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Updated: July 2, 2025
It was his open letter of appeal that decided the candidature of Don Vincente Ribiera for the Presidency. Marta. It was a specific mandate to establish the prosperity of the people on the basis of firm peace at home, and to redeem the national credit by the satisfaction of all just claims abroad.
At the Aguila de Oro, spinning the paddle of a molinillo, and individual chocolate mill, Andrés informed Charles that Vincente was home. "He has told me everything," Andrés Escobar continued with pride. "We are now more than Escobars brother Cubans. He has been both shot and sabred and he has a malaria. But nearly all his friends are dead.
"And it is possible, if Vincente Escobar isn't found, and Ceaza discovers that you were here, that " she paused significantly. "I am the victim of a madness," she declared, "of a Cuban fever." But there was no time now to analyse the processes of her mind and sex. "I'll be going," he said abruptly. "Naturally," she returned; "but what about your coming back?
I have said every thing to him that I can say touching the business, and have informed him of the pay I have received, and what is due, &c. About this time Amerigo Vespucci received letters of naturalization from king Ferdinand, and shortly afterwards he and Vincente Yafiez Pinzon were named captains of an armada about to be sent out in the spice trade and to make discoveries.
"It was stored in the San Vincente convent; and the Junta, knowing a little about monkish tastes and the wants of the Church, prudently thought it would be quite as well at Lisbon. I was accordingly ordered, with a sufficient force, to provide for its safe conduct and secure arrival, and set out upon my march one lovely morning in April with my precious convoy.
His yellow, wise old eyes watched the quick face with the air of one who, having posed an insoluble problem, awaits with a sarcastic humour the admission of failure. General Vincente, who had just finished his wine, wiped his moustache delicately with his table-napkin. He was thinking quickly, systematically, as men learn to think under fire.
He went straight to the heart of his subject and as a precaution against eavesdropping he put his meaning into the best English he knew. "José, she's dam-mad on Señor Jack," he began eagerly. "She's hear talk lak she's no good vaquero. Me, I hear San Vincente vaqueros talk, and Manuel she's hear also and run queeck for tella José. José she's lak for keela Señor Jack.
With what Spanish he at this time possessed the Englishman made known his wants, and inquired of the means of prosecuting his journey to Ronda. 'You know the Captain-General Vincente of Ronda? he asked. 'But. . . yes by reputation.
"Vincente, we think, is in the Party of Liberation. But you must say nothing. I do not know, Vincente will not speak; but mama has noticed the gendarmes in front of the house, and when she drives." "I should like to talk to him," Charles Abbott declared; "you must arrange it for me. Look here, there's nobody around, I might as well tell you that's why I came to Cuba, to fight the cursed Spanish.
The Castor of the text was probably musk, and its amber ambergris. This alludes to the misfortune of Vincente Sodre and his squadron, already more distinctly related in the preceding chapter.
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