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	Lección Ciento diez (110)
	Riña de novios (1) Agustina y Manolo	A fiancés's (sic.) quarrel. — Augustina and Manuel.

1	Agustina. — No sé a qué has venido (2). Manolo. — Ya te lo he dicho : a verte.	Aug. — I don't know what you have come for. — Man. — I have already told you : to see you.
2	Agu. — ¡Y atormentarme! Man. — No, Agustina. Perdóname. ¡ Es que no sabes cómo te quiero! Agu. — Sí, lo sé, sí... (3).	Aug. — And torment me! — Man. — No, Aug. Pardon me. It's because [that] you don't know how I love you. — Aug. — Yes, I know, yes...
3	Man. — Desde que marchaste, no vivía; todo el día pensando (4) : ¿qué hará en este momento?... ¿Dónde estará ? ¿Con quién estará hablando?	Man. — Since you went, I have not been living; all day (I was) thinking: What will she be doing at this (very) moment? Where will she be? With whom will she be talking?
4	No podía arrancarme del pensamiento la cara de satisfacción que pusiste al subir al tren (5). Y ahora vengo porque no puedo estar un día más sin verte (6), y te encuentro como yo me temía; ¡tan contenta!	I could not help thinking [wrench from my thought] of the satisfied look you took when stepping up into the train. And now I come because I cannot stay one day more without seeing you, and I find you as I feared (I would) : so happy!
5	Agu. —- ¿Cómo quieres que esté? Con mi madre, viendo tantas cosas que no había visto nunca; todo el mundo me trata bien, voy a todas partes...	Aug. — How do you want me to be? With my mother, visiting [seeing] so many things that I had never seen; everybody treats me well, I go everywhere.
6	Man. —- Y en todas te encuentras tan a gusto sin mí (7).	Man. — And everywhere you find yourself so well without me?
7	Agu. — ¿Por qué me dices eso? En todas partes pienso en tí, y siempre que lo paso bien (8), digo : ¡qué alegría si estuviera a mi lado! Si viera esto, si oyera que me dicen esto otro!	Aug. — Why do you tell me this? Everywhere I think of you, every time I am glad [spend it well], I say to myself : What a joy if he was near me! if he saw this, if he heard people say that [other] to me!
8	Así te quiero yo. ¿Está mal? ¿Quieres que esté todo el día triste? Algunos ratos también lo estoy : es decir triste del todo, no... una pena suavecita, una inquietud como si me faltara algo (9). ¡Y debe ser que me faltas tú!	It is thus that I love you. Is it wrong [bad] ? Do you want me to be sad all day? At certain times I am so, too; (that) is to say... quite sad, no; a sweet sorrow, a restlessness as if I was missing something. And it must be you I miss!
9	Man, — ¡No estás muy segura! Agu. — No mereces que lo esté, no. ¡Mira que enfadarte porque yo esté contenta!	Man. — You're not very sure! — Aug. — No, you don't deserve that I should be. Fancy [look] getting angry because I'm glad!
	(Primavera en Otoño, por G. Martínez Sierra.)	{Spring in Autumn, by G. Martinez Sierra.)

	EJERCICIOS	EXERCISE :
	Interior de artista.	An artist's home.
1	Hombre, su casa es un verdadero museo.	My dear, your house is a veritable museum.
	No llegan a tanto mis pretensiones, pero confieso que me gusta rodearme de obras de arte.	— My pretensions don't amount to so much, but I own that I like to surround myself with works of art.
2	Esta colección de cuadros, todos firmados de maestros, representa un dineral.	This collection of pictures all signed by masters represent a fortune.
3	Sin duda, pera todos no los compré yo; unos cuantos, principalmente los retratos al óleo me vienen de herencia.	Without any doubt, but it wasn't I bought them all; some of them, particularly the oil portraits come (to me) from an inheritance.
4	También algunos muebles de estilo : aquel aparador con puertas tan lindamente esculpidas, ese cofre viejo de roble con herrajes tan curiosos;	Also a few pieces of furniture of style : that cupboard with so delicately carved doors, that old oak chest with so curious fittings;
5	un secretario antiguo de caoba con incrustaciones de nácar que tengo en mi despacho;	an ancient mahogany secretaire with inlayings of mother-of-pearl, that I have in my study;
6	unas sillas con asiento y respaldo de cuero repujado que vió usted en el comedor, y otros cachivaches esparcidos por toda la casa.	a few chairs with bottoms and backs of embossed leather, that you have seen in the dining-room, and other old things scattered through all the house.
7	Pero esta alfombra la traje-yo de Marruecos; ese mantón de seda tan ricamente bordado, procede de Filipinas; aquellas estatuitas de marfil, las compré en Cantón.	But this carpet, I myself brought it back from Morocco; this silk shawl, so richly embroidered comes from the Philippines; these ivory statuettes I bought in Canton.

	NOTES.
1	Novios, fiancés, is also said of young sweethearts. Echarse una novia, to find a sweetheart.
2	When accompanying a verb of motion (to go, come, start, etc..,)., the preposition a marks a purpose. He venido a verte, I have come to see you. — ¿ A qué has venido? What have you come for?
3	Spanish often repeats after a sentence and in order to emphasize it, the affirmation or negation of the beginning : Sí, lo sé, sí, yes, I do know it. — No mereces que lo esté, no, You don't deserve that I should be, no.
4	The verb estar is often understood before a present participle, in colloquial language : todo el día pensando, all day I (am) thinking; con mi madre, viendo tantas cosas, with my mother, we are (or I am) seeing so many things...
5	La cara que pusiste : the look [face] that you took [put]. ¡ Que cara pones! : What an air you're, putting on! — Pusiste is the 2nd person of the preterite of poner : yo puse, tú pusiste, él puso.
6	Un día más, one day more (see less. 109, n. 2).
7	Estar a gusto, encontrarse a gusto, to be, find oneself at ease. The contrary would be : estar incómodo, estar violento, to feel uneasy.
8	Siempre que = cada vez que, every time that — Pienso en tí, I think of you. Mind the preposition en which much follow this verb. We have already seen : tardar en, to delay, postpone... which offers the same particularity. (Less. 107, En la botica, II, beginning of dialogue.)
9	Si me faltara algo, if something was lacking; a few lines before : si estuviera, if he was (were); si viera, if he saw; si oyera, if he heard; these are examples of a second preterite subjunctive that we do not possess in English, and which, in Spanish is used before a supposition expressed in the preterite.
	Here are the endings of this tense :
	Cantar, to sing; si cantara, if I sang (should sing), si cantaras, si cantara, si cantáramos, si cantarais, cantaran. Comer, to eat; si comiera, if I ate (should eat), si comieras, comiera, comiéramos, comierais, comieran. Vivir, to live; si viviera, if I lived (should live), si vivieras, etc... as above. Don't mix them up and notice the place of the stress : si usted cantara, if you sang (should sing); usted cantará, you will sing.