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A wise woman, by which I do not mean in vulgar parlance one who pretends to prophecy, has a maxim to the same effect: Toma este aviso, she says, guardate de aquel que no tiene esperanza de bien! take care of him who hath no hope of good! Sir Thomas More. "Of whole heart cometh hope," says old Piers Plowman.
DON EDUARDO. No es que yo dude ... ¿ni cómo había de dudar ... cuando esta misma mañana ... allí ... delante de aquel cuadro de Atala moribunda, me prometió usted casarse conmigo y seguirme, aunque fuera al fin del mundo? sino que ... haciendo una hipótesis casi imposible, decía....
It is questionable, also, whether the visit of Martin Alonzo to Rome, was not after his mind had been heated by conversations with Columbus in the convent of La Rabida. The testimony of Arias Perez is so worded as to leave it in doubt whether the visit was not in the very year prior to the discovery: "fue el dicho su padre a Roma aquel dicho ano antes que fuese a descubrir."
Very well, thought I, tomorrow their suspicion will be less, and my opportunity will come; then taking up my rude instrument, I gave them an old Spanish song: Desde aquel doloroso momento; but this kind of music had lost its charm for them, and I was asked to give them the ballad they understood so well, in which their interest seemed to increase with every repetition.
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