Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader

by Ernesto Nelson

[17] que frecuentas, tú, lector. The second person is used by the author in addressing the reader.

[18] a la orden del día, the fashion.

[19] sólo sí, only. VARIANT: Aunque.

[20] pasiones en lucha, conflicting passions.

[21] que hacen todo el gasto, which are set forth.

[22] de no pocas extranjeras, of not a few foreign ones.

[23] José Eusebio Caro. A Colombian general, statesman and poet. (1817-1853).

[24] a un tiempo, at once; at the same time. VARIANT: A la vez.

[25] Miguel Antonio Caro. A Colombian writer and statesman.

[26] digno hijo del, a worthy son of.