s-o-o-o-n

Updated: June 7, 2025

She no longer wept: her child's death had made her ferocious she wished to bite or to dash her skull against the wall. "Ay! my s-o-o-o-n! my Antonio!" At night Sagrario and the other women remained in the house to look after her. In her desperation she wished to make some one responsible for her misfortune, and she fixed on those highest in the cloister.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - The Shadow of the Cathedral