For the Soul of RafaelA.C. McClurg & Company, 1906 - 378 pages |
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altar Alvara American Anita army men asked Aztec beautiful California cañon Capitan carriage Church cousin curse devil Dolores Don Antonio Don Eduardo Don Enrico Don Rafael Doña Ana Doña Angela Doña Espiritu Doña Luisa Doña Maria Doña Raquel Doña Refugia door dream El Capitan eyes face father Fernando forget girl glance gone hand head heard heart heretics hills Holy horse husband Indian Indios Jacoba Juan Flores Juanita Keith Bryton knew lady laughed live looked Los Angeles Madalena married mesa Mexican Mexico Miguel Mission mother never night old Polonia once Padre Libertad plaza prayers priest quietly Rafael Arteaga Raquel Estevan Raquelita ride rode saints San Joaquin ranch San Juan San Juan Mountain Señor Bryton shrugged smile soul Spanish stared strange Teddy tell Teresa things thought told turned vaqueros veranda Victorio watched wife woman women words
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Page 162 - The Magpie ! The Magpie ! Here underneath In the white of his wings are the footsteps of morning. It dawns ! It dawns...
Page 16 - like children creeping close to the feet of the one mother; and be-yond that the illimitable ranees of mesa and valley.
Page 310 - A sunset in San Juan is truly worth crossing either a continent or an ocean to witness, when the ranges toward La Paz are purple where the sage-brush is, and rose-color where the rains have washed the steep places to the clay, and over all of mesa and mountain the soft glory of golden haze.
Page 46 - It contained three beds with as many different-colored spreads, queer little pillows, and drawn-work on one towel hanging on a nail. The floor had once been tiled with square Mission bricks; but many were broken, some we're gone, and the empty spaces were so many traps for unwary feet.
Page 16 - ... setting of velvety ranges under turquoise skies. About its walls were the clustered adobes of the Mexicans, like children creeping close to the feet of the one mother; and beyond that the illimitable ranges of mesa and valley, of live-oak groves and knee-deep meadows, of countless springs and...
Page 12 - RAFAEL road where it leaves the river plain and winds along the canon to the mesa above the sea,— the road over which in the old days the Mission Indians bore hides to the ships and flung them from the cliffs to the waiting boats below.
Page 17 - For the rest all was fenced on the east by the mountains and on the west by the sea.
Page 47 - If there is nothing else I can do for you, I will go and look after my own affairs.
Page 355 - The two men looked into each other's eyes for a moment, and then Padre Libertad spoke: " I saw her mother years ago in Mexico.
Page 201 - I am as certain as it is possible to be of anything one does not see, that the boy tells the truth. She is there, and she is ill. Let him take the message.