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Accordingly, he had accepted the Governor's invitation to return with him on his buck-board to Los Muertos, and before leaving Bonneville had telephoned to his ranch to have young Vacca bring the buckskin, by way of the Lower Road, to meet him at Los Muertos. He found her waiting there for him, but before going on, delayed a few moments to tell Harran of Dyke's affair.
"I dare say you are very right, sir," he replied, with a most provoking indifference to the importance of the points he conceded. "I dare say you are quite right; and that vacca would have been the better word."
Mamma and papa, of course, and Billy, the stableman, and Montalegre, the Portugee foreman, and the Chinese cook, even, and Mr. Delaney only he went away and Mrs. Vacca and her little " "Delaney, hey?" demanded Annixter abruptly. "You and he were pretty good friends, were you?" "Oh, yes," she answered. "He was just as GOOD to me.
They dashed through the houses of the Home ranch. "Oh, oh," cried Hilma suddenly, "look, look there. Look what they have done." Vacca pulled the horses up, for the road in front of Annixter's house was blocked. A vast, confused heap of household effects was there chairs, sofas, pictures, fixtures, lamps.
Already Presley and Harran had run to their horses. "Vacca," cried Annixter, "where's Vacca? Put the saddle on the buckskin, QUICK. Osterman, get as many of the League as are here together at THIS spot, understand. I'll be back in a minute. I must tell Hilma this." Hooven ran up as Annixter disappeared. His little eyes were blazing, he was dragging his horse with him.
I don't want to leave the general; I'd rather have a good father than five hundred naughty children. I'll give you the three words for nothing." "What! are there three words there?" "They don't look as if they were quite three, I admit. Now listen, and make obeisance to me: 'From the point called Ventre della Vacca." "Ha! Ventre de la Vache! Confound it!
The queen's curiosity was excited, and at last the king gave in, and her majesty read the following: "Ti aspettero nel medesimo luogo, ed alla stessa ora, coll' impazienza medesima che ha una vacca che desidera l'avicinamento del toro."
We were living at Pisa at that time; and several well-informed Italians, at the head of whom we may place the celebrated Vacca, were accustomed to seek for sympathy in their hopes from Shelley: they did not find such for the despair they too generally experienced, founded on contempt for their southern countrymen.
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