Animpassive male cruelty, changeless as a stone
idol. The two girls could not be apart: they must always be running afterone
another. But, as Kate said to herself, I dont want to exploit them.
Therewere high walls on the three sides, with sheds
and stables.
Kate felt she had rarely met a woman with such a
dog-like finesseof gentleness.
But her Spanish was so slow and distinct and
slightlyplaintive, that Kate understood her at once. Beyond, the rather
neglectedformal garden with strong sun and deep mango-shade. But her Spanish was so
slow and distinct and slightlyplaintive, that Kate understood her at once. The
house, reddish and yellow in colour, had two short wingstowards the
lake.
A little breeze was coming from the lake, but the
deep dustunderfoot was hot. For the white man, let him bluster ashe may, is hollow
with misgiving about his own supremacy.
Likethe Irish, they could cut off their nose to
spite their face.
He brought down two Indians from the north todo
that.
So that a good deal of his land wastaken away to be
divided among the peons. A nice thing, I say,fluttered Doña Carlota, in her gentle,
fragile, scolding way. Then the natives lie through the small hours likelizards,
numb and prostrate with cold.
They are well; that is, the younger isvery
delicate.
They WANTthis strife and these other false,
horrible connections.
The Indians are sovery rarely unkind to
children.
In a shed in one corner, four half-naked men were
packing bunches of bananas.
And a mystery greater than theindividual. One
instant, Juanas black inchoate eyes gleamed with a malevolentridicule, meeting
Kates.
There was always the liability to be held up or
attacked. A nice thing, I say,fluttered Doña Carlota, in her gentle, fragile,
scolding way.
God is love, and if Ramón would only submit to
love, he wouldknow that he had found God.
Beyond, the rather neglectedformal garden with
strong sun and deep mango-shade.
That is tosay, he worked building the adobe walls
of the little houses.
If something inside them compels them to go on
destroying! Animpassive male cruelty, changeless as a stone idol.
The children were not all kept in the
Home.
Kate remembered her Englishservants in the English
kitchens: so mechanical and somehowinhuman.
Everything they did must be fun, orthey could not
do it. For it means the death either of me or him. Ramón, large and muted,kept
himself in reserve.
A little breeze was coming from the lake, but the
deep dustunderfoot was hot.