He offered Partitio a chance to join him, but the boy refused, saying his place was with the town and its people. This disappointed Roque, who left town immediately after. Soon after Roque's departure, the former land owner took back the land due to a contract loophole and levied a ...
She had refused to marry the future husband appointed by her domineering father: a snobbish, ambitious young lawyer fresh from Harvard. She of course had attended Smith College and had been slated for a journalism career in the fashion magazine industry. Rebellious in spirit since she was a ...