Letters on Paraguay, Vol. 1 of 2 Quotes

“The sun set in great splendour, and the moon rose in equal brightness. The dark blue firmament was studded with stars: at a given signal the whole house was lit; the orange-grove appeared in a blaze;”
― John Parish Robertson, Letters on Paraguay: comprising an account of a four years' residence in that republic, under the government of the dictator Francia Volume 1