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After Amadeo came to Ecks, Rafaela went no longer to the river. The / former engineer was unwilling that his wife should toil. They had enough / for all to live on for a while, with what he had made in prison. They / spoke not of the past. You might almost have thought they had forgotten / it. Why remember? Zureda had forgiven everything. Rafaela, moreover, was / no longer the same. The gay happiness of her eyes had gone dead; the / waving blackness of her hair and the girlish quickness of her body had / vanished. There was a melancholy abandonment, heavy with remorse, in her / sad and flabby face, in the humility of her look, in the slow, round / fatness of her whole body.
The ex-convict followed the advice of Don Adolfo and gave up all idea of / devoting himself to farming. In the best street of the village, near the / church, he set up a general repair-shop where he took in both wood and / iron work. There he shod a mule, mended a cart or put a new coulter to a / plow, with equal facility.