Note 3 — CAPÍTULO PRIMERO
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—que sin duda tenía poco desarrollado el órgano de caridad, whose organ of charity was doubtless not well developed. ¿Estará...? can he be? This is the future of probability or conjecture. desgraciado del perro, unlucky is the dog. Note this idiomatic use of de. sálvese el que pueda, let him save himself who can. —le iba estrechando, were pressing in upon him. Ir, with the present participle, is often used instead of estar, in order to express progressive action.