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"C'est enfin que dans leurs prunelles / Rit et pleure-fastidieux -- / L'amour des choses eternelles / Des vieux morts et des anciens dieux! " / PAUL VERLAINE.
We were sitting around the camp fire, some thirty miles north of a place called Taqui, when Lawson announced his intention of finding a home. He had spoken little the last day or two, and I had guessed that he had struck a vein of private reflection. I thought it might be a new mine or irrigation scheme, and I was surprised to find that it was a country house.