Sublime

temerity,

“You know,” complained Espinoza in his conversations with Pelletier, perhaps seeking some consolation, “we Spaniards have always been provincials.”

didactic,

era un hecho que la principal división que existía en el gobierno era —¡cosa increíble!— entre los partidarios de la esposa legítima, doña Odilia Palomo, y la amante.

A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end.

mediocridad

ociosos