[Green Mansions by W. H. Hudson]@TWC D-Link bookGreen Mansions CHAPTER XIII 4/15
How tell you ?" "I understand you when you speak in Spanish." "Oh, that is not speaking." "Last night you spoke to your mother in Spanish.
Did you not tell her everything ?" "Oh no--not then.
When I tell her everything I speak in another way, in a low voice--not on my knees and praying.
At night, and in the woods, and when I am alone I tell her.
But perhaps she does not hear me; she is not here, but up there--so far! She never answers, but when I speak to my people they will answer me." Then she turned away as if there was nothing more to be said. "Is this all I am to hear from you, Rima--these few words ?" I exclaimed. "So much did you say to your grandfather, so much to your dead mother, but to me you say so little!" She turned again, and with eyes cast down replied: "He deceived me--I had to tell him that, and then to pray to mother. But to you that do not understand, what can I say? Only that you are not like him and all those that I knew at Voa.
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