The masonry was exquisite.

fore sheets; stern sheets

[…] the squalid children at La Libertad not flocking to Father Villalba like in those movies about saintful priests Father Villalba asking them their names the children forming a line inventing funny names for themselves — […]

There would have been nature studies – a tiger pursuing a bird of paradise, a choking snake sheathing whole the flayed trunk of a shoat.