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	Lección Cincuenta y ocho (58)
	Eso nos vendrá bien	That will do us good [come to us good].

1	Si quiere usted, don Pedro, podemos tomar café juntos.	If you want, don P., we can take coffee together.
2	¿Decía usted?... Oh perdone, no había caído en ello (1). Es la primera vez que me llaman don Pedro,	(What) were you saying? Oh pardon me, I had not understood [fallen into it]. It's the first time that somebody calls me don P.,
3	y me ha sorprendido. No me figuraba que se trataba de mí.	and (it) has surprised me. I did not imagine that I was concerned.
4	Se acostumbrará usted pronto. Aquí es costumbre emplear el nombre, y no el apellido.	You will get used to it quickly. Here it's the habit to use the Christian name, and not the family name.
5	¿Adónde iremos (2)? — En la esquina hay un café con orquesta, pero va poca gente, y se aburre uno;	Where shall we go? — Round the corner there's a café with an orchestra, but few people go there, and one feels dull;
6	si a usted le gusta andar, iremos a un café más céntrico y más concurrido.	if you like ([it pleases you] to walk, we shall go to a more central and more frequented.
7	Como usted quiera. Un paseíto (3) nos vendrá bien.	As you [will] want. A short walk will do us good [come to us good],
8	Salimos don Enrique y yo, y nos dirigimos, hacia (4) el centro.	We go out, don Enrique and myself, and repair towards the centre.
9	Después del calor del día, agrada tomar el fresco.	After the heat of the day, it is agreeable [agrees] to enjoy [take] the cool.
10	Llevo la cabeza muy alta : ya no soy sencillamente Lebrun, soy don Pedro.	I carry my [the] head very high; I am no more [already] simply Lebrun; I am don Pedro.

	EJERCICIOS	EXERCISE :
1	Algunas frases sueltas, con el verbo poder :	A few separate sentences, with the verb poder (can or to be able; may or to be allowed).
2	¿Puede usted ayudarme?	Can you help me?
3	Lo siento, no puedo.	I regret (it), I cannot.
4	¿Podemos empezar?	Can we begin?
5	¿Podría usted venir por la tarde?	Will you be able to come in the afternoon
6	No podré nunca acabar este trabajo.	I shall never be able to finish this work.
7	Intenté, pero no pude.	I tried, but I could not.
8	¿No podía usted hacerlo de otro modo? — No podía	Could you not (Were you not able to) do it in another way? — I could not.
9	No he podido escaparme.	I have not been able to escape.

	NOTES.
1	Caer en ello : "to fall into it", to catch (the meaning), get it.
2	Where with an idea of motion, is adonde. Where is he? : ¿Dónde está?; Where (whither) does he go? : ¿Adónde va? But this rule is often ignored. — La orquesta, the orchestra.
3	Un paseo (hard s), a walk, stroll; un paseito, a short walk.
4	Hacia, towards, not to be mistaken for hacía, was doing. Hacia (or : cerca de) las cuatro hacía mucho viento, Towards 4 there was [made] much wind. — Towards meaning in the direction of is always hacia, not cerca de, which is about.

	To-day you must read over again the 2nd lesson, translating from English into Spanish, and you must go on like this reading again one previous lesson for each new one.