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Updated: June 17, 2025
The change will come to-day. Ah Cum had no business taking him into the city last night. The young man did not know what he was doing or where he was." O'Higgins extracted a cigar from a pocket and inspected it. Henry Clay, thirteen cents in Hong-Kong and two-bits in that dear old New York.
The blue jowl, the fat-lidded eyes now merry, now alert, now tungsten hard the bullet head, the pudgy fingers and the square-toed shoes were all in conformation with the doctor's olden mental picture. "Yes; I know I look it," said O'Higgins, amiably. The doctor laughed. But he sobered instantly as he recollected that O'Higgins had found Spurlock once.
The only safe place for him is at sea; and if he had kept to the sea, I shouldn't have found him so easily. Well, what about it?" "I accept." "As an honest Chinaman?" taking out the offensiveness of the query by smiling. "As an honest Chinaman." O'Higgins produced his wallet. "Fifty now and fifty when I return." "Agreed. Here are the jade carvers. Would you like to see them at work?"
I naturally want to do it up in proper style." "Very well, sir. I'll be outside the hotel at nine-thirty." Ten minutes' walk brought them to the hotel. As O'Higgins signed the hotel register, his keen glance took in the latest signatures. "Anywhere," he said in answer to the manager's query. "I'm not particular about rooms. Where's the dining room? And, say, can I have some eggs?
With hatchets and swords they forced their way, inch by inch and hour by hour, into the centre of the town. There, in an open square, O'Higgins, with two hundred men all the remnant of his little army made a last resistance. When only a few dozen of his soldiers were left alive, and when he himself was seriously wounded, he determined, not to surrender, but to end the battle.
Why don't you come to China as I went to America with an open mind?" "You're on," said O'Higgins, briskly. "I'll engage you for four days. To-day is for the sights; the other three days lessons. How's that strike you?" "Very well, sir. At least I can give you a glimmer." A smile broke the set of Ah Cum's lips. "I'll take you into a Chinese home.
O'Higgins had barely soldiers enough left to serve as a weak escort to the fourteen hundred old men, women, and children who crossed the Andes with him on foot, to pass two years and a half in voluntary exile at Mendoza.
On the 2nd of December the Esmeralda, being in a more than usually tempting position, the Spanish gun-boats ventured out in the hope of recapturing her, and for an hour maintained a smart fire; but on seeing the O'Higgins manoeuvring to cut them off, they precipitately retreated.
After discussion, however, seeing that his own motives were purely disinterested, he consented to yield to the wishes of the meeting. A Junta of three of the organizers of this latter was appointed, and O'Higgins initiated these into their new office, receiving from them their oath of allegiance to the constitutions of the new Republic.
In other respects the results were much the same as in the case of Bolivar. The great O'Higgins had retired from the eye of the nation and from the scene of his struggles and self-sacrifice. In Argentina the tale was similar, notwithstanding the enlightened and progressive influence of intellectual men, such as Belgrano, Rivadavia, and numerous others.
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