“Don't thank me until you're married and living in a grand estate surrounded by exquisite gowns, jewelry, and servants.”

“Briefly, he'd tossed about the idea of standing guard outside her door, in case she had any grand designs on traipsing through the estate in the middle of the night in the hopes that he would be fast asleep.”

“A few years later, a man left his estate to whoever had the most babies in the decade after his death.”

“But there is one estanciero in Patagonia who is the father of two buxom daughters by a Tehuelche wife.”

“The next thing we knew she was giving us a lift into town, negotiating a hotel for us and finding an estancia, or ranch, that we could stay at.”

“At a remote estancia, you'll drink Argentinian Malbec wine and eat lamb roasted over an open pit.”

“Maria, a cook, has come to the estancia to give a hand to Hector for the party.”

“The housing waiting list was still far too long and he hoped to see more schools completed on the new housing estates.”

“It's mostly teenagers, but there's youngsters as young as four and five starting fires in the wastelands around the estates.”

“Industrial estates or undeveloped land are likely to be the most suitable sites.”