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With a dexterous twist the man of Nunes moored the boat to the designated stake. Then he reached a hand toward Tim to help him out. "I ain't no old woman, feller," Tim refused, and hopped aground unassisted. McKay and Knowlton followed. But José, after moving languidly forward and contemplating the sharp slope, hesitated and then shrugged his shoulders. "I am tired, señores," he said.
As we left the now polluted oasis, Ithulpo looked carefully round to examine the traces on the sand, and declared that of all those who had reached the spot, not one had left it. "A just vengeance has overtaken the tyrants who yesterday so cruelly ill-treated us, Senores," he remarked. "I knew it would be so. We may now, without fear, proceed to Lima."
I hesitated on the top of the steps, so narrow and broken and dark did they look. "Come along, Senores, come along!" said the gaoler; "but take care how you tread, for the steps are somewhat worn, and you may chance to break your necks some days before their time." Though inclined to make merry at our expense, he held his torch so as to afford sufficient light for us to see our way.
No; this is the deed of a man anxious to curry favour at any cost with the Viceroy who, we know, hates the English, and justly fears them, too, after his atrocious act of last year; and what man so anxious to win favour in that direction as I say it with deliberation, senores Don Manuel Rebiera, the acting Commandant of the military forces?
Three miles further on Tom, Harry and their prisoner halted, for on the rough road they were now becoming winded. "I am near, senores," whispered a familiar voice, though Nicolas did not show himself over the rocks that concealed him. "Yes," sneered Gato, harshly, "you are indeed near near death, you silly little fool. Always before you have been safe because you were not a fighting man.
"You see, senores," said the king, continuing an address, to which his chiefs seemed to listen with reverential attention, "our best hope of speedily gaining the city is rather in the dissensions of the Moors than our own sacred arms.
"See, señores, the land lies so...." Hilario Trinfan’s crooked body pulled together in a lopsided perch as he squatted range fashion beside the morning campfire. He had smoothed a space of ground the width of his two hands and was setting out twigs and stones to create a miniature relief map of the countryside. "Here is the water hole to which the Pinto comes.
Then, with a subtle sarcasm which she knew would avenge her amply for the Señora's unprovoked attack, she said: "I stopped to inquire what the Señores would have for their breakfast. They say they will have eggs with their chocolate." "Indeed! Eggs and chocolate chocolate and eggs!" angrily retorted the Señora, "just as though one didn't know what everybody takes for breakfast!"
How severe those señores would look if the words of their descendant should reach their ears! How fiercely their eyes would flame! Mammy Antonia finally grew calm and drank the coffee left by her master. She had laid fear aside, but she felt profound sorrow over the fate of Don Jaime, as if he were in peril of death. To bring the house of the Febrers to this! Could God tolerate such things?
Then, clinging to each other, we beheld the house change suddenly into a heap of formless rubbish behind the back of a man, who staggered towards us bearing the form of a woman clasped in his arms. Her long black hair hung nearly to his feet. He laid her down reverently on the heaving earth, and the moonlight shone on her closed eyes. "senores, we mounted with difficulty.
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