By Gabriel García Márquez
On her 12th birthday, Sierva Maria – the single baby of a decaying noble relations in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten through a rabid puppy. Believed to be possessed, she is delivered to a convent for statement. And into her cellphone stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed a couple of lady with hair trailing after her like a bridal educate. As he has a tendency to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels whatever surprising start to take place. He has fallen in love – and it's not lengthy until eventually Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered distress. Unsettling and indelible, of affection and different Demons is an evocative, majestic story of the main common stories recognized to lady and guy.
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At midday she allowed herself to be led to the refectory for those who had not yet taken their reclusive vows. It was a spacious room with a high vaulted ceiling and large windows through which the brilliance of the sea came clamoring in and the uproar at the cliffs sounded very close. Twenty novices, most of them young, were sitting at a double row of long, rough tables. They wore ordinary serge habits, their heads were shaved, and they were cheerful and silly and did not hide the excitement of eating their barracks rations at the same table as one possessed.
The rest of the building consisted of eleven closed chambers where the debris of two centuries had accumulated. Except for the nun who served his food, Cayetano Delaura was the only person with access to the Bishop's house during meals, not because of personal privilege, as some said, but because of his position as reader. He did not have a definite office, or any title other than librarian, but he was considered a de facto vicar because of his close association with the Bishop, and no one could imagine the prelate making an important decision without him.
The Marquis knew next to nothing of his wife's downfall. Rumors from the plantation said that she was living in a state of delirium, that she talked to herself, that she selected the best-endowed slaves and shared them in Roman orgies with her former schoolmates. The fortune that came to her by water left by water, and she was at the mercy of the skins of honey and sacks of cacao that she kept hidden in various places so she would lose no time when her relentless longings pursued her. The only security she had left were two urns filled with gold doubloons, pieces of one hundred, and pieces of four, which she had buried under her bed in the days of plenty.