...and for a moment he could not identify the lady in the Empire dress, nor imagine why her presence created such excitement among the initiated.

Well, after they retired down here, they must have had a ball ordering anything and everything.

Her driver was new to the country; he mightn't be prepared for the leaping of the yellow water down dry arroyos, swift as the pouncings of a cat, or the snake-like slidings of tons of loosened rock and clay from the steep potreros […]

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