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Updated: May 26, 2025
If only it could be safely done, if only for one moment he could find himself face to face with Da Souza in Bekwando village, where human life was cheap and the slaying of a man an incident scarcely worth noting in the day's events! The thing was easy enough there here it was too risky.
Thousands of sonnets, chiefly of an amorous nature, filled up the seventeenth century in Portugal, while Spain was exhausting its expiring energies in dramas. Souza, the most eminent of the sonneteers, alone produced six hundred.
Souza also states, as does Nuniz, that after the defeat of the Adil Shah, Krishna Deva Raya demanded that, as the price of peace, the former should visit him and kiss his foot; and that, taking advantage of the Adil Shah's difficulties, Ruy de Mello seized the mainlands of Goa. It is clear, therefore, that both authors are writing of the same event. De Mello accordingly took the mainlands.
"Let me read you exactly what he writes: "'As for Principal Souza, I beg you to tell him from me that as I have had no satisfaction in transacting the business of this country since he has become a member of the Government, no power on earth shall induce me to remain in the Peninsula if he is either to remain a member of the Government or to continue in Lisbon.
Da Souza had made a fortune trading fiery rum on the Congo and had probably done more to debauch the niggers he spoke of so bitterly than any man in Africa. "The Bekwando people have a bad name very bad name. As for any sense of commercial honour my dear Trent, one might as well expect diamonds to spring up like mushrooms under our feet."
Count Samoval is the intimate friend of the Marquis of Minas, who remains a member of the Government, and who next to the Principal Souza was, and no doubt is, the most bitter opponent of the British policy in Portugal.
Francis asked. "Well, he is a large shareholder in the Company," Trent said. "Of course he could upset us all if he liked. I should say that Da Souza would try all he could to keep him in the background until he had disposed of his shares." "And how does your stock hold?" "I don't know," Trent said. "I only landed yesterday.
His little scheme has been in vain. We remain! He does not look at our Julie. He speaks of marriage with contempt. Yet you say he will marry her he, a millionaire! What does it mean, Hiram?" "The man, he is in my power," Da Souza says in a ponderous and stealthy whisper. "I know something." She rose and imprinted a solemn kiss upon his forehead.
"Yes, sir, he and Mrs. Da Souza and the young lady." "And Miss Montressor and her friend?" "They shared the fly, sir. The luggage all went down in one of the carts." Trent laughed outright, half scornfully, half in amusement. "Listen, Mason," he said, as the sound of wheels died away.
"Then why," Da Souza asked, looking up with twinkling eyes, "do you want to sell me a share in it?" "Because I haven't a darned cent to bless myself with," Trent answered curtly. "I've got to have ready money. I've never had my fist on five thousand pounds before no, nor five thousand pence, but, as I'm a living man, let me have my start and I'll hold my own with you all."
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