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El escapulario 1
| El escapulario ~ The Scapulary escrito por Fernán Caballero |
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| Ortografía original ~ Publicado en Nueva York, 1901 ~ [1]
Las letras bastardillas (italics) indican que la palabra ó frase está explicada en notas al final de la página. |
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Capítulo Primero
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Chapter First
A new era was opened for this tranquil and quiet village. This new era was to put an end to the quietness and solitude of the place, and make it pretty and symmetrical, but the village ceased to be so plain, rural and rustic as it was, and for that reason, it would no longer be so poetic, for those imaginations that find the poetry and picturesqueness of the country, in what is natural, plain and rustic.
"I said well," added one of the neighbors, who was young and was sewing, "I said that I would see a visitor, because for some time the cat has been washing her face. What good do you bring, Aunt Manuela?"
"Bring good!" she replied. "Why, good is what I come to look for because I cannot find it."
"Yes, my child, and what I regret is that I shall never be able to repay her for all she gives me. But if it were not for this, how could I meet the expense of my husband's illness ? Like old houses, whose roofs constantly leak, my John, already seventy, is always ailing. My poor daughter's three babies were naked, and my lady clothed them for me. May God reward her with glory. How much the rich do for us, and yet many do not know it and are ungrateful to them. I am not, for I well know what she deserves for all she does for me; and I say to her: "Ah! madam, no one knows the worth there above of a favor here below ! Thus it is that his Divine Majesty has ordained, that we shall all attain salvation, giving for this purpose to the rich, the path of holy charity, and to us, the poor, that of holy contentment."
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Notas ~ Notes
Chapter First.
Los sencillos moradores, the plain (simple) inhabitants.
Pueblo de Dos Hermanas (two sisters) town of Dos Hermanas (province of Seville, Southern Spain).
Camino de hierro, railroad.
Una nueva era se abría para esta tranquila y silenciosa aldea, a new era opened for this tranquil and quiet (silent) village.
Dejaba de ser tan sencillo, ceased to be so plain.
Para aquellas mentes que hallan, for those imaginations which find.
Sentadas en el patio, seated in the court-yard.
Faenas domésticas, domestic labors.
Anciana, old woman.
¡Dios guarde á ustedes! May God guard you!
Vecinas, neighbors.
Porque hace rato que el gato se está lavando la cara, because it is some time that the cat has been washing her face.
Tía Manuela, Aunt Manuela. In small towns especially, are generally called Tía Fulana (So and So) women of a certain age, who, by reason of their position, education and class, are not what otherwise are termed señoras, ladies. The same is the case with men of a certain age and of the same low class, who are called Tío Fulano.
Pues si lo bueno lo vengo á buscar porque no lo hallo, why, good is what I come to look for because I cannot find it.
Pero usted no se queje, but you cannot complain.
Ayuda para que siembre sus tierras, helps you so that you can till your pieces of land.
Como que casa vieja todas son goteras, as in all old houses are gutters (like all old houses which constantly leak).
En cuerecitos, (in their little skins) naked.
Y más de cuatro, (familiarly to express a proportion of many) and many people.
Dijo la dueña de la casa, said the mistress of the house.
Dios se lo pague, que aproveche, (general expression at table or to refuse an invitation to eat.) God repay you; may it profit you.
Las todas, (familiarly, all of them) twelve o'clock.
En dándole á uno las doce comiendo se alcanza bendición, if twelve o'clock strikes while one is eating, one will be blest.
En la guerra del moro (Moor), in the African war.
Más alegre que unas castañuelas, literally, more gay than castanets (very happy).
Pues qué (conditional and casual conjunction) since it is so.
Trillando la cebada, thrashing the barley.