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The
ladies
of
Sulaco
were
not
advanced
enough
to
take
part
in
the
public
life
to
that
extent
.
They
had
come
out
strongly
at
the
great
ball
at
the
Intendencia
the
evening
before
,
but
Mrs.
Gould
alone
had
appeared
,
a
bright
spot
in
the
group
of
black
coats
behind
the
President-Dictator
,
on
the
crimson
cloth-covered
stage
erected
under
a
shady
tree
on
the
shore
of
the
harbour
,
where
the
ceremony
of
turning
the
first
sod
had
taken
place
.
She
had
come
off
in
the
cargo
lighter
,
full
of
notabilities
,
sitting
under
the
flutter
of
gay
flags
,
in
the
place
of
honour
by
the
side
of
Captain
Mitchell
,
who
steered
,
and
her
clear
dress
gave
the
only
truly
festive
note
to
the
sombre
gathering
in
the
long
,
gorgeous
saloon
of
the
Juno
.
The
head
of
the
chairman
of
the
railway
board
(
from
London
)
,
handsome
and
pale
in
a
silvery
mist
of
white
hair
and
clipped
beard
,
hovered
near
her
shoulder
attentive
,
smiling
,
and
fatigued
.
The
journey
from
London
to
Sta
.
Marta
in
mail
boats
and
the
special
carriages
of
the
Sta
.
Marta
coast-line
(
the
only
railway
so
far
)
had
been
tolerable
--
even
pleasant
--
quite
tolerable
.
But
the
trip
over
the
mountains
to
Sulaco
was
another
sort
of
experience
,
in
an
old
diligencia
over
impassable
roads
skirting
awful
precipices
.
"
We
have
been
upset
twice
in
one
day
on
the
brink
of
very
deep
ravines
,
"
he
was
telling
Mrs.
Gould
in
an
undertone
.
"
And
when
we
arrived
here
at
last
I
do
n't
know
what
we
should
have
done
without
your
hospitality
.
What
an
out-of-the-way
place
Sulaco
is
!
--
and
for
a
harbour
,
too
!
Astonishing
!
"
"
Ah
,
but
we
are
very
proud
of
it
.
It
used
to
be
historically
important
.
The
highest
ecclesiastical
court
for
two
viceroyalties
,
sat
here
in
the
olden
time
,
"
she
instructed
him
with
animation
.
"
I
am
impressed
.
I
did
n't
mean
to
be
disparaging
.
You
seem
very
patriotic
.
"
"
The
place
is
lovable
,
if
only
by
its
situation
.
Perhaps
you
do
n't
know
what
an
old
resident
I
am
.
"
"
How
old
,
I
wonder
,
"
he
murmured
,
looking
at
her
with
a
slight
smile
.
Mrs.
Gould
's
appearance
was
made
youthful
by
the
mobile
intelligence
of
her
face
.
"
We
ca
n't
give
you
your
ecclesiastical
court
back
again
;
but
you
shall
have
more
steamers
,
a
railway
,
a
telegraph-cable
--
a
future
in
the
great
world
which
is
worth
infinitely
more
than
any
amount
of
ecclesiastical
past
.
You
shall
be
brought
in
touch
with
something
greater
than
two
viceroyalties
.
But
I
had
no
notion
that
a
place
on
a
sea-coast
could
remain
so
isolated
from
the
world
.
If
it
had
been
a
thousand
miles
inland
now
--
most
remarkable
!
Has
anything
ever
happened
here
for
a
hundred
years
before
to-day
?
"
While
he
talked
in
a
slow
,
humorous
tone
,
she
kept
her
little
smile
.
Agreeing
ironically
,
she
assured
him
that
certainly
not
--
nothing
ever
happened
in
Sulaco
.
Even
the
revolutions
,
of
which
there
had
been
two
in
her
time
,
had
respected
the
repose
of
the
place
.
Their
course
ran
in
the
more
populous
southern
parts
of
the
Republic
,
and
the
great
valley
of
Sta
.
Marta
,
which
was
like
one
great
battlefield
of
the
parties
,
with
the
possession
of
the
capital
for
a
prize
and
an
outlet
to
another
ocean
.
They
were
more
advanced
over
there
.
Here
in
Sulaco
they
heard
only
the
echoes
of
these
great
questions
,
and
,
of
course
,
their
official
world
changed
each
time
,
coming
to
them
over
their
rampart
of
mountains
which
he
himself
had
traversed
in
an
old
diligencia
,
with
such
a
risk
to
life
and
limb
.
