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'How curious! To which Mr. Selwyn added, 'And how convenient; while Mrs. Selwyn inquired how it happened. 'Why, you see, said Hiram, 'his father was English Consul at Valdorado long ago, and he married a Spanish woman there, and the woman died, and the father seems to have taken it to heart, for he came home, bringing his baby boy with him. I believe the father died soon after he got home.
'The story of those three days' fighting in Valdorado is one of the most rattling things in recent times, said the Duke. 'Was it not? said Helena. 'I read every word of it every day, and I did want him to win so much. 'Nobody could be more sorry that you were disappointed than he, I should imagine, said Mrs. Selwyn. 'What puzzles me, said Mr.
It was an earlier season of the year, a day towards the end of March, when the skies were still but faintly blue, and there was little green abroad. Ten years ago: how many things had passed in those ten years, what struggles and successes, what struggles again, all ending in that three days' fight and the last stand in the Plaza Nacional of Valdorado!
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