The father was frightened at the trembling of his hands and the agitation of his pulse; he, the son of the huerta, without any other diversion than the hunt, accustomed to shoot down birds almost without aiming at them.
The wailing of the poor mother brought back to his memory other groans of long long ago—twenty-two years before—when she was giving birth to her only son upon that same bed.
To come to such an end!... His eyes, gazing heavenward, saw a black sky, intensely black, with not a star in sight, and obscured by his tears....
"Lord! To end his sufferings! To end his sufferings!"
And repeating these words he pressed the musket against his shoulder, seeking the lock with a tremulous finger.... Bang! Bang!
| The following typographical errors were corrected by the etext transcriber: |
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| There is a curious contradition=>There is a curious contradiction |
| Segrada threw his cards=>Sagreda threw his cards |
| His eyes, opened extraordinarly=>His eyes, opened extraordinarily |
| flocked to Caldera's cavin=>flocked to Caldera's cabin |
| INTERNATIONAL: POCKET: LIBRARY | ||
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| ——————— | ||
| 1. | Mademoiselle Fifi | Guy de Maupassant |
| Introduction by Joseph Conrad | ||
| 2. | Two Tales | Rudyard Kipling |
| Foreword by Wilson Follett | ||
| 3. | Two Wessex Tales | Thomas Hardy |
| Introduction by Conrad Aiken | ||
| 4. | Modern Russian Classics | |
| Stories by Andreyev, Solgub, Gorki, Tchekov, | ||
| Babel, and Artzibashev. Foreword by Issac Goldberg | ||
| 5. | Candide | Voltaire |
| Introduction by Andre Morize | ||
| 6. | The Last Lion | Vicente Blasco Ibáñez |
| Introduction by Mariano Joaquin Lorente | ||
| 7. | A Shropshire Lad | A. E. Housman |
| Preface by William Stanley Braithwaite | ||
| 8. | Gitanjali | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Introduction by W. B. Yeats | ||
| 9. | The Book of François Villon | |
| Introduction by H. De Vere Stacpoole | ||
| 10. | The Hound of Heaven | Francis Thompson |
| Introduction by G. K. Chesterton | ||
| 11. | Coloured Stars | Edited by Edward Powys Mathers |
| 12. | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Edward Fitzgerald |
| With Decorations by Elihu Vedder | ||
| 13. | The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde |
| 14. | Five Modern Plays | O'Neill, Schnitzler, Dunsany, Maeterlinck, Richard Hughes |
| 15. | Three Irish Plays | J. M. Synge, Douglas Hyde, and W. B. Yeats |
| Introduction by Harrison Hale Schaff | ||
| 16. | The Greatest Thing in the World | Henry Drummond |
| Introduction by Elizabeth Towne | ||
| 17. | The Symposium of Plato | |
| Introduction by B. Jowett, M.A. | ||
| 18. | The Wisdom of Confucius | |
| Edited by Miles M. Dawson | ||
| 19. | Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| Illustrated by Sir John Tenniel | ||
| 20. | Through the Looking-glass | Lewis Carroll |
| Illustrated by Sir John Tenniel | ||
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| Other Titles in Preparation | ||