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"Vara weel; then books I'll lend ye, after I've had a crack wi' Crossthwaite aboot ye, gin I find his opinion o' ye satisfactory. Come to me the day after to-morrow.
He liquidated my little account. It has always been a jest between us that little account. He laughed pleasantly, and moved towards the door. 'Vara, said Father Concha. 'Yes, reverendo. 'If I meet your wife in Madrid, what shall I say to her? Concepcion turned and looked into the smiling face of the old priest. 'In Madrid, reverendo? How can you think of such a thing?
And on Gatty's return, canvas in hand, she whipped the document behind her, and said archly, "I hae something for ye, a tecket fra a leddy, ye'll no want siller fra this day." "Indeed!" "Ay! indeed, fra a great leddy; it's vara gude o' me to gie ye it; heh! tak it." He did take it, looked stupefied, looked again, sunk into a chair, and glared at it. "Laddy!" said Christie.
The woman then said, still looking at him: "Beaut'ful! Oh, lovela!" She spoke in broken English; and Russell, while flattered by her admiration, was delighted at hearing his own language. "Do you speak English, my dear?" he said, in a tone of affectionate familiarity, drawing nearer to her. "Oh yes me speek Inglees me in Cuba learn speek Inglees vara mooch."
"One moment ye are vara well; the next ye are seized wi' a kind of shivering; then comes a kind of mandering, dandering, travelling a'overness." "D the camp fever," interrupted Power. "Well, as I observed, I fell in love; and here let me take the opportunity of observing that all that we are in the habit of hearing about single or only attachments is mere nonsense.
"Very seldom, now; I have sown all my wild oats, and even the ace of spades can scarcely dig them out again." "Ha! ha! vara gude." "I will look on;" and Lord Lilburne drew his chair to the table, exactly opposite to Mr. Gawtrey. The old gentleman turned to Philip. "An extraordinary man, Lord Lilburne; you have heard of him, of course?"
Cordova was a good object upon which to practise, for Roman and Goth, Moor and Christian, have combined to make its tortuous streets well-nigh incomprehensible to the traveller's mind. Here Conyngham wandered, or else he sat somnolently on a seat in the Paseo del Gran Capitan in the shade of the orange trees, awaiting the arrival of Concepcion Vara.
Much of this gentleness may have been that apology for his great strength, common with large men; but his face was distinctly amiable, and his very light blue eyes were at times wistful and doglike in their kindliness. I was soon to learn, however, that placability was not entirely his nature. The garden was part of a fifty vara lot of land, on which I was simultaneously erecting a house.
He rubbed a sulphur match on the leg of his trouser, and lighted a cigarette as he rode along. 'On our side no accidents, continued Vara, with a careless grandeur, 'unless the reverendo received a kick in the face. 'The reverendo received a stone in the small of the back, growled Concha pessimistically, 'where there was already a corner of lumbago.
But the old man turned the conversation by asking me abruptly my name, and trade, and family. "Hum, hum, widow, eh? puir body! work at Smith's shop, eh? Ye'll ken John Crossthwaite, then? ay? hum, hum; an' ye're desirous o' reading books? vara weel let's see your cawpabilities."
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