the cult of Mary

As we have become resident, we are proscribed under the title of absentees: as we have grown poor, we are taunted with the immeasurability of our wealth.

In northwestern Kansu is the Supei (North Kansu) Mongol Autonomous Banner, with another migrating headquarters.]

She met Ned when he was looking anyway. . . . And he took to her, he liked her crooked straightness from the start.