As for the convicts, they got their pardon, but that was all, and the cleverest could not get much of an income out of that!" "You, doubtless ?" said Benito very dryly.
"Yes--I?
Why not ?" answered Torres.

"Have you ever been to the diamond district ?" added he, this time addressing Joam Garral.
"Never!" said Joam, looking straight at him.
"That is a pity!" replied he.

"You should go there one day.

It is a very curious place, I assure you.

The diamond valley is an isolated spot in the vast empire of Brazil, something like a park of a dozen leagues in circumference, which in the nature of its soil, its vegetation, and its sandy rocks surrounded by a circle of high mountains, differs considerably from the neighboring provinces.