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“Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.”

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“Accepting Uncle Tom’s Cabin as revelation second only to the Bible, the Yankee women all wanted to know about the bloodhounds which every Southerner kept to track down runaway slaves. And they never believed her when she told them she had only seen one bloodhound in all her life and it was a small mild dog and not a huge ferocious mastiff. They wanted to know about the dreadful branding irons which planters used to mark the faces of their slaves and the cat-o’-nine-tails with which they beat them to death, and they evidenced what Scarlett felt was a very nasty and ill-bred interest in slave concubinage. Especially did she resent this in view of the enormous increase in mulatto babies in Atlanta since the Yankee soldiers had settled in the town.”

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“It is but another instance of injustice, Fray Felipe said. For twenty years we, of the missions, have been subjected to it, and it grows. The sainted Junipero Serra invaded this land when other men feared, and at San Diego de Alcala he built the first mission of what became a chain, thus giving an empire to the world. Our mistake was that we prospered. We did the work, and others reap the advantages. They began taking out mission-lands from us, lands we had cultivated, which had formed a wilderness and which my brothers had turned into gardens and orchards. They robbed us of worldly goods. And not content with that they now are persecuting us. The mission-empire is doomed, caballero. The time is not far distant when mission roofs will fall in and walls crumble away. Some day people will look at the ruins and wonder how such a thing could come to pass.”

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“Por fortuna no me enamoré del Zorro locamente, como le ocurre a la mayoría de las mujeres al conocerlo; siempre he mantenido la cabeza fría con respecto a él. Me di cuenta a tiempo de que nuestro héroe sólo es capaz de amar a aquellas que no le corresponden, y decidí ser una de ellas. Ha pretendido casarse conmigo cada vez que le falla una de sus novias o se queda viudo —eso ha ocurrido un par de veces—, y me he negado. Tal vez por eso sueña conmigo cuando come pesado. Si yo lo aceptara como marido, muy pronto se sentiría atrapado y yo tendría que morirme para dejarle libre, como hicieron sus dos esposas. Prefiero esperar nuestra vejez con paciencia de beduino. Sé que estaremos juntos cuando él sea un anciano de piernas enclenques y mala cabeza, cuando otros zorros más jóvenes le hayan reemplazado, y en el caso improbable de que alguna dama le abriera su balcón y él no fuera capaz de treparlo. ¡Entonces me vengaré de las penurias que el Zorro me ha hecho pasar!”

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