Well, the loss is not important to them, but the gain is very important to me.

It is as if Miriam had come with a cup of water to refresh her lover in the desert.

God bless her! She has refreshed me indeed, soul and body!" He removed the saddle from the mustang, and turned him loose to make the best of such scanty herbage as he could find.

Then he unpacked his own provisions, and made a comfortable meal; after which he rolled a cigarette and reclined on the spot most available, to rest and recuperate.

The valley, or gorge, lay before him in the afternoon light.
It was a strange and savage spectacle.