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This name they had given Alvarado from his fair features and flaxen hair. How great the leap was no one has told us, though the name of "Alvarado’s leap" still clings to the spot. Thus ended the frightful noche triste, or "doleful night." Cortez led the remnant of his men off the causeway, a feeble, wounded, straggling few, faltering from weariness and loss of blood.
The range-rider stood paralyzed. The truth flashed numbingly over his brain. "Ruth gone with Harrison to Noche Buena," was all he could say. Again Daisy cut in, this time sharply. "Tell us your story, Steve. What is it that's wrong?" In a dozen sentences he told it. They listened tensely. The mother was the first to break the silence after he had finished. She began to sob.
DOÑA MATILDE. ¡Bruno! BRUNO. Jesús, señorita, ¿ya se levantó usted? DOÑA MATILDE. Sí, no he podido cerrar los ojos en toda la noche. BRUNO. Ya se habrá usted estado leyendo hasta las tres o las cuatro, según costumbre.... DOÑA MATILDE. No es eso.... BRUNO. Se le habrá arrebatado el calor a la cabeza.... DOÑA MATILDE. Repito que....
Ferdinand Cortès His character His appointment Preparations for the expedition, and attempts of Velasquez to stop it Landing at Vera-Cruz Mexico and the Emperor Montezuma The republic of Tlascala March upon Mexico The Emperor is made prisoner Narvaez defeated The Noche Triste Battle of Otumba The second siege and taking of Mexico Expedition to Honduras Voyage to Spain Expeditions on the Pacific Ocean Second Voyage of Cortès to Spain His death.
So the outbreak of the Revolution had drawn him across the border, where he had done much to lick the Constitutionalist troops into shape. Now he had come to Noche Buena to teach the artillery of the Legion how to shoot straight, after which they would all march south and take the great city with the golden gates.
Now while she spoke Marina undid her bundle, and there in it were the dresses and the sword, the same that I had taken from the Spaniard Diaz in the massacre of the noche triste. First she drew out the woman's robe and handed it to Otomie, and I saw that it was such a robe as among the Indians is worn by the women who follow camps, a robe with red and yellow in it.
"What's the matter with you all? Looks like you were seeing a ghost," he said. "Where did you come from, Steve Yeager?" demanded Mrs. Seymour. "Me? Why, I came from my room reached town an hour or so ago." Something cold clutched at the heart of the mother. "Where from? Weren't you in Sonora?" "Sure I was. At Noche Buena.
The Spaniards are the most frugal of people, but during the days that precede their Noche Buena, their Good Night, they seem to be given up as completely to cares of the commissariat as the most eupeptic of Germans.
The sloop the Estrella del Noche, that my brave men captured from the coast smugglers, is to be placed under your command. The boat is to be devoted to the services of your country. You will be ready at all times to convey officials of the government to points along the coast where they may be obliged to visit.
The greeting was never a hearty, individual phrase of the speaker's own choosing, but always the invariable "Adios, Buenos dias, tardes or noche," even though I had already addressed some inquiry to them. Replies to questions of distance were as stereotyped, with the diminutive ito beloved of the Central Americans tacked on wherever possible: "Larguita 'sta! A la vueltita no mas! Esta cerquita!
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