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

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

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.

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