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The King was dicing with Fernandez, the Portuguese banker; but I ventured to interrupt the game and draw him aside. He might not have taken this well, but that my first word caught his attention. "Sire," I said, "the shutter is open." He understood in a moment. "St. Gris!" He exclaimed with animation. "Where? At the same house?" "No, sire; in the Rue Cloitre Notre Dame." "You have got him, then?"
Elvira, with whom Macias is in love, the daughter of Nuno Fernandez, is embodied gentleness and virtue, until the fierce progress of her fate has taught her that men are treacherous and the world cruel.
Father says we must do our utmost to avert trouble between Mexico and the United States." "So that accounts for many things," said Mr. Hampton. "I'm glad to have them cleared up. But we are forgetting your idea, Jack. What is it?" "Simply that we capture Don Fernandez and make him release us all under a guarantee of safe conduct," said Jack.
And first of all, my boy, you've got to explore Juan Fernandez." The sound of his own voice had the effect of encouraging and inspiriting him, while the purpose which he thus assigned to himself was sufficient to awaken his prostrated energies. There was something in the plan which roused all his curiosity, and turned his thoughts and feelings into a totally new direction.
In the six hundred and fiftieth year after the flood, there was a king in Spain named Hesperus ; and Gonsalvo Fernandez de Oviedo, the chronicler of antiquities , affirms that he made discoveries by sea as far as Cape Verde and the Isle of St Thomas, of which he was prince, and that in his time the islands of the West Indies were discovered, and called the Hesperides, after his name.
The countenance thus afforded to Fernandez from the highest quarter opened to him the best fountains of intelligence, at least, on the government side of the quarrel. Besides personal communication with the royalist leaders, he had access to their correspondence, diaries, and official documents.
Very soon after, Kit Carson left his companions and proceeded to Fernandez de Taos, a Mexican town, which lies about eighty miles to the northeast of the capital of New Mexico. During the winter that followed his arrival in the territory of New Mexico, Kit lived with an old mountaineer by the name of Kin Cade, who very kindly offered him a home.
We see this in nearly all the plants and animals of the Galapagos archipelago, of Juan Fernandez, and of the other American islands being related in the most striking manner to the plants and animals of the neighbouring American mainland; and those of the Cape de Verde archipelago and other African islands to the African mainland.
They possessed exactly twenty boats in all, ranging in size from a craft capable of accommodating forty men down to the little Norwegian dinghy in which I had made my escape, and it was evident that every man of the party had been previously told off to some particular boat; for upon their arrival at the beach the hitherto compact body at once dissolved into twenty separate detachments, each of which made its way, in a perfectly orderly manner, to a particular boat; the whole flotilla being launched and manned at Fernandez' word of command.
The whole population of Juan Fernandez was staring up at Flamaran without in the least knowing the reason why. "Gentlemen," said a voice from an arbor, "Professor Flamaran will now begin his lecture." A chorus of shouts and laughter rose around our tree. "Hi, old boy, wait till we're gone!" "Ladies, he will discourse to you on the law of husband and wife!" "No, on the foreclosure of mortgages!"
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