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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The mencarry huge weights, without seeming ever to
think they are heavy. Then he stalked self-satisfied up theshore. It made Kate feel
asif the bottom had fallen out of her soul.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He was a lout from the city, and he was halfdrunk.
In a whiff, Kate was darting down the beach. She was one of those who wont eat
bread: say they dont like it,that it is not food.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kate debated whether to rescue the foolish bird
again.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And Juana, whohad fled, now came scuttling back and
took Kates hand, saying:Look!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yet never a shout, hardly a voice to be
heard.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>She rose from her rocking-chair andwalked down the
veranda and round the dining-room bay.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is it true, Niņa, that your country is through
there? It was those other gringos who put Him on the Cross?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hard, straight lies and zigzags, wounding the
breast.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And shenever left a place for it to come
out.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As you say, you take no interestin sewing. And,
Kate felt, in Mexico it was a crime to be rich, or to beclassed with the
rich.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Not from my country, but from a country near. Then
on the slope of silence he sat down and took offhis sandals, and I put them on. Why,
Carlota, the babes and sucklings dont get much chance.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kate turned uneasily to her book, her nerves on
edge.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brother, Quetzalcoatl, Hold back the wild hot
sun.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>They say, said the bold Concha, that in Paradise he
has grownyoung. He said to himself: Surelythose are Mexicans crying!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I slept the great sleep, and dreamed not. I am
younger than the young andolder than the old.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>She disliked the heavy plasters that tasted of
lime.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The cup of my floweringis unfolded, in its middle
the stars float balanced with array.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You see, she answered, I have nothing to DO! I am
neither young nor old, I am the flower unfolded, I amnew.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The mencarry huge weights, without seeming ever to
think they are heavy.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But it was out of reach of those
urchins.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But in hisears was the sound of the tearing down of
his temples in Mexico.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brother, Quetzalcoatl, Hold back the wild hot sun.
The lake wasso still and filmy as to be almost invisible. The cup of my floweringis
unfolded, in its middle the stars float balanced with array. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>