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Updated: June 20, 2025
The commercial traveler was still relating everywhere his version of the event, concluding it now with his melodramatic meeting with the father, the latter's fatal fall on receiving the news, and desperation upon recovering consciousness. The first mate had hastened to present himself at his captain's home. All the Blanes were there, surrounding Cinta and trying to console her.
When Don Pedro returned, the house recovered its normality of a quiet and well-regulated clock. Doña Cinta, after many consultations, had come to believe his collaboration indispensable.
Suddenly a window-shutter would seem to swing open in his imagination, and, passing by this luminous square, he would see the melancholy Cinta, his son Esteban, the bridge of his vessel and Toni at the helm. "Forget!" cried the voice of his evil counselor, blotting out the vision. "Enjoy the present!... There is plenty of time to go in search of them."
Upon his return to Barcelona, Ferragut frequently found him installed in his home, in mute hostility to Doña Cristina, devoting to Cinta and her son a part of the affection that he had formerly lavished upon Ulysses alone. He was very desirous that the little Esteban should know the home of his great grandparents.
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