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But these bullfighters are all very pious, and glad to curry favor with the saints by attributing every success to their intervention. The famous matador, Paco Montes, fervently believed in an amulet he carried, and in the invocation of Our Lord of the True Cross.
Lyttelton's kind invitation, for beside the pleasure of his conversation I should have had the opportunity of recollecting past times, and wandering per montes notos et flumina nota, of recalling the images of sixteen, and reviewing my conversations with poor Ford. Piozzi Letters, i. 42. He had been at school at Stourbridge, close by Hagley. Ante, i. 49.
Meanwhile the beautiful autumnal afternoon wore gradually away, and the sun went down behind the Cumberland Mountains, throwing a flood of golden light over the really picturesque landscape. Virgil's charming line involuntarily crossed my mind: "Sol ruit interea, et montes umbrantur opaci."
Captain Burton, by way of having a special Lunae Montes of his own, calls these mountains a "mass of highlands, which, under the name of Karagwah, forms the western spinal prolongation of the Lunar Mountains." See his 'Lake Regions, vol. ii. p. 144.
So Olivier, formerly a huntsman to the King, and his wife would have crucified the Lord again for the Baron or for Madame Marneffe. What could the world have to say? It knew nothing of the former episode of the Brazilian, Monsieur Montes de Montejanos it could say nothing. Besides, the world is very indulgent to the mistress of a house where amusement is to be found.
The Baron felt one of those pangs of fury which have the effect, in the heart, of a fit of raging toothache, and he could hardly conceal the tears in his eyes. During this little scene, Valerie had been explaining Marneffe's imaginary determination to Montes, and thus had rid herself of him for a time.
A somewhat similar but much plainer door has been built against the older and round-arched entrance of the Misericordia at Moncorvo in Traz os Montes. The parish church of the same place begun in 1544 is both outside and in a curious mixture of Gothic and Classic.
So he did by day, when the Negroes would watch him, but at night he tried to make his way to some land nearer at hand. Other vessels passed from time to time, and from these the Negroes bought provisions, but Montes and Ruiz were so closely watched that they could not make known their plight.
"You old ostrich," said Montes, the plumes in the woman's bonnet catching his eye, "you interrupted me. If you show me if I see Valerie and that artist together " "As you would wish to be " said Carabine; "that is understood." "Then I will take this girl and carry her away " "Where?" asked Carabine. "To Brazil," replied the Baron. "I will make her my wife.
"But you will marry, all the same?" asked the Baron, in an agony of jealousy. "Eighty thousand francs a year!" said she, with almost comical enthusiasm. "And Crevel loves me so much that he will die of it!" "Ah! I understand," said Montes. "Well, then, in a few days we will come to an understanding," said she. And she departed triumphant.
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