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Title: Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922
Subjects: South America -- Description and travel Amazon River -- Description and travel Peru -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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on Mr. Herbert Smithalso gives in his Brazil, the Amazons, and the Coast. I swung in my drowsy hammock,And wooed the forest boughs,But they answered low There s pain and woeIn the lovers foolish vows. Little fish in the deep, dark pool.Fickle sand of the sea,How can I ever love you alone,Since you will not alone love me ? What if I drift away, away,Alone on the ocean swell ;What if I die with no one nighOf the friends wlio love mc well ? Yet I have the sun for my lover true,\The moon for my lady bright, —The sun to walk with alone all day,The moon in the silent night. After retiring, )\Iaud lay awake a long time trying to analyze herdistrust for the Senhor. Ever3one else seemed fascinated with him,why should she perversely refuse her good opinion. In the firstplace, he was fastidious, a creature almost Too fine and goodI^or human natures daily food. He had a habit of fault-finding with his servants, which seemed toindicate a petty, dictatorial nature, and to hint that his obsequious
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A JI ALT IN Tlin KOKKST. A J.IGLAR JIUXT. T37 politeness was only a thin veneer over a great selfishness. Ah I therewas the word. She had found the keynote of his eharacter, — theSenhor was supremely and unserupulousl) selfish. She felt that hewould hesitate at almost no step which would advance his personalcomfort or anibiLion. This was told b)- a hundred little things, by aword let drop now and then, by a mere shrug of the shoulders, or athoughtless act. The man was bound up in self If he had treatedthem kindly Maud was sure it was only because he had some interestat stake, and that interest was evidenth Victoria. If he reallyloved her, Maud thought, that would be something to respect himlor; but I do not believe he is capable of true love. If a jaguarwere to spring at her he would run away, and leave her to her fate. At this point in Mauds reverie Victoria arose, and, parting the tentcurtains, looked out. She returned a moment later, and, seeing thatMaud was awake, spoke. It is a

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