Marianela. Benito Pérez Galdós

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      Published by Good Press, 2021

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Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I. GONE ASTRAY.

       CHAPTER II. GUIDED RIGHT.

       CHAPTER III. A DIALOGUE WHICH EXPLAINS MUCH.

       CHAPTER IV. STONY HEARTS.

       CHAPTER V. LABOR AND A LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES.

       CHAPTER VI. ABSURDITIES.

       CHAPTER VII. MORE ABSURDITIES.

       CHAPTER VIII. AND YET MORE.

       CHAPTER IX. THE BROTHERS GOLFIN.

       CHAPTER X. NOBODY'S CHILDREN.

       CHAPTER XI. THE PATRIARCH OF ALDEACORBA.

       CHAPTER XII. DOCTOR CELIPIN.

       CHAPTER XIII. BETWEEN TWO BASKETS.

       CHAPTER XIV. HOW THE VIRGIN MARY APPEARED TO NELA.

       CHAPTER XV. THE THREE CHILDREN.

       CHAPTER XVI. THE VOW.

       CHAPTER XVII. A FUGITIVE.

       CHAPTER XVIII. NELA DECIDES THAT SHE MUST GO.

       CHAPTER XIX. NELA IS TAMED.

       CHAPTER XX. A NEW WORLD.

       CHAPTER XXI. EYES THAT KILL.

       CHAPTER XXII. FAREWELL.

       ADVERTISEMENTS.

       GEORG EBERS' ROMANCES.

       GLORIA

       QUINTUS CLAUDIUS

       ASPASIA

       ANTINOUS

       ELIANE

       The Eleventh Commandment

       A Whimsical Wooing

       ERNESTINE

       THE HOUR WILL COME

       HIGHER THAN THE CHURCH

       RANTHORPE

       A PRACTICAL METHOD

CHAPTER I.

       GONE ASTRAY.

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      The sun had set. After the brief interval of twilight the night fell calm and dark, and in its gloomy bosom the last sounds of a sleepy world died gently away. The traveller went forward on his way, hastening his step as night came on; the path he followed was narrow and worn by the constant tread of men and beasts, and led gently up a hill on whose verdant slopes grew picturesque clumps of wild cherry trees, beeches and oaks.—The reader perceives that we are in the north of Spain.

      Our traveller was a man of middle age, strongly built, tall and broad-shouldered; his movements were brisk and resolute, his step firm, his manner somewhat rugged, his eye bold and bright; his pace was nimble, considering that he was decidedly stout, and he was—the reader may at once be told, though somewhat prematurely—as good a soul as you may meet with anywhere. He was dressed, as a man in easy circumstances should be dressed for a journey in spring weather, with one of those round shady hats, which, from their ugly shape, have been nicknamed mushrooms (hongo), a pair of field-glasses hanging to a strap, and a knotted stick which, when he did not use it to support his steps, served to push aside the brambles when they flung their thorny branches across so as to catch his dress.

      He presently stopped, and gazing round the dim horizon, he seemed СКАЧАТЬ