gold-mining Quotes

″‘Don’t be sillier than you were born,’ said Inez with patient scorn. ‘Enoque and Honorio are garimpeiros. They’re gold-miners. It’s all they know about. They don’t have a brain between them to do anything else.’ ‘Then they’re mining for gold!’

“But even Inez could not discount the obvious. Enoque and Honorio were digging for gold outside the shop.”