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"It's very sad to be an orphan! " How many times they had told Matilde so, stroking her head pityingly!
"This girl will be dragged up any way God wills, like fodder for the horses, because her second mother, Francisca, is still very young and she'll marry. And the child will become a stumbling block. And if Francisca doesn't marry? Then it will be worse. There'll be no man in this family to keep order."