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She was one who disregarded great questions; who cared little or nothing what people said of her; who considered nothing worth the trouble of a fight; Epicuri de grege porca. But there was nothing swinish about Mrs. Clifford of Budleigh Salterton. She took life thoroughly in earnest.
Then King Don Ramiro being discomfited, retired to a mountain, and King Don Sancho beset the mountain round about, and made a covenant with him that he should depart, and that the King of Zaragoza should remain tributary to Castille; and but for this covenant the King of Aragon would then have been slain, or made prisoner. Paul, was the great slaughter of the Christians in Porca.
I had seen men crimped in the open piazza, out of wine-shops, from the steps of churches. What then was my fate? I was soon to learn. After what I think to have been an hour and a half's journey, my captor, puffing for breath, stopped and put me down on grass. "Porca Madonna!" cried a strident voice, "I'm not so young as I was, or you have grown fat in Pistoja. The fatter the better for me."
Kidd met with her, and fought her about six hours, gallantly enough; but finding her too strong to be taken, he quitted her; for he was able to run away from her when he would. Then he went to a place called Porca, where he watered his ship and bought a number of hogs of the natives to victual his company.
"That is a bad case, sir porca miseria!" says he. I hoped that she was better. "She's ashamed of herself, sir," he said, "as well she may be. What a scandal, my word! But these baggages have no modesty." The term offended me. I told him he was talking nonsense. "She is a true friend," I said, "whose sympathy may be excessive; but to take joy in my joy is the act of a friend." Scipione saluted me.
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