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Sample ## Take a look inside I In Venice do let heaven see the oranks. They dare not show their husbands; their best conscience. Is, not to leave undone, buy keep unknown. Shakespeare Othello … Other women cloy. The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry. Where most she satisfies: for viles things. Become themselves in her; that the holy priest. Bless her when she is riggish. Un destino singular, semejante a un guía burlón, iba a iniciarme desde muy temprano en todos los misterios de la vida, y lo que es más extraño aún, por una serie maravillosa de contrastes, que hacían para mí doble el tiempo y más rápido el aprendizaje. Mi primer amor fue un lampo de aurora; mi segundo amor fue un incendio. Todavía atónito por las volubilidades de la cervatilla, me encontré, cuando menos lo pensaba, en las garras de la tigre. Mi corazón, excitado apenas con el aroma de la margarita silvestre, se atosigó bien pronto con el perfume letal de la rosa, reina de los jardines. He dicho que Antonia, en su calidad de niña, necesitaba un mentor que fuese niño. A mi vez, yo no sé si la necesitaba; pero el hecho es que, como Juan Jacobo Rousseau, me encontré con una mamá; ya sabéis que así llamaba él a la buena Madame de Varens. Mi maestra era una mujer cuyo tipo existe todavía, como un resto edificante de la antigua educación que recibió esta sociedad cuando era colonia, y que se encargó de modificar la vida moderna. Pero no anticipemos, y hagamos la historia desde el principio. Estudiaba yo; ya recordaréis que mi buen padre me trajo a México con la intención de meterme en un colegio. Así lo hizo, y por dos años me estuve inocentemente estudiando, confesando y comulgando, como lo acostumbraban los jóvenes que… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fbeatriz) The sample continues in the full work. 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