Excerpt from Beckoning Roads
Certainly the story of Marquita Shay did not begin with her own birth, 'which chanced to occur in Madrid; nor with the death of her parents, Which took place in the little frontier settlement then called Edwardstown, in Alberta, before she was five years old; nor with her subsequent removal to the wheat ranch of her guardian John Gratiot. The things that produced Marquita Shay went far back beyond her adventuring Irish father and her convent-bred Span ish mother. These two were a part of her, but they were no more a part of her than the oceans of waving wheat that she had watched turn from green to yellow for twelve successive seasons - no more a part of her than the ever-shifting crew of motley men who worked on the ranch from year to year, and from whom she absorbed strange views of life.
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Certainly the story of Marquita Shay did not begin with her own birth, 'which chanced to occur in Madrid; nor with the death of her parents, Which took place in the little frontier settlement then called Edwardstown, in Alberta, before she was five years old; nor with her subsequent removal to the wheat ranch of her guardian John Gratiot. The things that produced Marquita Shay went far back beyond her adventuring Irish father and her convent-bred Span ish mother. These two were a part of her, but they were no more a part of her than the oceans of waving wheat that she had watched turn from green to yellow for twelve successive seasons - no more a part of her than the ever-shifting crew of motley men who worked on the ranch from year to year, and from whom she absorbed strange views of life.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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