But the most obvious of these privations were, perhaps, those which were most easily borne.

Women endure great calamities better than the little annoyances affecting those wants which are part and parcel of their sex or their caste.

It was not the necessaries so much as the luxuries of life which the Senora missed--the changes of raiment--the privacy--the quiet--the regularity of events.
During the whole of the 20th, there was almost a Sabbath stillness.

It was a warm, balmy day.

The wearied children were under the wagons and under the trees, sleeping the dead sleep of extreme exhaustion.