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It was necessary for several reasons that it should not fall into the hands of Montero, but here was a man who took another view of this enterprise. The Caballeros over there did not seem to have the slightest idea of what they had given him to do. Nostromo, as if affected by the gloom around, seemed nervously resentful. Decoud was surprised.
"You can't think I am serious when I call Montero a gran' bestia every second day in the Porvenir? That is not a serious occupation. No occupation is serious, not even when a bullet through the heart is the penalty of failure!" Her hand closed firmly on her fan. "Some reason, you understand, I mean some sense, may creep into thinking; some glimpse of truth.
Pedrito Montero had Don Carlos led out to be shot like his uncle many years ago and then, as Barrios said afterwards, 'Sulaco would not have been worth fighting for. Sulaco without the Concession was nothing; and there were tons and tons of dynamite distributed all over the mountain with detonators arranged, and an old priest, Father Roman, standing by to annihilate the San Tome mine at the first news of failure.
His cap, which was a Montero of black velvet, was pulled over his brows, and, with the profusion of his long ringlets, almost concealed his face. He stood on the very spot where the warder had quitted his collar, about two steps from the door of the apartment, his eyes fixed on the ground, and every joint trembling with confusion and terror.
There is the mail-boat for the south next week let us go. That Moraga is a fool! A man like Montero is bribed. It's the practice of the country. It's tradition it's politics. Read 'Fifty Years of Misrule." "Leave poor papa alone, Don Martin. He believes " "I have the greatest tenderness for your father," he began, hurriedly. "But I love you, Antonia!
But your honour's two razors shall be new set and I will get my Montero cap furbish'd up, and put on poor lieutenant Le Fever's regimental coat, which your honour gave me to wear for his sake and as soon as your honour is clean shaved and has got your clean shirt on, with your blue and gold, or your fine scarlet sometimes one and sometimes t'other and every thing is ready for the attack we'll march up boldly, as if 'twas to the face of a bastion; and whilst your honour engages Mrs.
And it was true he had been pursued by a party commanded by no less a person than Pedro Montero, the brother of the general. The cold wind of the Paramo luckily caught the pursuers on the top of the pass. Some few men, and all the animals, perished in the icy blast. The stragglers died, but the main body kept on.
With Sotillo expected from one side, and Pedro Montero from the other, the engineer-in-chief's only anxiety now was to avoid a collision with either. Sulaco, for him, was a railway station, a terminus, workshops, a great accumulation of stores. As against the mob the railway defended its property, but politically the railway was neutral.
And all those railway people, with their honest work! Of course, their work is honest! But what if you cannot work honestly till the thieves are satisfied? Could he not, a gentleman, have told this Sir John what's-his-name that Montero had to be bought off he and all his Negro Liberals hanging on to his gold-laced sleeve?
The amount of sustaining food which can be realized from one of these little patches of ground, so utterly neglected, is something beyond credence to those who have not looked bountiful nature in the face in Cuba. While traveling in the vicinity of Guines, the author stopped at one of these lonely Montero homes to obtain water and refreshment for his horse.
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