The Family of Pacual Duarte by Camilo Jose Cela & Anthony Kerrigan
Author:Camilo Jose Cela & Anthony Kerrigan [Kerrigan, Camilo Jose Cela & Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fiction, Classics
Published: 2013-06-22T16:00:00+00:00
I STRUCK OUT for home, accompanied by three or four close friends, pretty miserable because of what had happened.
“That was a bad break . . . and just three days married.”
We walked along in silence, hanging our heads, bowed down.
“He was looking for it. My conscience is clear as a bell. Why didn’t he keep his mouth shut!”
“Don’t go on about it, Pascual.”
“Man, it’s only that I’m a little bit sorry. Now that it’s all over!”
Dawn was breaking and the crowing roosters were announcing it on the wind. The fields smelled of rockroses and thyme.
“Where did I cut him?”
“In the shoulder.”
“Was it bad?”
“Three cuts.”
“Will he pull through?”
“Man, I suppose so! I think he’ll pull through!”
“It’s better if he does.”
My house never seemed so far away as on that night.
“It’s cold . . . ”
“I don’t know, I don’t feel anything.”
“I guess it’s just me!”
“It may be . . . ”
We were passing by the cemetery.
“It must be awful to be in there!”
“Man! Why do you say that? You get the damnedest ideas!”
“That’s the way it is.”
The cypress looked like a tall dry ghost, a sentinel standing guard over the dead . . .
“That’s an ugly tree, that tree . . . ”
“Very ugly.”
There was an owl in the cypress tree, a bird of ill omen, and he hooted mysteriously.
“That’s an evil bird, that one.”
“Very evil.”
“And it’s there every night.”
“Every night . . . ”
“As if it liked living among the dead.”
“You’d think so . . . ”
“What’s the matter now?”
“Nothing! Nothing’s the matter! Just nerves . . . ”
I looked over at Domingo. He was as pale as a man on his deathbed.
“Are you sick?”
“No . . . ”
“Are you afraid?”
“Afraid? Who would I be afraid of?”
“Of nobody, man, of nobody. It was just something to say.”
Señorito Sebastian put in:
“Come on now, be quiet, the two of you. We don’t want another row starting up.”
“No . . . ”
“Is it much farther, Pascual? I can’t remember.”
“Not much. Why?”
“No reason . . . ”
It was as if some mysterious hand had picked up the house and were carrying it farther and farther away.
“Could we have gone by it?”
“No chance. We would have seen some light.”
We fell silent again. It could not be much farther.
“Is that it?”
“Yes.”
“Why didn’t you say so?”
“What for? Didn’t you know it?”
I was surprised at the silence that enveloped my house. The womenfolk would surely still be there, as was the custom, and everyone knows how loud women talk.
“They must all be asleep.”
“I don’t think so. There’s a light in there.”
We drew closer. Sure enough, there was a light burning.
Señora Engracia was at the door. She pronounced the s at the ends of words so that she sounded like the owl in the cypress tree. The two of them looked alike, too.
“What are you doing here?”
“Why, waiting for you, son.”
“Waiting for me?”
“Yes.”
I didn’t like the mysterious way she spoke to me at all.
“Let me by!”
“Don’t go in!”
“Why not?”
“Better not!”
“This is my house!”
“I know that, son. May it be yours for many years more.
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