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CHAPTER VIII. HOSTAGE.
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The revolution of Todos Santos had to all appearances been effected as peacefully as the gentle Liberator1 of Quinquinambo could have wished. Two pronunciamientos, rudely printed and posted in the Plaza2, and saluted3 by the fickle4 garrison5 of one hundred men, who had, however, immediately reappointed their old commander as Generalissimo under the new regime, seemed to leave nothing to be desired. A surging mob of vacant and wondering peons, bearing a singular resemblance to the wild cattle and horses which intermingled with them in blind and unceasing movement across the Plaza and up the hilly street, and seemingly as incapable6 of self-government, were alternately dispersed7 and stampeded or allowed to gather again as occasion required. Some of these heterogeneous8 bands were afterwards found—the revolution accomplished—gazing stupidly on the sea, or ruminating9 in bovine10 wantonness on the glacis before the Presidio.
Eleanor Keene, who with her countrywomen had been hurried to the refuge of the Mission, was more disturbed and excited at the prospect11 of meeting Hurlstone again than by any terror of the insurrection. But Hurlstone was not there, and Father Esteban received her with a coldness she could not attribute entirely12 to her countrymen's supposed sympathy with the
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consultation
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positively
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promptly
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layman
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virgin
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nave
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culmination
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glided
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