Now it was his only reading, and in order not to be deprived of it (the print was small) he had consented to accept the present of a pair of silver-mounted spectacles from Senora Emilia Gould, the wife of the Englishman who managed the silver mine in the mountains three leagues from the town.

She was the only Englishwoman in Sulaco.
Giorgio Viola had a great consideration for the English.

This feeling, born on the battlefields of Uruguay, was forty years old at the very least.

Several of them had poured their blood for the cause of freedom in America, and the first he had ever known he remembered by the name of Samuel; he commanded a negro company under Garibaldi, during the famous siege of Montevideo, and died heroically with his negroes at the fording of the Boyana.

He, Giorgio, had reached the rank of ensign-alferez-and cooked for the general.