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发帖数: 1980 | 1 They had almost a year to demonstrate the seriousness of their promises, but
neither one imagined how much it would cost them. The first part of Luisa
Santiaga's journey, in a caravan of drovers, where she rode on the back of a
mule along the precipices of the Sierra Nevada, took two weeks. Luisa Santiaga
and her mother were accompanied by "Chon," the maid without a name, who had
been with the family since they left Barrancas in the aftermath of the duel in
which the Colonel had killed Medardo P |
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发帖数: 1980 | 2 In Barrancas, there was no trace of animosity toward the family. On the
contrary, eighteen years after the unfortunate duel, a Christian spirit of
forgiving and forgetting prevailed among the relatives of Medardo Pacheco. His
kinfolk gave Luisa Santiaga and her mother such an affectionate welcome that
now it was Luisa Santiaga who thought about the possibility of returning to
this mountain oasis, so different from the heat, the dust, the bloodthirsty
Saturdays, and the headless ghosts of Aracata |
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发帖数: 1980 | 3 My mother and father both denied having any communication during those months,
but this didn't seem credible, for when my mother returned, recovered from her
ailments, she and my father also seemed to have recovered from their earlier
apprehensions. My father said he went to meet her at the station because he
had read the telegram in which Mina announced their return, and when Luisa
Santiaga greeted him, by pressing his hand, he understood it to be something
like a Masonic sign of love. She alwa |
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