[The Story of a Mine by Bret Harte]@TWC D-Link bookThe Story of a Mine CHAPTER IX 6/25
Take a change.
Come down to Monterey for a day or two with me, and bring miss De Haro with you for company." The old lady recognized the situation.
Thatcher was now a man of vast possibilities.
In all maternal daughters of Eve there is the slightest bit of the chaperone and match-maker.
It is the last way of reviving the past. She consented, and Carmen De Haro could not well refuse. The ladies found the "Blue Mass" mills very much as Thatcher had previously delivered it to them, "a trifle rough and mannish." But he made over to them the one tenement reserved for himself, and slept with his men, or more likely under the trees.
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