Gordon Young

Name: Days of '49 — Chapter 9
Author: Gordon Young

Days of '49 — Chapter 9 (1925)

Summary

“Days of '49 — Chapter 9”, published in 1925, is a work by Gordon Young. It explores elements such as Kredra, Ilona and Mateo.

Quotes from Days of '49 — Chapter 9 (Gordon Young)

Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 9 (1925)

“ Ilona pushed off the covers with a flurry of movement and sat up. Her hair fell about her in a tangle of caresses, her eyes glowed with alarm.
"Why? Kredra, why does my father send at this hour! It is night!"
"When God has done a thing, one should not lie," said Kredra, adding simply, "He dies."
"He dies?" Ilona cried, merely blankly repeating the words she could not believe. "My father—dies? Kredra, oh, waken me! I dream that you say—Kredra, O Kredra, who—who would hurt my father? ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 9 (1925)

“ There were horses in the corral, but the one called Prince, because Ferdinand loved him well, was feeding abroad with hair woven hobbles on his forelegs that he might be fat and happy for Ilona to ride about the ranch. And though a horse with hobbles cannot go far, he can go too far to be searched out in the moonlight when men hurry for mounts.
Ilona and Kredra waited near the moon-cast shadow of El Crucifijo itself, and Ilona stood by young John Taylor, and looked at Hales with all the reproachfulness that he had dreaded. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 9 (1925)

“ Ilona jumped from her horse at the foot of the stairs that led up to the balcony, and ran up them. She threw the door wide and with a rush entered.
No one was there. Only the dead waited for its own. There was scattered colored glass on the floor, cigar stubs and ash, a basin with wet red cloths hanging over the side was on the table; a lamp, nearly without oil, glowed dimly. From the Magnolia below came the hum of voices; men played, gambling and drinking. No one had kept company with the lonely dead. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 9 (1925)

“ Ferdinand had wasted his good lie with which he had meant to keep unwelcome friends, who might want to pause and rest, on their way.
"Where is Miss Tesla?" Hales demanded.
"Who are you, señor? An' why is it you ask for her?"
"Mr. Tesla has been shot and is dying."
"Eh, señor!" Ferdinand peered up searchingly. "E-ah! I beleeve you, señor, but say to me it is not so! In God's name, lie to me, señor! He dies?"
"He is dying and wants his daughter. This man"—Hales gestured at Mateo—"showed the way. This boy"—"he indicated Taylor—"is a friend she knows. There is no time to lose." ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 9 (1925)

“ These two strange people of a strange blood that had emerged from the racially unknown thousands of years before, of a people that, defeated but never conquered, had for generation upon generation hugged the birth-soil of the Pyrenees, were touched with elemental fears and faiths almost as ancient as the Aryan camp-fires from which the races of the world took their departure before history found a tongue. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 9 (1925)

“ She drew her finger across her temple from the tip of eyebrow to hair. "I now know. He is the man!" she repeated with the calmness of one who is sure of her knowledge, and her deep black eyes were set in the far-off stare of a seer who looks upon what is hidden. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 9 (1925)

“ Ferdinand gestured to Kredra when the Colonel had walked away, and Kredra came. He whispered low:
"I know the name of a man. I will go ask questions till I find him. I will say to him, 'Did you?' As he looks then, I can tell. If you do not see me again here, know that the Oath is done and I have gone back to the rancho and wait."
"Who?"
"One gambler man, Dawez."
Kredra caught his arm, and the pressure of her fingers almost bruised his powerful muscles.
"It is the man! Woe upon me that I saw death in his face! I saw, but I could not read! Evil-faced one! ”

[↩︎]

Source: Wikisource

Gordon Young, Days of '49 — Chapter 9 (1925)

“ CHAPTER IX 1 Hales, Mateo, and young John Taylor rode hard. Mateo, like all native Californians, men or women, sat a horse as if he had grown to the saddle. Most Californians did get a large part of their growth out of the saddle, which they used nearly as much as they used a bed.
As Mateo rode he chattered with a kind of gossipy merriment to Hales, for Mateo knew all about all the old Spanish families in that part of the country. El Crucifijo, he said, did not belong to the man Cowden; it belonged to Gaspar de Coronal, whose daughter Señor Cowden had married. ”

Gordon Young

Summary

Quotes from Days of '49 — Chapter 9 (Gordon Young)

Common terms

Similar works

Get perspective with Kwize: daily news enlightened by great literature