Dona Perfecta, Tr. by D.P.W (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...I fear it.' 'And this is going to be done by one man V said Ramos, with scorn, sitting down again. 'Don Pepe, indeed, with his mathematics, is going to do this I was wrong in saying I would cut his head off. A doll like that should be taken by the ear and thrown into the river.' 'Yes, you can laugh now, you beast It is not my nephew alone who is going to commit all these barbarities which you have mentioned, and which I fear. If it were himself alone, I should simply tell Librada to put him out of the door with a broom... and there would be an end of it... It is not hiin alone--no.' 'Then who is it?' 'Don't act the stupid. Don't you know that my nephew and the brigadier who commands this horrid troop have leagued together V 'Leagued together , exclaimed Caballuco, seeming as if he did not understand the phrase. 1 That they are bosom friends, said the Tio Licurgo; 'I will guarantee what the lady says., 'It all amounts to this, that the brigadier and the officers are hand-in-glove with Don Jose," and those that like him like these soldiers; and these soldiers will commit all sorts of attacks and barbarities, because it is their trade., 'And now we have no mayor to help us., 'Nor judge., 'Nor governor. That is to say that we are at the mercy of these infamous people., 'Yesterday, said Vejarruco, ' some soldiers hoaxed Tio Julian, s youngest daughter, and the poor child dare not go home. She was met, crying and barefooted, close to the old fountain, picking up the pieces of her broken pitcher., 'Poor Don Gregorio Palomeque, the notary of Naharilla Altai, said Frasquito Gonzalez. 'These scoundrels stole all his money; but when the brigadier was told, he said it was not true., 'Tyrants No greater tyrants were ever born , said the other....