| Back | Whether thus adorned she would have been beautiful or not, and what she must have been in her prosperity, may be imagined from the beauty remaining to her after so many hardships; for, as everyone knows, the beauty of some women has its times and its seasons, and is increased or diminished by chance causes; and naturally the emotions of the mind will heighten or impair it, though indeed more frequently they totally destroy it. In a word she presented herself before me that day attired with the utmost splendour, and supremely beautiful; at any rate, she seemed to me the most beautiful object I had ever seen; and when, besides, I thought of all I owed to her I felt as though I had before me some heavenly being come to earth to bring me relief and happiness. |
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| Front | Si con todo este adorno podía venir entonces hermosa, o no, por las reliquias que le han quedado en tantos trabajos se podrá conjeturar cuál debía de ser en las prosperidades. Porque ya se sabe que la hermosura de algunas mujeres tiene días y sazones, y requiere accidentes para diminuirse o acrecentarse; y es natural cosa que las pasiones del ánimo la levanten o abajen, puesto que las más veces la destruyen. »Digo, en fin, que entonces llegó en todo estremo aderezada y en todo estremo hermosa, o, a lo menos, a mí me pareció serlo la más que hasta entonces había visto; y con esto, viendo las obligaciones en que me había puesto, me parecía que tenía delante de mí una deidad del cielo, venida a la tierra para mi gusto y para mi remedio. |
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