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"Carramba! notwithstanding my well-known scruples, it is a good price, therefore I shall not hesitate; and if at the same time there is any other little favour you require of me, do not distress yourself it shall be done cheaply." That which has been previously said explains Cuchillo's unexpected appearance.
If not, I shall tell you myself." "My sister has communicated all even the falsehood by which you've sought to fortify your infamous proposal." "Carramba!" exclaims Uraga, upon whose cheeks there is no blush of shame for the deception practised.
"And the mutineers?" "Carramba!" cried the Spaniard, whose vindictiveness I thought appalling; only, of course, one had to make allowances for what he had suffered and the crimes the men of whom he spoke had committed. "They were all mangled and crushed in a moment, in the midst of their game of monte, as they were fighting and quarrelling over the stakes.
"Thus," said Pepe, first breaking silence, "we have fifteen days to live; it is true we have not much provision, but carramba! we shall fish for food and for amusement." "Let us think," said Bois-Rose, "of employing usefully the hours before daylight." "In what?" "Parbleu! in escaping!" "But how?" "That is the question. You can swim, Fabian?" "How else should.
The members of the court should be seated." The grim smile which accompanies his words shows that he means them in jest only as regards the manner of proceeding. For the earnestness of his intention there is that in his eyes a fierce, lurid light, which Roblez can read. In rejoinder the adjutant asks, "You are still resolved upon the death of the prisoners?" "Still resolved! Carramba!
"'You don't understand South American politics, says Denver, getting out the cigars. 'It's this way. General Rompiro had the misfortune of becoming a popular idol. He distinguished himself by leading the army in pursuit of a couple of sailors who had stolen the plaza or the carramba, or something belonging to the government. The people called him a hero and the government got jealous.
Who owns the Mexican's mine, eh? Americanos! Who takes the money from the Mexican's mine? Americanos! Thou rememberest Briones, who spent a gold mine to make a silver one? Who has the lands and house of Briones? Americanos! Who has the cattle of Briones? Americanos! Who has the mine of Briones? Americanos! Who has the silver Briones never found? Americanos! Always the same! Forever! Ah! carramba!"
Cannot a knife kill more than one man. Carramba, I will kill all five." "But I was ordered to deliver them alive." Ignacio was nearly frenzied at those objections. "Jose" he yelled, "you are mad. We can fix it. I will fix it with Blanco. Say they got loose, chewed the ropes, and attacked us. I will swear they did, swear it by all the saints.
I could have shouted out to warn the men on the forecastle, for the gag had been miraculously removed from my mouth, as I have told you, only a minute or so. But, Carramba, I would not have lifted my voice to have saved them, had I possessed a hundred mouths; for, I thought of my brother and his wife and child, and I exulted at their coming fate Dios! My heart was throbbing with joy."
The effect of his words are such, upon those listening to them, that he suddenly interrupts himself in what he was about to say, and in changed tone continues: "Carramba! we'll rescue her yet, Naraguana, or no Naraguana. It can be done without him, and I think I know the way."
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