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They say he is quite unmanageable to-day." And he ran on to open the staircase del Tenorio, which put the Claverias in communication with the lower cloister. The cadet was alarmed at the unexpected proximity of his uncle.
He went out into the cloister, and, resting his elbows on the balustrade, looked down into the garden. The Claverias seemed quite deserted.
He was the calmest; he promised to come every Sunday and to write every day, and at first he did so, but before long many weeks passed without his coming, and the postman came up less often to the Claverias, and at last did not come at all it was ended, the young lieutenant found other amusements in Madrid.
She only thinks of decking herself out so that the cadets may see her." "For mercy's sake, woman, they will hear you," begged some of the terrified women. But others scouted this fear. "Let Don Antolin and his niece hear them! What did it matter? The Claverias were tired of the rapacity of the uncle, and the magnificent airs that ugly woman gave herself!
Doubtless those who do see her are careful to say nothing for fear of paining us. But I will try and find out we will see, Gabriel we will think about her." "And the canons? and the cardinal? Will they not oppose the return of the poor girl to the Claverias?" "Bah!
Because they were poor they were not going to spend their lives trembling before that couple. God only knew what the uncle and niece did when they were alone in the house together!" A breath of rebellion had passed over that sleepy world. It was the unconscious influence of Gabriel. What he had said to his friends had been passed on to all the men in the Claverias, getting even to the women.
When he was getting well on in years his third son Gabriel was born, a child who from his fourth year attracted the attention of all the women in the Claverias; his mother affirmed with a blind faith that he was a living image of the Child Jesus that the Virgin of the Sagrario held in her arms.
Curiosity only disturbed the calm of the Claverias for about a week. Little by little the women ceased to stand about the Luna's door to watch Sagrario bending over her machine, and the girl quietly continued her sad and hard-working life. Gabriel seldom left the "habitacion."
Silver Stick with his love of authority was delighted to hold a priest and an equal under his thumb, so that those in the Claverias should see that he did not order about the small fry only. His delight Was to keep him whole hours standing in front of his door, obliged to listen and to pay attention to all his words.
It is sufficient for me to tolerate such things in the house. Ay! if you could only tell how the people's looks wound me!" In reality the scandal produced by the return of Sagrario to the Claverias had been much less than he had feared. She seemed so ill and so weary that none of the women felt any animosity against her, and the energetic protection of her Aunt Tomasa imposed respect.
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