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Denver ain't such a big town that we can't find one li'l' girl muy pronto." His voice was steady and cheerful, almost light. "First off, we'll check up an' see if any one saw her go. What did she take with her?" "One suitcase." "How much money? Can you make a guess?" "She had only a dollar or two in her purse. She had money in the bank. I'll find out if she drew any." "Lemme do that.
It was harder to handle than a porcupine, and commonly left the fingers full of spines. Two men passed, offering dulces, a species of native candy, for sale. I declined. "Muy bien, give us a cigarette." I declined again, being low in stock. "Very well, adios, senor," they replied in the apathetic way of their race, as if it were quite as satisfactory to them to get nothing as what they asked.
DON PEDRO. ¡Tú quedarte soltera! ¡Jesús qué desatino! Primero te casaría con un bajá de tres colas, cuanto más que el Sr. D. Eduardo es muy buen partido por todos títulos.... DOÑA MATILDE. ¿Qué dice usted? DON PEDRO. De familia muy noble.... DOÑA MATILDE. Eso para mí es tan indiferente como el que fuera inclusero. Para mí no. DON PEDRO. Y que será muy rico cuando herede a su tío....
"Yes, sir." "How old are you?" "Not quite twenty-six." "What's your name?" "Herbert Strange!" "Ah? One of the Stranges of Virginia?" "No, sir." There was another long pause, during which the older man's eyes wandered once more over the shed and the piles of wool, coming back again to Strange. "You should pick up a little Spanish." "I've been studying it. Hablo Español, pero no muy bien." Mr.
We required merely automata, and M. de Boynes answered our purpose perfectly well; for a provisional minister nothing could have been better. We were in the utmost terror when his majesty communicated to us his election of a minister of war, and declared his intention of immediately signifying his pleasure to M. de Muy. Such a blow would have overthrown all our projects.
The Chevalier de Muy is made Secretary-at-War, and it is supposed Monsieur d'Aiguillon is, or will be, the Minister. Thus Abishag has strangled an Administration that had lasted fourteen years. I am sincerely grieved for the Duchess de Choiseul, the most perfect being I know of either sex. I cannot possibly feel for her husband: Corsica is engraved in my memory, as I believe it is on your heart.
"We're savin' our strength they'll be plenty of fast ridin' to do latah." The Kid could not resist the temptation to break into song. His soft chant rose above the faint whisper of the desert wind: "Oh, theah's jumpin' beans and six-guns south o' Rio, And muy malo hombres by the dozen, We're a-watchin' out fo' trouble south o' Rio, And when it comes, some lead will be a-buzzin'."
What I want to know is where you found that hat." "In the alley off the plaza, senor." "All right. Chuck it up here." "Muy bien, senor." And the dusty hat was passed from hand to hand till it reached the sheriff. Collins ripped off the silver band and tore out the sweat-pad. It was an off chance one in a thousand but worth trying none the less.
She is what you call heem 'off-the-nut. It is to weep she of the ver' firs' familee was, and now Es muy lastima! Eet iss too damn bad!" Red assented dolorously. "An' Matlock got away, too! Señor, it are shore hell!" Then, remembering, he turned sharply aside so that the other could not see the dull flush on his cheek as Conscience slapped him in the face. By the advice of Mr.
Norton was in charge of De Muy, and after walking four miles sat down with him to rest in Williamstown valley. There was a yell from the Indians in the rear. "I trembled," writes Norton, "thinking they had murdered some of our people, but was filled with admiration when I saw all our prisoners come up with us, and John Aldrich carried on the back of his Indian master."
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