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• In the dusk and shadows they saw their history; in the fading afterlight they saw the fallen: the Rangers, the Indians, the cowboys.
• Much of what she knew was for no one to know. It was hers, and by knowing it she had survived.
• A sense of the melancholy of life began to crush him. Why had he come to this stinking village, in a stinking country, where neither the water nor the food agreed with him? Why had he left Prussia? He had known Bismarck once—if he had stayed in Prussia he might have been a minister, or a rich man; not a tired, wandering prospector, going from villa...
• A year later, she learned that the old man had drowned in Sonora. He had attempted to cross a wash, when the wash was running, and the water had swept him away. The vaquero who found his body took some silver ore from his saddlebags, but Lichtenberg was dead and could not tell where he had found the silver.
• Marriage was often vexing, that was all.