John Brent (Western Novel). Theodore Winthrop
John Brent (Western Novel)
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Автор произведения: Theodore Winthrop
Жанр: Языкознание
Издательство: Bookwire
isbn: 4066338115690
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"A few years ago I was working a gold-quartz mine in California. It was a worthless mine, under the conditions of that time. I had been dragged into it by the shifts and needs of California life. Destiny probably meant to teach me patience and self-possession in difficulty. So Destiny thrust me into a bitter bad business of quartz mining. If I had had countless dollars of capital to work my mine, or quicksilver for amalgamation as near and plenty as the snow on the Sierra Nevada, I might have done well enough...."