I want to introduce our cousin." Linares was so absorbed in the contemplation of those eloquent eyes, which seemed to be searching for some one, that he did not hear Dona Victorina name him.
"Senor Linares," said the curate, calling him out of his abstraction, "here comes Padre Damaso." It was indeed Padre Damaso, but pale and rather sad.

On leaving his bed his first visit was for Maria Clara.

Nor was it the Padre Damaso of former times, hearty and self-confident; now he moved silently and with some hesitation..