The Dead Command

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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. The Dead Command

The Dead Command

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VICENTE BLASCO IBÁÑEZ. AUTHOR OF "SONNICA"

PART FIRST

THE DEAD COMMAND

PART SECOND

PART THIRD

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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan

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"Señor! … Señor! … Señor! A Chueta! An apostate Jewess!"

She grasped the empty cup and the remnants of the bread, and ran to take refuge in the kitchen. After hearing such horrors in this house she felt afraid. She imagined that someone must be stalking through the venerable halls at the other end of the palace; someone—she could not explain to herself who it might be—someone who had been aroused from the sleep of centuries! This palace undoubtedly possessed a soul. When the old woman was alone in it the furniture creaked as if people were moving about and conversing; the tapestries swayed as if stirred by invisible faces, a gilded harp which had belonged to Don Jaime's grandmother vibrated in its corner, yet she never felt terror, because the Febrers had been good people, simple and kind to their servants; but now, after hearing such things——! She thought uneasily of the portraits hanging on the walls of the reception hall. How severe those señores would look if the words of their descendant should reach their ears! How fiercely their eyes would flame!

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