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The gist of the whole matter is that Spencer Tucker was at the tienda the day after she sailed and after his boat capsized."
HE, Stephen Masterton, was looking upon some rite of Popish idolatry! He was turning quickly away when the keeper of the tienda a man of sloth and sin gently approached him from the shadow of a column with a mute gesture, which he took to be one of invitation. A fierce protest of scorn and indignation swelled to his throat, but died upon his lips.
The opposite wing was utilized as a tienda, or general shop, a magazine for such goods as were used by the Mexican inhabitants, and belonged also to Ramierez. Ramierez himself round-whiskered and Sancho Panza-like in build welcomed the editor with fat, perfunctory urbanity. The fonda and all it contained was at his disposicion.
As she approached nearer, she could see that one or two horses were tethered under the trees, that their riders were lounging by a horse-trough, and that over an open door the word Tienda was rudely painted on a board, and as rudely illustrated by the wares displayed at door and window.
Soon he will be here. A vaquero at the tienda said to-day he saw him on the Guadalupe three days ago. When he is that near he always comes. If he comes and finds you here he will kill you. So, for my sake, you must come no more until I send you the word." "All right," said the stranger. "And then what?" "And then," said the girl, "you must bring your men here and kill him.
Calling to the keeper of the tienda, who had appeared at his door in time to witness the Danae-like shower, he bade him approach, in English. "What sort of knives have you got?" "Knives, Senor?" "Yes; bowie-knives or dirks. Knives like that," he said, making an imaginary downward stroke at the table before him.
The sale of her diamonds, which seemed to her to have realized a singularly extravagant sum, enabled her to quietly reinstate the Pattersons in the tienda and to discharge in full her husband's liabilities to the rancheros and his humbler retainers. Meanwhile the winter rains had ceased.
SALA, a hall, dining-room. SERAPE, a Mexican blanket; see p. 169. SOMBRERO, a hat. TACUMENILES, pine-shingles for roofing. TEMAZCALLI, Indian vapour-bath; see p. 301. TEFONAZTLI, Indian wooden drum. TETZONTLI, porous amygdaloid lava, a stone much used for building in Mexico. TIENDA, a shop; see p. 82. TIERRA CALIENTE, the hot region. TIERRA FRÍA, the cold region.
tertiary sister: A member of a lay society affiliated with a regular monastic order. tienda: A shop or stall for the sale of merchandise. tikbalang: An evil spirit, capable of assuming various forms, but said to appear usually as a tall black man with disproportionately long legs: the "bogey man" of Tagalog children. tulisan: Outlaw, bandit.
We rode on two leagues more to the village of Soquital where, it being Sunday, we found the inhabitants mostly Indians amusing themselves by standing in the sun, doing nothing. I can hardly say "doing nothing," though, for we went into the tienda, or shop, and found a brisk trade going on in raw spirits. Tienda, in Spanish, means a tent or booth.
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