Part Two, Chapter 5

“Martin Decoud, the dilettante in life, imagined himself to derive an artistic pleasure from watching the picturesque extreme of wrong-headedness into which an honest, almost...

“Their comparative isolation, the precious sense of intimacy, the slight contact of their arms, affected him softly (…)”

“As the great Liberator Bolivar had said in bitterness of his spirit, ‘America is ungovernable. Those who worked for her independence have ploughed the sea’.”

Part Two, Chapter 1

Part One “The Silver of the Mine”