I should not have known about the affair had not Senora Valdez told me.

Your father says nothing against the Americans." "Perhaps, then, he knows nothing against them." "You will excuse me, Antonia; not only the living but the dead must have heard of their wickedness.

They are a nation of ingrates.

Ingrates are cowards.

It was these words Captain Morello said, when Don Luis drew his sword, made a circle with its point and stood it upright in the centre.
It was a challenge to the whole garrigon, and about this fellow Houston, whom he calls his friend! Holy Virgin preserve us from such Mexicans!" "It is easier to talk than to fight.