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1987-mario camus-la casa de bernarda alba (federico garcia lorca).avi

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    Scrub everything clean
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    My head is bursting with those tolling bells - The church looks beautiful
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    Priests have come from every town. Magdalena fainted during the first response
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    She's the one who's going to be the loneliest
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    She's the only one her father loved
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    Why don't you give me some for my little girl, Poncia?
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    Take a handful of garbanzos too. Today she won't notice
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    Bernarda
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    Is she locked up tight?
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    With two turns of the key
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    You should fasten the bolt too. She has fingers like five skeleton keys!
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    Bernarda
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    She's coming!
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    Did all the relatives come?
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    Hers did. His people hate her
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    Are there enough chairs?
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    More than enough. Let them sit on the floor!
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    Scrub! Scrub those tiles!
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    My hands are bleeding for all this scrubbing
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    If Bernarda doesn't see things shine, she'll tear out the little hair I have left
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    What a woman!
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    She could sit on your heart and watch you die for a whole year without taking that cold smile off her damn face
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    She's been good to you
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    Thirty years washing her sheets. Thirty years, eating her leftovers.
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    Entire days peering through cracks, to spy on the neighbors and bring her the gossip
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    A life with no secrets from each other. And yet: Damn her!
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    May she have a horrible pain, like nails stuck in her eyes
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    Poncia
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    But I'm a good dog: I bark when I'm told, and I snap at beggars' heels when she sets me on them
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    My sons work in her fields, and they're both married now, but someday I'll be sick of it.
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    I'll lock myself in a room with her and spit at her for a whole year
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    I'll lock myself in a room with her and spit at her for a whole year
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    "For this, Bernarda!" "And for that!" Änd for the other!" Until she's a lizard that children have smashed to pieces
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    I certainly don't envy the way she lives. She has five girls on her hands, five ugly daughters
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    but except for Angustias, the oldest, who is her first husband's child and has some money
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    the rest: lots of fine lace, lots of linen shifts, but bread and grapes is all they will inherit!
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    I would like to have what they have
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    I'm going over to listen the last prayer. I love the way the priest sings
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    In the Pater Noster the walls trembled when he sang, it was as if a wolf had come into the church
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    AMEEEEEEN
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    You'll pulverize your windpipe
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    My windpipe?
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    I'd rather pulverize something else!
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    Rot away, Antonio Maria Benavides, stiff in your wool suit and your high boots!
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    Never again will you lift up my skirt behind the back corral
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    Of those who served you, I loved you the most
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    Must I go on living after you've gone?
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    You should have seen to it everything was cleaner
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    Get out! This is not where you belong
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    The poor are like animals
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    Poor people have their sorrows too
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    But they forget them, once there's a plate with food in front of them
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    You must eat to live
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    At your age, one does not speak in front of one's elders
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    Sit down
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    Magdalena, don't cry
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    Did you hear me?
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    Give some to the men
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    They're having some already
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    Tell to Bernarda I'm hungry and thirsty
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    I did
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    Give me at least some dishwater to drink, and dog meat
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    Come with me
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    Pepe el Romano was with the men at the funeral?
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    He was there
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    His mother was there. She saw his mother
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    Neither she nor I saw Pepe
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    I thought I... - In church, women should look at no man but the priest
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    Whoever turn her head is on the prowl for a man
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    Blessed be God
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    Rest in peace with the souls of the departed - Rest in peace
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    With Saint Michael the Archangel and his sword of justice - Rest in peace
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    With the key that opens all, and the hand that closes all - Rest in peace
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    With all the blessed saints and the little lights of the fields - Rest in peace
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    With our holy charity and the sould from land and sea - rest in peace
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    Grant repose to your servant Antonio Maria Benavides, and give him the crown of your sacred glory - Amen
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    requien aeternam dona eis, domine - Et lux perpetua lucea
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    I hope many years go by before you cross my threshold again
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    You have nothing to complain about. The whole town came
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    Yes. To fill my house with the poison of their tongues
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    Mother, don't talk like that
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    That's the way you must talk in this damned town without river
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    This town of wells, where you always drink the water fearing that it's poisoned
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    Look what they have done to the floor
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    You'd think a herd of goats had walked on it
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    Give me a fan, girl
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    Give me a black one, and learn to respect your father's memory
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    Take mine, I'm fine
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    During our eight years of mourning, no wind from the street will enter this house
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    Pretend we have sealed up the doors and windows with bricks
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    In the meantime, you can embroider your trousseaus
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    I know I'm not going to get married
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    I'd rather carry sacks to the mill
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    Anything but sit in this dark room, day after day
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    That's what it means to be a woman
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    To hell with being a woman
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    Here you do what I tell you to do. You can't run to your father with your stories anymore.
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    A needle and thread for females, a mule and a whip for males
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    That's how it is for people born with means
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    'During the funeral I had to cover her mouth with an empty sack several times
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    Let her out where the neighbors can't see her from their windows
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    And Angustias?
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    I saw her peering through a crack in the front door
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    why did you go to the door too?
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    I went to see if the hens had laid
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    But the men must have left already
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    A group of them are still standing around outside
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    what do you want?
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    what were you looking at? At whom?
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    At no one
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    Is it proper for a woman of your class to go chasing after a man
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    who were you looking at? - Me?
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    You - At no one
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    Calm down
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    Get out of here
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    She did it without thinking, which was clearly wrong
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    It pissed me off to see her sneaking toward the patio
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    And then she stood at the window, listening to the men's conversation, which as usual, was not fir to hear
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    What were they talking about?
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    Who? - the men
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    They were talking about Paca la Roseta. Last night they tied her husband up in a stall
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    threw her over the back of a horse, and carried her off to the top of the olive grove
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    what about her? - Her? She agreed to it
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    They say she rode with her breasts hanging out, and Maximiliano held her as if he was playing a guitar
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    Horrible
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    Then what happened? - What was bound to happen
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    It was dawn when they got back. Paca la Roseta had her hair undone and was wearing a crown of flowers on her head
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    They said a lot more things
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    what?
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    I'm embarrassed to talk about that
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    And my daughter heard all that.
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    She takes after her aunts. Soft and slippery, making sheep's eyes at any little barber who flattered them!
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    Your daughters are old enough to get married now
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    They give you little enough trouble. Angustias must be - Thirty nine, to be exact
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    Imagine. And she's never had a suitor
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    None of them has had a suitor, nor needs one!
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    For a hundred miles around, no one can measure up to them
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    What would you have me do? Turn 'em over to some field hand?
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    You should have gone to some other town
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    Of course, to sell them
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    No, Bernarda, to change.
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    Can we or can we not be honest with each other?
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    We cannot. You are my servant, and I pay you. Nothing more!
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    Put away all the clothes
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    We could give some things away - Nothing, not one button
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    Not even the handkerchief we used to cover his face
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    What are you doing with that dress?
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    I had such dreams about it.
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    I planned to wear it my birthday
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    Now it'll rot away in the closet
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    Who are you?
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    Magdalena
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    open up
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    I can't
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    Magdalena, face of a hyena
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    That damned will!
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    What a lot of money was left to Angustias!
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    A lot
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    And to the others?
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    So much less
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    You know that very well, but you enjoy asking me that several times
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    Have you taken your medicine?
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    For all the good it's going to do me
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    Did you notice? Adelaida wasn't at the funeral
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    Her fiance won't let her go out
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    She used to be full of fun
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    now she doesn't even powder her face
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    Nowadays you don't even know whether it's better to get engaged or not
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    it's all the same
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    It's better never to lay eyes on a man
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    Since I was a child I've been afraid of them. I used to see them in the corral, yoking the oxen and loading the sacks of wheat with loud voices and clumsy feet
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    I was always afraid of growing up for fear of suddenly finding myself in their clutches
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    God made me weak and ugly and set them forever apart from me
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    Don't say that! Enrique Humanas was after you and he used to like you
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    The things people make up!
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    One time I stood at the window until daylight because I was told he was going to come, and he didn't. It was all just talk
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    then he married someone with more money than me
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    And ugly as the devil
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    What do they care about ugliness? All they care about is land, oxen, and a meek little dog to cook for them
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    what are you doing?
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    hanging out - One of your shoelaces is untied
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    what difference does it make!
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    You'll step on it and you'll fall
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    one less
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    here
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    Do you know about it yet?
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    no - Come on
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    what?
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    About Pepe el Romano
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    Pepe el Romano wants to marry Angustias
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    I'm glad
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    me too
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    neither one of you is glad!
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    Magdalena, really!
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    If he wanted Angustias as a woman, I'd be glad. But he wants her money
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    even though Angustias is our sister, in this family we know she's old and has always had the least to offer of any of us
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    Luck comes to the one who least expects it
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    Angustias has all her father's money. she's the only rich one in the house so they're coming after her
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    it'd be natural for him to be interested in you, Amelia, or in our Adela
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    but not to come looking for the gloomiest person in this house
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    Maybe he likes that
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    I never could stand your hypocrisy!
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    If mother sees you she'll drag you out by the hair
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    I was crazy about this dress
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    It is beautiful
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    and it suits me very well
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    What you could do is dye it black
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    Or give it to Angustias to wear when she marries Pepe el Romano
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    Haven't you heard?
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    but it's not possible
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    Money makes everything possible
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    what are you thinking?
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    I'm thinking that this period of mourning has caught me at the worst possible time
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    You'll get used to it
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    I will not get used to it. I don't want to be locked up!
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    I don't want to waste away in these rooms
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    Tomorrow i'll put on this dress again and go walking down the street
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    I want to get out - ADELA
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    Hush
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    Pepe el Romano is coming down the street - Let's go watch
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    You're not going?
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    i don't care
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    Since he'll be coming around the corner, you can see him better from the window in your room.
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    have you dared to powder your face?
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    He was not my father. Mine died sometime ago. Don't you remember?
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    You owe more to that man, father of your sisters, than you do to your own - Mother, let me go
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    After you've taken that powder off your face. Weakling! Hussy! You're the image of your aunts
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    If you're worried about the inheritance, you're the richest, you keep it all
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    Keep your tongue in its place!
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    Don't entertain the illusion that you're going to be a match for me
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    until I leave this house feet first, I will make the decisions, my own and yours
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    With all this thread you can start sewing
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    For whose trosseau?
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    for everyone's
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    None of you is going to get married
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    None of my things will ever be yours, because none of you will get married
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    None of you
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    why did you let her in?
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    She got away
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    I escaped...
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    because i want to get married
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    Bernarda, give me my pearl necklace!
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    Be quiet, mother!
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    No
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    I won't be quiet
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    I don't want to see these single women itching to get married
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    their hearts turning to dust
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    Bernarda, I want a man to marry and be happy
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    Lock her up
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    All of you help her
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    I want to get away from here Bernarda! to get married at the edge of the sea
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    At the edge of the sea
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    Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
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    Blessed art thou among women
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    and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
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    Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners,
    now and at the hour of our death
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    And Adela? - still in bed
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    Something's wrong with that girl
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    There's nothing more or less wrong with her than with any of us
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    All of us, except Angustias
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    I feel just fine. and anyone who doesn't like it can go to hell
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    one must admit the best things about you have always been your figure and your tact
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    fortunately, I'll soon be getting out of this hell
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    Perhaps you won't be getting out
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    Stop that talk!
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    is there something wrong?
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    I don't feel well
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    Didn't you sleep well last night again?
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    Leave me alone
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    asleep or awake, it's none of your business
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    I'll do what I want with my body
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    it's only my concern for you
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    Concern or curiosity?
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    I wish i was invisible, i could walk through these rooms without being asked where I'm going
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    In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
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    Lead our thoughts and words my Lord
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    And Precious Virgin, be graceful with us to follow the catholic faith
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    Don't look at me anymore! If you want I'll give you my eyes that are brighter
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    and my back, to fix that crooked one of yours
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    and my back, to fix that crroked one of yours
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    But turn your head away when i go by
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    Adela, she's your sister, besides, she's the one who loves you the most
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    She follows me everywhere
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    sometimes she peeks into my room to see if I'm asleep
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    she won't let me breathe!
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    And it's always ''What a shame about that face'', '' What a shame about that body which will never belong to anyone''
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    Not at all
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    My body will be for anyone I please
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    For Pepe el Romano, isn't that it?
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    What are you saying? - What i said
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    Be quiet - Do you think i haven't noticed?
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    Lower your voice
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    get rid of those thoughts - What do you know?
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    Old women can see right through the walls
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    I wish you were blind
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    I have eyes in my head and in my hands when it comes to things like this.
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    Why were you standing at the open window with the lights on when Pepe comes to talk with your sister?
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    that's not true
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    Don't be childish. Leave your sister alone, and if you want Pepe el Romano, control yourself!
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    open the door to see if we can get a little fresh air
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    Last night it was so hot I couldn't get to sleep
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    Neither could I
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    I got up to cool off. There was a black storm cloud and even a few drops of rain
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    the fire was rising up out of the ground
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    I got up too. Angustias was still at her window with Pepe
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    What time did he leave?
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    He must have left about half past one
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    I heard him cough, and i heard the pony stamping his hooves
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    but i heard him leave around 4 o'clock
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    That couldn't have been him
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    Tell me, Angustias, what did he say to you the first time he came to your window?
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    Nothing
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    What would he say to me? it was just talk
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    ''You already know I'm after you''
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    ''I need a good woman, well behaved and that's you if you agree''. Sort of
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    These things embarrass me
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    and you?
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    I couldn't talk
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    My heart almost jumped out of my mouth
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    It was the first time I was ever alone with a man at night
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    Such things are easy for people with a little experience, who talk and say things and wave their hands around
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    The first time my husband, Evaristo the birdman, came to my window... - What happened?
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    It was very dark. I saw him coming closer, and when he arrived, he said to me, ''Good evening''
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    Good evening I said to him, and we ramained silent for a while
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    The sweat was running down my whole body. Then Evaristo came closer, as if he wanted to squeeze through the bars
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    and he said in a very low voice '' Come here so I can feel you''
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    Afterwards, he behaved himself
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    Instead of doing something else, he took up breeding finches, until he died
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    It's best for single women like you to know that 15 days after the wedding a man leaves the bed for the table, then the table for the tavern
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    And any woman who doesn't accept it rots away in a corner
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    is it true that you hit him, sometimes?
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    yes. i'm from the same school as your mother. One day he said something to me and I killed all his finches with the pestle from my kitchen mortar
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    The harvesters are back to work
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    With this sun
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    if only I could go out to the fields
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    They arrived yesterday morning. Forty or fifty good looking young men
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    Where are they from this year?
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    They came from the hills. full of spirit! burnt like trees. Shouting and tossing stones
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    Last night a woman dressed in sequins arrived in town and she danced to the accordion, and 15 of them paid to take her into the olive grove
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    is it true? - years ago, another of these women came, and I myself gave money to my oldest son so he could go. Men needs these things
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    they're forgiven everything
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    To be born a woman is the worst punishment
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    Be careful no to open it too wide, they're bold enough to give it a push to see who's looking
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    ''Open your doors and your windows
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    ladies who live in this town
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    Harvesters beg for your roses
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    roses to trim their sombreros''
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    Open your doors and your windows
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    ladies who live in this town
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    Harvesters beg for your roses
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    What's the matter with you?
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    The heat makes me ill
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    it's nothing more than that?
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    I wish november would come
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    the rainy days, the frost
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    anything but this interminable summer
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    It will soon pass
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    and come again
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    What time did you fall asleep last night?
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    why? - I thought I heard people in the corral, very late
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    Perhaps a wild mule
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    Maybe
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    What?
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    nothing
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    why did you call me?
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    It slipped out
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    I didn't meant to
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    where is the picture of Pepe I had under my pillow? Who of you has it?
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    Neither of us
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    where's the picture? What picture?
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    One of you has hidden it from me
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    You have the effrontery to say that
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    it was in my room, and now it's not. I'd like to know which of you has it
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    somebody, not me
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    of course
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    What is all this commotion? The neighbors must have their ears glue to the walls
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    they've stolen my fiance's picture
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    Don't scream
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    Who?
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    them!
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    Which of you?
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    Answer me
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    Search the rooms, look in the beds
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    This comes from not keeping you on a shorter leash! But I will hunt your dreams. Come here
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    At the end of my life you make me dring the bitterest poison a mother can swallow
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    Could you find it?
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    where? don't be afraid to tell me
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    Between the sheet's of Martirio's bed
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    Is that true? - it's true
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    don't you hit me, mother!
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    As much as I want - Please, no
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    there aren't even tears left in those eyes!
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    I'm not going to cry just to please you
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    Why did you take the picture?
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    Can't I play a joke on my own sister?
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    It was not a joke. You've never liked games, it was something else
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    Be quiet, don't make me talk. because if i talk the walls will collapse in shame
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    A vicious tongue never stops lying
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    You're both crazy
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    And you torture us with your sinful thoughts
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    others do things that are even more sinful
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    Until they strip themselves naked, and let the river sweep them away!
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    Shout up
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    it's not my fault that Pepe el Romano has chosen me!
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    For your money
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    For your land - silence
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    For your fields
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    Silence, I said
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    Get out of here
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    I saw the storm coming, but I didn't think it'd burst so soon
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    What you're doing is wrong
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    Mind your own business! Spy! Traitor!
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    Instead of cleaning the house and going to bed to pray for your dead, you go sticking your nose into the affairs of men and women like an old sow, so you can slobber over them
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    I want to live in a decent house so people won't spit when they come through that door. I don't want to be disgraced in my old age
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    It's already too late! I wouldn't fight you, you're just a servant. I'd fight my mother to put out this fire that rises from my legs and mouth
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    What can you say about me? That I lock myself in my room and don't open the door? That I don't sleep?
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    I'm smarter than you are. See if you can catch this wild rabbit with your hands
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    Don't defy Adela. Because I can raise my voice, light the lamps and make the bells ring
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    Bring out four thousand yellow flares and set them on the walls of the corral. No one can keep what has to happen from happening!
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    Angustias must get married right away
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    Of course. we have to get her away from here
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    Not her! Him!
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    And do you believe he'll want to leave?
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    What's going on in that head of yours?
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    Something monstrous is happening here
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    I don't want to blame you, but you haven't allowed your daughters any freedom. Martirio is romantic, no matter what you say
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    Why didn't you let her marry Enrique Humanas? Why did you send him a message not to come to her window, the very day he was coming?
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    And I'd do it a thousand times again! My blood will never mix with that family, not as long as I live. His father was a field hand
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    This is what comes of putting on airs
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    I do because I can afford to. And you don't because you know very well what you come from
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    Don't remind me of that! I'm old now. I've always been grateful for your protection
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    It wouldn't seem so. I don't think this is the "something monstrous" happening here. Nothing is happening here
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    That's what you'd like. And if something does happen someday, rest assured it will not go beyond these walls
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    I don't know about that - How you'd like to see my daughters and me on our way to the brothel!
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    No one can know their own fate
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    I know my fate, and my daughter's. We'll leave the brothel to a certain woman who's already dead
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    Bernarda, respect the memory of my mother!
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    Stop hounding me with your evil thoughts!
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    It's best if I don't get mixed up in anything
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    That's what you should do
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    Work and keep your mouth shut, it's the obligation of those who are paid to work
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    But I can't. Don't you think that Pepe would be better off married to Martirio or Adela?
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    I don't think so
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    Adela, she's his real fiancee
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    Things are never the way we'd like them to be
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    Yesterday my oldest son told me that at half past four in the morning, when he went by with his oxen, Angustias was still talking with Pepe
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    That's a lie!
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    For more than a week, Pepe has been leaving here at one o'clock
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    I heard him leave at 4 too
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    Don't you usually talk through the window facing the alley?
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    I talk through the window in my bedroom
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    What's going on here?
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    Careful, you'll find out!
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    Mother, don't listen to someone who wants to destroy us all!
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    If people in this town want to bear false witness, they will find me as hard as flint
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    This matter is not to be discussed
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    Sometimes other people stir up a wave of mud in order to destroy us
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    I don't like to lie
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    So something is going on!
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    I have the right to know
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    You have no right but to obey. No one is going to push me around
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    And you take care of your own affairs. No one will take a step without my hearing it
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    There's a big crowd up the street. And all the neighbors are at their doors!
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    I'll tear you out of his arms
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    Martitrio, leave me alone
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    He wants me in his house
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    I saw the way he embraced you
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    I didn't want to
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    It was like being dragged by a rope
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    Bernarda - What is it?
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    Librada's daughter, the one who's not married, just had a baby, and no one know who's the father - a baby?
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    And to hide her shame, she killed it and put it under some rocks, but some dogs pulled it out, and as if led by God's hands, they put it on her doorstep
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    They're dragging her down the street, and they want to kill her
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    Yes! Let them all come to kill her
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    No, not to kill her. Let her go
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    Let her pay for what she did
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    Finish her off before the Civil Guards get here
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    Burning coals in the place where she sinned
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    Kill her
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    and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation
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    Fifth mystery
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    The lost child, found in church
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    The lost child, found in church
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    Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name...
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    I'm going now
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    It's been a long visit
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    Stay longer
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    We never see each other
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    what's that?
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    The breeding stallion, locked up and kicking the wall
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    Shackle him and let him out in the corral! He must be hot
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    Are you going to breed him with your new mares?
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    At sunrise
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    You've been good at building your herd
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    Thanks to money and a lot of unpleasantness
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    It made my heart pound
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    Shut the mares in the stable, but turn him loose before he kicks down the walls
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    What about Angustias, when will she get married?
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    They are going to ask for her hand in three days
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    Where are you going?
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    For a drink of water
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    You may seat down
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    You must be pleased
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    I am
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    Bring a pitcher of cool water
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    Has he given you the ring yet?
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    It's lovely
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    In my day, pearl meant tears
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    But things have changed now
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    I don't think so. Things always mean the same
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    Engagement rings are supposed to be diamonds
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    With pearls or without' em things are what you make of them
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    Or what God makes of them
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    Your furniture is beautiful
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    I spent sixteen thousand reales
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    What's important is that things work out
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    There's no reason why it shouldn't
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    I'll come back soon, so you can show me the clothes
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    Whenever you like
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    God be with you, good night.
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    Good night
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    where are you going?
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    I'm going to the front door to get a little fresh air
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    I'm going with you - Me too
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    I'm not going to get lost
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    I want you to speak to your sister Martirio
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    You know she doesn't love me
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    I don't pry into people's hearts, but I do want to keep up appearances and have harmony in the family. Do you understand it?
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    What does Pepe have to say?
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    I find him distracted
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    He always talks to me as if he's thinking of something else
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    if I ask him what's wrong, he answers: "We men have our own worries"
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    You shouldn't ask him. Especially after you're married. Speak if he speaks, and look at him when he looks at you. That way you won't quarrel
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    Mother, I think he hides many things from me
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    Don't try to find out. Don't ask him, and above all, don't ever let him see you cry.
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    I should be happy and I am not
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    It's all the same
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    I often stare very hard at Pepe
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    until he grows blurred behind the bars of the window, as if he were being covered by a cloud of dust like the sheep stir up
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    It's only because you're frail - I hope so
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    Is he coming tonight?
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    He went to the city with his mother
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    come on, to bed
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    There are stars in the sky as big as fists
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    Don't do that. You'll break your neck
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    Don't you like' em?
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    I don't care what goes on above the rooftops. I have enough with what goes on inside these rooms!
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    That's how you are!
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    She has her way and you have yours
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    I can't find any trace of that "monstrous thing" you claim is happening here
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    Bernarda, let's forget about that conversation
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    In this house there's no question of yes or no. My vigilance takes care of that
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    Nothing is happening on the surface, it's true. Your daughters are tucked away in a cupboard, and that's how they live.
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    But neither you nor anyone else can see into their hearts
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    My daughters breathe easily
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    You care about that because you're their mother
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    For me looking after your house is enough
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    Does your son still see Pepe at 4 o'clock in the morning?
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    Do they still tell the same malicious stories about this house?
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    They say nothing
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    Because they can't! Because there's no meat to bite into
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    Suddenly lightning may strike! Suddenly your heart may stop dead
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    Nothing's happening here
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    All the better for you
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    I just fed your mother. Is there anything else you want Bernarda?
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    Nothing, I'm going to bed
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    Bernarda thinks that no one can stand up to her
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    Bernarda thinks that no one can stand up to her
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    She doesn't realize the power a man can have over lonely women
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    It's not all Pepe el Romano's fault
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    They say he spoke to Adela many nights
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    And other things
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    I don't know what's going to happen here
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    I'd like to cross the ocean and get away from this house of turmoil
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    Bernarda is rushing the wedding day
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    Things have already gone too far. Adela has made up her mind to do whatever it takes, and the other keep watch all the time.
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    They are wicked
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    They are women without men, that's all
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    The dogs are crazy
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    They're not going to let us sleep
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    Grandma, where are you going?
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    Are you going to open the door for me? Who are you?
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    Go to bed
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    You're Martirio, now I see you.Martirio, face of a martyr
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    When are you going to have a child? I've had this one
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    Come on, go to bed
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    You can't see him, because it's dark
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    Just because I have white hair you think I can't have babies. Yes, and babies and babies
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    Don't yell
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    I have to go, but I'm afaid the dogs will bite me. Will you come with me out to the fields?
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    I don't like fields, I love houses, but houses that are open where the women are stretched out on their beds with their little children
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    And the men are outside, sitting on their chairs. Pepe el Romano is a giant
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    You all want him. But he's going to devour you, because you are grains of wheat
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    No... not grains of wheat. Frogs without tongues
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    Go to bed
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    But later you'll let me out, won't you?
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    Sure
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    Adela
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    Why are you looking for me?
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    Stay away from that man
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    Who are you to tell me that?
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    He came here for someone else. You have come between them
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    You know, because you've seen that he loves me
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    he loves me, he loves me
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    No more
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    You don't care if he embraces a woman he doesn't love. Me neither
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    He could spend a hundred years with Angustias, but if he embraces me it seems terrible to you, because you love him too
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    You love him!
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    Yes
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    Let my breast explode like a bitter pomegranate
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    I love him!
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    Martirio, is not my fault
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    Don't embrace me! Don't try to soften my eyes
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    My blood is no longer your blood
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    There's no solution here. If one of us has to drown, let her drown! Pepe el Romano is mine!
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    I can't stand the horror of this house anymore, not after knowing the taste of his mouth.
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    I will be what he wants me to be
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    With the whole town against me, branding me with their fiery fingers, persecuted by people who claim to be decent
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    and right in front of them I will put on a crown of thorns, like any mistress of a married man
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    Shout up
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    Yes. Yes, let's go to sleep
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    Let him marry Angustias
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    I don't care anymore
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    I will go to a little house alone, where he will see me whenever he wants
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    whenever he feels the need
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    My heart is full of something so vicious I can't keep it from smothering me
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    They teach us to love our sisters
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    God must have abandoned me out in the middle of the darkness
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    because I see as if I had never seen you before
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    Get away from the door
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    Get away
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    go away
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    Martirio
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    Let me go
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    Mother
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    Mother - Let me go
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    MOTHER
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    Get away
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    Stop it, stop it
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    How por I am, with no bolt of light between my fingers
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    She was with him!
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    The shouting in this prison is over. Don't take one step more. No one gives me orders but Pepe. I'm his woman
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    Go and ask him. He'll be the master of this entire house
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    You're not leaving with your triumphant body!
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    Not you, frail little thing. A horse I can floor just with my pinky finger
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    Let her go, where we won't see her ever again
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    I dare you to find him now
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    That's the end of Pepe el Romano
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    My God, Pepe
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    Did you kill him?
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    No. He ran off on his horse
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    Then why did you say that?
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    Because of her
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    Water
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    She must be somewhere here
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    The neighbors are awake
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    Why is she hiding?
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    She's in the room with the new furniture for Angustias, and won't open the door
  • 94:26 - 94:29
    Open up, or I'll break down the door!
  • 94:55 - 94:56
    Don't go in
  • 95:05 - 95:14
    Pepe, you may go running off alive through the shadows of the poplars, but one day you will fall
  • 95:29 - 95:33
    Carry her to her room and dress her in white
  • 95:34 - 95:36
    No one is to say a thing
  • 95:37 - 95:40
    She died a virgin
  • 95:40 - 95:44
    She was fortunate a thousand times over, she had him
  • 95:47 - 95:48
    Silence
  • 95:48 - 95:52
    Be quiet, I said
  • 95:52 - 95:55
    Tears,when you're alone
  • 95:58 - 96:00
    We'll all drown ourselves in a sea of mourning
  • 96:08 - 96:12
    Send word for the bells to toll twice at dawn
  • 96:12 - 96:14
    Did you hear me?
  • 96:17 - 96:19
    Silence
Title:
1987-mario camus-la casa de bernarda alba (federico garcia lorca).avi
Description:

MUY BUENA PUESTA EN CINE UNA OBRA DE TEATRO DE FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA.......EN PAUSAS........MISMO EL SILENCIO NOS HABLA.........RUIDOS DE FONDO,PUERTAS QUE SE CIERRAN,PASOS,ENFIN.....LA RUTINA....LA VIDA.!!!!!! Y TODO SE MUEVE COMO UN RIO LARGO Y TRANQUILO......RECUERDOS.....EN MARCO DE SILUETAS EN NEGRO QUE TIEMBLAN CON LAS SOMBRAS DE LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA.....

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Video Language:
Spanish
Duration:
01:39:06

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