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The sun was setting and a splendor began to spread along the sky and across the land. It laid a glory on the roof of the house on the hill; it smote the edge of the woodland pasture, burnishing with copper the gray domes; it shone faintly on distant corn shocks, on the weather-dark tents of the hemp at bivouac soldierly and grim.
To refuse would be to spoil her pleasure and insult her hospitality: so I accepted the topaz of which I had six sets already and the silk, whose color prevailed in my wardrobe, and told her that I detested white, which did not suit my weather-dark skin, and she was as blind and as pleased as a child. "But come, come," she cried. "My father is not so generous when he has to wait too long."
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