Word: amparo
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...result, streetcar crewmen were ordered out of uniform and into civilian clothes so that they could hastily mingle with the crowd and disappear in case of an accident. When they turned themselves in to the cops a few days later, they always had bail money and an amparo (injunction) for a quick release. The crewmen went back to work, and the accident cases usually dragged on to cheap settlements...
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...
Universal Amparo. There are two reasons why Torment, with its routine plot and its 19th century setting, is first-rate literary news in 1953: 1) it is told with much of the eloquence and appetite for life that are the trademarks of the great men of the novel-Dickens, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Fielding; and 2) it is virtually the first chance since the turn of the century that U.S. readers have had to meet Benito Pérez Galdós, one of Spain's finest writers (The Spendthrifts sold 400 copies in this country). Like his mighty peers...
...many a contemporary novelist gives forth in his entire output. For Author Pérez Galdós is bold enough to use the fine old materials of fiction as if he had just discovered them: love and lust, generosity and greed, envy and charity, understanding and pettiness. Poor Amparo is no figure in a Spanish soap opera; she is the universal woman who has sinned, under pressure of her own 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...
...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...