Don Rodriguez; Chronicles of Shadow Valley

“„It was a credulous age... as all ages are.””

— Lord Dunsany

“He approached the stranger and drew his sword. "Señor," he said, "we will now discuss music.””

— Lord Dunsany

“There are many men like this; they can form a plausible theory and grasp its logical points, but take it away from them and destroy it utterly before their eyes, and they will not so easily lash their tired brains at once to build another theory in place of the one that is ruined.””

— Lord Dunsany

“Rodriguez, in addition to the pleasant glow in the mind that comes from a generous action, had another feeling that gives all of us pleasure, a feeling of increased safety; for while he had the ring upon his finger and Morano went unpaid the thought could not help occurring, even to a generous mind, that one of these windy nights Morano might come for his wages.””

— Lord Dunsany

“He did not seem like a fallen angel now. His spell had stopped. He seemed like a professor who had forgotten the theme of his lecture, while the class waits. For Morano was holding up the sign of the cross. "You have betrayed me!" shouted the Slave of Orion. "Master," Morano said, "it was always good against magic.””

— Lord Dunsany

“Nothing is unobtainable to the sword.””

— Lord Dunsany

“Rodriguez seldom concerned himself with the past, holding that the future is all we can order the scheme of. And maybe even here he was wrong.””

— Lord Dunsany

“„If there be some harder, better way to salvation than to follow that which we believe to be good, then are we all damned.””

— Lord Dunsany