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Updated: May 21, 2025
"I'm of the same opinion, and think that you've done well not to let Señor Ibarra see her. She would have got worse. "If it wasn't for us," put in Doña Victorina, "Clarita would already be in heaven singing praises to God." "Amen!" Capitan Tiago thought it his duty to exclaim.
The bashful Linares was anxious and ill at ease. He had just received from Doña Victorina a letter which ran thus: DEER COZIN within 3 days i expec to here from you if the alferes has killed you or you him i dont want anuther day to pass befour that broot has his punishment if that tim passes an you havent challenjed him ill tel don santiago you was never segretary nor joked with canobas nor went on a spree with the general don arseño martinez ill tel clarita its all a humbug an ill not give you a sent more if you challenje him i promis all you want so lets see you challenje him i warn you there must be no excuses nor delays yore cozin who loves you
"Cheer up, Clarita!" said Doña Victorina, going up to her. "We've come to cure you. I want to introduce our cousin." Linares was so absorbed in the contemplation of those eloquent eyes, which seemed to be searching for some one, that he did not hear Doña Victorina name him. "Señor Linares," said the curate, calling him out of his abstraction, "here comes Padre Damaso."
"Yez, Clarita, but the time of the miracles is pazt. We Zpaniards zay: 'Truzt in the Virgin and take to your heels." "T-the other w-way!" Capitan Tiago, who had up to this point had no chance to speak, now made bold enough to ask, while he threw himself into an attitude of strict attention, "So you, Doña Victorina, think that the Virgin "
If he doesn't, don't let him marry your daughter, don't you permit it! If he hasn't any courage, he doesn't deserve Clarita!" "So you're going to marry this gentleman?" asked Sinang, but her merry eyes filled with tears. "I knew that you were prudent but not that you were fickle." Pale as wax, Maria Clara partly rose and stared with frightened eyes at her father, at Doña Victorina, at Linares.
If this length of time passes and still you have not challenged him, I will tell Don Santiago that you never were secretary and that you never joked with Canovas or with General Martinez. I will tell Clarita that it is all a lie and I will not give you another cuarto. If you challenge him, I promise you all that you wish. If you do not challenge him, I will accept no excuses or reasons.
"We came to visit you. You have been saved by the efforts of your friends," looking significantly at Linares. "God has protected my father," said the girl, in a low voice. "Yes, Clarita, but the time for miracles has passed long ago. As we Spaniards say: 'Have no trust in the Virgin and save yourself by running." "The th the ot ot other way," said the doctor, correcting her proverbial quotation.
Maria Clara, pale as wax, raising herself half up, looked at her father with frightened eyes, and then at Doña Victorina and Linares. The latter turned red in the face, Captain Tiago looked down, and the señora added: "Clarita, bear it in mind, and never marry a man who does not wear trousers. You expose yourself to insults like a dog, if you do."
"If you had come two days ago, Doña Victorina," put in Capitan Tiago during a slight pause, "you would have met his Excellency, the Captain-General. He sat right there." "What! How's that? His Excellency here! In your house? No!" "I tell you that he sat right there. If you had only come two days ago " "Ah, what a pity that Clarita did not get sick sooner!" she exclaimed with real feeling.
The latter blushed, Capitan Tiago dropped his eyes, while the señora went on: "Clarita, bear this in mind: never marry a man that doesn't wear trousers. You expose yourself to insults, even from the dogs!" The girl did not answer her, but turned to her friends and said, "Help me to my room, I can't walk alone."
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