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the fervent entreaty A todos los santos and its unreserved lament: No niego, dulce amparo del alma, que mis males son mayores que aqueste desamparo; mas cuanto son peores, tanto resonaran mas tus loores;
"Thereupon, entrance, ceremonies, bows on my part, smiles... toute la lyre. Don Calixto's wife is an insignificant fat woman; the two daughters insipid, ungainly, not at all pretty; and with them was a little girl of about fifteen or sixteen, a niece of Don Calixto's, a veritable little devil, named Amparo.
This Amparo is a tiny, flat-faced creature, with black eyes, and extraordinarily vivacious and mischievous. During dinner I succeeded in irritating the child. "I talked gravely with Don Calixto and his wife and daughters about Madrid, about the theatrical companies that come to this town, about their acquaintances at the Capital.
The two boys were joined by a machine shop apprentice who lived in the Corrala. "I saw him kill himself," said the apprentice. "We were all running after him, hollering, 'Catch him! Stop him! when two guards appeared on Amparo Street, drew their swords and blocked his way.
The names given at baptism are almost all hers. Dolores, Amparo, Pilar, Trinidad, Carmen, Concepcion, abbreviated into Concha, are, in full, Maria de Dolores, del Pilar, and so forth, and are found among men almost as much as among women.
He left the Viaduct balcony, sauntered through several narrow lanes, until he reached Toledo Street, walked down the Ronda and turned in toward his house. He was getting near the Paseo de las Acacias when he overheard two old women talking about a crime that had just been committed at the corner of Amparo Street.
Beneath, the little pollyfrog fairly glowed with bright apricot orange, throat and tail amparo purple, mouth green, and sides rich pale blue.
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