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You have, of course, heard the story of his treacherous capture of the Inca Atahualpa, and of how the latter, having noticed the Spaniard's greed of gold, offered to ransom himself by filling with gold to as high as a man could reach, the room in which he was confined.
"I want some of my friends to watch the game," replied Hough. "But I don't allow that red-headed cowboy gun-fighter to come into my place." "That is regrettable, for you will make an exception this time ... Durade, you don't stand well in Benton. I do." The Spaniard's eyes glittered. "You insinuate SENOR " "Yes," interposed Hough, and his cold, deliberate voice dominated the explosive Durade.
Calling now upon his little troop to ascend the height, and view the noble prospect along with him, "behold," said he, "the rich reward of our toil. This is a sight upon which no Spaniard's eye ever before rested." And in their great joy the leader and his men embraced each other.
He was almost sure of never having seen him before. His shaven face, his eyes of a metallic gray, his elegant pomposity did not enlighten the Spaniard's memory. Perhaps the unknown had made a mistake. This must have been the case, judging by the rapidity with which he withdrew his glance from Ferragut and went hastily away. The captain attached no importance to this encounter.
But indeed, it was no laughing matter for poor Master Harry, for it was many a day before his imagination could rid itself of the image of the dead Spaniard's face; and as he walked away down the street with his companions, leaving the crowd behind them, and the dead body where it lay for its friends to look after, his ears humming and ringing from the deafening noise of the pistol shots fired in the close room, and the sweat trickling down his face in drops, he knew not whether all that had passed had been real, or whether it was a dream from which he might presently awaken.
Then bringing the Spaniard's rushlight from the three or four that stood on the dresser, she lighted it and held it out to him. "Set it down!" he said, with tipsy insolence. He was not quite sober. "Set it down! I am not going to hic! risk my salvation! Avaunt, Satan! It is possible to palm the evil one, like a card I am told, and hic! soul out, devil in, all lost as easy as candle goes out!"
By it, you would be able to get possession of half of the old Spaniard's dollars, and then say that you had made it in America." And while he was storming, or rather howling, all this, he had grasped his lash and with the butt end kept poking his manager in the stomach with such insistence that it might be construed in an affectionate or hostile way.
At the present moment you are in no better a position than Juan de Castro, who raised a loan on half his moustache from the Saracens of Toledo. Come now! an Hungarian gentleman's moustache is no worse than a Spaniard's. I will advance you on it as much as you command, and I'll boldly venture to doubt whether there is any one except myself and the Moors of Toledo who would do such a thing?
Mendez had a servant called Antonio Guerra, who worked on his farm, and who appears to have been much in his confidence, and just as Ripa passed the Spaniard's door, he met Guerra coming in an opposite direction, and asked him if Mendez had gone to the supper yet; to which Guerra answered that he supposed he had, but he did not know.
At first, as a stately young girl, with the arched feet and hot blood of the south, and her eyes dark and soft as a Spaniard's; but her beauty lasted but for a moment. A withering change came over face and figure: she was cold and hard; her youthful ardor, warmth, and freshness, had been shrivelled up or worn away.
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