But I had no notion that a place on a sea-coast could remain so isolated from the world.

If it had been a thousand miles inland now--most remarkable! Has anything ever happened here for a hundred years before to-day ?" While he talked in a slow, humorous tone, she kept her little smile.
Agreeing ironically, she assured him that certainly not--nothing ever happened in Sulaco.

Even the revolutions, of which there had been two in her time, had respected the repose of the place.

Their course ran in the more populous southern parts of the Republic, and the great valley of Sta.

Marta, which was like one great battlefield of the parties, with the possession of the capital for a prize and an outlet to another ocean.