THE WIDOW OF THE SANTA ANA VALLEY by BRET HARTE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 22 October 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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A small town in the often rainy Santa Ana Valley of California is brightened by the arrival of an investor who arranges a dance at the towns new hotel. he soon finds a friend in a female ranch owner and widow who becomes a victim of a swindler.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales this is your host John |
| 0:34.5 | Hagenhorn time for another story from one of my favorite writers Brett Hart |
| 0:38.8 | this one's called a widow of the Santa Ana Valley. And now a story. The widow Wade was standing |
| 0:49.7 | at her bedroom windows staring out in that vague instinct which compels humanity and moments of |
| 0:55.0 | doubt and perplexity to seek this change of observation or superior illumination. |
| 1:01.0 | Not that Mrs. Wade's disturbance was of serious character. |
| 1:04.0 | She had passed the acute stage of widowhood by at least two years, |
| 1:08.0 | and the slight redness of her soft eyelids, |
| 1:10.0 | as well as the droop of her pretty mouth, |
| 1:12.0 | were merely the recognized outward |
| 1:14.0 | and visible signs of the grievously minded religious community in which she |
| 1:18.0 | lived. The morning she still wore was also partly in conformity with the sad colored garments of her neighbors |
| 1:24.8 | and the necessities of the rainy season. She was in comfortable circumstances, |
| 1:30.3 | the mistress of a large ranch in the valley, which had lately become more valuable by the extension of a wagon road through its center. |
| 1:37.0 | She was simply worrying whether she should go to a sociable ending with a dance, a daring innovation of some strangers at the new hotel, or continue to |
| 1:47.0 | issue such follies that were, according to local belief, unsuited a veil of tears. Indeed at this moment the prospect she |
| 1:56.8 | gazed abstractedly upon seemed to justify that lugubrious description. |
| 2:00.8 | The Santa Ana Valley a long monotonous level, was dimly visible through |
| 2:06.4 | moving curtains of rain or veils of mist to the black morning edge of the |
| 2:10.5 | horizon and it looked like that for months. |
| 2:13.0 | The valley, in some remote epic and arm of the San Francisco Bay, |
| 2:17.0 | every rainy season seemed to be trying to revert to its original condition |
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