Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language. It was intended as an obsequious flattery of the Condesa, and was untrue.

As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled / Once, twice and again!

She swept a hand toward the wide hallway where three landscapey paintings he had never really liked hung side by side.

The spoon looked like sterling, but actually it was cheap silver-plated steel.