资讯科技是羊剪毛在南加州的时间，但羊剪毛迟到的塞尼奥拉莫雷诺的。命运似乎已经把它结合了。首先，菲利普莫雷诺已经生病。他是塞尼奥拉的长子，由于父亲去世，他在他母亲的房子脑的。没有他，没有什么可以在农场工作的塞尼奥拉思想。它已经永远“，问问阅兵式费利佩”，“去阅兵式费利佩”，“阅兵式马萨将参加的，”自从马萨不得不胡子的曙光在他的英俊的脸。
    事实上，这不是马萨，但塞尼奥拉，谁真正决定一切的最大问题，至少，以及地方管理的一切，从羊的菊芋，补丁牧场，但她除了塞尼奥拉没有人知道这一点。一个每天为她代极其聪明的女人是塞尼奥拉冈萨加莫雷诺 - 为这个问题，极其聪明的任何一天和发电，但特别的一天，一代的她属于聪明。她的生活，它仅仅是表面的，如果它一直写，会作出一个爱情故事，冷热比增长：60年旧西班牙最好的，新西班牙的比斯开湾最疯狂，
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    IT was sheep-shearing time in Southern California, but sheep-shearing was late at the Senora Moreno's. The Fates had seemed to combine to put it off. In the first place, Felipe Moreno had been ill. He was the Senora's eldest son, and since his father's death had been at the head of his mother's house. Without him, nothing could be done on the ranch, the Senora thought. It had been always, "Ask Senor Felipe," "Go to Senor Felipe," "Senor Felipe will attend to it," ever since Felipe had had the dawning of a beard on his handsome face.
    In truth, it was not Felipe, but the Senora, who really decided all questions from greatest to least, and managed everything on the place, from the sheep-pastures to the artichoke-patch; but nobody except the Senora herself knew this. An exceedingly clever woman for her day and generation was Senora Gonzaga Moreno,-- as for that matter, exceedingly clever for any day and generation; but exceptionally clever for the day and generation to which she belonged. Her life, the mere surface of it, if it had been written, would have made a romance, to grow hot and cold over: sixty years of the best of old Spain, and the wildest of New Spain, Bay of Biscay,