Marianela

The room which had been assigned to Florentina at Aldeacorba was the pleasantest in the house. No one had used it since the death of Pablo’s mother; but Don Francisco, deeming h...

Strange and wonderful to tell! Nela, who had never in her life had a room, nor clothes, nor shoes, nor food, nor sympathy, nor relations, nor any earthly thing of her own, not e...

They walked on a short distance without speaking. Teodoro Golfin, for all his learning, wisdom, and eloquence, felt as ignorant and as helpless as Nela, and less disposed for sp...

Teodoro Golfin did not waste his time at Socartes. The first day after his arrival he spent several hours in his brother’s laboratory, and during the following days he went from...

Retracing her steps and jumping over the obstacles in her path, Nela made her way to a house on the left of the machine-sheds, and close to the stables where the sixty mules bel...

“Yes, Señor, born blind,” replied the lad, with perfect simplicity. “I only know the world by fancy, feeling and hearing. I have learned to understand that the most wonderful po...

When Teodoro Golfin first removed the bandage for a few moments from Pablo Penáguilas’ eyes, the boy uttered a cry of terror. Every impulse made him shrink from all he saw; he p...

The following day Pablo and his guide set out at the same hour; but, as the sky was overcast and a disagreeable breeze was blowing which threatened to become a south-westerly ga...

The thoughts which fade and fly as sleep overcomes us, very commonly lurk in some hole or corner ready to take us by storm again as soon as we wake. Thus it was that Mariquilla,...

“The cows are just being milked,” he began, without wishing them good-evening. “I thought you would all like some milk. I hope to see you well, Señora Sofía--and you Don Teodoro...

The wonderful good news flew through Socartes. Nothing else was talked of in the smelting-houses, in the workshops, in the washing-mills, on the tram-way, in the deepest digging...

By this time they were rested, and they went on till they reached the beginning of the grove beyond Saldeoro. Here they turned off into a clump of ancient walnut trees, of which...

The smoke of the furnaces, which all night through were wide awake and panting out their hot, hoarse breath, caught a silvery gleam as its wreaths rolled into the distance; the...

The night was so still, that no precautions were needed in striking the light to guard it from the wind, and when the doctor had lighted his cigar he held the wax match in front...

Pablo and Marianela went out into the country, preceded by Choto, who ran on and danced round them, leaping with delight, and sharing his caresses with great impartiality betwee...

The sun had set. After the brief interval of twilight the night fell calm and dark, and in its gloomy bosom the last sounds of a sleepy world died gently away. The traveller wen...

The town-bred damsel thoroughly enjoyed the open and smiling meadows without the trammels of her father’s social dogmas, and as soon as they were at some little distance from th...

Nela wandered about alone all day, and at night she prowled round the house at Aldeacorba, creeping as near to it as she dared without running the risk of being discovered; when...

That worthy, Señor Centeno, having refreshed his mind with the dull columns of his newspaper, and ‘Señana,’ his wife, after enjoying the more intoxicating delights of counting a...

Nela had shut herself into her baskets to be alone; we will follow her, however, and look in upon her thoughts. But first we must give a little more of her history.

“There you see a man ready for anything and everything, my dear Sofía,” said Teodoro. “It is the result of our education, is it not, Cárlos? of having had no coddling in our chi...

Nothing of importance occurred on the two following days, but then there came one on which the deed was done, the wonderful, crowning, fateful deed. Teodoro Golfin, in whose han...