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"I learned to jabber it when I was a year old before I did English." "Then you'll do. I defy even Harrison to recognize you." He gave her his Mexican bow. "Gracias, señorita." When Threewit and Farrar reached Noche Buena, Pasquale was absent from camp, but Culvera made them suavely welcome.
It is probable that it was at one of the mouths of the San Juan that Columbus, in his fourth voyage, lost a boat's crew who had been sent for wood and fresh water, and when returning were swamped on the bar. Columbus had rounded Cape Gracias a Dios four days before, and had sailed down the coast with a fair wind and tide, so that he might easily have reached the San Juan.
You swallowed but did not awaken, although he shook you and pounded you. Then he strapped your friend Adan, no? upon the back of Lolita, took you in his arms, and galloped for home you were almost at the foot of the mountain. Ay! but I was frightened when you came. Gracias a dios that you are well and not frozen. Bueno, I go to send you a good breakfast. Hasta luego."
Nevertheless, the ostler's ostentatious adjuration of "Now then, aren't you going to bring out that mustang for the Senora?" puzzled her. It was not until the fresh horse was put to, and she had flung a piece of gold into the attendant's hand, that the "Gracias" of his unmistakable Saxon speech revealed to her the reason of the lawyer's caution.
"You like?" she inquired, holding the squirming puppy at arm's length. "Si, si, muchas gracias!" cried Nan eagerly, and employing at once all her Spanish vocabulary. She deposited the puppy in her lap and reached out to shake hands. Keith flicked the horse with his whip. He, too, had recollected a word of Spanish, and he used it now. "Adios!" he shouted. But their hosts had a better phrase.
"Pardon, Senor" exclaimed the fellow in Spanish, with an air of mystery, as he took off his sombrero with a flourish, "but have I the supreme honour of addressing the noble Englishman who owns the beautiful yacht that came in yesterday?" "If you refer to the English yacht Thetis," said Jack, "yes, I am the owner of her." "Mil gracias, Senor, for your condescension," answered the man.
In the language of the classic, Pablo, I'm here to tell the cock-eyed world that you're one good Indian." Pablo swept his old sombrero to the ground, "Gracias, señor, mille gracias," he murmured, and shuffled away with his prize. Verily, the ways of this Gringo were many and mysterious. To-day one hated him; to-morrow
She laughed, a mirthless sibilance that was marvelously like a snake's hissing, her eyes hard and dry. "I had a brother, an only one, Rafael. He was very dear to me and loved me greatly. He was, of the mine what do you name it, the one who holds and pays the monies? Ah, mil gracias! the 'treasurer. He was of the lively the liveliest and played much at the cards.
"Ha!" ejaculates the gaucho, who has now caught the other's meaning, "I see the whole thing. Bravo, Senor Cypriano! You've beaten me in the craft of the pampas. But I'm not jealous no. Only proud to think my own pupil has shown himself worthy of his teacher. Gracias a Dios!"
"Right, that will do! You are free to go, now, as soon as you please. Open the door, Milsom, and let him pass," said Jack. "Mil gracias y buenas noches, Senor," exclaimed Panza as he strode toward the door. "One word before I go, caballeros; beware of Senor Alvaros, for he bears no love for either of you." And he passed into the night and the darkness.
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