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"What houses! what people!" replied Lina, whose eyes seemed to have expanded so that she might see better. "Rather!" said Benito laughingly. "More than fifteen hundred inhabitants! Two hundred houses at the very least! Some of them with a first floor! And two or three streets! Genuine streets!" "My dear Manoel!" said Minha, "do protect us against my brother!
But if this quality of son made him the brother of Benito, the title was scarcely appreciated by him when Minha was concerned, for he soon became attached to the young girl by a bond more intimate than could exist between brother and sister. In the year 1852 of which four months had already passed before the commencement of this history Joam Garral attained the age of forty-eight years.
"Useless, my friend," answered the smiling Minha. "Manoel has given me a nosegay and I am quite content. It is true," she added, pointing to the house hidden beneath the flowers, "that he has hidden our house in his betrothal bouquet!"
A few days would thus have to be passed at Manaos, and then Joam Dacosta and his people, free from all constraint, and released from all apprehension, would take leave of their host to go on board once more and continue their descent of the Amazon to Para, where the voyage was intended to terminate with the double marriage of Minha and Manoel and Lina and Fragoso.
Yes, the islands are beautiful, but, beautiful as they are, they cannot equal the one we have made our own!" "My little Minha is enthusiastic to-day," said the padre. "Ah, padre! I am so happy to see everybody happy around me!" At this moment the voice of Yaquita was heard calling Minha into the house. The young girl smilingly ran off. "You will have an amiable companion," said the padre.
For a long time I have thought over the proposition I have just made to you; and if you consent, it will be the realization of my most cherished desire. Our children know why I am now talking to you. Minha, Benito, Manoel, all ask this favor, that we should accompany them. We would all rather have the wedding at Belem than at Iquitos.
Blinded by the blood, the animal flew to the side, and, designedly or not, fell over and was lost in the stream. "Minha! Minha!" shouted Manoel in distraction, when he got to the bow of the jangada. Suddenly she came into view. She had taken refuge in the cabin of Araujo, and the cabin had just been upset by a powerful blow from the third alligator.
Manoel talked mostly with Minha. Between whiles his eyes wandered to Torres, but he acted his part more successfully than Benito in a situation which, if it did not finish at Manaos, would certainly end at Belem. The dinner was jolly enough. Lina kept it going with her good humor, Fragoso with his witty repartees.
"Oh, the dreadful creatures!" cried Lina, hiding her eyes; "they fill me with horror!" "And they are really formidable," added Minha; "are they not, Manoel?" "To be sure very formidable," answered he. "These vampires have a particular instinct which leads them to bleed you in the places where the blood most easily comes, and principally behind the ear.
We are going down it, however, like Orellana and La Condamine did so many centuries ago, and I am not at all surprised at their marvelous descriptions." "A little fabulous," replied Benito. "Now, brother," said Minha seriously, "say no evil of our Amazon." "To remind you that it has its legends, my sister, is to say no ill of it."
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