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such as themes on Love of Country, Character and Industry, laying emphasis in that if they can not better their conditions now, they must let their children do it as they are to be the men and women of a brilliantly promising future. And this was done while sitting together around a fire or resting under the shade of a tree or in front of the big cottage.
Hand in hand they went home, Camilo talking of his field work, and Lucio talking of his love. Each agreed with the other and so they reached home satisfied that each was all right where he was, in line with his own thoughts.
That night just before Lucio slept, he was reminded again of the coming day's adventure which he pictured, while his romantic mind roved on bed, how it should come out. In his imagination, he saw there in the folds of the dewy morn the angelic form of Rosa-bathed with the fragrant atmosphere of the bright. April morning and standing on soft verdant grass, and surrounded by the beauties of nature and listening to the merry tunes of the birds and the murmuring sounds of the streams. He beheld her reigning supreme in his wild Elysian dreams.
He saw her walk in beauty and breathe with love. His flight of imagination was filled with the wealth of nature's lavish gifts on her. He thought in brief of her as the most beautiful, the fairest woman on earth, for in sooth she was the belle of that town, loving in soul and noble in manners. In the intoxication of his
