In Spain to this day they bar the window heavily and leave the door open.

To the cunning mind is given in this custom the whole history of a great nation.
He stood upright and looked across the river.

He was a tall man with a clean cut face and a hard mouth.

He gave a sharp sigh as he looked at Saragossa outlined against the sky.

His attitude and his sigh seemed to denote along journey accomplished at last, an object attained perhaps or within reach, which is almost the same thing, but not quite.