12. Cumbres borrascosas

Capítulo 12
Catherine cae gravemente enferma tras un violento enfrentamiento con Edgar y Heathcliff.

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Chapter 12. While Miss Elizabeth wanderedthrough the park and the garden and her
brother remained locked in the library,probably waiting for Catherine to repent if she
could forgive. She remained obstinate inprolonging her fast. He doubtless believed that
Edward was half dead of nostalgia andthat only pride would prevent him from throwing
himself at his feet. For mypart, I was merely fulfilling my duties,

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convinced that the only reasonable spirit withinthe walls of the farm was in
my body. So I did notuse a word of compassion with the lady,
nor did I try to comfort theman who was anxious to hear his
wife' s name, as hecould not hear her voice. I decided
to let them come together as theycould, and my decision worked. As

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I had believed from the beginning,after three days, the lady stood at
the door of her room and askedto renew the water that had run out
of her and to bring her abowl of milk soup because she felt faint.
I assumed that this exclamation was addressedto her husband' s ears,
but as I didn' t believein it I kept well from transmitting and

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I just took Catalan and a drycake. He ate and drank eagerly and
then lay on the pillow, clenchedhis fists and began to weep. I
' d like to die, I' d say no one cares. I
shouldn' t have eaten that andcontinued. No. I don' t
want to die. He doesn't love me and I' d forget.
You need something, ma' amI asked, listening to your exaggerations,

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what does my phlegmatic husband do?She answered, turning away from his
face, which had been greatly emaciatedin those days. It' s her
tangled hair. He' s dead, because he' s stuck, not
one thing or the other. Ma' am, it' s okay,
though it seems a little busy,as you spend the day among your books,
since you have no other company.If I had known the state Catherine

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was in, I would not reallyhave spoken to her in that way,
but I thought she faked her abnormalstate, so among her books she exclaimed
while I found myself at the edgeof the tomb. But my God doesn
' t know how sick I amand looking at myself in a continuous mirror,
it' s this pretty Catherine Maybehe thinks it' s some minor

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setback. You must tell him it' s a very serious thing, Miralena,
without being enough for everything. OnceI know what your feelings for me
are, I must adopt one ofthese two solutions or let me die or
try to re- establish and leave. You haven' t lied. It
' s true that he cares solittle about me. It' s not

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like you' re so crazy thatyou' re going to starve to death.
You think I won' t persuadehim that I' m determined to
do it. You do not remember, ma' am, that you have
already taken some food today. Hewould kill me right now He replied if
he was sure that he would succeedin killing him. I' ve also
been unable to close my eyelids forthree nights. I' m beginning to

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imagine that you don' t loveme either, and I thought that even
if everyone hated each other, theycouldn' t stop loving me. Now,
in a short time, everyone hasbecome my enemies. It' s
terrible to die surrounded by those impassivefaces. Isabel didn' t dare enter
my room for fear of contemplating Catherine' s dead show. I already thought

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I heard Edward standing by his side, thanking God for the peace that has
been restored in his house and returningto his books it seems a lie to
me to take care of his bookswhile I am here dying. The idea
that her husband remained philosophically resigned,as I had told him, was inexhaustible
to him by turning this idea around. In his brain he became frantic and

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in his raving he tore his pillowwith his teeth. Then he boiled all
on fire and sent me to openthe window. I objected to it because
we were in the middle of winterand the north- east wind was blowing
heavily, but the expression of sowingand its sudden changes of tone set me
up a lot. I recalled thedoctor' s indications that we should not
oppose her. The minute before Iwas furious and, instead, now,

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unaware of what I had not listenedto him, he had leaned on my
arm and entertained himself in pulling thefeathers out of the pillow because of the
tears he had made with his teeth. He placed the feathers on the sheet
and gathered it according to their differentclasses. This is turkey muttering for itself
and you' re wild duck andyou' re pigeon. Of course I

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' m not going to die ifthey put pigeon feathers on my pillows,
but when I lie down I'll throw them away. This is certain,
and this cold bird the cerceta andthis cold bird would recognize it among
a thousand This bird used to flyover our heads when we went through the
middle of the swamps. He waslooking for sound because the low clouds made

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him feel the rain. This penhas been caught in the bushes. In
winter we once found a nest fullof small skeleton weights. Head had set
a trap for him and the parentbirds did not dare enter. Since then
I made him promise not to killany cold birds again and he obeyed me.
There' s more. Now I' m shooting at my birds.

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Helena, some of these feathers aren' t so bloody dirty. Let me
see it. Come on, Ididn' t say that I told that
childish task while the pillow was comingback from the other side, as above
it was full of holes. Laydown six close your eyes. You'
re delirious what a whirlwind you've built. Feathers fly like snowflakes.

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I started picking them up.“You look like an old elena to me,
” she said delirious. You havegray hair and you' re hunched
over this bed from the haunted caveat the foot of pannington hill and you
' re taking pebbles to throw themto the bulls. You assure me they
' re snowflakes. Fifty years fromnow you' ll be like this,

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even if you' re not now, you' re fooling yourself. I
' m not delirious if the lyarahad figured that you were, in fact,
a witch and I would have believedthat I really found myself in the
cave on Penningstone Hill. I realizevery well that it is now night and
that on the table there are twocandles that make that closet shine as black
as Lebanon. What a black closet, I asked you are dreaming the closet

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is leaning on the wall as youalways replied that rare is distinguish in it.
A face. There hasn' tbeen a closet in this room.
I never answered and lifted the curtainsfrom the bed so I could keep a
better eye on it, but it' s not that face. He told
me by pointing to his own mirror, in view of the fact that it
was not possible for me to makehim understand that the face he saw was

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his. I got up and coveredthe mirror with a shawl.“ The
face is still behind,” hesaid yearningly and moved. Who it will
be. I' m afraid he' ll show up as soon as you
leave. This room is haunted.It scares me to be left alone like
this and I tried to calm herdown. He shivered convulsively and looked toward
the mirror with fixedness. There's no one in the room. Ma

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' am, I repeated it wasyour own face. As you know very
well. I exclaimed myself sighing andthe clock was twelve o' clock.
It' s horrible and he coveredhis eyes with the sheets. I pretended
to go to the door to warnher husband, but I was stopped by
a penetrating cataline scream. The shawlhad just fallen to the ground. Come
on I exclaimed what' s goingon, who' s the coward.

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Now you don' t see,ma' am, it' s your
face that' s reflected in themirror. He did it to me and
a few moments later, his countenancehad calmed down and his lividity was blushing.
Oh dear said I was thinking ofbeing in my house, in my
room of drunken peaks. Since I' m so lazy, my brain was
troubled and I screamed without realizing it. Don' t tell anyone and sit

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next to me. I' mafraid of suffering these horrible nightmares again.
You might want to sleep. Ma' am, I advised you these sufferings
will teach you not to try againto starve to death. Whoever was in
my bed, in my old house. He lamented bitterly twisting his hands.
Eye that wind that blows between thefir under the windows opens so that it

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can suck it comes from the swampsdirectly to calm the. Open the window.
For a few minutes and a frozenburst of air entered the room,
closed the window and returned to myplace. The young woman remained motionless with
her face covered with tears, withthe spirit dejected by the weakness that gripped
her body. Our proud cataline livedup to a fearful child. It'

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s been a long time since Ilocked myself in here. He asked me
all of a sudden. He lockedhimself in on Monday afternoon. I answered
and now we are on Thursday night, or more exactly in the early morning
of Friday of the same week.She commented strangely. It' s possible
it' s only been so short. Too much, however, to feed
himself or herself alone on water andin a bad mood. It' s

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been endless hours. She must havepassed longer. I remember that, after
those quarrelling, I went to theliving room that Eduardo was very cruel and
very provocative and that I came tothis desperate room. As soon as the
shilling bolted, my head was darkenedand it fell to the ground. I
could not warn Eduardo that I wassure of suffering an outburst of insanity If

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I continued to despair, because Ilost the use of language and thought I
felt no more impulse than to fleefrom it. Before I could recover it
began to darken and I will tellyou what I thought and what I have
continued to imagine to the point ofmaking me afraid to lose consciousness while lying
at the bottom of the table,confusingly distinguishing the grey frame of the window.

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It seemed to me to be onmy bed of boards of drunken peaks
and my heart felt acute pain.I tried to understand what was happening to
me and thought and it seemed tome as if the last seven years of
my life had not existed. Iwas still a little girl Dad had just
died and the disgust I felt wasHelley' s order to separate me from

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Heathcliff. I was alone for thefirst time and when I woke up after
a night of weeping, I raisedmy hand to separate the boards from the
bed, stumbled over the table,passed my hand through the carpet and then
recovered my memory and that anguish wasoverturned in the face of a frenzy of
greater despair. I don' tunderstand why I felt so unhappy. But

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imagine that when you were twelve yearsold you would have taken me out of
drunken peaks and brought me to thetordos farm to be Eduardo Linton' s
wife and you' ll have anidea of the deep abyss in which I
felt tossing as much as you wantthe head not to. That' s
why you' ll stop having someguilt. If you had spoken Dardo as

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you should have, you would havegotten him to leave me alone. I
' m hugging. I wanted tobe outdoors, to be a strong and
wild girl, to laugh at insultsrather than go crazy when they come to
me as soon as I say afew words, I tumultuously bully all the
blood and I would make it foreveragain. If you find me again between

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the scrubs and the swamps, openthe window wide open again and leave it
open. What do you do,why don' t you take care of
me, why don' t Ijust want to kill her? I said,
" Why don' t you wantto give me a chance of reviving?
" She responded with a grudge butI am not yet prevented. I
myself will open it jump of thefact and before I could oppose it,

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it crossed the room and opened thewindow without taking care of the glacial air
that overpopulated around his shoulders and thatcut like a knife. I asked him
to retire. She refused and wantedto force her, but delirium gave her
more strength than I could develop.There was no moon, and a dark
mist invaded it, all shone asingle light in a cumba slug. There

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was no more glare. She claimedshe distinguished the lights in the building.
Mira yelled at those lights in myroom and the other one, the one
from the looming room where Joseph sleepsis definitely waiting for me to come home
to close the Brham will still haveto wait a while. It' s
a very unpleasant road to travel.We have to go through the Church of

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Gimmerton. We have often challenged ourselvesto remain among the tombs by calling the
dead Heathcliff. If I challenge you, now you' ll dare. They
can bury me if they want,a few feet deep and even put the
church on me. But I wouldn' t stay there until you' re
with me. He paused and thensaid with a singular smile. You'

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re thinking it' d be betterif I came looking for you. Well,
find me a road that doesn't go through the cemetery. How
slowly you calmed down You' llfollow me, always thinking it was useless
to reason with her, since shewas obviously right. I was busy looking
for something to cover it with.When I felt the handle gnash and Mr

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Linton came in with great dismay.For my part, I was passing through
the corridor and when we heard thecuriosity or the fear that something would happen,
they pushed him into the bedroom.Oh, sir, I cried out
suffocating the exclamation that appeared to hislips in front of the spectacle I distinguished
in the room. Mrs Stanferma andI can' t do her any favor

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and convince her to lie down andforget her anger, as she can'
t be done with her more thanshe wants. She' s sick cataline.
He said. Running towards us,close the window Helena that happens to
you Catalina, stopped the appearance ofthe lady. He left him horribly surprised
and turned to me his astonished eyes. Already consuming himself here for several days,

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I said refusing to take food andnot complaining about anything. Until today
it has not allowed anyone to passand we have not spoken to you of
the state in which you are,because we ourselves ignored it. I don
' t think it' s anythingserious. I understood myself that my explanation
was poor. My master frowned onLennadin' s eyebrows, which is nothing
serious. You' ll explain better. Your silence on this. He severely

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said he took his wife in hisarms and looked at her in distress.
At first he no longer showed signsof recognizing him, but the delusion that
seized him was not permanent. Stillhis eyes, a moment icy by the
contemplation of the darkness of the outside, ended up repairing that the man who
had it in his arms, betweenthe man who had it in his arms?

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Why are you coming? Eduardo Lintonsaid with Colérica vivacity you are one
of those who always arrive when theyare not needed and never when it interests
them to arrive. I see thatyou are going to start now with lamentations,
but not for that you will getme to stop going to my final
abode before the end of spring andI will not rest in the Pantheon of

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the Lintons, but in a freeleg pit, with a simple slab above
you for your part do whatever youwant to go with the Linton or Main
with me. What you' resaying Catherine started the master is that I
' m nothing to you anymore." Are you in love with that miserable
health silence?" cried Mrs Shutup or throw me right now out the

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window and you can have it inmy body, but my soul will be
there on the tops before you cantouch me again. I don' t
need you to go back to yourbooks. You could use some comfort,
because I' m not to bea comforter again. Sir, I interrupted
Mrs Tá Delirando' s been driftingall afternoon. Let' s take good

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care of her, make sure she' s calm and soon she' ll
be restored in the future. Wemust be careful not to upset her.
Don' t keep giving me advice, the well- known lord interrupts the
lady' s way of being andyet you have prompted me to oppose her.
It seems a lie that you haven' t told me anything about her
condition for these three days. Whatcruelty, oh, Catherine is disfigured as

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if she had suffered from a diseaseof many months. I didn' t
defend against those accusations. What afault I had for Catherine' s inclination.
I knew I said that the ladywas stubborn and dominant, but I
did not know that you are promotingher bad character. I did not know
that I should tolerate Mr Heathcliff's abuses for not contradicting the lady.

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That' s how you pay meto have done my duty to do well.
I' ll learn better for youagain. In future you will be
informed of things by your own eyes. If you come to me again with
gossip, I will dispense with yourservices. He replied, I understand.
I replied apparently, Mr Heathcliff isauthorized to make love to the Miss and
to predispose the Lady against the LordWhen you are absent Catherine, not by

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having the mind somewhat disturbed. Istopped listening attentively to our conversation or traitor.
Elena exclaimed. She' s myfuzzy enemy Witch. Let me really
double the way I make her regretunder her eyelids. He struck a flash
of dementia and tried to let goof Linton' s arms. I decided

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to look for the doctor on myown initiative and left the room. Crossing
through the garden distinguish hanging from ahook from the wall of a strangely moving
white object. I did not wantto keep in mind the doubt that I
could be a soul of the otherworld and, despite my haste, I
stopped to find out what it wasabout, what a shock. As I

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recognized Miss Isabel' s little gal, hung with a handkerchief around his neck
and a half drowned, I letgo of the animal and set him free.
When Elizabeth had gone to bed,I saw the greyhound go up behind
her and could not explain to mewho was the evil one who had made
him the object of such barbarism whileuntied. I thought I felt the distant

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gallop of an uninsured noise cape tohear at two o' clock in the
morning, but I was in sucha hurry that I almost didn' t
notice it. I found Mr Kermentleaving his house to visit a sick man.
And what I related about the ailment, Catherine was led to accompany me
immediately. As Cannett is a simpleand frank man. I confess that I

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doubted very much that Catherine would survivethat second attack. This thing about having
some special cause. Elena told mewhat happened. A woman as strong as
Catherine doesn' t get sick fromsmall things. People like her rarely get
sick, but when it happens,it' s hard business to get rid
of their evils. The Master willinform you I answered. You know the

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violent character of the air Shaws andyou don' t know that Miss Catherine
leaves them all in blankets. Theonly thing I can tell you is that
it all started with a dispute andthat after an explosion of Furor suffered an
attack she explained it that way.We didn' t hear him because he
locked himself in his alcohoba. Thenhe refused to take the food and now
he delirious sometimes and sometimes he giveshimself to fantastic dreams. He still doesn

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' t recognize, but his headis full of very rare ideas. Mr
Linton will be so upset that hewill break his head if anything happens,
make sure he is not overly alarmed. I' ve already warned them to
be you, and now you haveto stick to the consequences of not having
taken care of me. The doctorhas intimated Mr Linton with Heathcliff. Lately,

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Heathcliff was going to the Farm.I recognized but not because she pleased
the master, but taking advantage ofhis childhood friendship with the lady. Now
he has been invited not to botherwith visits as a result of certain intolerable
aspirations he expressed regarding Miss Isabel.I don' t think he' s
coming home again. You turned MissLinton down. The doctor asked. She

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doesn' t trust me.“I answered if s Isabel does what she
pleases,” he said, butshe acts like a madwoman. I know
that last night, what a beautifulnight she was doing by the way,
she was walking with Heathcley in thegarden and that he wanted to convince her
to run away together. She refused, but agreed to do it the next
day they saw each other. Iknow it' s good ink. What

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I don' t know is whatday they were talking about, assaulted by
new fears, knowing about that newslater on to Kenneth and made to run
in the garden I found the dogbarking when I opened the gate, began
to run from one side to theother, sniffing the grass and even if
I had gone on the road notto stop him, I went up to

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Isabel' s room. It wasempty, perhaps if I had known in
time the illness of Mrs She wouldhave prevented me from making her crazy determination,
but I had nothing to do.It was not possible to reach the
fugitives. I did not propose topursue them, nor was it a matter
of increasing with bad anguish that mymaster was already suffering. I had no

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choice but to shut up and letthings slide and hasten to announce to the
lord the arrival of the doctor Catherinehad fallen asleep with an agitated sleep her
husband had managed to reassure her alittle and remained inclined upon her examining the
slightest contractions of her face. Thedoctor, after recognizing the sick woman,

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gave us hope about her condition,provided we gave her absolute peace of mind
and I thought I understood that morethan a mortal danger, I feared incurable
madness. Neither Mr Linton nor Iwere able to sleep all night. We
didn' t go to bed.The servants rose sooner than usual and were
given to comments in a low voice. Noting that Miss Isabel was not up,

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her brother also commented on the case. In turn, she seemed to
be offended by the little interest thatElizabeth showed in her sister- in-
law. I wanted not to bethe first to warn the leak. This
happened in charge of a maid whohad gone to Gimmerton to run an errand
and when she returned she rushed tous. Full of excitement and screaming.
Oh Lord Master, don' tmake such a fuss.“ I exclaimed

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down, Mary,” the lordsaid. The lady heard with Heathclip.
She exclaimed the girl. It's not true. He uttered linton very
agitated. It can' t betrue how you came up with such a
thing. Go find Helena It's amazing. While he was speaking,
he took the maid to the doorand asked her why. What motive did

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he have to make that statement?The beautiful path that brings milk to the
farm comes and asked me if wewere upset believing that it meant the ma
' am' s illness I saidyes. Then he answered me, they
must have sent someone in pursuit.I was amazed at him, noticing that
I knew nothing. He told methat a lady and a gentleman had stopped
at the door of a blacksmith tonail a horse' s horseshoe near Heimmerton.

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The blacksmith' s daughter looked upto the error. He saw that
the man was Heathcliff East among agold coin to pay. The lady had
her face covered in a mantle,but when she went to drink a glass
of water that she had asked for, it was discovered and then they could
see it. Then, Heascrib andthe lady heard the girl. I had
already told the whole town. Forcovering the file, I went to Isabel

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' s room and upon returning Iconfirmed the account of the maid. The
lord was again at the head ofthe bed and when I saw myself entering
he understood by my appearance what happened. What do we do? I asked
Isabel left voluntarily. He answered me. The lord was free to do so.
Don' t mention me anymore.His name has reneged on me.
He didn' t talk about itanymore. He did not carry out a

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search, merely ordering me, whenhis new dwelling was set, to send
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