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Then, without answering Hal's remark, the Filipino clutched at the white man's arm, shoving him out into the rain. The native followed. Just then a cochero with an empty quilez drove up. With instant presence of mind Vicente Tomba, as the dandy had called himself, held up his hand. It was all done in an instant, and native and white friend were driving away through the gusts of rain.
"Señorita," he said, as he led Ysabel out to the sweet monotonous music of the contradanza, "did you see the caballero who rode with me to-day?" A red light rose to Ysabel's cheek. "Which one, commandante? Many rode with you." "I mean him who rode at my right, the winner of the races, Vicente, son of my old friend Juan Bautista de la Vega y Arillaga, of Los Angeles." "It may be.
Those Garcias and Martinezes of yours . . . !" "The Garcias maybe, but not the Martinezes," Rose-Ellen objected. "Gramma, you go to their houses sometime and see." One evening Grandma did. Jimmie had come excitedly leading home the quaintest of all the babies of the Mexican village, Vicente Garcia's little sister. He had found her balancing on her stomach on the bank of the ditch.
The Spanish mail steamer Argonauta, Captain Lage, was convoyed into Key West harbor by the United States cruiser Marblehead on May 3. Colonel Vicente De Cortijo of the Third Spanish cavalry, who, with nineteen other army officers, was taken on the prize, is a brother-in-law of Lieutenant General Valeriano Weyler.
"Yes; it is simple." "Then step to the door. But, Tomba!" "Si, señor." "Do not let any wild plan run through your mind that you will open the door suddenly, bolt through it and close it in my face. Do you still feel the creese? Well, I am on the alert!" In truth that had been Vicente Tomba's very plan.
His bold profile and thin face were passionate and severe; his dark blue eyes were full of power. Such a face was rare among the languid shallow men of her race. "He rides with General Castro," whispered Benicia Ortega. "He stays with him. We shall see him at the ball to-night." As Don Vicente passed Ysabel their eyes met for a moment.
I asked Vicente what he thought was the cause of lightning and thunder... He said, "Timaa ichoqua," I don't know. He had never given the subject a moment's thought! It was the same with other things. I asked him who made the sun, the stars, the trees... He didn't know, and had never heard the subject mentioned amongst his tribe.
The petitions were received, committed, and debated on report, as I shall have occasion hereafter to state at length. One other case is cited, that of the petition of Vicente Pazos, agent of New Granada, which, in the year 1818, the House refused to receive. But the printed debates of that day show clearly the ground of rejection. Mr. Forsyth moved that it be not received.
This foolish fear of the devil is a cause of many errors such as the one mentioned in the following miracle: "In Trayguerra, a simple lad hearing San Vicente preach on the ugliness of the demon, prayed God that a devil be shown him in order to fight. It happened that a poor, old woman was passing who was dumb from birth, was very ugly and poorly dressed, and had sickle in her hand.
"Ah, Señor Sergente!" cried a mocking voice. Then the new comer bent over the Army boy, and Overton knew him in an instant Vicente Tomba. "That hemp in your mouth looks as though it might give you discomfort a thousand pardons," observed Tomba mockingly, as he removed the cord that held the hemp in place.
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