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Don Miguel took the dice and rolled a pair of deuces. "I'm going to make big money operating a boarding-house," he informed the lady. "'Landlord, fill the flowing bowl until it doth flow over," she sang gaily. "John, you owe Miguel twelve thousand dollars, payable at the rate of one thousand dollars a month for twelve months. Have your lawyer in El Toro draw the lease this afternoon."
In front of the grounds of the chefferie there hung on the trees a long line of nets drying in the breeze. Before a feast, if there were not conditions auspicious for a tuu i te upea toro, a dragging of the seine, the village was occupied during the day or the wind was unfavorable, we went out at night after the trades had died down, and in a dozen or twenty canoes we speared them by torchlight.
The picador's pasteboard horse was attached to his middle, fore and aft, and looked quite the sort of hapless jade which is ordinarily sacrificed to the bulls. The toro himself was composed of two prisoners, whose horizontal backs were covered with a brown blanket; and his feet, sometimes bare and sometimes shod with india-rubber boots, were of the human pattern.
The well-known hotel kept by Madame Palumbo, who is thoroughly conversant with English ways and requirements, occupies a delightful position in the old aristocratic quarter of Ravello known as “Il Toro,” the name of which is still retained in the interesting little church of San Giovanni del Toro close by.
"You are over prudent, Hunston. Why should we not destroy them while they are in our power?" "What if one escapes?" "One should not," retorted the Italian savagely; "no, nor half a one." "And where is the good if we succeeded, as you say?" "Good!" reiterated Toro, passionately. "Are they not our sworn foes? Are they not here in pursuit of us?
Yet next to one or two horses, about which I could spin long yarns, El Toro, the big brindled bull of Los Guilucos Ranch, Sonoma County, California, is certainly nearest my heart. He was my friend, and sometimes my companion; he had a noble character for fighting, and in spite of his pugnacity he was amiability itself to most human beings.
Slowly, but surely, the Arabs moved southwards, followed by the implacable line of Christian fortresses. At one time Valladolid, Palencia, Toro, and Zamora formed this line. When Toledo was conquered it was substituted by Coria, Plasencia, Sigüenza, and, slightly to the north, by Madrid, Avila, Segovia, and Salamanca.
A murmur of indignation followed. "What does the letter say?" they demanded. "He defies us; he offers this sum, but says that if the boys are not released before sunrise, he will come and fetch them." "Let him come." "So say I; but what shall be done with the boys meanwhile ?" A momentary silence followed; then came the deep stern words "Let them die." This speaker was Toro.
But when he was some yards down, he beckoned to Jim, who quickly joined him. They conferred on the edge of a ghastly precipice. "I'm off down to tell Domecq that it's going to be done at two-thirty prompt," said Toro. "What's going to be d done?" asked Jimmy. "What I told you about. They've cut the 'phone down to the 'llano' as a start. But that's nothing.
For this purpose Mendoza followed the same route which Centeno had formerly taken when retreating from Alfonso de Toro; both because he thought his enemies would not pursue him by that road and because the Indians belonging to Centeno and himself dwelt in that part of the country, and he expected to procure provisions and other assistance from them.
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