| Back | Descending from her chair, she came and placed herself on my knee; then, folding her little hands demurely before her, shaking back her curls and lifting her eyes to the ceiling, she commenced singing a song from some opera. It was the strain of a forsaken lady, who, after bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls pride to her aid; desires her attendant to deck her in her brightest jewels and richest robes, and resolves to meet the false one that night at a ball, and prove to him, by the gaiety of her demeanour, how little his desertion has affected her. |
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| Front | La pequeña dejó su silla, se colocó sobre mis rodillas, echó hacia atrás sus cabellos rizados y, levantando los ojos al techo y juntando sus manos ante sí con coquetería, comenzó a cantar un aria de ópera, que versaba sobre las vicisitudes de una mujer abandonada por su adorador y que, apelando a su amor propio, se presentaba una noche, ataviada con sus mejores galas, en un baile al que asistía también el perjuro, para demostrarle, con la alegría de su aspecto, lo poco que el abandono le afectaba. |
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