Word: agustin
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...Then Agustin, a cousin of the Bringases, came back from America, and Amparo's situation began to look up. Agustin was a jewel of a man, kind, modest, a bit awkward socially, but enormously rich, and generous to a fault. Pushing 45, he was by all odds the finest catch in Madrid, but once he laid eyes on lovely, humble Amparo, the other senoritas had no chance. He proposed and Amparo accepted. There was just one problem: Amparo had once been seduced by a sinful priest, who kept popping up and asking for further favors. She was too weak...
...generosity and momentary passion, and is willing to pay. Even Polo, the unfrocked priest, is seen as a man whose 'whole nature is out of tune with his mistaken calling, a personality so split that the sharp edges are bound to stab anyone brought too close. As for Agustin, he can be seen in any land in any time, sure that he has won his way to a plateau of peace, only to discover that life does not respect bankrolls, and that it can set its traps in the heart even for the middleaged...
...Story. After an abortive try at suicide, Amparo finally confesses to Agustin, not even dreaming that he will have her now. And Agustin, a man of convention, says he won't. But his heart says yes, and the heart wins. Yet, as Author Pérez Galdós does things, this is no commonplace happy ending. It is an end to anguish achieved by a cleansing of guilt on Amparo's part, by the courage on Agustin's to dismiss the sneers of his narrow world. An old story, but Torment shows how good...
...alarm that broke out when it was learned that Rodriguez and Africa had escaped to Paris, where Rodriguez was claiming political asylum as an anti-Franco refugee. He was merrily giving sensational interviews to anti-Franco newspapers and making anti-Franco broadcasts. In the Ministry of War, General Agustin Muiioz Grande gave his orders: "I don't care how, but this man must be brought back...
...past two years the regime has increasingly used such totalitarian practices as police torture and terrorization of the independent press. Dissident officeholders have been purged. Such opposition leaders as Radicals Ernesto Sammartino and Agustin Rodriguez Araya have been forced into exile (TIME...