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'He has one, said Vara, taking up a fine, picturesque attitude, with his right hand at his waist where the deadly knife was concealed in the rolls of his faja. 'Then he is fortunate, said the General, with his most winning smile; 'why do you come to me, my friend. 'I require two men, answered Concepcion airily, 'that is all. 'Ah! What sort of men. Guardias Civiles? 'The Holy Saints forbid!
That's vara good. Of course it was left. Janet, d' ye note that? It was left. Now if you'd put that in your pamphlet it would have been vara jocose. It was left." He slapped his thigh and roared till the wine quivered in the decanter. The Scotch are a great people, but they are apt to hang over a joke too long, particularly when no one can see the point but themselves.
Concepcion and the first traveller, who was now within a dozen yards, were already exchanging words in a patois not unlike the Limousin dialect, of which Conyngham understood nothing. 'Stop where you are, shouted the Englishman in Spanish, 'or else I shoot you! If there is anything wrong, Senor Vara, he added to the guide, 'I shoot you first, understand that.
'Then there is nothing more to be said? inquired Conyngham with a good-natured laugh. 'Nothing, except the hour at which your Excellency starts. 'Six o'clock, put in General Vincente quietly. 'Let me see, your name is Concepcion Vara. 'Yes, Excellency of Algeciras. 'It is well. Then serve this gentleman well, or else The General paused, and laughed in his most deprecating manner.
Malcomson, let me advise you, as a friend, never to attempt to have the whole conversation to yourself; it I isn't daicent. "Weel, but the toast, man?" "Oh, ay; troth, your nonsense would put any thing out of a man's head. Well, you see this comfortable room?" "Ou, ay; an vara comfortable it is; ma faith, I wuss I had ane like it. The auld squire, however, talks o' buildin' a new gertlen-hoose."
While uttering a gay compliment, he deftly secured for his mount a feed of corn which was much in excess of that usually provided for the money. 'Ah! he said, as he tipped the measure; 'I can always tell when a woman has been pretty; but with you, senora, no such knowledge is required. You will have your beauty for many years yet. Thus Vara and his horse fared ever well upon the road.
When Mansumandig returned with the hemp she spread it in the sun, and as soon as it was dry she tied it into a long thread and put it on the loom to weave. Night and day she worked on her cloth, and when it was finished she had eight varas. This she sold for twelve and a half centavos a vara, and with this money she bought more hemp.
The father entered in silence, sat down, and after wiping his brow and laying down his hat, placing his staff across it upon the floor, he drew his breath deeply. "Dominick," said the wife, "what news? What was done?" "Vara," replied Dominick, "do you remimber the day fair and handsome you wor then when I first kissed your lips, as my own darlin' wife?"
When I reached my house in the suburbs, before entering the "fifty vara" lot inclosure, I deemed it prudent to leave her outside while I informed the household of my purchase; and with this object I tethered her by the long riata to a solitary sycamore which stood in the centre of the road, the crossing of two frequented thoroughfares.
"Mind ye, He was unco gentle wi' the puir despised publicans, and vara tender to the wife that had been a sinner. It was the Pharisees He was hard on. And that's just what the minister is. Miss Cary, he's just the best blessing the Lord ever sent till Brocklebank!" "I hardly thought, Elspie," said I, a little mischievously, "to hear you speak so well of a Prelatist clergyman."
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