Muérete ¡y verás...! : Comedia en cuatro actos by Manuel Bretón de los Herreros
"Tabby's travels" by Lucy Ellen Guernsey is a children's novella written in the mid-19th century. The story likely follows Tabby, a missionary family’s cat, on a series of adventures after becoming separated from home, using the journey to offer gentle lessons about kindness, providence, and everyday virtue. The opening of the provided work takes place in Zaragoza as the militia prepares to march against the Carlists, and a lively street scene introduces
a love triangle: Jacinta favors the gallant officer Pablo, while his comrade Matías also pursues her, and her brother Froilán gloomily predicts calamity as the moneylender Elías hounds Pablo for a signed receipt. Pablo parts from Jacinta with vows and her portrait; later a victory is announced, but rumors say an officer has died. Matías returns claiming Pablo fell heroically and at once presses his suit; Jacinta begins to yield, while her reserved sister Isabel confesses she secretly loved Pablo and grieves deeply. During Pablo’s funeral rites—held even as a dance upstairs celebrates Jacinta’s new attachment—a barber spreads town talk, and a cloaked newcomer appears: Pablo himself, alive, overhearing how swiftly he has been replaced. He resolves to force a public recantation and heads to a notary to set his plan in motion. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Bretón de los Herreros, Manuel, 1796-1873 |
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| Title | Muérete ¡y verás...! : Comedia en cuatro actos |
| Edition | Segunda edición. |
| Original Publication | Madrid: Imprenta de Yenes, 1840. |
| Credits | Produced by Ramón Pajares Box. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.) |
| Language | Spanish |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Comedy plays |
| Subject | Spanish drama -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77235 |
| Release Date | Nov 14, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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