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round, gave it a cut with her riding-whip, and darted away
down the broad road in a rolling cloud of dust.

“再见。”他一面回答，一面举起他那顶墨西哥式的阔檐帽，低下

头去，吻了一下她的小手。她掉转马头，扬鞭打马，在滚滚烟尘之

中，沿着大道飞驰而去。

Young Jefferson Hope rode on with his companions,
gloomy and taciturn. He and they had been among the

Nevada Mountains prospecting for silver, and were returning
to Salt Lake City in the hope of raising capital enough to
work some lodes which they had discovered. He had been
as keen as any of them upon the business until this sudden
incident had drawn his thoughts into another channel. The

sight of the fair young girl, as frank and wholesome as the
Sierra breezes, had stirred his volcanic, untamed heart to its
very depths. When she had vanished from his sight, he

realized that a crisis had come in his life, and that neither
silver speculations nor any other questions could ever be of
such importance to him as this new and all-absorbing one.
The love which had sprung up in his heart was not the
sudden, changeable fancy of a boy, but rather the wild,

fierce passion of a man of strong will and imperious temper.
He had been accustomed to succeed in all that he
undertook. He swore in his heart that he would not fail in

this if human effort and human perseverance could render
him successful.

小杰菲逊·霍普和他的伙伴们骑着马继续前进，他变得心情抑郁，

寡言少语。他和其他人一直在内华达山脉中寻找银矿，现在正要返回
盐湖城去，希望筹集一笔足够的资金，来开采他们所发现的那些矿

藏。以前，对于这种事业，他一向和他的伙伴一样非常热衷，但现
在，这件意外的遭遇将他的思想引上了另一条道路。这个美丽的少女

就像山上的微风那样清新、纯洁，深深触动了他那颗火山般奔放不羁
的心。在她的身影从他的视线中消失后，他感觉到他的生命到了一个

紧要关头，银矿也好，其他任何问题也罢，对他来说，都不如这件刚