Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 26, 2025
It would be a greater misfortune if there were lawsuits enough for all of them." "Pepe, for Heaven's sake, take care what you say," said Dona Perfecta, in a tone of marked severity. "But excuse him, Senor Don Inocencio, for he is not aware that you have a nephew who, although he has only lately left the university, is a prodigy in the law." "I speak in general terms," said Pepe, with firmness.
The girl loves him, the girl I will say no more. It cannot be; I tell you that it cannot be." "The army! But do you believe, like Dona Perfecta, that there is going to be a war, and that to drive Don Pepe from the town it will be necessary for one half of the nation to rise up against the other half? The senora has lost her senses, and you are in a fair way to lose yours." "I believe as she does.
And bursting into a boisterous laugh, he walked up and down the room several times, attentively observed by every one; then, stopping beside the group, he looked fixedly at Dona Perfecta and thundered forth these words: "I say that there is nothing more to be said. Long live Orbajosa! death to Madrid!" And he brought his hand down on the table with such violence that the floor shook.
His honor was engaged, and he had no alternative but to defend his rights to the death. Dona Perfecta had promised in her magnanimity to help him to free himself from these disgraceful plots by means of an amicable arrangement; but the days passed, and the good offices of the exemplary lady had produced no result whatever. The claims multiplied with the dangerous swiftness of a violent disease.
It is like begging the question to say that I do not call it a novel, however; but really, is it a novel, in the sense that 'War and Peace' is a novel, or 'Madame Flaubert', or 'L'Assommoir', or 'Phineas Finn', or 'Dona Perfecta', or 'Esther Waters', or 'Marta y Maria', or 'The Return of the Native', or 'Virgin Soil', or 'David Grieve'? In a certain way it is greater than any of these except the first; but its chief virtue, or its prime virtue, is in its address to the conscience, and not its address to the taste; to the ethical sense, not the aesthetical sense.
"As far as my advising Senor Ramos to take the field is concerned," said Don Inocencio, looking over his spectacles, "Dona Perfecta is quite right. I, as an ecclesiastic, could advise nothing of the kind. I know that some priests do so, and even themselves take up arms; but that seems to me improper, very improper, and I for one will not follow their example.
Let us see what he thinks of those young pear-trees that they are going to transplant." "Come, come!" called Rosarito to her cousin impatiently from the garden. Both disappeared among the foliage. Dona Perfecta watched them until they were out of sight and then busied herself with the parrot. As she changed its food she said to herself with a contemplative air: "How different he is!
Very great, as far as my courage is concerned; but have I fortresses, have I cavalry, have I artillery?" "That is a thing, Ramos," said Dona Perfecta, smiling, "about which I would not concern myself. Has not the enemy what you lack?" "Yes." "Take it from him, then." "We will take it from him, yes, senora. When I say that we will take it from him "
"Orbajosa, my dear aunt, has little else than garlic and bandits; for those who in the name of some political or religious idea set out in search of adventures every four or five years are nothing but bandits." "Thanks, thanks, my dear nephew!" said Dona Perfecta, turning pale. "So Orbajosa has nothing more than that?
"Yes, but you are the cause of it you!" "Because in the matter of Rosario and Jacinto I say to you, resignation?" "Because when every thing is going on well you turn back and allow Senor de Rey to get possession of Rosario." "And how am I going to prevent it? Dona Perfecta is right in saying that you have an understanding of brick.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking