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There was something weird and disturbing in this figure, a suggestion of pursuit in every line. For this was not Concepcion Vara. Conyngham would have known him at once. This was one wearing a better coat; indeed Concepcion preferred to face life and the chances of the world in shirt sleeves. Conyngham sat in his saddle awaiting the new-comer.
When was improvised an alcalde after the Mexican fashion, and two boards of aldermen were established after the New York fashion, and the high officials saw that they could now and then pick up a twenty-five-dollar fee for deeding a fifty vara lot, if so be they had on hand some fifty varas, they forthwith went to work to make them by drawing lines in front of the cove and intersecting them at right angles by lines running up over the hills, giving their own names, with a sprinkling of the names of bear-flag heroes, not forgetting the usual Washington and Jackson, leaving in the centre a plaza, the cove in front to be filled in later.
"That's weel, vara weel," said Mr Macdougall, with an approving cough. "And if our quest should be unsuccessful, why, we must proceed to Good Success Bay that point to the south-east of the mainland, opposite Staten Island where there'll be more chance of our intercepting a vessel." "Hech, mon, but it's a gude long deestance, I reecken?" replied the mate, in a questioning way.
He appeared as usual to be at peace with all men, and returned his guide's grave salutation with an easy nod. 'These the horses? he inquired. Concepcion Vara spread out his hands. 'They have no equal in Andalusia, he said. 'Then I am sorry for Andalusia, answered Conyngham with a pleasant laugh. They mounted and rode away in the dim cool light of the morning.
"I didna like to express my warm approbation of you before the lads, for fear of making them jealous." "They be No!" "I ken what ye wad say, sirr, an it wad hae been a vara just an' sprightly observation. Aweel, between oursels, I look upon ye as a young gentleman of amazing talent and moedesty. Man, ye dinna do yoursel justice; ye should be in th' Academy, at the hede o' 't." "Mr.
Noo, there's the filbert trees, ma friend, of whilk ane is male and the tither female; and the upshot e'en is, Andy, that de'il a pickle o' fruit ever the female produces until there's a braw halesome male tree planted in the same gerden. But, ou, man, Andy, wasna yon she and that bonnie jaud, Connor, that we met the noo? De'il be frae my laul, but I jalouse she's aff wi' him this vara nicht."
"Vara true, sirr; vara true, and sae I doot I will never attain the height o' profeeciency ye hae reached. An' at this vara moment, sir," continued Groove, with delicious solemnity and mystery, "ye see before ye, sir, a man wha is in maist dismal want o' ten shellen!" Gaattie." "Why did you not come to the point at once?" cried Gatty, bruskly, "instead of humbling me with undeserved praise.
'That is a pretty trick of Conyngham's. 'And the man is a horseman, added the General, sheathing his sword- -'a horseman. It warms the heart to see it. Then he leant out of the window and asked if any were hurt. 'I am afraid, Excellency, that I hurt one, answered Vara. 'Where the neck joins the shoulder. It is a pretty spot for the knife nothing to turn a point.
"Ye are right, Hampden," said the Scotch doctor, in reply to some observation. "We are vara primitive in the Hielands, and we keep to our ain national customs in dress and everything; and we are vara slow to learn, and even when we try we are nae ower successfu' in our imitations, which sometimes cost us dearly enough.
But Conyngham, who is all eagerness, must needs refuse to listen to any argument, and starts this afternoon for Toledo alone. He has not even his servant Concepcion Vara, who has suddenly disappeared, and a woman who claims to be the scoundrel's wife from Algeciras has been making inquiries at Conyngham's lodging. A hen's eyes are where her eggs lie.
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