The poet Labarta would look after her properties that were not so valuable nor numerous as the income of the notary had led them to suppose.

Don Esteban had suffered great losses in extravagant business speculations good-naturedly accepted, but there was still left a fortune sufficient to enable his wife to live as an independent widow among her relatives in Barcelona.
In arranging her new existence, the poor lady encountered no opposition except the rebelliousness of Ulysses.

He refused to continue his college course and he wished to go to sea, saying that for that reason he had studied to become a pilot.

In vain Dona Cristina entreated the aid of relatives and friends, excluding the _Triton_, whose response she could easily guess.

The rich brother from Barcelona was brief and affirmative, "But wouldn't that bring him in the money ?"...