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Updated: May 13, 2025
I do not care to boast, you understand, and to be forced into self-praise is abhorrent to me. Yet truthfulness is all important at this solemn hour, and anyone hereabouts can tell you it was I who climbed gray Vraidex, and dealt so hardily with the serpents and other horrific protectors of Miramon Lluagor that I destroyed most of them and put the others to flight.
"My good fellow," replied Maximilian, cheerfully, "a soldier has but to obey orders; his duty is to do his duty." Then, turning to Miramon and Mejia, he said: "Let me, true friends, embrace you for the last time!" He did so, and then added: "In a few minutes we shall be together in a better world." Turning to Miramon, he said: "General, the bravest man should have the place of honor. Take mine."
It is true that all these things have happened to me, somehow." The magician looked at the tall warrior for a while, and in the dark soft eyes of Miramon Lluagor was a queer sort of compassion. Miramon said, "Yes, Manuel, these portents have marked your living thus far, just as they formerly distinguished the beginnings of Mithras and of Huitzilopochtli and of Tammouz and of Heracles "
Within one short month, however, this President was expelled from the capital by a rebellion in the army, and the supreme power of the Republic was assigned to General Zuloaga. This usurper was in his turn soon compelled to retire and give place to General Miramon.
"The meaning and the upshot, clearly," replied the magician, "is that, since you have the charmed sword Flamberge, and since the wearer of Flamberge is irresistible, it would be nonsense for me to oppose you." "But, Miramon, it was you who gave me the sword!" Miramon rubbed his droll little nose for a while, before speaking. "And how else was I to get conquered?
All, indeed, that is necessary to complete the power of Miramon is, that some foreign nation should interfere in Mexican affairs in behalf of Juarez.
He looked at it meditatively, then twisted off the creature's head and dropped the fragments into his waste-basket. Miramon sighed. He said: "This is the cry of all husbands that now are or may be hereafter, 'What has become of the girl that I married? and how should I rightly deal with this woman whom somehow time has involved in my doings?
Meanwhile the sword Flamberge stayed in its curious blue scabbard. In the Doubtful Palace So Manuel and Niafer came unhurt to the top of the gray mountain called Vraidex, and to the doubtful palace of Miramon Lluagor. Gongs, slowly struck, were sounding as if in languid dispute among themselves, when the two lads came across a small level plain where grass was interspersed with white clover.
"Yes, something of the sort did occur in Dun Vlechlan." "And, as I well know, you have by your conduct of affairs upon Vraidex duly disconcerted me, who am the power of darkness " "Ah! ah! you, Miramon, are then the power of darkness!" "I control all dreams and madnesses, Dom Manuel; and these are the main powers of darkness." Manuel seemed dubious, but he only said: "Well, let us get on!
Either way, Miramon, you point out an obligation so tremendous that the less said about it, the wiser; and the sooner this obligation is discharged and the ritual fulfilled, the more comfortable it will be for everybody." So Manuel went away with Miramon Lluagor into a secret place, and there Dom Manuel submitted to that which was requisite, and what happened is not certainly known.
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