Los Puritanos, y otros cuentos by Armando Palacio Valdés

Author:Armando Palacio Valdés [Palacio Valdés, Armando]
Language: spa
Format: epub
Tags: Short stories, Spanish
Publisher: Project Gutenberg
Published: 2009-09-21T00:00:00+00:00

NOTES FOR "LOS PURITANOS":

[67] =Me lo presentó=, note the use of "lo" instead of "le".

[68] =Ha de estar=, is to be.

[69] =No debía de ser feo, ni mucho menos=, he must not have been ugly, far from it.

[70] =Il sogno beato=, the beautiful dream.

=De pace e contento=, of peace and contentment.

[71] =La dolce memoria=, the sweet memory.

=De un tenero amore=, of a tender love.

[72] =Parece que le gusta a V. Los Puritanos=, it seems that you like the Puritanos.

[73] =Vengan esas razones=, let's have those reasons. =Vengan=, lit., let them come.

[74] =Que no merece la pena=, which is not worth the trouble.

[75] =No aconsejaré a nadie que lo haga=, I shall not advise anyone to do it.

[76] =¿Para qué te compones tanto, hombre de Dios?= man alive, what are you dressing up so much for? This familiar use of "Dios" by the Spanish people is considered not a sin but "the instinctive elevation of the soul to its Maker".

[77] =Para mis adentros=, to myself.

[78] =Mas como no era de presumir=, but as it was not to be presumed.

[79] =Estaba de pie=, was standing.

[80] =Yo no me voy sin verla=, I am not going away without seeing her.

[81] =Yo no tengo nada que hacer ahora; y lo mismo da vagar por un lado que por otro=, I have nothing to do now; and it's just the same to loiter on one side as the other.

[82] =Se echó a reír=, she began to laugh.

[83] =Cuando se trata de=, when it is a question of.

[84] =Antes de que pasase=, (subjunctive "aorist"), before I passed.

[85] =No pasaron cuatro minutos sin que viese asomar una naricita nacarada=, four minutes did not pass without seeing a little pearly nose peeping.

[86] =Cual si tratase de demostrar=, as if she tried to show.

[87] =Acompañado por lo que a mí respecta de=, accompanied on my part by.

[88] =Que debieron causar=, which must have caused.

[89] =Por más que me sintiese avergonzado=, however much I felt ashamed.

[90] =Tan bien… ermanita=, también me gusta a mí. No crea V. que juego con muñecas. Era de mi hermanita.

[91] =Hasta que se oía llamar=, until she heard herself called.

[92] =Debía de ser=, must have been.

[93] =Seguiles=, I followed them.

[94] =El que la mamá se enterase=, that the mother should take notice.

[95] =A todo esto, yo no sabía cómo se llamaba=, after all this, I did not know her name; lit., how she called herself.

[96] =Me llamo… muñecas=, Me llamo Teresa. No crea V. por Dios que juego con muñecas.

[97] =Me eché en cara=, I upbraided myself.

[98] =Para llevar a cabo=, in order to carry out.

[99] =Como no había peligro=, as there was no danger.

[100] =A más tardar=, at the latest.

[101] =Pensando en lo que había de decir=, thinking of what I was to say.

[102] =Por más que fuese=, although he was.

[103] =Que ya no haces falta=, since I need you no longer.

[104] =Me hice como que subía la escalera=, I made out that I was going up the steps.

[105] =Que por poco me oye=, that he came near hearing me.

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