Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.

I've nothing against money, except when I don't have it. But artists make things and things enter the turbulent economic moneyscape.

He doesn't read Greek, but he took up the gauntlet and did his best to understand the letter, anyway.

a heelless shoe with a flat sole