 Concepcion could hear Juan's breathing. The sound vapored from the low doorway, calmly; the house seemed to be resting after a burdensome day. She breathed, too, very slowly and quietly, each inspiration saturating her with repose. The child's light,...  Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 237edited by - 1923Full view - About this book
 | Katherine Anne Porter - Fiction - 1979 - 508 pages
...she dreamed that the newly born child was her own, and she was resting deliciously. Maria Concepcion could hear Juan's breathing. The sound vapored from...light, faint breath was a mere shadowy moth of sound in the silver ail. The night, the earth under her, seemed to swell and recede together with a limitless,... | |
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