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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 196 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=11mm, Gew.=295gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … Altro …

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 196 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=11mm, Gew.=295gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter HI JOSE MISPALL PLAYS MONTE ]UPPOSE they won. What sort of a government would we have with men like Montilla at the head of it? Bah! " Senor Isid.ro emphasized this inquiry by a sweeping gesture with the hand which held his knife, and Taylor, who sat next to him, flinched nervously as the hand passed him and returned to the table with a thud. Senor Isidro was a large man, and, notwithstanding his origin, which was largely Spanish, he was of a darker skin than Jose Mispall, who sat a little way down the long table gorging himself with food and drinking a great deal more than was good for him. In fact, he was browner than most natives, because he had spent his life under the rays of that tropical sun, which can turn a white man as brown as any Malay. His hair was of a steel gray, and his eyes were the kind that can flash fire when aroused or look with sympathy upon the needs of a friend. His manner was usually quiet and dignified, but hecould be excited too, on occasions, and few things irritated him so much as a reference to the present war. " I tell you," he continued, after a pause, " whatever the government which the United States will give us may be, it will be one under which we can live and work our haciendas and be safe in our beds. That's the chief point." " But is it true," asked Mispall thickly, " that the people in the United States consider us unfit for self- government ?" " We are unfit," replied Paris, " taking all classes into consideration. In America all men vote; rich and poor alike. There the poor are educated men, here they are no better than beasts. Is it not so, Senor Teniente ?" Thus appealed to, Taylor replied tactfully: " In no country, Senor, are all the people fit for the franchise they use. In the United States we have tho...<