And the doctor might have fulfilled her wishes had not a good soul informed him that in later hours of the night, others were accustomed to come in turns to hear her romantic solos....

Ah, these women! and then, on recalling the finale of his trans-oceanic idyl, Ferragut would become reconciled to his celibacy.
Late in the Fall the notary had to go in person to the _Marina_ to make his brother give Ulysses up.

The boy held the same opinion as did his uncle.

The very idea of losing the winter fishing, the cold sunny morning, the spectacle of the great tempests, just for the silly reason that the Institute had commenced, and he must study for his bachelor's degree!...
The following year Dona Cristina tried to prevent the _Triton's_ carrying off her son, since he could learn nothing but bad words and boastful bullying in the old home of the Ferraguts.

And trumping up the necessity of seeing her own family, she left the notary alone in Valencia, going with her boy to spend the summer on the coast of Catalunia near the French frontier.
This was Ulysses' first important journey.