"In the lacy texture of the every deepening shadows appeared the dim and faintly outlined signs of a tiny hamlet, a very poor one, judging from the evidence on the outskires. Mariflor was suddenly overcome by a sensation of dismay, a heart-sinking in which fear and sorrow mingled with unexplainable poignancy; that brusque plunge into a strange town, into an unfamiliar house, among persons she had never seen before, definitively breaking all the ties of her former life, chilled and terrified the girl."

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