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Then, sinking her voice almost to a whisper, she said: "Tell me, senor, have you come from the department of Florida? Have you have you been at San Paulo?" I hesitated a little, then answered that I had. "On which side?" she asked quickly, with a strange eagerness in her voice. "Ah, senora," I returned, "why do you ask me, only a poor traveller who comes for a night's shelter, such a question "
"Convenit a litibus, quantum licet, et nescio an paulo plus etiam quam licet, abhorrentem esse: est enim non modo liberale, paululum nonnunquam de suo jure decedere, sed interdum etiam fructuosum."
A gentleman, as well dressed as I was at least, made up to me when I had taken my seat in the diligence, and, after talking five minutes on indifferent subjects, ended by demanding a paulo. "For what?" I asked, with some little surprise. "For entertaining Signore," he replied. Yet why blame these poor people? What can they do but beg? Trade, husbandry, books, all have fled from that doomed shore.
There are still friends of mine alive who will help me to unmask this scoundrel and prove him Paulo Rabasco. He never would have been known, had I not, after many years, escaped from Yucatan. I did not dare proclaim myself at once, for fear of being arrested as Paulo Rabasco and sent back to Yucatan. But now I no longer fear. I am Don Luis Montez. I shall prove it without difficulty at last."
"Oh, I have arranged for that, and a quantity of food has been placed where we are most likely to want it. I will get it while you sleep." "But if you are captured, what am I to do?" asked Toza. "Can you not tell me now how to find the tunnel, as I told you how to find the treasure?" Paulo pondered over this for a moment, and then said, "Yes; I think it would be the safer way.
She bore his glances with a cheerful and unembarrassed smile, and a roguish nod of her little head. "You must certainly wish to paint me again, that you look at me so earnestly. No, Paulo, I will not sit to you again, you paint me much too handsome; you make an angel of me, while I am yet only a poor little thing, who lives but by your mercy, and does not even know her own name!"
Paulo's father was a Spaniard who had gone out to Gloria as a waiter in a café, and who had entered the service of a young Englishman in the Legation, and had followed him to England and married an English wife. Mr. Paulo George Paulo was the son of this international union.
Paulo but the foul and humid state of the village was, perhaps, sufficient to produce ague in a person much weakened from other causes.
I don't mind telling you, in confidence, that I am extremely puzzled. 'Have you told mother? 'Oh, yes, of course I've told mother, but she don't seem to think there is anything in it. 'Then you may be sure there is nothing in it. Mrs., or Madame, Paulo was the recognised sense-carrier of the household. 'Yes, I know.
Had M. Malte-Brun examined the history of Columbus with his usual accuracy, he would have perceived, that, in his correspondence with Paulo Toscanelli in 1474, he had expressed his intention of seeking India by a route directly to the west. His voyage to the north did not take place until three years afterwards.
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