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Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós in the original Spanish, with our English translation beside every sentence and a dictionary on every word.
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How Doña Perfecta begins
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Cuando el tren mixto descendente número 65 (no es preciso nombrar la línea), se detuvo en la pequeña estación situada entre los kilómetros 171 y 172, casi todos los viajeros de segunda y tercera clase se quedaron durmiendo o bostezando dentro de los coches, porque el frío penetrante de la madrugada no convidaba a pasear por el desamparado andén.
El único viajero de primera que en el tren venía bajó apresuradamente, y dirigiéndose a los empleados, preguntóles si aquél era el apeadero de Villahorrenda.
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When the descending mixed train number 65 (the line need not be named) stopped at the small station situated between kilometers 171 and 172, almost all the second and third class passengers remained sleeping or yawning inside the carriages, because the penetrating cold of the early morning did not invite one to stroll along the desolate platform.
The only first class passenger who came on the train got off hurriedly, and addressing the employees, asked them if that was the halt of Villahorrenda.
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About the book
About Doña Perfecta
Pepe Rey, a young engineer from Madrid, arrives in the cathedral town of Orbajosa to marry his cousin Rosario, and runs into his aunt Doña Perfecta — pious, powerful and set against everything he stands for. Benito Pérez Galdós's 1876 novel of a provincial town closing ranks against an outsider.
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