This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...we do know. They've quarrelled--where? PEPITO At the Alcazar--before a crowd--Seveeo The shame of it!--Ernesto sought the--BEAULIEU No, no! Did his best to avoid it. Had an appointment there, some business about his sailing. Alvarez and his friends had just risen to go when they caught sight of Ernesto--they turned ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...we do know. They've quarrelled--where? PEPITO At the Alcazar--before a crowd--Seveeo The shame of it!--Ernesto sought the--BEAULIEU No, no! Did his best to avoid it. Had an appointment there, some business about his sailing. Alvarez and his friends had just risen to go when they caught sight of Ernesto--they turned from their table to take another near ours--and then they began!--JULIAN Yes, go on--Beaulieu Shrugs his shoulders. Oh, you know that crowd--what they can do, what they can say, over a table; kill a reputation between every cigarette puff and bring on a fresh victim with every change of glasses. Under their hands the marble slab becomes a dissecting board. And when they've done, it might better serve as a tombstone for the good names they've ruined. Seveeo Ernesto should have left--Julian, thunderingly No! No! BEAULIEU He tried every way to avoid them--pretended not to notice. Looked only at Pepito and me--chattered like a magpie about everything and nothing--the weather, the opera, the ship he's sailing on. But Alvarez wouldn't have it--laughed in his face, raised his voice, pointed at him!--I changed my place so as to get between him and Ernesto--and with that the cur cried out--a name! Pepito Yes, so everyone heard--the whole room-full! Beaulieu No holding Ernesto after that! Julian He struck him, then? Pepito No, not yet--he wanted to be sure, quite sure. He crossed to Alvarez' table, quivering like a leaf, so he could hardly speak. 'Who dares, ' he asked, 'ridicule an honourable man?' 'You, his friend'--Alvarez shouted--'you do--you, and the Donna'--JULIAN Teodora--Great God! BEAULIEU No, he didn't say it! His lips closed with Ernesto's blow. Severo With glove? PEPITO Interrupting gleefully. 'Glove' nothing! tout-a-fait Anglais--Le boxe--bing...
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