Unit 2: Vocabulary from Readings 2

The mother swung around to take a good look at her child, and pompously put her hands on her hips.

Señora Ines had said: “You yes, but not the others, they’re much too boisterous, they might break something.”

And Señora Ines had said: “Are you sure you can manage a jug as big as that?” Of course she could manage. She wasn’t a butterfingers, like the others.

She wasn’t afraid. Neither holding the monkey, nor when the magician made him vanish; not even when, at the end the magician flung his red cape over Rosaura’s head and uttered a few magic words...and the monkey reappeared, chattering happily, in her arms.

"What a marvelous daughter you have, Herminia.”

Instead she rummaged in her purse.

Instinctively she pressed herself against her mother’s body.

As if the slightest change might shatter an infinitely delicate balance.

These crypts were suitable not only for burial but also for storage of fine vintage wines such as Amontillado, DeGrave, and Medoc.

Starting on Ash Wednesday, which is the beginning of Lent, some Christians fast and do penance for their sins.