Transcript of El prometido de Aurelia: narraciones humorísticas
Section 1 of Aurelia's Promise. Humoristic Narrations. This is a LibriVox recording. All of LibriVox's recordings are in public domain. For more information or to be a volunteer, please visit LibriVox .org. Aurelia's Promise. Humoristic Narrations by Mark Twain. Translated by Augusto Barrado. Aurelia's Promise. The facts that I am going to tell you have been inscribed in a letter that is addressed to me by a certain resident lady in the beautiful city of San José. I do not know the author of the letter. Sign, Aurelia María, what could well be a pseudonym. As this is a detail that in nothing affects the interest of the story, I must not lie to him and fully address the matter. As I can tell from the simple reading of the document, young Aurelia has suffered a lot in the world and is also not sure what to do in a decisive moment in her life. She wants to contract marriage, but on the one hand, she is prevented from more or less interested in advice from friends and relatives, and on the other hand, difficulties of a new gender in absolute. Despite the difficulties, she insists on marrying and believing that my opinion should be taken out of the I write to her requesting it, by the way, with eloquence capable of moving a statue. You now know the sad story of Aurelia. She had just turned 16 when she found a handsome boy from New Jersey on her way. Called Williamson Brecky Wright Caruthev. He saw her and loved her with all the ardor that a southern heart is capable of having the luck to be corresponded. They swore to be one of the other with the sentiment of their respective families and for some time they were happy. His existence seemed to be characterized by an immunity against misfortune, something superior to that that humans ordinarily possess. Suddenly, he changed the face of fortune. The handsome Caruthev was attacked by the black vile, but not a black vile benign, but the vile of the most virulent and destructive. So that when Carothers recovered his health, his face looked like a plain relief from the rocky mountains. Unlucky Williamson, his beauty had fled forever. Aurelia thought of a beginning to break her commitment, more carried by compassion, she limited herself to postponing the wedding for a few months, leaving poor Carothers, calm and full of sweet illusions. The day's dawn fixed for the marriage, Breckon Wright, who was distraughtly contemplating the flight of a comet, fell into a well and broke a leg. He had to amputate it over his knee. For the second time, Aurelia tried to free herself from the word of commitment, but nevertheless, she triumphed over love again and the wedding was suspended until Williamson was completely restored. New misfortune, no less mild than the previous ones, prevented the celebration of the wedding. Carothers was there, witnessing the commemorative artillery saves of American independence, when