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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Desnoyers

Desnoyers soon married Luisa, Madariaga's elder daughter, while a young German, Karl Hartrott, a recent arrival at the ranch, married Elena, her younger sister. Seated under the awning on summer nights, the ranchman surveyed his family around him with a sort of patriarchal ecstasy. "Just think of it, Frenchy," he said, "I am Spanish; you, French; Karl, German; my daughters, Argentinians; the cook, Russian; his assistant, Greek; the stable boy, English; the kitchen servants, natives, Galicians, or Italians; and among the peons are many castes and laws...And yet all live in peace. In Europe, we would have probably been in a grand fight by this time, but here we are all friends."