Sotileza (Spanish Edition)

Sotileza (Spanish Edition) by Jose Maria De Pereda (Paperback, 2017)

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Well, the upshot of it was, that since nobody would come and speak to you for me, I had to come and speak to you myself, and—and—now I'm doing it. It was no news to Sotileza that Cleto was in love with her; for she had read it clearly in all his looks and actions for some time past. She was not surprised, therefore, at his avowal; but she was surprised, and not a little, that he should have mustered the courage to make it.

Looking at him with her serene gaze, she said to him: I wish to be a man like another; I want to live a different kind of life from what I've been living: I want to live the way life goes on in this little shop of yours; I am dying to work for you, and to be neat and clean and decent-spoken, like you. I would kiss the ground you walk on, and try and get you the very mermaids from the sea, whom no one has ever set eyes on, if you wanted them.

Is it too little that I offer? I've set myself down sometimes for a regular idiot; but by the living gracious!

I swear I am so no longer, with this that is going on inside of me, and that makes me talk in spite of myself. If you can work such a miracle as this without even knowing it, what miracles could you not work with me when you really put your mind on it? Now just look at me, Sotileza: I've got no vices; I never was afraid of work; I haven't a grudge against a person in the world; I am accustomed to do with little; and picking out the very best I've had in my life, it has never been anything but pain and trouble. Seeing here, about you, something so entirely different, you know what a value I set on it—and whose fault it is that I do.

There's a man needed in this house. Are you taking in what I am telling you, Sotileza? Sotileza was giving heed to it only too well.

For that very reason she replied with a certain curtness: I live quietly here in my house without speaking ill of anybody. I have none but the kindest wishes towards you, and I know your value full well; nevertheless I have my own way of thinking and feeling, and I wish to make no change in my life at present.

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I am wrecked, I am lost. But suppose, for the sake of argument, that if, instead of the no , Cleto, which you dread to hear, I should say the yes you ask of me, how would you be the gainer by that?

You have to steal into this house, carefully hiding your movements from your family over in yours, even if you come here but for an instant, just to pass the time of day. If such is the case now, what would it be if—if the plan you are so anxious for came to pass? But is there any sense and right in such a state of things?

I didn't choose the family that I belong to. He left me for dead, as you might say, when he got through with me. My liking for you choked me; I lacked courage to tell you, and I looked around for some one else to do it for me. I shall not look any further, now that I have got the trick of speaking up for myself. But this is not to the point, Sotileza. But tell me clearly, for that is what I came to-day to find out.

José María de Pereda

Don't be afraid to speak up and say the worst. See here, Sotileza,—for this is the kind of a person I am: Then tell me how you would like me to be, and I shall be only too glad to become that, cost what it may. Is there some one else who has got the inside track with you? I tell you I would be a dozen times as good a man as he, no matter who he is, if you would take an interest in me.

Oh, I beseech you—The whole thing is to have a little kindness for me in your heart, and all the rest will follow as if upon wheels.

You will only have to say to me, 'You've got to do this or do that, or go here or go there,' and I will jump and do it on the instant. I shall not disturb you the least bit; a mere corner of the house will do for me, and the farthest corner at that, even if it be worse than the one I have now. I will eat the scraps you leave over, of what I gain for you with my hardest daily toil, so that you may live at leisure like a lady.

I can live on just nothing at all, Sotileza; for as sure as God is in heaven, what makes me fatter than anything is to have a little order, a grain of human kindness, a scrap or two of jolly good-nature, in the house. By the powers, how I should enjoy that kind of thing! So now you see what I beg of you, what I beseech of you.

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And you won't be offended, will you? And you will say yes, Sotileza?

I know you will; for one cannot be allowed to beg in this way for what is impossible. The desperate energy of the poor youth only caused Sotileza to smile. He persisted, but in vain, in trying to draw out a definite answer from her. Unfortunately, our editorial approach may not be able to accommodate all contributions. Our editors will review what you've submitted, and if it meets our criteria, we'll add it to the article.

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