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The painful silence seemed to annoy the two soldiers. "Vaya! Go on with your diversion. Don't stop on our account!" He gave a sign to the musicians, and they, incapable of disobeying authority in anything, produced a music more brisk and diabolically gay than before; but they might as well be playing to the dead! Everyone stood silent and glowering, wondering how this unexpected visit would end.
I am glad you are fond of brilliants, Don Jorge. Speaking of horses, reminds me that I have frequently seen you on horseback. Vaya! how you ride! It is dangerous to be in your way. 'Is your lordship fond of equestrian exercise? 'By no means, Don Jorge; I do not like horses. It is not the practice of the Church to ride on horseback. We prefer mules; they are the quieter animals.
"Send Gomez here. Say nothing to any one. Hold yourself in readiness I shall want you too. Send Gomez instantly. Vaya!" The soldier made a salute less cringing because more hurried, and precipitately retired from the apartment. Roblado continued "By Heaven! this is a piece of luck! Who ever failed to catch a fool when love was his lure? This very night, too, and at midnight!
I was preparing to return, and had thrust one leg back through the hedge, when a harsh voice apparently that of a man mingled with the silvery tones. "Anda! anda! hace mucho calor. Vamos a volver." "Ah, no, Pepe! un ratito mas." "Vaya, carrambor!" Again the clear laughter rang out, mingled with the clapping of hands and short exclamations of delight.
Nothing better. Vaya con Dios. This was not the time to bother about a deserter who, justly or unjustly, ought to have been dead, and a girl for whom it would have been better to have never been born. "So I marched my men back to the town. "After a few days, order having been re-established, all the principal families, including my own, left for Santiago. We had a fine house there.
It is a new road, and practicable for carriages, so that, for Spain, it may be considered an important achievement. The late rains have, however, already undermined it in a number of places. Here, as among the mountains, we met crowds of muleteers, all of whom greeted me with: "Vaya usted con Dios, caballero!"
He enforced his words by the application of a stick, and Vaya, apparently overwhelmed by terror and affliction, went round to all the nobles of the town, vainly entreating them to intercede for him. The only favour which Mouktar Pacha could obtain for him was a sentence of exile allowing him to retreat to Macedonia.
Oyez, Padre Jarauta!" continued he, calling out in a tone of irony; "have you found Marguerita yet?" We could see between us and the dim rushlight that the Jarocho started, as if a shot had passed through his heart. "Hold!" he shouted to the men, who were about taking aim; "drag those scoundrels hither! A light there! fire the thatch! Vaya!"
"Vaya! Who would have thought that it was possible for Lutherans to understand the language of the church? Vaya! the longer one lives the more one learns." "How old may your reverence be?" I inquired. "I am eighty years, Don Jorge; eighty years, and somewhat more." Such was the first conversation which passed between his reverence and myself.
'Did you speak, Don Jorge? demanded the archbishop. 'That is a fine brilliant on your lordship's hand, said I. 'You are fond of brilliants, Don Jorge, said the archbishop, his features brightening up; 'vaya! so am I; they are pretty things. Do you understand them?
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