: The Torrent (Entre Naranjos) by Blasco Ib Ez Vicente Goldberg Isaac Translator Livingston Arthur Translator - Fiction

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THE TORRENT

TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH BY

ISAAC GOLDBERG

ARTHUR LIVINGSTON

THE TORRENT

PART ONE

"Your friends are waiting for you at the Club. They saw you for a moment only, this morning; they'll be wanting to hear all your stories about life in Madrid."

Do?a Bernarda fixed upon the young deputy a pair of deep, scrutinizing, severely maternal eyes that recalled to Rafael all the roguish anxieties of his childhood.

"Are you going directly to the Club?..." she added. "Andr?s will be starting too, right away."

Rafael, in reply, wished a blunt "good-afternoon" to his mother and don Andr?s, who were still at table sipping their coffee, and strode out of the dining-room.

Finding himself on the broad, red-marble staircase in the silence of that ancient mansion, of such princely magnificence, he experienced the sudden sense of comfort and wellbeing that a traveler feels on plunging into a bath after a tedious journey.

Ever since he had arrived, with the noisy reception at the station, the hurrahs, the deafening music, handshakes here, crowding there, the pushing and elbowing of more than a thousand people who had thronged the streets of Alcira to get a close look at him, this was the first moment he had found himself alone, his own master, able to do exactly as he pleased, without needing to smile automatically in all directions and welcome with demonstrations of affection persons whose faces he could scarcely recall.

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