I should like to see a man making a joke through an interpreter, and waiting to see how it told.

I must get up a little Spanish as soon as possible.

The earl has picked up a lot already, and there will be no fun to be had here in Spain unless one can make one's self understood." The next day there were rumors current that the population were determined to take vengeance upon Velasco.

The earl marched eight hundred men into the town, placed the governor in their center and escorted him to the shore, and so took him safely on board a ship.

He was conveyed, by his own desire, to Alicante, as the revolt had spread so rapidly through Catalonia that Rosas was now the only town which favored the cause of the Duke d'Anjou.
The capture of Barcelona takes its place as one of the most brilliant feats in military history, and reflects extraordinary credit upon its general, who exhibited at once profound prudence, faithful adherence to his sovereign's orders, patience and self command under the ill concealed hatred of many of those with whom he had to cooperate--the wrong headedness of the king, the insolence of the German courtiers, the supineness of the Dutch, the jealousy of his own officers, and the open discontent of the army and navy--and a secrecy marvelously kept up for many weary and apparently hopeless days.
On the 28th of October King Charles made his public entry into Barcelona, and for some days the city was the scene of continual fetes.
The whole province rose in his favor, and the gentlemen of the district poured into the town to offer their homage to the king.