For obvious reasons we have assumed names and even altered site of action in this story. What is essential is the fact, and it is well known and corroborated by the testimony of countless contemporaries.
I
Governor of the city of X. .., on behalf of Her Majesty Ferdinand VII, was a English brigadier who call Don Sebastian. Bravo, like El Cid, his promotion had won all with the tip of the sword, and loyal to the king as the mastiff to his master, won the monarch appointed him to remain loyal to the crown among his vassals of X. .., faithfulness that the insurgents from the rest of America began to do wobble. Soldier
more than courteous, and Andalusia in addition, Don Sebastian made extraordinary efforts to disguise the harshness of their education, and that society does not escape words and interjections of barracks.
Despite the rough bark, the brigadier had a heart of flint for love, and apasionose one of the most beautiful and aristocratic ladies of the city, lady we baptize, using the privileges of priests and ballads with the name of Manuelita.
not want to waste ink
to make a pen portrait of the young, for if I say that his eyes were green, brown or blue, the reader will tell me I'm lying journalist rather than ministerial. A Manuelita have to imagine it with black eyes in harmony with the cantarcillo:
"Green eyes are the sea
blue eyes, the sky
brown eyes, purgatory,
and black eyes ... hell."
Rico, a senior playing for the king had offered soon graced with a title of castles, knights of Santiago can not remember whether or Montesa, graceful figure and well reputed Don Sebastian captose appreciation of parents the young, and these without consulting the will of the virgin, that formality in those days were ignored, he agreed to his hand. Manuelita
in whose hearts there was a guest, said that although he was not passionate lover, he need not disdain, and that being so dear to her parents, her cumplĂale say amen and Rome for everything. They proceeded accordingly
the wedding preparations, and it realizose home of the parents of the beautiful, with a splendor that until then there had been such in the city.
Representing the Viceroy Abascal, godfather of the groom, was traveling from Lima Count de la Vega, attending to the ball all that the country had a distinguished by birth, talent, beauty and wealth.
often in the ambiguous libations, and the brigadier was so insistent walking in them, the juice from the vines of Alicante, Jerez is up to the brain. Asaltáronle reminiscences of her old life in barracks and nonchalantly put his hand on the wheel and alabaster throat of the bride, he said to his friends
- Ah Rogue! From fixed to them makes you mouth water and I envy the bite of a king! And they are right ... yes, because ... ca ... dictionary, I take the p. .. illa prettiest city. The proud Manuelita
jumped on her boyfriend a look of utter contempt, indignation rose up and went to shut himself in his bedroom.
drunkenness vanished as if by magic at the head of the brigadier, who would have all the blood in their veins for collecting indecent words without deliberate purpose of grievance and driven only by the bad habits of barracks life escaped his mouth. Well says the couplet:
"Who bad chew, poorly digested;
who speaks evil, evil persuade;
who bad coughs, spits bad;
who badly conceived, ill stop."
A joke that perhaps would not have gone through rough between Manolos and AVAPI gypsy neighborhood in Madrid He smote the heart and hopes of the young and haughty bride. Useless
was the commitment of parents to Manuelita forgive her husband and follow him to the conjugal home. Don Sebastian in vain despair, and begged and promised to submit to the penance that she would impose a punishment for his clumsy words. Manuelita stubbornly refused to forgive him, and responding to the thoughts and prayers to his family and friends:
"I'll never be the wife of the man on the wedding night could forget what he owed to his own decency and dignity of my wife .
And so was fulfilled a year from the day of betrothal without Manuelita come out of her bedroom in father's house, or leave it to penetrate more than their parents, siblings and a maid.
II
Three days before the anniversary of their marriage, the mother pleaded Manuelita the crying to cease in its rigor towards Don Sebastian.
"Well, mother and wife, you will be pleased," replied the girl. In public I was offended, and in public must have redress the grievance. I invited you to all our friends for a dance.
The brigadier love jumped for joy at the news that his mother told him, and vowed to apologize to Manuelita and filled with satisfaction.
came
prom night, and when advised the youth not in the room lacked any of the guests, presented himself to her wedding dress and dazzling beauty. Ladies and gentlemen
stood.
The brigadier stepped forward, reached out to take his wife and lead to the center of the room, but she received him in her arms, whispering in their ears these ominous words: "There
grievances that do not support forgiveness but revenge .
And the brigadier fell on the carpet, shuddering in the throes of agony. Manuelita
had pierced the heart with a dagger.
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