📔 Against the Day

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Ruperta tonight was in a narrow black bengaline costume with a Medici collar and cuffs of bastard chinchilla. She was in pale violet peau de soie, and a hat so beguiling that Kit was only momentarily surprised to find himself with an erection. There's parts of Mexico they'd take you straight to the hoosegow for just whistlin that. through black fields, where tlachiqueros brought sheepskins slung across their backs full of fresh maguey juice to be fermented, and campesinos in white lined the right-of-way Not to mention the need to keep her manteau from becoming a sort of anti-parachute which sought to lift her free of the pavement. the coming of the snows is no longer the year's curse but its promise, awaited eagerly for its influx of moneyed seekers after wintertime recreation, when the shining strands of telpherage have subdued every mountainside, and all is festival and wholesome sport and eugenically chosen stock A railroad right-of-way, straight across the Balkan Peninsula, conceded in Cyrillic and Arabic script all woven in and out of the loveliest green guilloche by the no-longer-quite-unabsorbed entity of East Roumelia.