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Updated: July 4, 2025
The two pairs of hands were united in a close clasp. The hall was long and broad. At one end of it was the door of the room occupied by the engineer, in the centre that of the dining-room, and at the other end were the staircase and a large closed door reached by a step. This door opened into a chapel in which the Polentinos performed their domestic devotions.
Shutters opened with a grating sound and various faces, almost all feminine, appeared above and below. By the time Pepe Rey had reached the threshold of the house of Polentinos many and diverse comments had been already made on his person.
A thread shows what the ball is, as the saying goes; a sample tells what the cloth is, and a claw what the lion is." "Let no one speak ill of that unhappy young man in my presence," said Senora de Polentinos severely. "No matter how great his faults may be, charity forbids our speaking of them and giving them publicity."
A few moments later the daughter of Dona Perfecta Polentinos gave her cousin, amid happy tears, a tender glance followed by these words: "I loved you before I had ever seen you." Placing her hands in those of the young man she rose to her feet, and their forms disappeared among the leafy branches of an oleander walk.
Suddenly Don Cayetano Polentinos, Dona Perfecta's brother-in-law, appeared at the door, and entering the room with outstretched arms, cried: "Let me embrace you, my dear Don Jose." They embraced each other cordially.
In addition to this, the native town of Polentinos, as a city remote from the movement and stir brought with them by traffic, the newspapers, railroads, and other agents which it is unnecessary now to specify, did not wish to be disturbed in its tranquil existence.
His sole heir was a daughter a few months old. With the death of Perfecta's husband the terrors of the family were at an end, but the great struggle began. The house of Polentinos was ruined; the estates were in danger of being seized by the money-lenders; all was in confusion: enormous debts, lamentable management in Orbajosa, discredit and ruin in Madrid.
The engineer, seeing that he could obtain nothing from the good Polentinos, rose to retire. "You are going to work," he said, "and I will not trouble you any longer." "No, there is time enough. See the amount of precious information that I collected to-day.
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