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Updated: June 18, 2025
"They inhabit the valley of the Ribas in the northwestern part of the Spanish province now called Gerona. They never exceed 51 1/2 inches in height, and have short, ill-formed legs, great bellies, small eyes, flat noses, and pale, unwholesome complexions. They are usually stupid, often to the verge of idiocy, and much subject to goiter and scrofulous affections.
From there Bolivar went with Marino to Carupano, and then sailed for Cartagena, having lost his reputation and having been insulted by his own officers and friends, among them Piar and Ribas, himself.
This caused Bolivar much concern, as did the news that Boves was advancing from the south with a great body of cavalry. With Marino and Ribas to help him, and with his most trusted officers at the head of the different sections, he advanced against the enemy, commanded at that time by the Spanish field-marshal, D. Juan Manuel Cagigal.
"And in what is my future greatness to consist?" asked the young maiden, with curiosity. "That will be made known to you at the proper time," mysteriously replied Joseph Ribas. "Who will tell me?" "He, the count." "I shall therefore see him!" she joyfully exclaimed. "Perhaps! Will you, however, first allow me to have your room properly furnished?" "This villa belongs to your lord," said Natalie.
"It is now high time!" said Joseph Ribas, one day, as, coming from Natalie, he entered the boudoir of Count Alexis Orloff. "Now, your excellency, the right moment has come! You must show yourself, or this curious child will consume herself with a longing that has changed her blood to fire!
The women in some instances are employed in the village of Ribas as nurses for children, and as such are found tender and faithful. Before communication throughout the region was as easy as it is now, it was thought lucky to have one of these dwarfs in a family, and the dwarfs were hired out and even sold to be used in beggary in neighboring cities.
A small, dull lamp is burning there, lighting the lovely face of the sleeping Princess Natalie. "That is she!" low murmured Ribas, as with eager glances he observes the young and charming maiden. He is drawn forward as if with invisible bands he penetrates into this sacred asylum of the slumbering maiden. But he forcibly checks his advance.
"I will tell you," said Ribas, with a smile; "he hates women, because the only one he ever loved was false to him, and now his love is changed to ardent hatred of all women!" "I shall therefore never see him!" sighed the girl, hanging her head with the sadness of disappointment.
Realizing that he could not hold the city of Barcelona, Bolivar went to the city of Cumana with generals Ribas and Manuel Piar, the latter famous for his military skill, his daring, his restlessness and his ultimate sad death, of which we shall speak later.
And ravished by the beauty of Gregory Orloff, the third in the ranks of her recognized favorites, the empress leaned upon his arm, whispering words of tenderness in his ear. "And what does your sublime majesty decide upon respecting the prisoner?" humbly asked Joseph Ribas. "Oh, I had almost forgotten her," said the empress, with indifference.
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