The Pearl

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Across
  1. 5. "And the baby was WEARY and_____, and HE CRIED SOFTLY UNTIL JUANA GAVE HIM HER BREAST..."
  2. 6. "...beauty of the pearl, WINKING AND GLIMMERING in the light of the little candle,_____his brain with its beauty."
  3. 8. "It captured the LIGHT and refined it and gave it back in silver_____."
  4. 11. "And when it was made plain who kino was, the doctor grew STERN and _____."
  5. 15. "...the little BROWN PENNIES he gave sparingly for_____."
  6. 16. "For any sound, a rolling pebble or a sigh, a little slip of flesh on rock, would rouse the watchers below. Any sound that was not_____to the night would make them alert."
  7. 17. "Go to their offices and show your pearl--or better let them come here, so that YOU CAN SEE there is no___."
  8. 19. "...and set them down as POVERTY people..."
  9. 20. "The town lay on a broad_____, its old yellow plastered buildings hugging the BEACH."
Down
  1. 1. "...a TALL flame leaped up in the dark with a crackling roar, and a Tall____of fire lighted the pathway."
  2. 2. "His BLANKET WAS OVER HIS NOSE TO PROTECT HIM FROM the____air."
  3. 3. "...while his RIGHT HAND practiced____. HE ROLLED A COIN BACK AND FORTH OVER HIS KNUCKLES AND MADE IT APPEAR AND DISAPPEAR, MADE IT SPIN AND SPARKLE."
  4. 4. "So important was this day that an old man came to see, RIDING ON THE___SHOULDER of his nephew."
  5. 7. "ABOVE, THE SURFACE OF THE WATER was an_____mirror of brightness..."
  6. 9. "For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in_____..."
  7. 10. "Kino STOOD IN THE DOOR, FILLING IT, and HATRED RAGED AND FLAMED IN BACK OF HIS EYES, and FEAR too, for the HUNDREDS OF YEARS of_____were CUT DEEP IN HIM."
  8. 12. "...now the EVIL MUSIC FILLED THE NIGHT, hung over the mangroves, _____in the wave beat."
  9. 13. "...to their right, the______MOON arose..."
  10. 14. "...a_____of little BIRDS chittered and flurried with their wings."
  11. 18. "This morning he had placed a FLOWER in a vase on his desk, a single scarlet_____..."