A net was spread under the water to hold the dishes and thus they were cleaned.

It hasn't been twenty years since the river washed the very entrance of the cave, but it has gradually been receding, just as the memory of her is dying out among the people." "A beautiful legend!" exclaimed Ben-Zayb.

"I'm going to write an article about it.

It's sentimental!" Dona Victorina thought of dwelling in such a cave and was about to say so, when Simoun took the floor instead.
"But what's your opinion about that, Padre Salvi ?" he asked the Franciscan, who seemed to be absorbed in thought.

"Doesn't it seem to you as though his Grace, instead of giving her a cave, ought to have placed her in a nunnery--in St.Clara's, for example?
What do you say ?" There was a start of surprise on Padre Sibyla's part to notice that Padre Salvi shuddered and looked askance at Simoun.
"Because it's not a very gallant act," continued Simoun quite naturally, "to give a rocky cliff as a home to one with whose hopes we have trifled.