![]() ![]() Of the days and nights which compose it, only one night is of interest to me of the rest I shall not relate any more than what is indispensable to make that one night understandable. It is not my purpose to repeat his story. ![]() The son she bore was christened Tadeo Isidoro. Nobody knows what he dreamed, for on the next day, at four o’clock, the irregulars were routed by the cavalry under Suárez and the chase lasted for nine leagues, as far as the tall grass, where it was already dark, and the man perished in a ditch, his skull sliced open by a sabre from the Peruvian and Brazilian wars. Toward dawn, one of the men was victim of an obstinate nightmare in the depths of a shed’s darkness, his confused cry awoke the woman who was sleeping with him. ![]() On the sixth of February, 1829, the irregular troops beating their way north to join the divisions under command of López, already prey to harassment by Lavalle, made a halt at a hacienda, whose name was unknown to them, three or four leagues from the Pergamino. I-BIOGRAPHY OF TADEO ISIDORO CRUZ (1829-74) ![]()
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