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"Where is the Santa Teresa?" I de harder

"She dropped downstrea I passed her as I cao She's anchored in o?"

We looked each other in the eyes, and each read the thought that neither cared to put into words

"You can take the brown htly because my heart was as heavy as lead, "and we'll ride to the forest It is all right, I dare say Doubtless we'll find her garlanding herself with the grape, or playing with the squirrels, or asleep on the red leaves, with her head in Angela's lap"

"Doubtless," he said "Don't lose time I'll saddle the mare and overtake you in two minutes"