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By Willa Cather

El padre de Lucy Gayheart, relojero y director de los angeles banda municipal del pueblo de Haverford, ha costeado con ilusión y esfuerzo l. a. educación mu-sical de su hija en Chicago. Ésta es una joven good, impulsiva y brillante que empieza a ganarse los angeles vida dando clases de piano. Un día le surge l. a. oportunidad de acompañar al famoso barítono Clement Sebastian, un hom-bre mucho mayor que ella y algo cansado de los angeles vida, pero a quien el contacto con los angeles juventud parece traer una nueva y melancólica primavera. los angeles diferencia de edad y posición, y sobre todo de experiencia, no impide a Lucy aferrarse a una «promesa luminosa» que está convencida de que acabará haciéndose realidad… aunque para ello tenga que renunciar a Harry Gordon, el «gran hombre del Oeste» que ha sido su pretendiente desde los angeles infancia. «A algunas personas les afecta lo que sucede con su vida o con sus propiedades, mientras que para otras es el destino lo que se cruza en sus sentimientos y en sus pensamientos… el destino y nada más»: estas palabras condensan el clima de Lucy Gayheart (1935), una de las últimas novelas de Willa Cather. En ella sus grandes temas –la oposición entre valores rústicos y urbanos, l. a. tragedia que acecha a l. a. inocencia, el arte como conflictiva forma de elevación– se conjugan en una depurada historia de amor escrita con el sello de l. a. madurez.

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Before long, Ma Zhong, who had actually caught Guan Yu, came hustling his prisoner before him. “I had long admired you for your great virtue,” said Sun Quan to Guan Yu, “so I offered you an alliance through marriage. Why did you refuse? You always regarded yourself 61 invincible—how come you are my prisoner today? ” Guan Yu answered, cursing indignantly at his enemy: “You blue-eyed brat! You red-bearded rat! I pledged in the Peach Garden with my sworn brothers to uphold the Hans. Do you think I will ever associate with a rebel like you?

On his return to Lukou the messenger told his new commander that Guan Yu was very much pleased and would cease to worry about threats from them. Lu Xun, delighted with the result, at once sent out spies to gather more information on Guan Yu’s moves, and they returned to say that most of the troops in Jingzhou had been removed to assist in the siege of Fancheng, which was to be seriously assaulted as soon as Guan Yu recovered from his wound. This news was promptly sent on to Sun Quan, who at once called in Lu Meng to decide upon the next move.

The first order issued by Lu Meng was to spare the people. Instant death was to be the punishment for any murder or robbery. The various officials in the city were allowed to retain their offices and continue their work. Guan Yu’s family was put in safe accommodation without any danger of being assaulted by outsiders. A report was sent immediately to Sun Quan. One very wet day Lu Meng, with a few horsemen as escort, was going round the four gates of the city when he saw a soldier taking a local resident’s broad-brimmed hat and putting it over his armor to keep it dry.

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