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The individual must suffer that the nation may triumph. A Roman maxim, my dear General." "And a British one," said O'Moy, to whom Britain was a second Rome. "Oh, admitted," replied the amiable Samoval. "You proved it by your uncompromising firmness in the affair of Tavora." "What was that?" inquired Miss Armytage. "Have you not heard?" cried Samoval in astonishment.
John and Alvor, was general of the horse, and head of the third noble house of the Tavoras, the most illustrious family in the kingdom, deriving their original from the ancient kings of Leon: he married his kinswoman, who was marchioness of Tavora in her own right, and by this marriage acquired the marquisate.
To have lost four dragoons and to have set a match to a train that might end in a conflagration was reason and to spare. "How came such a mistake to be made?" he inquired, a scowl upon his full red countenance. Mr. O'Rourke had been investigating and was primed with knowledge. "It appears, sir, that at Tavora there is a convent of Dominican nuns as well as a monastery of Dominican friars. Mr.
And reasoning thus he led the way over the bridge, and kept straight on when he had crossed it, much to the dismay of Sergeant Flanagan, who, perceiving the lieutenant's condition, conceived that he was missing his way. This the sergeant ventured to point out, reminding his officer that they had come by the road along the river. "So we did," said Butler shortly. "Bu' we go back by way of Tavora."
Butler inquired by his usual method if this were Tavora, to receive an answer which, though voluble, was unmistakably affirmative. "Covento Dominicano?" was his next inquiry, made after they had gone some little way. The woman pointed with her goad to a massive, dark building, flanked by a little church, which stood just across the square they were entering. A moment later the sergeant, by Mr.
The duke de Weiro, of the family of Mascarenhas; the marquis de Tavora, who had been viceroy of Goa, and now actually enjoyed the commission of general of the horse; the count de Attougui, the marquis de Alloria, together with their wives, children, and whole families, were arrested immediately after the assassination, as principals in the design; and many other accomplices, including some Jesuits, were apprehended in the sequel.
The principal conspirator, don Joseph Mascarenhas and Lencastre, duke de Aveiro, marquis of Torres Novas, and conde of Santa Cruz, was hereditary lord-steward of the king's household, and president of the palace-court, or last tribunal of appeal in the kingdom, so that he possessed the first office at the palace, and the second of the realm. Francisco de Assiz, marquis of Tavora, conde of St.
Some of the troopers carried axes precisely against such an emergency as this. Dismounting, they fell upon the door with a will. But the oak was stout, fortified by bands of iron and great iron studs; and it resisted long. The thud of the axes and the crash of rending timbers could be heard from one end of Tavora to the other, yet from the convent it evoked no slightest response.
Yet since it was not for him to remonstrate with the lieutenant, he kept his peace and hoped anxiously for the best. At the mean wine-shop of that hamlet Mr. Butler inquired his way by the simple expedient of shouting "Tavora?" with a strong interrogative inflection.
The King of Portugal murdered, throws us two hundred years back the King of Prussia not murdered, carries us two hundred years forward again. He procured the co-operation of some other nobles, especially the Marquis and Marchioness of Tavora, and also of some of the chief Jesuits in the country, who promised absolution to any assassin.
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