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  1    1,    3|          devoted. She was called Lina. One of those gentle creatures,
  2    1,    6|        sorrowful, but the joyous Lina was quite unaffected at
  3    1,    7|          that, and the girls—for Lina could not leave her mistress-went
  4    1,    7|     order me.”~“Who knows?” said Lina, laughing.~“Lina is right,”
  5    1,    7|            said Lina, laughing.~“Lina is right,” answered Minha,
  6    1,    7|        escaped so naturally that Lina’s peals of laughter redoubled.~
  7    1,    7|      said. The noisy laughter of Lina was alone sufficiently shrill
  8    1,    7|             Ah! an idea!”~It was Lina who spoke.~“An idea of Lina’
  9    1,    7|      Lina who spoke.~“An idea of Lina’s can be no other than a
 10    1,    7|      said Minha, “to make fun of Lina when she has been thinking
 11    1,    7|         You see that liana?”~And Lina pointed to a liana of the “
 12    1,    7|           brother!” said Minha; “Lina is a trifle absurd.”~“Come
 13    1,    7|       her brother; “you say that Lina is absurd so as to say that
 14    1,    7|      plants.~“There it is!” said Lina, “I see it!”~“You are wrong,”
 15    1,    7|     liana of another kind.”~“No, Lina is right!” said Benito.~“
 16    1,    7|        right!” said Benito.~“No, Lina is wrong!” Manoel would
 17    1,    7|         us go on again!” replied Lina.~“On forever!” added Benito.~
 18    1,    7|         on, dear mistress!” said Lina. “Dont be afraid, the liana
 19    1,    7|        Manoel! Mr. Manoel! cried Lina. “He breathes again! His
 20    1,    7|          hang himself!” repeated Lina, “and young still! What
 21    1,    7|     vigorous and unexpected that Lina, frightened, replied to
 22    1,    7|        continue our walk?” asked Lina.~“That I do,” returned the
 23    1,    7|        passed. He warmly thanked Lina for the good idea she had
 24    1,    8|     everything well. As merry as Lina, always singing, and always
 25    1,    8|         idea that of yours, Miss Lina,” he was constantly saying, “
 26    1,    8|           would laughingly reply Lina; “I assure you, you owe
 27    1,    8|    initiative in his rescue, and Lina was not insensible to the
 28    1,    8|         the servants, Cybele and Lina, were to live in a separate
 29    1,    8|        and his wife, another for Lina and Cybele near those of
 30    1,    8|       what you do.”~On Minha and Lina, to whom were added of their
 31    1,    8|       Yaquita, her daughter, and Lina were content, we need say
 32    1,    9|          Padre Passanha, Benito, Lina, Fragoso, Cybele, and some
 33    1,   10|      going on, Yaquita, aided by Lina and Cybele, was getting
 34    1,   11|   minhocao?”~“Alas, no!” replied Lina.~“What a pity!” Fragoso
 35    1,   11|         exists!” cried the naïve Lina; “they say that she still
 36    1,   11|       approach her.”~“Very well, Lina,” said Benito; “the first
 37    1,   11|        to intervene on behalf of Lina.~“The ‘trunk of Manaos’?”
 38    1,   11|         on its last voyage, Miss Lina,” replied Fragoso, “it mistook
 39    1,   11|        could only meet it!” said Lina.~“If we meet it,” answered
 40    1,   11|           Mr. Manoel,” exclaimed Lina; “I like stories which make
 41    1,   11|         unfortunate woman!” said Lina.~“Madame des Odonais alone
 42    1,   12|      provinces of South America, Lina, like her young mistress,
 43    1,   12|          that liana——”~“It is to Lina, and to Lina alone, that
 44    1,   12|            It is to Lina, and to Lina alone, that you should tender
 45    1,   13|       and a pretty mulatto, Miss Lina, who is more of a companion
 46    1,   13|        able to stop himself, and Lina would have been the object
 47    1,   15|       dreadful creatures!” cried Lina, hiding her eyes; “they
 48    1,   15|   Yaquita, “or neither Minha nor Lina will dare sleep to-night.”~“
 49    1,   16|         of July, Yaquita, Minha, Lina, and the two young men prepared
 50    1,   16|    thought to be of the party if Lina went with her mistress,
 51    1,   16|        remain, at the request of Lina herself.~“Mr. Fragoso!”
 52    1,   16|          taking him aside.~“Miss Lina?” answered Fragoso.~“I do
 53    1,   16|     going to stay on board, Miss Lina, but you wold oblige me
 54    1,   16|    Fragoso.”~“Neither do I, Miss Lina, and I have all the time
 55    1,   16|        it.”~“Mr. Fragoso!”~“Miss Lina!”~“Stay on board and keep
 56    1,   16|    remain!”~“Mr. Fragoso!”~“Miss Lina!”~“I thank you!”~“Thank
 57    1,   16|        that is worth something.”~Lina held out her hand, and Fragoso
 58    1,   16|        after a last gesture from Lina to Fragoso to keep his eyes
 59    1,   16|    houses! what people!” replied Lina, whose eyes seemed to have
 60    1,   16|       Laugh on, gentlemen,” said Lina, “and let us look around,
 61    1,   16|         in their fine slothes!”~“Lina will go mad!” exclaimed
 62    1,   16|         Iquitos. The inquisitive Lina’s enthusiasm alone had not
 63    1,   16|          the jangada.~As soon as Lina could get Fragoso aside—~“
 64    1,   16|         inquired.~“Nothing, Miss Lina,” he replied; “Torres has
 65    1,   16|      will watch him always, Miss Lina,” replied Fragoso.~On the
 66    1,   16|          in his own fashion, but Lina had clapped her hand on
 67    1,   16| regularity.~Fragoso, urged on by Lina, did not cease to watch
 68    1,   17|        young men, by Fragoso and Lina, to make a single movement
 69    1,   17|        Joam Garral and his wife, Lina, and old Cybele, were in
 70    1,   17|       She is not there!” replied Lina, who had just run to her
 71    1,   17|      Fragoso! Fragoso!” shrieked Lina, kneeling on the edge of
 72    1,   17|          Yaquita’s, Minha’s, and Lina’s, and he did not know what
 73    1,   18|      their lives for her.~As for Lina, it seemed as though she
 74    1,   18|          smiling.~“And how, Miss Lina?”~“Oh! You know very well!”~“
 75    1,   18|          about that the charming Lina was engaged to Fragoso,
 76    1,   18|          well at it, then!” said Lina. “All these beautiful things
 77    1,   18|        at the end of them!” said Lina’s betrothed. “That was rather
 78    1,   18|          one in the world,” said Lina quizzingly; “and, mistress!
 79    1,   18|        the splendid plants!”~And Lina pointed to the nymphæas
 80    1,   18|         Fragoso and the charming Lina—that of Manoel and Minha
 81    1,   18|      many bonds of gratitude.~So Lina, who was to remain in the
 82    1,   18|         dinner was jolly enough. Lina kept it going with her good
 83    1,   19|  considerable, Fragoso?” queried Lina.~“Sell it!”~“Then you would
 84    1,   19|      said Minha, “when you marry Lina, diamond takes the place
 85    1,   19|        fault, Fragoso,” answered Lina.~“How my fault?”~“It was
 86    1,   19|       first to be punished, Miss Lina; for I did not hear you
 87    1,   20|    brother!” and, turning toward Lina and Fragoso, he said to
 88    2,    2|    certainly have fallen had not Lina’s arm supported her.~“Mother,
 89    2,    6|        evening before. Minha and Lina kept near her, waiting for
 90    2,    7|          I remained on board, at Lina’s advice, to keep an eye
 91    2,   12|        strange hands.~Naturally, Lina was informed of this unexpected
 92    2,   15|          part, Fragoso, aided by Lina, could not remain quiet,
 93    2,   15|        he had not even spoken to Lina, but which had taken full
 94    2,   15|        the day. No one, not even Lina, could explain the absence
 95    2,   16|      Fragoso had not reappeared. Lina, when asked, could only
 96    2,   19|         had overwhelmed him, and Lina had by no means spared him.
 97    2,   19|   happiness is due, it is due to Lina!”~“To me?” replied the young
 98    2,   19|  happiness?”~So that Fragoso and Lina were praised and petted
 99    2,   19|          of Minha and Manoel and Lina and Fragoso.~Four days afterward,
100    2,   20|         How beautiful!” repeated Lina.~“When shall we get there?”
101    2,   20|   Yaquita, nor her daughter, nor Lina, nor old Cybele, had ever
102    2,   20|       and Minha, the marriage of Lina and Fragoso. To Father Passanha
103    2,   20|     Fragoso, holding the hand of Lina, who seemed quite radiant
104    2,   20|         Manoel and Minha Valdez, Lina and Fragoso, departed by
105    2,   20|     letter,” he said, “would not Lina and Liana be the same?”~ ~
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