Caddy olía como los árboles cuando llueve y como cuando ella dice que estamos dormidos. - William Faulkner

NOW the final copper light of afternoon fades; now the street beyond the low maples and the low signboard is prepared and empty, framed by the study window like a stage.

battles lost not alone because of superior numbers and failing ammunition and stores, but because of generals who should not have been generals, who were generals not through training in contemporary methods or aptitude for learning them, but by the divine right to say 'Go there' conferred upon them by an absolute caste system

Then the town was sorry with being glad, as people sometimes are sorry for those whom they have at last forced to do as they wanted them to.