"At forty, he was disabused of his ambitions, but his temper remained the same, and, his conjugal vocation notwithstanding, he still couldn't find a bride. More than one would have would have accepted him with great pleasure; he was so circumspect he lost them all."Genre: short storyLength: 4, 000 wordsTranslated from Portuguese (Brazil) by Juan LePuen
"At forty, he was disabused of his ambitions, but his temper remained the same, and, his conjugal vocation notwithstanding, he still couldn't find a bride. More than one would have would have accepted him with great pleasure; he was so circumspect he lost them all."Genre: short storyLength: 4, 000 wordsTranslated from Portuguese (Brazil) by Juan LePuen