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Page 9-10
"She'd been seduced by Ibrahim Nasar... She'd made love to him in secret for several years in the stables of the ranch, and he brought her to be a house servant when the affection was over." -
page 43-44
"I had proposed marriage to Mercedes Barcha as soon as she finished primary school, just as she herselfwould remind me fourteen years later when we got married." -
Page 51
"Faustino Santos, a butcher friend, saw them enter at three-twenty, when he had just opened up his innards table, and he couldn't understand why they were coming on a Monday and so early, and still in their dark wedding suits." -
Page 49
"According to what they told me years later, they had begun by looking for him at María Alejandrina Cervantes's place, where they had been with him until two o'clock." -
page 25
"Bayardo San Román, the man who had given back his bride, had turned up for the first time in August of the year before: six months befor the wedding." -
page 29
"Angela Bicario and Bayardo San Román had seen each other for the first time on the national holiday in October during a charity bazaar at which she was in charge of singing out of raffle numbers. -
Page 21
"Angela Bicario, the beautiful girl who'd gotten married the day before... ' I felt that I was going to die'" -
On a Monday either 5,12,19, or 26
Page 4 and 5
"Was to be expected in a fine February of that period... he wore on Mondays to go to The Divine Face" -
Chapter 3 Pages 48-49
"The lawyer stood by the thesis of homicide in legitimate defense of honor, which was upheld by the court in good faith, and the twins declared at the end of the rial that they would have done it agian a thousand times over for the same reason." -
"Halfway through one August day, while she was embroidering with her friends, she heard someone coming to the door. She didn't have to look to see who it was."
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- On the day they wer going to kill him
- 5:30 got up
- The bishop is coming