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Already the leading lady had made her last entry, decked in the richest costume of her wardrobe; her lover, absorbed by the noble bearing of that woman who, although a humble servant, knew, nevertheless, the pompous farthingale as if in all her life she had not worn any other style of skirt; blind with passion and trampling on the respect due his lineage, had approached her and, beside himself, seizing her hand, had offered her his.
This work, which has probably been the most widely read of all Spanish novels since Don Quijote, marked the transition from romanticism to present-day realism in Spanish literature, as Flaubert's Madame Bovary did in French letters ten years later.
The "Watermaid" belongs to the largest class of Lope's plays the class in which he excelled comedias de capa y espada. Ticknor erroneously classes it as a comedy "founded on common life" or as styled by others comedia de costumbres, but it is probable he did so without making himself thoroughly familiar with the comedy in its full form.
After this disappointment he enlisted as a volunteer against the Carlists, and was in the army when his play was finally produced. Its success was instantaneous and overwhelming, and enabled the author to leave the army and give all his time to his chosen occupation. Among his other works may be cited Simón Bocanegra, Venganza Catalana, and Juan Lorenzo.
Tuvo muy buen parecer, y fué tan celebrada, que en el tiempo que ella vivió, todos los copleros de España hacían cosas sobre ella. Padeció grandes trabajos recién casada, y aun después, porque malas lenguas daban en decir que mi padre metía el dos de bastos por sacar el as de oros.
Que nadie alardease de guapo dentro de su casa, pues antes de hablar ya había echado mano él á una porra que tenía bajo el mostrador, especie de as de bastos, al que le temblaban Pimentó y todos los valentones del contorno... En su casa, nada de reyertas. ¡A matarse, al camino!
Philip himself was weak and pleasure-loving, but has never been regarded as perverse, and Olivares was ambitious and longed to rule Spain as the great Cardinal was ruling France. To achieve this end he isolated the monarch from every possible rival and kept him occupied with all sorts of diversions.
¿Qué le dolerá más, sentir las espadas clavadas en el corazón o el arrancárselas? ¡Son siete, y no cabe mentir!... ¡Son siete, como las espadas de la Virgen!... Siete de espadas, te jugaré, Farruquiño, y también el as, la espadona de San Miguel... Todo lo guardas en la sepultura... Es mejor que el arca de Andreíña. DON FARRUQUI
PORDATA: Te doy las gracias por el dinero que me as regalado.
No hay duda dije yo, al notar, mientras estaba agachado, recogiendo el resto del paquete, que todas ellas, tanto por el anverso como por el reverso, tenían catorce o quince letras escritas, en tres columnas, todas, por cierto, enteramente ininteligibles. Las conté. Formaban un paquete de treinta y una cartas, faltando el as de copas, que habíamos encontrado antes.
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