A year or so previously Don Enrico Asterón, one of the richest noblemen of the city, had turned him out of his house where he had been employed as a tutor, for being on too intimate a footing with Asteró’s only daughter, Doña Josefa. She herself was sternly warned, but owing to the malicious vigi...
. . , a major city in northern Italy, the widowed Marquise of O . . . , a woman of peerless reputation and the mother of two well-brought-up children, let it be known in the newspaper that she had, unbeknownst to her, been gotten in the family way; that the father of the child that she was about ...