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Philip was hard put to it before he secured some garments which did not irresistibly recall the heroes of certain musical comedies popular in England. Coke experienced worse vicissitudes. Even the variety and richness of a master mariner's vocabulary was taxed to its utmost resources when he was coaxed into "trying on" a short jacket apparently intended for a toreador.
The other shook his head. "No," he said slowly, "it was not really I who sent for you. It was Her Majesty, the Queen." Before he had time for response the toreador caught the sound of a shaken curtain behind him, but since he stood facing the King he did not turn. Karyl, however, looked up, and then swiftly crossed the room.
I sent for you to ask you whether you have leisure to accompany me on an enterprise which may involve danger. It's only fair to warn you." Blanco laughed. "Who reads mañana?" he demanded, seating himself on the edge of the table, and busying his fingers with the deft rolling of a cigarette. "The toreador does not question the Prophets. I am at your disposition. But the streets of Cadiz await us.
What matters it whether a man is a muletero, gaucho, toreador, or what? Torellas, now, has been all so have I, her brother-in-law or a seller of hats or a member of the cabinet? What, I ask you' he turned to Cogan 'are we señor? We are men or we are not? So? Very well, let us say no more, but find a café and have our coffee. It has been very dusty to-day very.
To tell the truth, it sticks in my crop just a little and does not relish to the extent which would seem appropriate. Indeed I am not altogether sure whether I can see a distinction between being the father of a famous half-back and the father of a famous toreador or famous prize-fighter.
He on the left, the man with the puffed eyes and the dissipated mouth you will notice also a scar over the left temple " Blanco was regarding his cigarette tip as he flecked an ash to the floor "is Monsieur Jusseret supposed to be high in the affairs of the French Cabinet Noir." "There is one more and a vacant chair," suggested Benton. The toreador nodded. "True, I had not forgotten the other.
I have in view three plans for scaling the cliffs, and the means for carrying out each is in the hold. There is an electric drill with plenty of waterproof cable to reach from the ship's dynamos to the cliff-top when the Toreador is anchored at a safe distance from shore, and there is sufficient half-inch iron rod to build a ladder from the base to the top of the cliff.
For an instant, with the recollection of the delicate internal organization of the Saltellos on my mind, I was in agony lest she should totter and fall, even then, yielding up her gentle spirit on the spot. But when I looked again she had a hairpin between her white teeth, and was carefully adjusting her toreador hat. And beside us was Enriquez cheerful, alert, voluble, and undaunted. "Eureka!
There were the little trees at which the denizen of the Black Forest had often smiled, but which to-day looked large and stately. Now a toreador, whom he had seen more than once in the arena, strutted past. This was the gate, through which he had ridden out of the city beside the master's calash. He must go into the town, but what should he do there?
Bowen Tyler's manuscript had made it perfectly evident to all that the subterranean outlet of the Caspakian River was the only means of ingress or egress to the crater world beyond the impregnable cliffs. Tyler's party had been able to navigate this channel because their craft had been a submarine; but the Toreador could as easily have flown over the cliffs as sailed under them.
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