"The young people Were happy. On the eve of the marriage, Clouded Snake laid at Ova's feet buckles of gold and two bracelets of shells, mingled with beads of pure gold."
"Ova accepted these presents with a smile, and said to her betrothed, as she left him,—"
"'Farewell; we part today to see each other tomorrow, and tomorrow we shall be united for ever.'"
"On the next day Clouded Snake did not come. Ova waited for several months; Clouded Snake did not reappear."
"In vain, by the chief's orders, was the young man sought for throughout the country; no one had seen him, no one had heard speak of him."
"Clouded Snake no longer existed, except in the heart of Ova."
"She wept for him, and people tried to make her believe that he had gone to fight the white men; but Ova shook her head, and wiped away her tears."
"Forty times did the snow cover the summit of the mountains, and yet it had been impossible to clear up the mystery of Clouded Snake's disappearance."
"One day some labourers at work in the gold mine, which had belonged to Ova's father, and was now her property, while going far down an old gallery which had been abandoned for a long time, exhumed a corpse as miraculously preserved as the mummies of the teocallis are in their bandages."
"The warriors flocked up to see this strange corpse, clothed in a dress belonging to another age, and no one recognised it."