Heath's Modern Language Series: José

by Armando Palacio Valdés

[4.1] inutilizan. Se is understood with this verb from preceding mueren.

[4.2] va labrando su espíritu, goes on moulding their character.

[4.3] habilidosa, capable.

[4.4] lo moral, the moral nature.

[4.5] no hay más que, one can but, lit. "there is no more than."

[4.6] rasgados, large and full. Cf. Fr. bien fendu.

Page 5.—

[5.1] los que amáis, you who love. Antecedent vosotros understood. This construction is analogous to the frequent suppression of the subject-pronoun before a noun or pronoun in apposition. Cf. [page 7], line 9.

[5.2] a la ventura, at random.

[5.3] las montañas de tierra adentro, the mountains inland. Tierra adentro is an adverbial phrase, here used substantively, governed by de, the whole forming an adjectival phrase.