Capitolo 20
in some place in duration of Carnival. Coming to parts less well visible of
the city, my companion fell silent, and I meditated on the
perfection that Art had reached in America--being passed as soon as a
you bronze statue of of the hero that seemed a black Methodist
you administer, in a lifted hat, above of the life and a gentleman of country I shine
under; while his/her horse was standing as a ballet dancer of work, on a leg in
a tall, but rather extraordinary wind that blew his/her mane a way
and its tail metals the other.
"House Hurly-corpulenta, ma'am!" he/she called a voice, while frightening me from mine
day-dream, as we stopped first a great pole of buildings, with a
flag that flies him/it before, sentinels to the door and a very difficult
quantity of men that idles about around. My heartbeat rather faster than
usual, and it suddenly struck me that I was a lot away from house;
but me come down with dignity, while asking himself/herself/itself if I should be
stopped for lack of a countersignature, and convict to spend the night
in the road. Audaciously marching on the footsteps, I founded that nothing form
it was necessary, for the men you fall again, the watch touched them
berets, a boy opened the door, and, as closed behind me, I felt
what I fairly start, and the Mission of Nanny Pervinca was
started.
I CAPITULATE III: ONE DAY.
"They has come! they has come! you expedite, gentleman--you are wanted."
"Who have come? the rebels?"
This sudden quotation in the grey dawn was frightening rather a
the nanny of three days he likes, and, as the thundering knock came
to our door, I jumped above in my bed, prepared
"To encircle the form of my woman,
And on the die of bastions,"
if necessary; but my room-consort the takings more freshly, and, as her
started a rapid toilet, he/she answered to my puzzled question,--
"Bless him/it, no child; it is the wounded of Fredericksburg; forty
ambulances are to the door, and we will have our hands full in
fifteen minutes."
"What will we have to do?"
"Wash, dressed, feeding warm and he/she nurses them for the next three