ISBN: 9780217401906

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III moons, and even the years, slipped into the past so quickly in the busy life of McLane Sargent, that he woke up one day to discover the fact that his excellent work had won him the approval of the discriminating reader, but that his hold on the heart of the people, the responsive, impulsive heart, had never been complete until in an hour of fortune he came across his notes of the little journey along the old Mexican coast, and to help out an editorial friend hammered it into form for a rush order. Something had gone wrong, a novelette intended for a first place had developed something hazy as to authorship ? was a "borrowed" translation instead of an original ? altogether there was trouble in the air, and a substitute needed, and needed, as his friend the editor stated, in a little less than no time. And these were the conditions under which Sargent finally developed the story he had said he would write some day of his woman under the mission arches. " I don't know that I developed it at all," he stated afterwards. "The thing sort of wrote itself." Time was not given him in which to think he only recorded pictures unconsciously preserved, impressions absorbed and long forgotten, tones and intonationsalluring in the soft Spanish. The woman of the lilies became the incarnate spirit of tragedy?all the more so that she put forth no voluntary call for help of the world. And for the man, her master, the objective mind of Sargent had almost forgotten what he had said he would like to do to that unknown demagogue of the mission valley, but his subjective mind remembered every jot and tittle of it and through the nights of the years it had grown in the silence until the food it gave his imagination was meat for men, so much so that his friend fairly shouted ...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

ISBN: 0217401902

ISBN: 0217401902