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Quiroga, with his smooth tongue and humble smile, was lavishly and flatteringly attentive to Simoun. His voice was caressing and his bows numerous, but the jeweler cut his blandishments short by asking brusquely: "Did the bracelets suit her?" At this question all Quiroga's liveliness vanished like a dream.
"Believe me, Chichoy, of Quiroga the Chinaman! I heard it in the office." "Nakú, it's certain then," exclaimed the simpleton, believing it at once. "Quiroga," explained the clerk, "has a hundred thousand pesos in Mexican silver out in the bay. How is he to get it in? Very easily.
"Listen, Quiroga," he said, somewhat abstractedly, "I'll undertake to collect what the officers and sailors owe you. Give me their notes." Quiroga again fell to whining: they had never given him any notes. "When they come to you asking for money, send them to me. I want to help you." The grateful Quiroga thanked him, but soon fell to lamenting again about the bracelets.
Garibaldi himself had broken a lance in the cause of the Unitarians. Rivera and other progressive leaders had fought against him in vain. There were others of the type of Quiroga, who, brought up in the same school as Rosas, although of lesser birth for the family of the Dictator was patrician joined him for a while in a species of tentative alliance, and then broke away usually to their cost.
"What has that Jew to do with the affairs of our country? We enrich him by buying " "Keep quiet!" admonished another impatiently, anxious to learn how Padre Irene had been able to overcome such formidable opponents. "There were even high officials who were opposed to our project, the Head Secretary, the Civil Governor, Quiroga the Chinaman " "Quiroga the Chinaman! The pimp of the " "Shut up!"
Look long, Quiroga, on that rising sun! listen to the well- known melody that welcomes his approach! gaze once more upon the rolling Pampa! look again upon those flying hills!
There were questionings whether the General had quarreled with the Countess, whether she spent her time in the halls of pleasure, whether His Excellency was greatly annoyed, whether there had been presents exchanged, whether the French consul , and so on and on. Many names were bandied about: Quiroga the Chinaman's, Simoun's, and even those of many actresses.
Generally speaking however, they are of lofty stature and have great muscular strength. On information being sent to Spain of the death of Quiroga, as formerly mentioned, Don Alonzo Sotomayor Marquis of Villa-hermoso was sent out as governor with six hundred regular troops. He landed at Buenos Ayres in 1583, from whence he proceeded to St Jago.
By means of a provincial friend of his, Quiroga forbade entrance into his gaming-houses to every Indian who was not an old acquaintance, as the future Chinese consul feared that they might get possession of the sums that the wretches lost there.
Such and such men were to have done the deed; at such a shop the pistol had been bought; at such a spot it was to have been fired; but the marvellous swiftness of the intended victim had ruined all. Meanwhile, Quiroga sped onward more at ease toward Tucuman.
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