Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Tom Thorne was a bachelor, who lived in one of the best houses, had the best horses, and gave the best dinners and suppers, of any merchant in Buenos Ayres. The head of the “_house_,” or firm, he was his own master; and this privilege he used to the utmost. Wherever a ball was...
On the evening succeeding to the day at the _chacra_, a small evening party--or tertulia, as it is called--was held at the town residence of Luis Mendoza. Our friends Thorne and...
4. CHAPTER IV.A scamper into the Camp of Buenos Ayres is one of the greatest treats that the citizens of that town can enjoy. True, there is nothing to interest you in the scenery, nothing to...
3. CHAPTER III.About the time our story commences, 1841, Rosas was beginning that system of terrorism, espionage, confiscation, and secret assassination, which has since made his government so...
2. CHAPTER II.In Buenos Ayres, though a town of fully sixty thousand inhabitants, nearly every body of any pretensions knows every other body, either by sight, by report, or nodding acquainta...
1. CHAPTER I.Tom Thorne was a bachelor, who lived in one of the best houses, had the best horses, and gave the best dinners and suppers, of any merchant in Buenos Ayres. The head of the “_ho...