Making Inferences in Literary Texts: Mastery Test It is more important to Senor Don Jose to claim his land than to spend time with family.
Which sentence from the passage best supports this inference?
excerpt from A Journey in the Heart of Spain
from Dona Perfecta
by B. Perez Galdos
"We must follow this path now. The bridge is broken, and the river can only be forded at the Hill of the Lilies."
"The Hill of the Lilies," repeated the cavalier, emerging from his reverie. "How abundant beautiful names are in these unattractive localities
in this part of the country, the terrible irony of the names is a constant surprise to me."...
Senor Licurgo either did not hear the young man's words, or, hearing, he paid no attention to them. When they had forded the river, which
hurried on with impatient haste, as if fleeing from its own hands, the peasant painted with outstretched arm to some barren and extensive fie
the left, and said:
"Those are the Poplars of Bustamante."
"My lands!" exclaimed the traveler joyfully, gazing at the melancholy fields illumined by the early morning light
"It is the best land in the country," said Senor Licurgo, "and for the chick-pea, there is no other like it."
"I am delighted to hear it, for since they came into my possession these famous lands have never brought me a penny."
The wise legislator of Sparta scratched his ear and gave a sigh.
"But I have been told," continued the young man, "that some of the neighboring proprietors have put their ploughs in these estates of mine
are filching them from me. Here there are neither landmarks nor boundaries, nor real ownership, Senor Licurgo."
The peasant, after a pause, during which his subtle intellect seemed to be occupied in profound disquisitions, expressed himself as follows:
"Uncle Paso Largo, whom, for his great foresight, we call the Philosopher, set his plough in the Poplars, above the hermitage, and hit hu hit
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