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  1    1,    3|            a daughter. Benito and Minha, the grandchildren of the
  2    1,    3|           appreciated by him when Minha was concerned, for he soon
  3    1,    3|       dignity of mind.~Benito and Minha responded with an affection
  4    1,    3|  centuries still unsolved by man.~Minha was twenty years old. A
  5    1,    3|        attached to the service of Minha, was a pretty, laughing
  6    1,    4|      state of his feelings toward Minha, Manoel had opened his heart
  7    1,    4|     Benito was in the presence of Minha. They had but to agree;
  8    1,    4|          concerning it.~“Manoel,” Minha said to her betrothed, “
  9    1,    4|           had replied by pressing Minha’s hand. He also had a great
 10    1,    4|    troubled her. The happiness of Minha could not but be assured
 11    1,    4|      worth while. The marriage of Minha afforded an excellent opportunity,
 12    1,    4|     matter with you?” asked she.~“Minha? To get married!” murmured
 13    1,    4|           see again in this life. Minha is going to be married away
 14    1,    4|       entrust her? Added to this, Minha does not wish to grieve
 15    1,    4|          continued Yaquita, “with Minha, with our two sons, Benito
 16    1,    4|          I am now talking to you. Minha, Benito, Manoel, all ask
 17    1,    4|      almost at the same moment as Minha entered the room.~“Children!
 18    1,    4|          I am so happy!” repeated Minha, as she had done on the
 19    1,    5|        and very long as well, for Minha cannot by my wife until
 20    1,    6|        Excellent idea!” had cried Minha, clapping her hands, when
 21    1,    6|        Cybele’s invariable reply.~Minha and her favorite for their
 22    1,    6|        was so devotedly attached. Minha was a trifle sorrowful,
 23    1,    6|    unaffected at leaving Iquitos. Minha Valdez would be the same
 24    1,    6|       would be the same to her as Minha Garral, and to check her
 25    1,    7|          had offered to accompany Minha through the thick woods
 26    1,    7|          had not an hour to lose.~Minha had accepted the offer with
 27    1,    7|      fronds.~“Well, Manoel,” said Minha, “it is for me to do the
 28    1,    7|           of the house.”~“Dearest Minha,” replied the young man, “
 29    1,    7|      Manoel.~“Perhaps you will if Minha orders you?”~“Minha will
 30    1,    7|       will if Minha orders you?”~“Minha will not order me.”~“Who
 31    1,    7|          Lina is right,” answered Minha, who held out her hand to
 32    1,    7|           said Manoel, turning to Minha.~“To whom have I the honor
 33    1,    7|           always!”~“Always!” said Minha, from whom the word escaped
 34    1,    7|         glance from Manoel repaid Minha for the imprudence of her
 35    1,    7|     thousands of birds to flight.~Minha was right to intercede for
 36    1,    7|        population of these woods.~Minha made Manoel admire the natural
 37    1,    7|           girl.~“You are at home, Minha, or at least you say so,”
 38    1,    7|          little brother!” replied Minha; “such beautiful things
 39    1,    7|              Let Benito laugh on, Minha,” said Manoel. “He hides
 40    1,    7|     forbidding him to use his gun Minha had imposed on him a genuine
 41    1,    7|         is unkind, brother,” said Minha, “to make fun of Lina when
 42    1,    7|          Well, what is it?” asked Minha.~“You see that liana?”~And
 43    1,    7|     Benito.~“I proposed,” replied Minha, “that we try to follow
 44    1,    7|         are right, brother!” said Minha; “Lina is a trifle absurd.”~“
 45    1,    7|         will amuse you,” returned Minha. “Let us follow the liana!”~“
 46    1,    7|           already on your way and Minha was waiting for you at the
 47    1,    7|           You are wrong,” replied Minha; “that is not it, that is
 48    1,    7|          it!”~“Perhaps,” observed Minha, “it will soon be time to
 49    1,    7|          sister back.~“Stay—stay, Minha!” he said, “Benito may go
 50    1,    7|       children they are!” replied Minha. “Come along, Manoel, we
 51    1,    7|          end of the liana?” asked Minha.~“No,” replied Benito; “
 52    1,    7|        late.~“Poor man!” murmured Minha.~“Mr. Manoel! Mr. Manoel!
 53    1,    8|       room for Benito and Manoel. Minha had a room away from the
 54    1,    8|        speak, had been completed, Minha intervened with:~“Father,
 55    1,    8|              Do just as you like, Minha,” replied Joam Garral, smiling
 56    1,    8|       many years’ absence.”~“Yes, Minha; yes,” replied Joam. “It
 57    1,    8|    beforehand of what you do.”~On Minha and Lina, to whom were added
 58    1,    8|            those most precious to Minha being such as had come from
 59    1,    8|            Oh, trees!” ejaculated Minha.~“Why not?” replied Manoel. “
 60    1,    8|          going to, Fragoso?” said Minha, seeing the active barber
 61    1,    8|     friend,” answered the smiling Minha. “Manoel has given me a
 62    1,    9|           marry the young couple, Minha and Manoel.~But if Padre
 63    1,   10|         the two young fellows and Minha, they were walking up and
 64    1,   10|         in this way.”~“And,” said Minha, “you do not repent having
 65    1,   10|          self.”~“Well, then, dear Minha,” said Manoel, “I shall
 66    1,   10|          Don’t you agree with me, Minha?”~“Yes, Manoel; though I
 67    1,   10|         made our own!”~“My little Minha is enthusiastic to-day,”
 68    1,   10|         Yaquita was heard calling Minha into the house.~The young
 69    1,   10|      spared them through love for Minha. One single species of grebe,
 70    1,   11|        wish to confirm it. There, Minha, you can take your choice
 71    1,   11|          of use in nature,” asked Minha, “what is the use of mosquitoes?”~“
 72    1,   11|      Benito.~“Now, brother,” said Minha seriously, “say no evil
 73    1,   11|          marvelous ones,” replied Minha.~“What legends?” asked Manoel. “
 74    1,   11|       colleges?” laughingly asked Minha.~“I begin to perceive that
 75    1,   11|      Manoel.~“What, sir!” replied Minha, with a pleasant seriousness, “
 76    1,   11|         She believes it!” shouted Minha.~“There are people who believe
 77    1,   11|           We are listening,” said Minha.~“Here goes, then,” said
 78    1,   11|         years.”~“Poor lady!” said Minha.~“Above all, poor mother!”
 79    1,   12|       therefore, that Yaquita and Minha should attach some importance
 80    1,   13|            his daughter, and Miss Minha’s betrothed.”~“Ah! he has
 81    1,   14|        the curious animal?” asked Minha.~“Yes, little sister,” replied
 82    1,   14|      reflection of gold,” replied Minha, showing a light, reddish-brown
 83    1,   14|       Take a little of the water, Minha, and drink it; you will
 84    1,   15|  light-colored beneath, for which Minha, and particularly the young
 85    1,   15|         really formidable,” added Minha; “are they not, Manoel?”~“
 86    1,   15|         said Yaquita, “or neither Minha nor Lina will dare sleep
 87    1,   15|          causes the noise?” asked Minha. “One would think it was
 88    1,   15|     himself much impressed toward Minha. But these attentions, although
 89    1,   15|     interfere. On the other hand, Minha felt for him an instinctive
 90    1,   16|        the 20th of July, Yaquita, Minha, Lina, and the two young
 91    1,   16|          What a large town!” said Minha.~“What houses! what people!”
 92    1,   16|             My dear Manoel!” said Minha, “do protect us against
 93    1,   16|      Amazon!”~“Now, Manoel,” said Minha, “you are talking just like
 94    1,   16|      making fun of us, too?”~“No, Minha, I assure you.”~“Laugh on,
 95    1,   16|         were worn properly,” said Minha, “they might not be so ridiculous!”~“
 96    1,   16|          so ridiculous!”~“My dear Minha,” said Manoel, “with your
 97    1,   16|        you to think so,” answered Minha, “I do not envy any of them.”~
 98    1,   17|          noticed his attention to Minha?” said Manoel, turning pale.~“
 99    1,   17|           shutting the door:~“And Minha?” said Manoel.~“She is not
100    1,   17|          shouted at once:~“Himha! Minha!”~No reply.~“There she is,
101    1,   17|           jangada!” said Benito.~“Minha!” shouted Manoel.~The two
102    1,   17|          was lost in the stream.~“Minha! Minha!” shouted Manoel
103    1,   17|       lost in the stream.~“Minha! Minha!” shouted Manoel in distraction,
104    1,   17|         from the third alligator. Minha was flying aft, pursued
105    1,   17|           six feet away from her.~Minha fell.~A second shot from
106    1,   17|        tail knocked him down too.~Minha fainted, and the mouth of
107    1,   17|          him—Manoel’s, Yaquita’s, Minha’s, and Lina’s, and he did
108    1,   17|          though Fragoso had saved Minha, it was assuredly to the
109    1,   18|         reach the port of Manaos.~Minha had quite recovered from
110    1,   18|          the same time as that of Minha and Manoel, and that the
111    1,   18|        even less assiduous toward Minha. There seemed a relief in
112    1,   18|       truly very beautiful,” said Minha, “and it would be very pleasant
113    1,   18|      pleasant and dangerous, dear Minha,” said Manoel. “In a pirogue
114    1,   18|          on the surface,” replied Minha, “and which the current
115    1,   18|           Lina—that of Manoel and Minha had taken place at the fazenda
116    1,   18|          remain in the service of Minha, and Fragoso, who was about
117    1,   18|         Manoel talked mostly with Minha. Between whiles his eyes
118    1,   18|        young lady at Belem,” said Minha. “He should do what everybody
119    1,   18|        and may you be as happy as Minha and Manoel, and as I and
120    1,   18|     speaking Torres looked toward Minha.~“And what should prevent
121    1,   19|           You see, Fragoso,” said Minha, “when you marry Lina, diamond
122    1,   19|        change!”~“To be sure, Miss Minha,” gallantly replied Fragoso; “
123    1,   20|         agreed, on condition that Minha brings it to me at her marriage.”~“
124    1,   20|     decided as to the marriage of Minha and Manoel.”~“At last!”
125    1,   20|           Para for the wedding of Minha and Manoel is to wait too
126    1,   20|            If the wedding of Miss Minha and Mr. Manoel is to take
127    1,   20|          he said, “My mother!” to Minha he said, “My wife!” and
128    1,   20|           these words Yaquita and Minha, struck with stupor, stopped
129    2,    2|            came out of the house. Minha was still weeping, but her
130    2,    2|        called me—mother! You took Minha’s hand, and called her—your
131    2,    2|         been publicly proclaimed. Minha is a convict’s daughter.”~“
132    2,    2|           a convict’s daughter.”~“Minha Dacosta or Minha Garral,
133    2,    2|      daughter.”~“Minha Dacosta or Minha Garral, what matters it
134    2,    2|        longer.~“Manoel!” murmured Minha.~And she would certainly
135    2,    3|    affection which Manoel bore to Minha, when he could see that
136    2,    6|         since the evening before. Minha and Lina kept near her,
137    2,    6|       room where were Yaquita and Minha, and told them all that
138    2,   12|         Benito, of Manoel, and of Minha, and, shut up in the house,
139    2,   15| unprofitably. Benito, Manoel, and Minha tried all they could together
140    2,   16|          that neither Yaquita nor Minha should be informed of preparations,
141    2,   16|      Manoel had tried to reassure Minha by telling her that Judge
142    2,   19|       stone seat, and then, while Minha, Benito, Manoel, and Fragoso
143    2,   19|     caresses! Benito, Manoel, and Minha had overwhelmed him, and
144    2,   19|       with the double marriage of Minha and Manoel and Lina and
145    2,   20|        How magnificent!” remarked Minha, over and over again.~“How
146    2,   20|        the marriage of Manoel and Minha, the marriage of Lina and
147    2,   20|      Manoel walked by the side of Minha, who looked most fascinating
148    2,   20|         wife, his son, Manoel and Minha Valdez, Lina and Fragoso,