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Seen in a Mexican Plaza; A Summer's Idyll of an Idle Summer


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:: fourtfj WHY THEY THOUGHT I WAS RUDE AME to my reserved seat in the plaza one day Don Martin, a typical Mexican gentleman, who had done much to smooth my path and assist me in the prosecution of my enterprise. And just a word by way of preface: I arrived in Cuatro Cienegas an absolute stranger. Had never been there, did not know a soul, and was far more lost than the historical cat in a strange garret ?supposed to represent the very acme of loneliness. At that time I did not possess enough of the language of the country to swear by, even to swear with, and scarcely enough by which to eat. Securing a couple of rooms, I was busy, with the help of a peon, setting them to rights and arranging the few necessary bits of furniture, when a fine- looking, portly gentleman of fifty or thereabouts knocked at the open door. Pardon me, he said, my name is Martin Arredondo. Some of my peopie told me that a strange American had arrived in town with the evident intention of remaining. Knowing that there were no other foreigners here, and as I am the only native who speaks English, I thought I would call upon you without delay and place my services at your disposal. If there is anything in which I can assist you, I hope you will not be backward in coming to me. And this was no perfunctory offer, either, made out of mere courtesy and with no expectation that any use would be made of it. In all my stay in this town Don Martin more than fulfilled his promise, many times doing me favors, as I learned subsequently, without solicitation upon my part. I was indebted to him over and over again for courtesies and services of the most valuable kind. Beyond giving me his name and pointing out the location of his residence, my visitor did not inform me as to his standing in the plac..


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458970596
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 22
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458970590
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 59 gr


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