I work hard from early morning until late at night, but what is the use when I see my poor wife gradually fading away before my very eyes?
The doctor says that she cannot possibly live through the next winter.

Ah! how delighted the poor girl would be if she could see the padrone once again!" I felt sorry for him.

Armida had been a good servant, and had served me well for nearly three years.

Old Rosina, my housekeeper, had often regretted that she had been compelled to leave to attend to her aged mother.

The latter, he told me, had died, and afterwards he had married her.