Even the devil has his good points." "Holy Virgin! Offend women! They do not even think us worth looking at.

But then it is an intolerable offence to see them standing in our streets, as if they had made the whole land." But this morning, early as it was, the streets were empty of Americans.
There had been hundreds of them there at the proclamation; there was not one to be seen twelve hours afterwards.

But at the principal rendezvous of the city, and on the very walls of the Alamo, they had left this characteristic notice: "To SANTA ANNA: "If you want our arms-take them.
"TEN THOUSAND AMERICAN TEXANS." Robert Worth saw it with an irrepressible emotion of pride and satisfaction.

He had faithfully fulfilled his promise to his conscience, and, with his rifle across his shoulder, and his revolvers and knife in his belt, was taking the road to his office with a somewhat marked deliberation.

He was yet a remarkably handsome man; and what man is there that a rifle does not give a kind of nobility to?
With an up-head carriage and the light of his soul in his face, he trod the narrow, uneven street like a soldier full of enthusiasm at his own commission.
No one interfered with his solitary parade.