“He is right! he is right! There is not a doubt of it! Look! This belongs to this one. This to that one. That one there belongs to this. This belongs to that!” And the bursts of laughter of the grown people were mingled with the whistling of the boys, the abuse of the women, the tears of joy and triumph of the old gardener, and the pushes that the policeman gave to the convicted thief, as if they were impatient to carry him off to prison.
Needless to say that the policeman had that pleasure; that Gossip Fulano was immediately compelled to restore to the vendor the fifteen dollars he had received from him, that the vendor handed these over at once to Gaffer Buscabeatas, and that the latter departed for Rota, highly delighted, although he kept repeating all the way home—
“How handsome they looked in the market! I should have brought Manuela back with me to eat at supper to-night, and save the seeds.”
“Moors and Christians, and other Tales.” Pedro Antonio de Alarcon (1833-1891). Trans. Mary J. Serrano.
SISTER SAINT SULPICE.
Sister Sulpice (Gloria, by her mundane name), a novice about to
quit the convent for the world, against her mother, Doña Tula’s, wish.
Sister Maria de la Luz, cousin to Sister Sulpice, and also a novice.
The Mother Superior Florentina.
Paca, Glori foster-sister.
Don Ceferino, native of Galicia.