Gabriel felt indignant at his brother's obstinacy.
"You will kill the child; what you are doing is unworthy of a father." "I cannot help it, brother; it is impossible for me to look at her.

It is sufficient for me to tolerate such things in the house.

Ay! if you could only tell how the people's looks wound me!" In reality the scandal produced by the return of Sagrario to the Claverias had been much less than he had feared.

She seemed so ill and so weary that none of the women felt any animosity against her, and the energetic protection of her Aunt Tomasa imposed respect.

Besides, those simple women of instinctive passions could not now feel towards her that hostile envy that her beauty and the cadet's courtship had formerly inspired.