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Updated: May 25, 2025
The grand old man of the plains Don Evaristo Penalva, the Patriarch My first sight of his estancia house Don Evaristo described A husband of six wives How he was esteemed and loved by every one On leaving home I lose sight of Don Evaristo I meet him again after seven years His failing health His old first wife and her daughter, Cipriana The tragedy of Cipriana Don Evaristo dies and I lose sight of the family.
That was my last sight of Cipriana; what her end was I never heard, nor what was done with the Paja Brava after the death of Don Evaristo, who was gathered to his fathers a year or so after my visit.
There, in a small open grassy space I had dismounted to watch a hawk, in hopes of finding its nest concealed somewhere among the thistles close by. And presently two persons came at a swift gallop by the narrow path through the thistles, and bursting out into that small open spot I saw that it was Cipriana, in a white dress, on a big bay horse, and her lover, who was leading the way.
The old first wife had also aged her whole dark, anxious face had been covered with little interlacing wrinkles; but the greatest change was in the eldest child, her daughter Cipriana, who was living permanently at La Paja Brava.
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