"I say then," continued Sancho, "that in a village of Estremadura there was a goat-shepherd -that is to say, one who tended goats- which shepherd or goatherd, as my story goes, was called Lope Ruiz, and this Lope Ruiz was in love with a shepherdess called Torralva, which shepherdess called Torralva was the daughter of a rich grazier, and this rich grazier-"
Torralva, when she found herself spurned by Lope, was immediately smitten with love for him, though she had never loved him before."
After some time of this the wolf started off at an easy lope in a manner that plainly showed he was going somewhere.
There he wandered for a week, seeking vainly for fresh sign of the wild brother, killing his meat as he travelled and travelling with the long, easy lope that seems never to tire.
He broke into the long easy lope, and went on, hour after hour, never at loss for the tangled way, heading straight home through strange country with a certitude of direction that put man and his magnetic needle to shame.
I read these and I read several comedies of
Lope de Vega, and numbers of archaic dramas in Moratin's history, and I really got a fairish perspective of the Spanish drama, which has now almost wholly faded from my mind.
The count and Simon galloped out of the wood and saw on their left a wolf which, softly swaying from side to side, was coming at a quiet
lope farther to the left to the very place where they were standing.
But when, one morning, the air was rent with the report of a rifle close at hand, and a bullet smashed against a tree trunk several inches from One Eye's head, they hesitated no more, but went off on a long, swinging
lope that put quick miles between them and the danger.
It had horns--ante-
lope horns, I think--on its head.
The horses broke into an easy
lope. Chris rock on the outside, looking down into the great depths and pleasuring with his eyes in what he saw.
In the fifth chapter,
Lopes seeks to answer a central question for African leaders, namely, what should be the nature of the transformative industrial policies for Africa?