Spanish Tales for Beginners

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[[59-8]] dió, 'he met with.'

[[59-11]] Abierto el testamento=cuando el testamento fué abierto.

[[59-12]] por heredero, 'as his heir.'

EL LIBRO TALONARIO

Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, b. 1833 in Granada, d. 1891. Alarcón was a journalist, poet, novelist, and writer of works of travel; member of the Council of State, Minister to Turkey, etc. He had a lively vein and was often humorous or ironical, but he was seldom a careful writer. Beginning as a writer of frivolous tales for newspapers, he ended as a conservative and a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. Works: El final de Norma, El escándalo, El niño de la bola, El sombrero de tres picos, El capitán Veneno, Historietas nacionales, et al.

60.—[[60-2]] Rota: the action begins at Rota, one of the many villages on the Bay of Cadiz in southwestern Spain.

[[60-4]] era que, 'the fact was.'

[[60-5]] llevaba cuarenta de labrar, 'he had cultivated for forty years.' See llevar, in Vocab.

[[60-10]] había mediado el mes de junio, 'it was the middle of June' (lit., 'the month of June was half gone').

[[60-12]] á los... ejemplares is an object of conocía above.