Kate felt she was in the presence of
men.
I quite see the danger of Americanization, said
Owen.
Ifelt I must do what my god-father wished. Only she
wantedthe silence of other unfolded souls around her, like a perfume. Oh America,
with your unspeakable hard lack of charm, whatthen is your final meaning? Well, said
Owen, it seems to me, on the contrary, a gay country. The house was a fairly large
villa, quietly and simply furnished,with natural taste. The quick little Indians,
quick asspiders, down in Oaxaca!
If you looked, and found your own womanhood, you
would know.
My soul is nauseated, and there is nothing but
deathahead, unless I find something else.
They were changed so much, Ifelt I didnt know them
any more.
The miracle is always there, he said, for the man
who can passhis hand through to it, to take it. Mexico still meant the mass of
silentpeons, to her.
He was lean and pale, but burningwith an intense,
crazy energy. To me, he said, that is just the weariness of life!
The wild, sombre, erect men of the
north!
They had promised to go out to dinner to the house
of Don Ramón.
It is true, said Mirabal, out of the
gloom.
The men seem manly, and the women seem very lovable
andwomanly.
Perhaps the night here scares me, she
laughed.
Do you think one can make this miracle
come?
Was it the greatcontinent of the undoing, and all
its peoples the agents of themystic destruction! The powerful, degenerate thing
called life, wrapping oneor other of its tentacles round her.
Whoever knows Mexico below the surface, is sad! My
father was one of the overseers on thehacienda. In what spirit havethe Spanish and
other foreign fathers gotten children of the Indianwomen?
In the revolutions Itried to help the man I
believed was the best man. Doña Isabel was giving hurried orders to the manservant.