Capitolo 3
wild region, Nature seemed generous in the provisioning; for almost all it was
strong types of the viking of the hinterland. Lance Lovelace, when me first I met
he, would have passed for a man in the middle life. On six feet in
height, with an uneven constitution him few felt his/her threescores
years, having spent his/her whole life in the occupation to the open one of a
ranchman. Living on the wild game of the country sleeping on the earth,
from a field-fire when its job asked for him/it, as a lot of to house in the saddle
as from his/her fireside of the hearth of ranch, he was a romantic type of the brave one
pioneer.
He was a man of simple tastes, true as I steel examined in his/her friendships,
with a simple honest mind that it infallibly followed the truth and right as
how gravitation. In his/her national business, however he was unlucky.
The year later to have located to Las Palomas, he is returned his/her first
house on the River of Colorado, where he was married Mary Bryan, also of the
family of the farmers of Austin. Full of hope and happy they returned them
new house on the Nueces, but in front of the first anniversary of them
marrying arrived day, her with her first been born, it was staid in the same
serious. But pain doesn't kill, and the young husband annoyed his/her loss as
brave men do out in the way of living their assigned day. But to the the now of his
died the memory of Mary Bryan it softened him in a child, and, when
not busy, with every thought that goes again of her or the mere mention of
his/her name, he would fall in the deep day-dream, while sometimes lasting for times.
And even if he contracted after two marriages, they was simply
marriages of convenience to that, after their termination, him
it frivolously assigned frequently, sometimes with irreverence, for them
it was the unhappy alliances.
On my arrival to Las Palomas, the only white woman on the ranch was,
"Miss Jean", a sister of old maid of his/her owner and twenty years his
smaller. After his/her third bitter experience in the lottery of marriage,