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Updated: June 9, 2025
In the meantime the girls would be playing in a ring, the women would shout from gallery to gallery and the men would chat in their shirtsleeves; some fellow, squatting on the floor, would scrape away monotonously at the strings of a guitar. La Muerte, the old beggar, would also cheer the evening gatherings with her long discourse.
The device that you will bear is not very cheerful, but it is eloquent, you know it: Hasta la muerte! "Until death!" What do you say about it? We shall be at Toledo in three days. There are Duchesses de Rosas who will look on you, as you pass, over their plaited collars, and as there were neither adulteresses nor courtesans among them, they will probably ask what the Parisian is doing among them.
Suffice it to say, that he fell like a thunderbolt from a sunny sky upon the confident Royalist troops, that he defeated and routed them time after time, broke, with his terrible lancers, upon encampments which believed him a hundred miles away, and drove the Royal commanders, with varying success, from one point to another of Venezuela. His watchword was, Guerra á la muerte, "War unto death!"
When the last note died away, there was utter stillness about me for an instant nothing stirred, nothing moved; the wind seemed to have forsaken the leaves. From a great distance, as if he were going deeper into the woods, I heard him once more tuning up his pipes; but he did not play again. Beside me, I heard the low voice of one of my natives murmuring, "Muerte ha pasado."
The heretics are coming, shooting from the sea. All is lost. Fly, oh fly!" He had jumped straight overboard, but the infection of his panic was already visible. The cries of "Muerte, muerte! Death, death!" had ceased, and the Englishmen were cheering ferociously.
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