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Like all men of the prairie, rude trappers as well as Indians, Carlos had an eye for the picturesque, and therefore chose a beautiful spot for his camp. It was a grassy bottom, through which ran a clear "arroyo" of sweet water, shaded by pecan, mulberry, and wild-china-trees, and under the shadow of a mulberry grove his carretas were halted and his tent was pitched.
Bending over the low parapet that overlooked the garden to the rear, she at the same time faced toward the sinking orb, for the garden extended westward. Now and then her eyes were lifted to the sky and the sun; but oftener they sought the shaded coppice of wild-china-trees at the bottom of the enclosure, through whose slender trunks gleamed the silvery surface of the stream.
The most famed gardens of the world even Paradise itself in her imagination, had no spot so sweet, no nook so shady, as the little arbour she had herself trained amid the foliage of those wild-china-trees. Why was she regarding it with a look of sadness? In that very arbour, and on that very night, did she expect to meet him the one who had rendered it sacred. Why then was she sad?
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