon sunshine when a tumult of newsboys hawking an extra edition arrested them.
He was a partiklar friend of a man I've known since he was knee-high to a grasshopper." Ezekiel had actually never seen Demorest but once in his life. He would have scorned to lie, but strict accuracy was not essential with an ignorant foreign audience. He took up his carpet-bag. "I reckon I kin find his house, ef it's anyway handy." But the Senor Mateo was again politely troubled.
I wonder that your party didn't prefer it; and if they are looking for you, as they surely must be," he said, as if with a sudden conception of her importance, "they'll come there when they find you're not at San Mateo." This seemed reasonable, although the process of being "fetched" and taking the five miles ride, which she had enjoyed so much alone, in company was not attractive.
You're not going to leave San Mateo, but there's no reason why you shouldn't cash the draft. That's only part of the damages you'll make them pay for what you underwent." "It isn't money I want from them," Martinez replied, between his teeth. Judge Gordon lived in a rambling adobe house two squares from the Hosmer dwelling.
But already, without a word, brown Feliu has stripped for the struggle; another second, and he is shooting through the surf, head and hands tunnelling the foam hills.... One two three lines passed! four! that is where they first begin to crumble white from the summit, five! that he can ride fearlessly! ... Then swiftly, easily, he advances, with a long, powerful breast-stroke, keeping his bearded head well up to watch for drift, seeming to slide with a swing from swell to swell, ascending, sinking, alternately presenting breast or shoulder to the wave; always diminishing more and more to the eyes of Mateo and Miguel, till he becomes a moving speck, occasionally hard to follow through the confusion of heaping waters ... You are not afraid of the sharks, Feliu! no: they are afraid of you; right and left they slunk away from your coming that morning you swam for life in West-Indian waters, with your knife in your teeth, while the balls of the Cuban coast-guard were purring all around you.
Clementina has been thinking of getting up a riding party to San Mateo for Mrs. Ashwood. We must show them some civility, and that Boston brother of hers, Mr. Shipley, will have to be invited also. I can't get away, and my wife, of course, will only be able to join them at San Mateo in the carriage.
Not like the New York months, not without its grave misgivings, not without its hours of bitter pain, yet happy on the whole. Then Honolulu, all so bright a memory until that hour on the ship that first horrible premonition of so much misery that was to follow. The San Mateo summer had somehow widened the wordless, mysterious gap between them, and the winter!
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