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He looked down at her quickly and she saw him in the mood of story-telling to the children, suffused with the radiance of a decision. "I prefer the Leddys of Little Rivers to the Leddys of New York," he said. "I am not going to-morrow! I am going to have land and a home under the aegis of the Eternal Painter and in sight of Galeria, and worship at the shrine of fecund peace.
Undisturbed, she might think anything, pray for anything; she might feed the flame of revolt till the fuel of many weeks' accumulation had burned itself out and left her calm in the wisdom and understanding that reconciled her to her portion and freshened to return through Galeria to the quiet routine of her daily existence.
After dinner Merriam sat in a corner of the broad front galeria with Bibb, a Vermonter interested in hydraulic mining, and smoked and drank Scotch "smoke." The moonlit sea, spreading infinitely before him, seemed to separate him beyond all apprehension from his old life.
"Sir Chaps of the enormous spurs, you have a broad taste for one who rides over the pass of Galeria after five years in Arizona," said the Doge as he rose. He was covertly surveying that soft, winning, dreamy profile which had turned so hard when the devil that was within came to the surface.
"Mary, I have every reason to believe that you know how to take care of yourself," he answered. And that very afternoon she rode out to Galeria, starting a little earlier than usual, returning a little later than usual, in jubilant mood. "Everything is the same!" she had repeated a dozen times on the road.
Soon afterwards, he married Galeria Fundana, the daughter of a man of pretorian rank, and had by her both sons and daughters. Among the former was one who had such a stammering in his speech, that he was little better than if he had been dumb. VII. He was sent by Galba into Lower Germany , contrary to his expectation.
It passes through sixty tunnels, the highest one of which is the Galeria tunnel, which is 15,665 feet above the sea. This railroad, perhaps the most wonderful ever constructed, was built by Henry Meiggs, an American contractor from New York.
"Don't!" It was a half cry from her, hardly audible in an intensity which she knew was futile in the surge of her torturing self-incrimination. Why had she not thought that it would be here that Pete Leddy was bound to wait for anyone coming in by the trail from Galeria?
"Your orange-trees are too young. It's so far away they will hardly show," she ventured, surveying the distance to the pass judicially. "Will you?" "Why, to me a ride to the pass is not a thing to be planned a day beforehand," she said deliberately, still studiously observing Galeria. "It is a matter of momentary inspiration. Make it a set engagement and it is but a plodding journey.
Mr Bloom, without evincing surprise, unostentatiously turned over the card to peruse the partially obliterated address and postmark. It ran as follows: Tarjeta Postal, Señor A Boudin, Galeria Becche, Santiago, Chile. There was no message evidently, as he took particular notice.
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