The Cabin [La barraca]

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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. The Cabin [La barraca]

The Cabin [La barraca]

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INTRODUCTION

THE CABIN

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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Published by Good Press, 2021

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If anything were seen to flutter over the broken roof of straw, it was certain to be of funereal plumage with black and treacherous wings, which as they stirred, cast silence over the joyful flappings and playful twitterings in the trees, leaving the huerta deathly still, as though no sparrows chirped within a half-league roundabout.

Pepeta was about to continue on her way toward her farm-house, which peered whitely among the trees some distance across the fields; but she had to stand still at the steep edge of the highroad in order to permit the passing of a loaded wagon, which seemed to be coming from the city, and which advanced with violent lurches.

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