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"It isn't that I can't judge him in that but this I must judge Bernal, when he saw I did not know who had been there, was willing I should think it was you. To retain my respect he was willing to betray you." She laughed, a little hard laugh, and seemed to be in pain. "You will never know just what the thought of that boy has been to me all these years, and especially this last week.
And on the last day, Bernal had said, "Nance, you remember when we were both sorry you couldn't be born again a boy? Well, from what the old gentleman says, one learns in time to bow to the ways of an inscrutable Providence. I dare say he's right. I can see reasons now, my girl, why it was well that you were not allowed to meddle with Heaven's allotment of your sex.
He had painted gourds filled with pebbles that rattled when they were shaken; the long clarin of the Mexicans, into which the performer does not blow, but through which he inhales the air; the harsh ture of the Amazon tribes, that is sounded by the sentinels who sit all day long in trees, and that can be heard, it is said, at a distance of three leagues; the teponaztli, that has two vibrating tongues of wood, and is beaten with sticks that are smeared with an elastic gum obtained from the milky juice of plants; the yotl-bells of the Aztecs, that are hung in clusters like grapes; and a huge cylindrical drum, covered with the skins of great serpents, like the one that Bernal Diaz saw when he went with Cortes into the Mexican temple, and of whose doleful sound he has left us so vivid a description.
It was de Garcia and his servants, and they headed towards the mountain pass on their road to Mexico. I was not too late. 'Halt! cried Bernal Diaz. 'Who commands me to halt? said the voice of de Garcia. 'I, your captain, roared Diaz. 'Halt, you devil, you murderer, or you shall be cut down. I saw him start and turn pale. 'These are strange manners, senor, he said. 'Of your grace I ask
In Bernal Diaz the alleged individual affairs of private soldiers are so artfully interwoven with the general history as to give the effect of truth to the whole. There being no fear of contradiction, this practice of inventing familiar details could be indulged in to any extent, while the beauty and simplicity of such a style fixes at once the doubting." "Ah! si Molière avait connu l'autre!"
Bernal Diaz says, "I shall now call the attention of curious readers to the fact that when we returned to Mexico to the relief of Alvarado, we were in all 1300 men, including in that number ninety-seven horsemen, eighty cross-bowmen, and the same number armed with carbines; besides, we had more than 2000 Tlascalans, and much artillery. Our second entry into Mexico took place on St.
'It's the blamedest funniest thing I ever heard of, he says, just like that, laffin' again fit to choke. "'I don't see anythin' to laff at, I says. 'How you goin' to live? "'How's he goin' to die? says Bernal, 'without a cent to do it on? "'That's the funny part of it, says Hoover. 'Linford thought of it first. How can I die now? It wouldn't be square, he says 'me without a cent!
When, an hour later, Allan came in, he found them chatting easily of the few people of St. Antipas that Bernal had met. At the moment, they were discussing Mrs. Wyeth, whose face, Bernal declared, was of a rare perfection. Nance turned to her husband. "You must thank Bernal," she said, "for entertaining your guests this afternoon."
"We met on the water, as you know," said the little lieutenant, smiling in a friendly manner. "My name is Bernal, Diégo Bernal, and I am a lieutenant in the service of our most excellent Governor General, Bernardo Galvez." His manner was polite, and Henry met him half way. He had nothing to conceal, and he gave him the names of his comrades and himself.
When he could no longer be reproached it transpired that he had left "to Allan Delcher Linford, son of one Clayton Linford," a beggarly pittance of five thousand dollars; and "to my beloved grandson, Bernal Linford, I give, devise and bequeath the residue of my estate, both real and personal."
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