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...600, that most esteemed of English monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I, read the document prepared by her merchants and, with the flourish of her famous sig... ...ought. When Sir Terence left, Helen rushed to find Rosita. She knew that at this time of day the Spanish woman would be sitting by the kitchen range... ... news. THE CURSE OF KALI 7 ‘So you have accepted, queridisima,’ said Rosita in her inimitable Spanish accent, which she had never lost despite he... ... wife’s untimely demise and welcomed Rosita’s love and care for his motherless, little girl. The Spanish woman remembered clearly the day when seven... ...er, neglected his daughter’s education and by the time she was fifteen, Helen could speak French, Spanish and Portuguese fluently. Her interest in s... ...eat highway is as ancient as India, itself, and has for centuries been used by conquering armies, merchants and pilgrims, not to forget the great re... ...hat foreign land’. Then Rosita joined them and Gavin hugged her and teased her about her striking Spanish looks. “Rosita, you are as beautiful as ev... ... rain and the Nawab had made a good profit selling the bountiful produce of his valley to Indian merchants. Gavin had pointed out to Mohammed Hassan... ...tored in the cellars. The fort was crowded, not only with soldiers, but with British civilians, merchants, women and children and other Europeans, ...

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...ing why its mouth could not be equally delicate. She silently called it the Spanish word of "criatura." Her extended family had been a mixture of Ge... ... her get him something. Partial or complete hunger strikes, she told him in Spanish would not hasten his trip back to Miami but only make his stay in... ...proaching and could say the names of the zoo animals in English, German, and Spanish. He couldn't sputter out the Latin so she had to give up on push... ...s running out of toilet paper." Gabriele laughed. "Double negatives are for Spanish, dear heart." Michael said, "My mother would have taken dish soa... ... She probed this concept of an everywhere man in German but then changed to Spanish. In both languages he told her that everywhere was a concept tha... ...erience but still continuous; and the cacophonous cries of competing street merchants and entrepreneurs all amalgamated into one chorus. Sang Huin wa...

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...f a shopping mall and a red light district. Adversity struck when the wood merchants got their noses out of joint. They threatened to demolish the ar... ...elex shook his head in amusement. This form of preaching, designated ‘the Spanish inquisition technique’, was once good for demonic moral. This hist... ...tory continually repeated itself and that there was still a little of the Spanish inquisition in all humans, especially Holier than thou Christians....

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...ours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter....

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... in the interior of conti- nents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe an... ...e St. Vincent was dimly to be seen, forming the south-western point of the Spanish peninsula. A strong southerly gale was blowing. The sea was swollen... ... arrived. This night we 179 Jules Verne shall be but a few miles from the Spanish coast. It is cloudy. The wind blows freely. I have your word, M. Ar... ...t was cruis- ing in those waters, resolved to make for a French port. “The Spanish commanders of the convoy objected to this decision. They wanted to ... ...ders of the convoy objected to this decision. They wanted to be taken to a Spanish port, and, if not to Cadiz, into Vigo Bay, situated on the north- w... ...osed by this historical lesson. “I will continue. This is what passed. The merchants of Cadiz had a privilege by which they had the right of re- ceivi... ...e 22nd of October, 1702. Here on this very spot the galleons laden for the Spanish Government had sunk. Here Captain Nemo came, according to his wants...

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...was agreed that a party of us should land for half-an-hour, and taste real Spanish chocolate on Spanish ground. We fol- lowed Lieutenant Bundy, but hu... ...er and storey to another, till we arrived at that apartment where the real Spanish chocolate was finally to be served out. All these rooms were as cle... ...s scrubbing and whitewash could make them; with simple French prints (with Spanish titles) on the walls; a few rickety half-finished articles of furni... ...-general (Pooch, they told us, was his name:I know not how ’tis written in Spanish)—was well got up, with a smart hat, a real feather, huge stars glit... ...s all in our dreams. In fact we were but half-an-hour in this little queer Spanish 10 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo town; and it ap... ...ve lost one by one all our jovial company. There were the five Oporto wine-merchants—all hearty English gentle- men—gone to their wine-butts, and thei... ...e smugglers, and run tobaccos and cotton into Catalonia; all the respected merchants of the place are smugglers. The other day a Spanish revenue vess... ...among this race, somehow I felt as if they were all friends. There sat the merchants in their little shops, quiet and solemn, but with friendly looks.... ...ildren abounded; the law is not so stringent upon them, and many wandering merchants were there selling figs (in the name of the Prophet, doubtless) f...

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... subject. Her father was General Alison’s brother; married a beautiful young Spanish lady ten years ago, and has never been in America since. They liv... ...N TO GENERAL ALISON My dear Brother in Law, — Please let me write again in Spanish, I cannot trust my English, and I am aware, from what your brothe... ...ectionate disposition and sincerity of both parents. My sister pined for her Spanish home all these years of exile; she was always talking of Spain to... ...r, for her nine years; A Horse’s Tale Mark Twain 7 her mother taught her Spanish herself, and kept it always fresh upon her ear and her tongue by ... ...S.A., — on whom be peace!” “Amen. Did you say Her Excellency?” “The same. A Spanish lady, sweet blossom of a ducal house. And truly a wonder; knowing... ... state officials, generals, admirals, soldiers, sail ors, lawyers, thieves, merchants, brokers, cooks, housemaids, scullery maids, doubtful women, du...

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...ned, lugging in a large pair of scales. They were such a pair as wholesale merchants use for weighing bulky commodities; and quite a bulky commodity w... ... to follow the sea for a living. In the year 1684 he happened to hear of a Spanish ship which had been cast away near the Bahama Islands, and which wa... ...he expenses of his voyage. But, before he returned, he was told of another Spanish ship, or galleon, which had been east away near Porto de la Plata. ... ...h attention, and thought this a fine opportunity to fill his treasury with Spanish gold. He appointed William Phips to be captain of a vessel, called ... ... nearly two years in the West Indies, endeavoring to find the wreck of the Spanish ship. But the sea is so wide and deep that it is no easy matter to ... ...couraged, and gave up all hope of making their fortunes by discovering the Spanish wreck. They wanted to compel Captain Phips to turn pirate. There wa... .... 61 Hawthorne Next comes a class in arithmetic. These boys are to be the merchants, shopkeepers, and mechanics of a future period. Hitherto they hav... ...At a little distance from the throng might be seen the wealthy and pompous merchants whose warehouses stood on Long Wharf. It was difficult to touch t... ...State House. The lower floor of this edifice had hitherto been used by the merchants as an exchange. In the upper stories were the chambers of the jud...

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... Bilbao, being the first he had made. He came to me, and told me that some merchants of his acquaintance had been proposing to him to go a voyage for ... ... have said so much, that I told him, in a few words, if he agreed with the merchants, I would go with him; but I told him I would not promise to go an... ...res of Robinson Crusoe told me it would not be possible to do so; that the merchants would never allow him to come that way with a laden ship of such ... ...t to the man that was with him, threw his arms abroad, saying something in Spanish that I did not perfectly hear, came forward and embraced me, tellin... ...rors had not pursued them, or seen which way they were gone; upon this the Spanish governor, a man of humanity, would not suffer them to kill the thre... ...ether and murder all the Spaniards when they were in their sleep. When the Spanish governor heard this, he calls to Will Atkins, “How, Seignior Atkins... ...e I must, in justice to these Spaniards, observe that, let the accounts of Spanish cruelty in Mexico and Peru be what they will, I never met with seve... ...dded to the affliction than proposed a remedy; and upon this he repeated a Spanish proverb, which, though I cannot repeat in the same words that he sp... ...ircumstances I am in; I am bound to the East Indies in a ship freighted by merchants, and to whom it would be an insufferable piece of injustice to de...

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...netrate into the world which has pos- sessions: the same result! Wholesale merchants, and their men—people with small banking accounts and much integ-... ...erpiece of this kind was a young girl named 21 Balzac Euphemie, born of a Spanish lady, reared in Havana, and brought to Madrid with a young Creole w... ...stes of the Colonies, but fortunately married to an old and extremely rich Spanish noble, Don Hijos, Marquis de San-Real, who, since the oc- cupation ... ...adored me, once more trembled, shivered. It was then I noticed the genuine Spanish duenna who looked after her, a hyena upon whom some jealous man has... ...cet, looking towards the mulatto. “I do not know; he only speaks a sort of Spanish patois, and he has brought me here to make himself understood by yo... ...ing to the man, who will wait to open the door for you, the word cortejo—a Spanish word, which means lover,” added Poincet, casting a glance of congra...

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... war with England, France, and Austria, the Count was transferred from the Spanish Embassy to that of Sweden, and sent for his wife and two elder chil... ...t of Sweden, and sent for his wife and two elder children to join him at a Spanish port. This arrangement was so strange that I can only account for i... ...can only account for it by supposing that as this was the date of a feeble Spanish attempt on behalf of the Jacobites in Scotland, Comte de Bourke may... ...for it also shattered the French transports and interfered with Berwick’ s Spanish campaign. The circumstances of the wreck have been closely followed... ...e for that? We are all the better prey for them! I have heard histories of Spanish cruelty and lawlessness that would make you shudder! You cannot gue... ...was un- bounded that any female creature should wield a pen. Marabouts and merchants were known to read the Koran, but if one of the goats had begun t... ...nd Minorca to enforce a like treaty. There was a little colony of European merchants—English, French, and Dutch—in the lower town, near the harbour, a... ... He found there was great interest excited, not only among the Chris- tian merchants, but among T urks, Moors, and Jews, so hor- rible was the idea of...

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...on of Monsieur Amedee-Sylvain de Soulas, spelt Souleyas at the time of the Spanish occupation. Amedee de Soulas is per- haps the only man in Besancon ... ...n. Amedee de Soulas is per- haps the only man in Besancon descended from a Spanish family. Spain sent men to manage her business in the Comte, but ver... ...d, fat, rubicund face, a flat nose, and brown expressionless eyes; nothing Spanish about him. He was progressing rapidly in the direction of obesity, ... ...carried to the superior Court. He thus gained as clients four of the chief merchants of the place, who dis- cerned in him so much good sense and sound... ...anks to the connections he had obscurely formed among the up- per class of merchants in Besancon, he was starting a fort- nightly paper, called the Ea... ... Paris! These reflections, put forward by Albert, were repeated by the ten merchants, who believed them to be their own. Monsieur Savaron did not comm... ..., no doubt in order to hear me speak for once! One of the most influential merchants of Besancon was on the jury; he had a difficult task to fulfil; I... ...whelmed with business, and I undertake no cases but those brought to me by merchants, saying that commercial questions are my specialty. This line of ...

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...of exchange. When a place is so unlucky as to boast no stock exchange, two merchants act instead. This is the significance of the item “brokerage”; it... ...of the protested bill. The custom is to consider the amount as paid to the merchants who act for the stock-broker, and the banker qui- etly puts the m... ...onveyance.” The traveler spoke with ex- treme politeness and a very marked Spanish accent. Without waiting for an answer, he drew a cigar-case from hi... ...igar and smoke till we reach the caleche.” Lucien took a cigar and lit it, Spanish fashion, at the priest’s cigar. “He is right,” he thought; “I can t... ... in Paris, or failing the duchy, we shall certainly find the duchess.” The Spanish priest laid a hand on Lucien’s arm, and liter- ally forced him into... ...cean, and sank down to find himself a king of countries under the sea. The Spanish priest seemed so really affectionate, that the poet hesitated no lo... ...ch provinces? … Why, have you so much as studied the means by which simple merchants like the Medicis became Grand Dukes of T uscany?” “A poet in Fran... ...elf,” said the priest. “But at this moment you are thinking, ‘Here is this Spanish canon inventing an- ecdotes and straining history to prove to me th... ...ion of this piece of luck. “No,” said Petit-Claud, “it is very simple. The merchants in L ’Houmeau want a newspaper.” “But I am bound not to publish a...

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... of exposing a life in mere gaiety of heart. Such was the gallantry of the Spanish knight who, while Fernando and Isabel lay before the Moorish city o... ...nso de Ojeda, who figured in 7 Yo n g e like manner upon the tower of the Spanish cathedral. The same daring afterwards carried him in the track of C... ... show how a Roman soldier did his duty. In like manner the last of the old Spanish infantry origi- nally formed by the Great Captain, Gonzalo de Cordo... ...oul and cruel rites; and, like them, they were excellent sailors and great merchants trading with ev- ery known country, and living in great riches an... ...that were lurking in the hills. And with them came a great number of slave merchants, who had bar- gained with Nicanor that they should have ninety Je... ...he wounded, and then dividing the rest among his warriors. As to the slave merchants, they were all made prisoners, and instead of giving a talent for... ...rom the Prince of Peace; and the door was shut upon him. He was a resolute Spanish Roman, a well-tried soldier, a man advancing in years, but he wept,... ...L BUENO UENO UENO UENO UENO 1293 1293 1293 1293 1293 IN THE early times of Spanish history, before the Moors had been expelled from the peninsula, or ... ...nd butchers to sell corn and meat, and hay for the horses; and the English merchants and Flemish weavers would come by sea and by land to bring cloth,...

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... “Aha! thou hast heard of Adlerstein! We have made the backs of your jolly merchants tingle as well as they could through their well-lined doublets! U... ...rushy space of ground in question, for this was the passage of the Italian merchants on their way from Constance, and every load that was overthrown i... ...iation, the stranger to Christina’s ears, because intercourse with foreign merchants, and a growing affectation of Latinism, had much refined the city... ... been bred up in the busy hum of men, where the constant resort of strange merchants, the daily interests of a self-governing municipal- ity, and the ... ... out of the castle the better, and at length bethought him that, among the merchants who frequented the Midsummer Fair at the Blessed Friedmund’s Wake... ...ed each youth in the open street, and then, removing his long, embroidered Spanish glove, he offered his hand, or rather the tips of his fingers, to l... ...was just opening to give exit to a very tall knight, in one of those short Spanish cloaks the collar of which could be raised so as to conceal the fac... ... his sons spring from their horses and come up to her. The Baron doffs his Spanish hat, bends the knee, kisses her hand, and receives her kiss on his ... ... Catholic doctrine. Yet I may not call my son’s faith such as the Kaisar’s Spanish conscience-keep- ers would have it, and so the boy must e’en tarry ...

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...lors, surgeons, judges, professors, states- men, editors, philanthropists, merchants, and actresses; what clubs they belonged to, where they lived, wh... ...uphrosyne now floated. Half-drawn up upon the beach lay an equal number of Spanish galleons, unmanned, for the country was still a virgin land behind ... ...tuguese fathers wed Indian mothers, and their children intermarry with the Spanish. Although they get their ploughs from Manchester, they make their c... ...tigations left her speechless. “Poor creature!” she murmured to the sallow Spanish servant-girl who came out with the pigs and hens to re- ceive them,... ... look like a human being!” Maria accepted the compliment with an exquisite Spanish grace. In Chailey’s opinion they would have done better to stay on ... ... that they had had the British Consul to dinner, and had been taken over a Spanish man-of-war, and had seen a great many processions and religious fes... ...e as the women. The English colony certainly doesn’t provide one; artists, merchants, cultivated people— they are stupid, conventional, and flirtatiou... ...nd stopping here and there to enter into amorous talk. At the open windows merchants could be seen making up the day’s account, and older women liftin... ...ow had a silent hall to tick in, and an audience of four or five somnolent merchants. By degrees white figures with shady hats came in at the door, ad...

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...range Greek, Latin, Italian, German, and Swiss words, foreign phrases, and Spanish jargon, introduced by foreigners, so that a poor writer has plenty ... ... all the lampreys in the market, and announced them- selves as first-class merchants, who never carried their goods with them, and travelled only with... ...egan to knit his brows and go more slowly about that which his high- class merchants required of him. Fearing that he had made a bad bargain with them... ...majesty of royal love. But recov- ering his courage he began to defend the Spanish ladies, de- claring that in Castile alone was love properly underst... ...and most profitable manors in the king- dom of France, he would give him a Spanish night of love, in which a casual queen should, unless he took care,... ...or his fief. Thereupon the king said to him, in a jocular manner, that the Spanish ladies were of a passable temperature, and their system a fair one,... ...rtheless, not knowing for the matter of that, if the Marchesa had not over-spanished the king, he demanded his revenge from the captive, pledging him ... ...none of whom failed to come. Seeing the immense wealth of the great lords, merchants, warriors, members of the service, and others, brought by the soj...

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...dding the Jews (who were generally hated, though they were the most useful merchants in England) to ap pear at the ceremony; but as they had as semb... ... liberties of London and all other cities and boroughs; to protect foreign merchants who came to England; to imprison no man without a fair trial; and... ...uired his knowledge of England, its language and manners, from the English merchants who traded in Flanders; it was also stated by the Royal agents th... ...then in his fifteenth year, was married to Catherine, the daughter of the Spanish monarch, with great rejoicings and bright prospects; but in a very ... ...had recovered from his grief, he thought it a pity that the fortune of the Spanish Princess, amounting to two hundred thousand crowns, should go out o... ...an, being, on the contrary, proud, overbearing, and gloomy; but he and the Spanish lords who came over with him, assuredly did discountenance the idea... ...e holiday making among the people; but they had their old distrust of this Spanish marriage, in which even the Parliament shared. Though the members o... ...were far from honest, and were strongly suspected to have been bought with Spanish money, they would pass no bill to enable the Queen to set aside the... ...nd increased them as he thought fit. He granted monopolies to companies of merchants on their paying him for them, notwithstanding the great complaint...

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...o extend to the herd of mankind the observation recently made on flocks of Spanish and English sheep which, in low meadows where pasture is abundant, ... ...ter dark, and in a hackney cab. His day was filled up with a siesta in the Spanish fashion, which arranges for sleep be- tween the two chief meals, an... ...hief meals, and so occupies the hours when Paris is in a busy turmoil. The Spanish cigar also played its part, and consumed time as well as tobacco. L... ...glish vignette. Esther was the first to recognize the basilisk eyes of the Spanish priest; and the poor creature, stricken as if she had been shot, ga... ...housand francs in debts.” 67 Balzac “He has found a friend in a very rich Spanish priest who has taken a fancy to him,” replied Rastignac. “He is goi... ... to the quarter known as that of the Bourdonnais. Here certain old retired merchants, and large shopkeepers still in trade, were wont to meet—the Camu... ...niv- ance in favoring smuggling and sharing certain profits with the great merchants. Such an indignity was hard on a man who had earned the Marshal’s... ...onciergerie to the Place de Greve in a cart exactly like that used by wood merchants. This cart is no longer used but to bring the body back from the ...

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...THIRD THE LIGHTHOUSE 11 Joseph Conrad NOSTROMO CHAPTER ONE IN THE TIME OF SPANISH RULE, and for many years after- wards, the town of Sulaco—the luxur... ...from the shutters. The party he led were babbling excitedly in Italian and Spanish, inciting each other to the pur- suit. He put himself at their head... ... ship. Everybody of note in Sulaco had been invited—the one or two foreign merchants, all the representatives of the old Spanish families then in town... ...vited—the one or two foreign merchants, all the representatives of the old Spanish families then in town, the great owners of estates on the plain, gr... ... of mind of the owners of its fertile territory—all these aristocratic old Spanish families, all those Don Ambrosios this and Don Fernandos that, who ... ...trator of the San Tome silver mine had an immense influence over all these Spanish Dons. He had also one of the best 43 Joseph Conrad houses in Sulac... ...ible in all these ancestral Goulds—liberators, explorers, coffee planters, merchants, revolutionists—of 48 Nostromo Costaguana, that he, the only rep... ...ound. The father of Charles Gould, for a long time one of the most wealthy merchants of Costaguana, had al- ready lost a considerable part of his fort... ...oads far into the country, to Rincon and other villages, where the foreign merchants and the Ricos generally have their modern villas, and a vast rail...

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...d, when Salem was a port by itself; not scorned, as she is now, by her own merchants and ship owners, who permit her wharves to crumble to ruin while ... ...nds, perhaps, were all alive before his intellectual sense. Meanwhile, the merchants and ship masters, the spruce clerks and uncouth sailors, entered ... ...touch of his finger, make the in comprehensible as clear as daylight. The merchants valued him not less than we, his esoteric friends. His integrity ... ... will only choose to give himself the trouble. My fellow officers, and the merchants and sea captains with whom my official duties brought me into any... ...irrespon sibility of character. This vessel had recently arrived from the Spanish Main, and within three days’ time would sail for Bristol. Hester Pr... ...thy of his cloth, he met a drunken seaman, one of the ship’s crew from the Spanish Main. And here, since he had so valiantly forborne all other wicked... ...ly be claimed by some mariners—a part of the crew of the ves sel from the Spanish Main—who had come ashore to see the humours of Election Day. They w... ...otherhood, had been guilty, as we should phrase it, of depredations on the Spanish commerce, such as would have perilled all their necks in a modern c... ... as there is a lot of apothecary’s stuff aboard, which I traded for with a Spanish vessel.” “What mean you?” inquired Hester, startled more than she p...