Five Hours With Mario by Miguel Delibes

Author:Miguel Delibes [Delibes, Miguel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780231068284
Amazon: 023106828X
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1988-10-14T13:00:00+00:00

XIV

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When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to another: but his brother shall take her, and raise up seed for his brother. That’s just what I said! From the very day they killed Elviro, Encarna was after you, Mario, nobody can get that out of my head, your sister-in-law may be anything you please, I won’t go into that, but she has some pretty peculiar ideas, I’d like to know what she was thinking of, because how she pursued you, dear boy, no excuse for it, and here between you and I, I’ll tell you that even when we were going together, every time I heard her whispering to you at the movies, I was madly jealous, and you could still make excuses for her, that she was your sister-in-law, that she’d suffered a lot, sentimentality, and then later, Encarna’s in our hair all the time, my, such a lot of little visits, and as if that wasn’t enough, you giving her money in Madrid, everything comes out in the end, Mario, the devil knows more because he’s old than because he’s the devil, and I’m not going to tell you that she ought to go to work, that would be the last straw, but she has parents it seems to me. There’s Julia, she lives with my father and nothing’s happened to her because of it, she hasn’t exactly started a boarding house, I should say not, but renting rooms to American students is quite a fashionable thing to do, it’s quite in style nowadays, I know wonderful families who do it, and don’t come and tell me that Encarna’s father is paralyzed, that’s another reason for her to look after him. Because it doesn’t make sense, Mario, that when your father was so sick, and did everything in bed, remember? it was really disgusting, Encarna looked after him, and now she’s so finicky about taking care of her own father. No matter how you look at it, it’s inconsistent, and I’m not convinced by that about her mother being a strange person and not liking anyone else to interfere, those are just an old woman’s drivelings, we know that, if Encarna would just go there without asking permission of anyone and pitch in, I can tell you right now that there wouldn’t be a peep out of anybody, she’s a fine one. But no, since no one can see her there, she’s not interested, so there! with your’ father the only thing she wanted was to have you see her and teach me a lesson, just like it sounds, Mario, teach me a lesson, and that’s foolishness, mind you, because she would hardly let me put an oar in, and your mother still less, but we all knew perfectly well that she was stronger than the two of us put together. It’s just like now, whenever she comes, going on about polishing the brass and washing

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