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'Is it to go far? asked the General, turning on his heel and addressing Concha. 'A long journey. 'To take the road, Manuel, cried Vincente, leaning out. He closed the window before resuming his seat. 'And now, have you any more orders? he asked with a gay carelessness. 'I counted on sleeping in a bed to-night. 'You will not do that, replied Concha, 'when you hear my news. 'Ah!
The trial was still going on when two priests arrived, who declared they had been on board a Portuguese ship, bringing over numerous images and relics and indulgences to Saint Vincente, when she was captured by a French man-of-war, the captain of which had sacrilegiously thrown them into the sea.
I have a communication to make to my friend General Vincente or to his daughter. 'To Estella? 'To the Senorita Estella. 'Do you think her beautiful? Some do, you know. Eyes I admit yes, lovely. 'I admire the senorita exceedingly. 'Ah yes, yes. You have not seen my daughter, have you, senor? Julia she rather resembles Estella. Senora Barenna paused and examined her fan with a careless air.
During the days that followed his arrival at Ronda and release from the prison there, Frederick Conyngham learnt much from his host and little of the man himself, for General Vincente had that in him with which no great leader in any walk of life can well dispense an unsoundable depth.
A red flash streaked the darkness of a far corner of the square, and a bullet whistled through the open window into the woodwork of a mirror. 'Come back, whispered General Vincente. 'Slowly, my child slowly. Estella stood for a moment looking down with a royal insolence, then turned, and with measured steps approached the window.
The capture of the castle by Picton would, in itself, have caused the fall of the town upon the following day, but Leith, with the fifth division, after hard fighting, scaled the St. Vincente bastion, and came up through the town and took the defenders of the breaches in the rear.
The stranger bowed. 'I did not explain my business to General Vincente, said he, 'who asked me to wait until he came, and then tell the story to you both at one time. In the meantime I was to introduce myself to you. Conyngham waited in silence. 'My name is Sir John Pleydell, said the stranger quietly. 'He makes no friend who never made a foe.
'Before General Vincente one could not explain oneself, said Concepcion, urging his horse to keep pace with the trot of Conyngham's huge mount. 'Ah! 'No, pursued Concepcion. 'And yet it is simple. In Algeciras I have a wife. It is well that a man should travel at times. So, he paused and bowed towards his companion with a gesture of infinite condescension, 'so we take the road together.
Then he stood upright, and indicated by a pleasant smile that no one need feel embarrassed, that in fact this meeting was most opportune. 'A matter of urgency, Excellency, he said confidentially to Vincente. 'I have reason to suspect that one of my friends in fact, the Senor Conyngham, with whom I am at the moment in service happens to be in danger. 'Ah! what makes you suspect that, my friend?
Conyngham rubbed his eyes and instinctively turned to look at his companion, who was as unreal as his surroundings a round-faced, chubby little man, with a tender mouth and moist dark eyes looking kindly out upon the world, who called himself General Vincente; and the name was synonymous in all Spain with bloodthirstiness and cruelty, with daring and an unsparing generalship.
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