By Gabriel García Márquez
On her 12th birthday, Sierva Maria – the single baby of a decaying noble relations in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by means of a rabid puppy. Believed to be possessed, she is dropped at a convent for commentary. And into her phone stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed a few woman with hair trailing after her like a bridal teach. As he has a tendency to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels whatever stunning start to take place. He has fallen in love – and it isn't lengthy till Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered distress. Unsettling and indelible, of affection and different Demons is an evocative, majestic story of the main common reports recognized to lady and guy.
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There was a stone path through the banana trees and wild ferns, a slender palm that had grown higher than the flat roofs in its search for light, and a colossal tree with vanilla vines and strings of orchids hanging from its branches. Beneath the tree a cistern of stagnant water had a rusted iron rim on which captive macaws performed like circus acrobats. The garden divided the convent into two separate wings. To the right were the three floors occupied by those interred in life, where the gasp of the undertow at the cliffs and the prayers and canticles of the canonical hours almost never penetrated.
He was intense and pale, and had spirited eyes and deep black hair with a streak of white at his forehead. His rapid breathing and feverish hands did not seem those of a happy man. " the Bishop asked him. Father Delaura did not have to think before answering. "Abrenuncio de Sa Pereira Cao," he said, as if spelling out the name. " In actual fact, Delaura continued, it was not known whether that was his real name. According to the records of the Holy Office, he was a Portuguese Jew expelled from the Peninsula and sheltered here by a grateful governor whom he had cured of a two-pound hernia with the purifying waters of Turbaco.
Rumors from the plantation said that she was living in a state of delirium, that she talked to herself, that she selected the best-endowed slaves and shared them in Roman orgies with her former schoolmates. The fortune that came to her by water left by water, and she was at the mercy of the skins of honey and sacks of cacao that she kept hidden in various places so she would lose no time when her relentless longings pursued her. The only security she had left were two urns filled with gold doubloons, pieces of one hundred, and pieces of four, which she had buried under her bed in the days of plenty.