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"No," Manuel said, "I cannot go with you. For in my heart is enkindling such love of you as frightens me." "It is through love men win to happiness, poor lonely Manuel." Now when Manuel answered Sesphra there was in Manuel's face trouble and bewilderment.
"Not a chance, mate; no more will you. The only place I've put foot ashore has been Porto Grande, where we run in to refit. That's a worse hell than the ship itself." "But Haines goes ashore; he was with Manuel's boat yesterday." The big fellow laughed grimly. "Bill rather likes the job, an' they know it. He's a boatswain, an' gets a big share of the swag.
The landlady told them that some one had died in the house and one of the drunkards, who was a student of medicine, said he would like to view the corpse. He was persuaded to change his mind and everybody went back to his place. The next day Manuel's sisters were notified and Petra was buried.... On the day after the interment Manuel left the boarding-house and said farewell to Dona Casiana.
That his child's affections could be excited towards any but those of her own race was a circumstance so impossible, and moreover a sin so fearful, that it never entered Manuel's mind: he knew not woman's nature, dreamed not of its quick impulses, its passionate yearnings, its susceptibility towards all gentle emotions, or he could not have so trustingly believed in the power of her peculiar faith and creed to guard her from the danger.
Though the old don's cattle might be butchered under his very nose, Manuel's few belongings would not be molested, though only the dingy brown hide of a bull long since gone the way of all flesh barred the way; a week, one month or six the hut would stand inviolate from despoliation; for such was the unwritten law of a land where life was held cheaper than the things necessary to preserve life.
In the second place, he enjoyed Manuel's vituperative remarks about cutting the liver out of the "boss." Landover positively loved to hear him talk. He made a point of getting him to talk about Percival a great deal of the time. He also liked the way in which the prodigious Manuel deferred to him.
"No, no," replied Smellie in the same language, which by the way he had been diligently studying with Antonia's assistance during our sojourn under Don Manuel's roof "no, everything is all right; our cargo "
Then he arose, and went toward the pool of Haranton, on his way homeward, after having failed in everything. Economics of Math What forthwith happened at the pool of Haranton is not nicely adapted to exact description, but it was sufficiently curious to give Manuel's thoughts a new turn, although it did not seem, even so, to make them happy thoughts.
But, as he had made up his mind not to fall into Manuel's hands, he resolved that presently he would stab himself to the heart, where he sat over this running water. For it would not be like a suicide. He was doomed, and surely God did not want his body to be tormented by such a devil as Manuel before death.
So on the occasion of Don Manuel's accident, finding Smellie unwilling as indeed he was still unable to take a long walk, I determined, as I have already said, to make a thorough exploration of the neighbourhood, and at the same time endeavour to ascertain whether the Daphne was once more in the river.
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