Sections 1 On the Quien Sabe ranch, in one of its western divisions, near the line fence that divided… 2 “All ready here?” 3 The division superintendent, on the opposite side of the line, galloped past to a position… 4 The ploughing, now in full swing, enveloped him in a vague, slow-moving whirl of things. 5 From time to time the gang in which Vanamee worked halted on the signal from foreman or… 6 But in all this scene Vanamee saw nothing repulsive. 7 No, he, Vanamee, could never, never forget, never was the edge of his grief to lose its… 8 But as yet he had not entered the garden. 9 The air of the place was cool and damp, and heavy with the flat, sweet scent of stale… 10 The priest shook his head. 11 But the quiet, the repose, the isolation of the little cloister garden was infinitely delicious. 12 She came to him from out of the flowers, the smell of the roses in her hair of gold, that… 13 Sarria shook his head. 14 “I have been away a long time, and I have had no news of this place since I left. 15 Sarria started away from him, his eyes widening in astonishment, surprised out of all… 16 “Stop!” 17 But the influence of the old enclosure, this corner of romance and mystery, this isolated… 18 Before the chancel rail of the altar, under the sanctuary lamp, Vanamee sank upon his knees,… 19 He bent down, dropping upon one knee, a hand upon the headstone, and read again the inscription. 20 Vanamee lifted his head, looking about him with unseeing eyes, trembling with the exertion… 21 For a time the peculiarity of the affair was of more interest to Vanamee than even his own… 22 “Come to me now,”
Start Learning On the Quien Sabe ranch, in one of its western divisions, near the line fence that divided it from the Osterman holding, Vanamee was harnessing the horses to the plough to which he had been assigned two days before,…
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