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Updated: June 8, 2025
Carlos will now take your bet for the onza, and I challenge you to place ten." "Agreed!" said the Comandante, stiffly. "Dare you double it?" inquired the ranchero. "Dare I, sir?" echoed the Colonel, indignant at being thus challenged in the presence of the spectators. "Quadruple it, if you wish, sir." "Quadruple then!" retorted the other. "Forty onzas that Carlos performs the feat!"
To celebrate the unhoped-for arrival of una onza de oro, M. Berthémie and I had procured an immense dish of potatoes. The ordnance officer of the Emperor was already devouring it with his eyes, when a Moroccan, who was making his ablutions near us with one of his companions, accidentally filled it with dirt.
"As many as you please," urged the ranchero. "Thank you, Don Juan! only one that with my own will be two. Two onzas! that, in faith, is the largest bet I have ever made. Vaya! a poor cibolero staking a double onza!" "Well, then," replied Don Juan, "if you don't, I shall. Colonel Vizcarra!" said he aloud, addressing himself to the Comandante, "I suppose you would like to win back your wager.
It was his bold luck on the day of the fiesta that had enabled him to provide such a stock. In addition to his own original onza and the two he had won, the young ranchero, Don Juan, had insisted upon his accepting the loan of five others towards an outfit for this expedition.
My petition was naturally favourably received; it was by this bit of paper, the size of the onza de oro, that my family learnt that I was still in existence, and it enabled my mother a model of piety to cease saying masses for the repose of my soul.
"She has paid an onza for her seat," cried Ursus with enthusiasm. Just then, the hotel-keeper entered the Green Box, and, passing his arm out of the window at the back of it, opened the loophole in the wall of which we have already spoken, which gave a view over the field, and which was level with the window; then he made a silent sign to Ursus to look out.
Have you not been experimented on recently?" "I think I have," said Kit. "After all, a gold onza is not a great temptation. I found another a spray of heliotrope harder to resist." "But you did resist!" she replied in a quiet voice. "Yes," said Kit, fixing his eyes on her face. "I am an adventurer like the rest, but it is rather a shabby thing to try to gain an advantage in a battle with a woman.
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