American Boys Afloat by Oliver Optic — Read

The party found the forms of justice in Spain, those who knew anything about them, quite different from what they were in New York and New Jersey. The court-room was an oddity to Uncle Moses, and he had the idea that the _provincia_ must be building a new court-house, and that the apartment was a temporary one, not adapted to the use for which it was required.

The five smugglers were brought in, each of them with his wrists handcuffed behind him by the officers. Gray's looks plainly indicated that he was a foreigner; but he could speak the language as fluently as any other person in the room, though perhaps not as correctly. He glanced at the four Sir Knights who had overcome him in the conflict on the deck of the Salihé, and especially at Scott, who had lassoed him.