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Armando Palacio Valdés. The Marquis of Peñalta (Marta y María)
The Marquis of Peñalta (Marta y María)
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CHAPTER I. IN THE STREET
CHAPTER II. THE SOIRÉE AT THE ELORZA MANSION
CHAPTER III. THE NINE DAYS' FESTIVAL OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS
CHAPTER IV. HOW THE MARQUIS OF PEÑALTA WAS CONVERTED INTO DUKE OF THURINGEN
CHAPTER V. THE ROAD TO PERFECTION
CHAPTER VI. IN SEARCH OF MENINO
CHAPTER VII. HUSBAND OR SOUL
CHAPTER VIII. AS YOU LIKE IT
CHAPTER IX. EXCURSION TO EL MORAL AND THE ISLAND
CHAPTER X. THE EXCURSION CONTINUED
CHAPTER XI. A STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE
CHAPTER XII. GATHERED THREADS
CHAPTER XIII. IN WHICH ARE TOLD THE LABORS OF A CHRISTIAN VIRGIN
CHAPTER XIV. PALLIDA MORS
CHAPTER XV. LET US REJOICE, BELOVED
CHAPTER XVI. THE MARQUIS OF PEÑALTA'S DREAM
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Armando Palacio Valdés
A Realistic Social Novel
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"In the first place, Don Maximo, a military railroad, as you yourself confess that the one from Miramar is to be, is not such as we have the right to ask of the nation. We need a genuine railroad, suitable for the promotion of our interests, and not to serve merely for the protection of a factory. Just consider that it is a work to last for all time, and that if from its very inception it suffers from a gross mistake, this mistake will hang forever over our town. In the second place, the Carlists will never get beyond Somosierra. As to their raising their heads here, you understand perfectly well that it is impossible because they have very few elements to rely on—and, as to their doing this—"
"I have reason to believe that they are! We must be on the watch, and not be found napping. And, as a final reason, a sparrow in the hand is worth more than a hundred flying.—But tell me, Don Mariano, to change the subject, have the stables been put in order yet?"
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