Chapter I: Front Matter

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MARIANELA

BY

B. PEREZ GALDÓS
Author of “Gloria,” etc.

From the Spanish by CLARA BELL

REVISED AND CORRECTED IN THE UNITED STATES

NEW YORK
WILLIAM S. GOTTSBERGER, PUBLISHER
11 MURRAY STREET
1883

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883
By William S. Gottsberger
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington

THIS TRANSLATION WAS MADE EXPRESSLY FOR THE PUBLISHER

Press of
William S. Gottsberger
New York

TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.

Those who have read “Gloria” will, it is hoped, hail with pleasure another work by the same writer, Perez Galdós--different it is true, but in its way not less delightful.

The strongly-marked humor and darkly-painted tragedy of “Gloria” are not to be found in “Marianela;” the characters are distinct and crisply sketched, but with a tender hand, the catastrophe is pitiable, rather shocking; the whole tone is idyllic.

I have not hesitated to translate literally the Spanish words of endearment; for though they are foreign to the calmer spirit of our northern tongue they are too characteristic to be lost, and they are strangely pathetic as the only outlet found for the imprisoned spirit of the hapless little heroine.

CLARA BELL.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE.

I.--Gone Astray. 1

II.--Guided Right. 10

III.--A Dialogue which explains much. 24

IV.--Stony Hearts. 35

V.--Labor, and a Landscape with Figures. 52

VI.--Absurdities. 62

VII.--More Absurdities. 73

VIII.--And yet more. 84

IX.--The Brothers Golfin. 98

X.--Nobody’s Children. 117

XI.--The Patriarch of Aldeacorba. 124

XII.--Doctor Celipin. 136

XIII.--Between two Baskets. 144

XIV.--How the Virgin Mary appeared to Nela. 151

XV.--The Three Children. 164

XVI.--The Vow. 172

XVII.--A Fugitive. 179

XVIII.--Nela decides that she must go. 192

XIX.--Nela is Tamed. 201

XX.--A New World. 220

XXI.--Eyes that Kill. 234

XXII.--Farewell. 260

MARIANELA.