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Meijeri : Kolminäytöksinen kansanhuvinäytelmä

Artturi Järviluoma

"Meijeri : Kolminäytöksinen kansanhuvinäytelmä" by Artturi Järviluoma is a three-act folk comedy play written in the early 20th century. Set in a Finnish backwoods village of the 1880s, it pits a new cooperative dairy against household butter-making, turning progress versus tradition into village-sized farce. The gentle widower Enkkeli, his practical sister-in-law Vappu, blustery farmhand Janne, steady neighbor Aapo, and showy would-be bride Mariaana drive the tangle of courtship, money worries, and milk morals. Expect lively dialect humor, musical interludes, and community politics where love matches hinge on cream, cash, and reputation. The opening of the play sketches the village and Heikkilä household as gossip spreads that a meijeri may be founded, alarming Janne and Fiia, who mock “kurnaali” (meijerimilk) while the accordionist Tuppu boasts he’s been asked to be meijerist. Roughhousing, a meijeri-song, and comic bluster follow until Enkkeli returns from a failed proposal—scuttled when he mentioned the dairy—only for the peddler Susso to steer him toward the richer Mariaana. Meanwhile Aapo tentatively courts Vappu, but they quarrel over the dairy on moral and domestic grounds. The schoolteacher barrels in to rally a meeting, and on Sunday Mariaana visits, flaunts Leppälä’s means, and all but conditions marriage on Huhtajärvi getting a meijeri, prompting Enkkeli to pivot in favor. This alarms the servants, who trade tales of poisoned milk until Miina reveals they already ate tasty velli cooked with meijerimaito, sending the anxious Iiska into slapstick hypochondria. The scenes build toward the village’s decision, with romance and reputation tied to whether the churn or the cream separator will rule. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Ihinen ja peto

Samuel Scoville

Ihinen ja peto by Samuel Scoville is a collection of animal adventure stories written in the early 20th century. Set largely in southern Africa, it blends vivid natural-history detail with fast-paced, often perilous encounters between predators, prey, and people. The tales spotlight cunning, survival, and the uneasy ties between the wild and the human world, featuring memorable figures like a bold jackal and a devoted baboon alongside frontier railwaymen and hunters. The opening of the work first follows Punainen Rooi, a red-backed jackal who kills a deadly viper, feeds and trains his litter, escapes a hunters’ raid with a clever earth-burrow trick, and graduates from small antelope hunts to shadowing a black-maned lion for scraps—outwitting the big cat until he astonishingly slays a massive rock python with a precise neck bite, winning a wary female’s respect. The narrative then shifts to a frame told by Red Swope, who recounts a vast troop of baboons braving a flood; he rescues an abandoned infant, Jok, which an amputee stationman, Jim Tully, raises and trains to run signals and chores with uncanny skill and strength. After defending Jim and becoming his constant companion, Jok vanishes into the bush carrying Jim’s body when the old man dies suddenly, leaving the new stationmaster sensing the unseen presence around the siding. The section closes with the station bracing for a late-night special, the atmosphere tense and expectant. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

The symbolism of colour

Ellen McCaffery

"The symbolism of colour by Ellen McCaffery" is an esoteric nonfiction treatise written in the early 20th century. It explores how colours function as a shared symbolic language across religions, myth, poetry, art, healing, and nature, presenting colour as both a spiritual sign and a practical force. The book begins by asserting that colour is power—vibration linked to sound—with real effects in healing, agriculture, and weather lore, and that true symbols rest on correspondences. It then surveys each hue: red (life, health, courage, sacrifice, love; in debased form, passion and violence), pink (healing inspiration and service), yellow (sun, unity, wisdom, glory; also deceit and decay), green (hope, immortality, knowledge; also jealousy and omens of death), blue (truth, devotion, heavenly vision; also sadness and coldness), purple/violet (humility, patience, and wisdom born of love and truth; also pomp), white (purity and the joy of the redeemed; also cowardice and hypocrisy), black (mystery, eternity, sacred silence; also evil and black magic), and brown/grey (rest, ripeness, contemplation; with grey signifying resurrection in sacred art). A chapter on the rainbow gathers all hues as a sign of universal blessing and multiple paths to the divine, illustrated with examples from Egypt, India, China, Greece, the Norse, the Bible, and modern poets. Appendices detail “schools of colour,” planetary and liturgical palettes, sky-colour weather signs, the forms implied by primary colours, and plant-growth experiments under coloured light. The work concludes by urging a renewal of symbolic vision, noting the human aura as a key to colour meanings, and calling for future healers who serve both body and soul. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

The wooing of Rosamond Fayre

Berta Ruck

"The wooing of Rosamond Fayre" by Berta Ruck is a novel written in the early 20th century. It’s a light, witty romance about love set in motion by misdirected letters and mistaken identity, moving from an English country house to a French seaside village on the eve of war. The story centers on capable, charming Rosamond Fayre, dutiful philanthropist Eleanor Urquhart, and Eleanor’s adventurous cousin and fiancé, Ted Urquhart, whose courtship-by-post takes an unexpected turn. At the start of the story, Rosamond, hired as Eleanor’s secretary at Urquhart’s Court, is asked to write Eleanor’s weekly letters to Ted abroad—and even to sign them—despite her misgivings. Her first carefully neutral note, scented by slipped-in rose petals, prompts Ted’s intrigued reply and, soon after, an impulsive, unannounced return to England. Finding Eleanor away at a French Holiday Hostel for working girls (with Rosamond temporarily in charge), he travels there incognito, rescues two of the girls from a cliff mishap with Rosamond’s help, and—mistaking Rosamond for his fiancée—becomes instantly fascinated. Invited to tea at the Hostel, he withholds his name while Pansy, a flamboyant “Principal Boy,” leads the chatter; the scene ends with Ted plotting to continue his anonymous wooing of the woman he believes is Eleanor. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

The girls at his billet

Berta Ruck

"The Girls at His Billet" by Berta Ruck is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set on England’s east coast during wartime, it blends romantic comedy and home-front life as three spirited sisters under a strict aunt find their dull village transformed by an army training camp and the arrival of a billeted young officer. Narrated by the sharp-tongued youngest sister, the story promises flirtations, clashes, and shifting loyalties as khaki invades their “hen-party” household. The opening of the novel follows Elizabeth (“Rattle”), her sisters Evelyn and Nancy, and their aunt in the dreary village of “Mud Flats” as news arrives that troops will be billeted locally. Rattle cleverly maneuvers her aunt into accepting an officer, and after much excited preparation and card-fortune “omens,” Second-Lieutenant Frank Lascelles turns up early, overhears Rattle’s cheeky “Billet Boy” talk, and sparks instant mutual antagonism—though he charms everyone else. Daily life fills with training scenes, ration details, and his irrepressible presence, while a tall, quiet officer named Curtis and another, Masters, are invited to a small supper. After a brief sisterly truce, Rattle finds a “new interest”: secretly answering a newspaper ad from a “Lonely and Unpopular Subaltern,” penning a candid, sympathetic letter that hints at her own isolation and sets up a parallel thread to the household’s khaki tensions. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

The tomb of Ts'in

Edgar Wallace

"The tomb of Ts'in" by Edgar Wallace is an adventure-thriller novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on a dangerous hunt for the legendary tomb of China’s First Emperor, mixing crime, espionage, and archaeology. The key players include the flamboyant adventurer Captain Ted Talham, the brilliant Italian sleuth Signor Tillizinni, the poised Yvonne Yale, and the ruthless Mr. Soo, all entangled with a murderous secret society and a priceless jade clue. The opening of the story introduces the stakes through repeated attempts to rob a ship’s safe carrying a Chinese Embassy mailbag, leading Tillizinni to the Ambassador, whose historical article about the First Emperor’s burial becomes the catalyst for intrigue. Talham rescues Yvonne from Chinese pursuers in Hyde Park and deciphers the inscription on her ancient jade bracelet—directions that seem to point toward the tomb—before persuading her to let him hold it for safety. Soon after, the Ambassador is found strangled and a Chinese assailant shot dead in a bureau drawer; a vital envelope is empty, and the suave Mr. Soo emerges as a formidable rival, mobilizing his secret-society network. As deceptions multiply—a fake bracelet is swapped, two burglars (Talham and Tillizinni) collide in de Costa’s house, and a bomb nearly kills the detective—the strands tighten around the tomb’s secret, with social niceties masking a deadly contest for the true jade clue. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

The children

Edith Wharton

The children by Edith Wharton is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Martin Boyne, a middle‑aged engineer, who becomes entangled with the glamorous yet chaotic Wheater clan—especially teen caretaker Judith, her delicate twin Terry, and a volatile mix of full-, half-, and step‑siblings—while their wealthy parents drift between yachts and hotels. The story explores modern divorce and remarriage and the cost of adult caprice on children who are determined to keep themselves together. The opening of the novel finds Boyne on a cruise from Algiers, where he notices Judith minding a baby and a swarm of children and ends up sharing a cabin with her twin, Terry. Through Judith and the governess, Miss Scope, he learns the family tangle: the Wheater parents split and remarried disastrously (to a movie star and an Italian prince), then reunited; the brood now includes “steps” Bun, Beechy, and Zinnie alongside Judith, Terry, and Blanca, with baby Chip adored by the parents. A day trip to Monreale shows Judith’s flair for mothering even as high art leaves her cold, deepening Boyne’s interest. When Terry begs for an education, Boyne agrees to help, stays on to meet the parents in Venice, and secures a cultivated tutor, Gerald Ormerod. Over breakfast at the modest pension where the children stay, Judith refuses school for herself, vowing never to leave the tribe, and hints that Joyce may prefer to keep the tutor in Venice for her own amusement. The section closes with Boyne uncomfortably aware of adult currents swirling around the children he has begun to care about. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Yksin Lontoossa

Hesba Stretton

Yksin Lontoossa by Hesba Stretton is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set amid the streets around Holborn and the Strand, it follows gentle old newsvendor James Oliver, who unexpectedly becomes guardian to a deserted little girl, Dolly, and bonds with a street boy, Tony. The story promises a tender, faith-infused portrait of poverty, loneliness, and small acts of kindness in the great city. The opening of the novel shows a sweltering London evening, Oliver’s cramped shop-home, and his wistful talk with his sister about their past and his estranged daughter, Susanna. After Charlotta leaves, a woman abandons Dolly in the shop; Oliver keeps the child despite Tony’s offer to take her. A note reveals Dolly is Susanna’s daughter, sent to mend the rift, but another letter soon explains Susanna has chosen to follow her soldier husband to India, leaving Dolly in Oliver’s care. Oliver’s joy mixes with worry over age, poverty, and failing memory, while Tony becomes a nightly lodger, absorbs Oliver’s simple Christian comfort, prays for honest work, and—helped by Dolly buying him a broom—finally starts sweeping a busy crossing and earns his first coins. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Lempeä ja lemmen leikkiä : Yksinäytöksinen kuvaus

J. Maanpää

"Lempeä ja lemmen leikkiä : Yksinäytöksinen kuvaus by J. Maanpää is a one-act stage play written in the early 20th century. Set in a Finnish manor’s garden, it is a light romantic comedy of manners that satirizes flirtation, jealousy, and social pretension, contrasting sincere affection with cynical game-playing. At Hongisto manor, the jovial landlord Alppi, his wife, their daughter Dagmar, and visiting youth orbit one another in a summer tangle. Shy feelings bloom between Siiri Auer and student Valto Helavuori, while Dagmar’s fiancé, the vain Engelbert Blom, tries to unsettle them by hinting at Valto’s supposed city romance and a telltale “red” letter—later revealed to be harmless. Engelbert’s caddish side is exposed when he flirts with the maid Kerttu and is called out by her sweetheart Jussi. After a comic interlude with the bumbling Setä-Fridolf, tempers flare: Hongisto rebukes Engelbert, who responds with brazen cynicism about love; Dagmar throws him back his ring and breaks the engagement. The play closes with Dagmar consoled by family, and Siiri and Valto openly affirming their mutual love. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Slighted love : or, At her heart's expense

Mrs. Miller, Alex. McVeigh

"Slighted love : or, At her heart's expense" by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is a novel written in the late 19th century. It follows Italy Vale, a striking young woman determined to clear her mother’s name after her father’s murder, as she enters her wealthy kinsman’s New England home and confronts old scandals, dangerous secrets, and fraught romances. The story weaves melodrama and mystery around inheritance, social stigma, and the hazards of love, with key figures including the reserved heir Francis Murray, the charming Percy Seabright, and the volatile Mrs. Dunn. The opening of the story reveals Italy’s mother confessing that Italy’s father was murdered and that she herself was tried and acquitted, yet condemned by public opinion; years later, after her mother’s death, Italy goes to Francis Murray’s seaside estate, The Lodge, suspecting him because he benefited from the entail. Tension rises as Italy somnambulates into his library in search of her father’s missing diary, Francis confronts her motives, and she flees to Boston to seek her mother’s old lawyer. There she is deceived by a clerk, Craig Severn, lured to a private house, and nearly assaulted before a mysterious shot kills him; found later walking in her sleep, she is retrieved by Francis and brought back. She meets Percy Seabright—her father’s friend—and faints; newspapers soon report Severn’s body found with a bullet wound. Emmett Harlow gently courts Italy and is refused, while jealous Alys Audenreid and her aunt Mrs. Dunn bristle; during a yacht outing Italy is pushed overboard, rescued by Ralph Allen and Francis, and Mrs. Dunn spitefully accuses Emmett before Francis quells the charge. These chapters set the central quest—finding the truth behind the murder and the missing diary—amid simmering jealousy, peril, and uncertain loyalties. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Le cas étrange du docteur Jekyll; Un logement pour la nuit

Robert Louise Stevenson

"Le cas étrange du docteur Jekyll; Un logement pour la nuit" by Stevenson is a collection of fiction written in the late 19th century. It pairs a Gothic investigation into the bond between the esteemed Dr. Jekyll and the menacing Mr. Hyde with an additional tale likely set in medieval Paris. The main thread follows lawyer Mr. Utterson as he probes the unsettling overlap between public respectability and hidden vice in Victorian London. The opening of the collection introduces Mr. Utterson, who hears Enfield’s story of a cruel, small man named Hyde using a key to a mysterious door and producing a dubious cheque linked to Dr. Jekyll. Troubled by Jekyll’s will that favors Hyde, Utterson seeks and confronts Hyde, confirms his access to Jekyll’s home, and soon learns of the savage murder of Sir Danvers Carew; Hyde disappears, while police find evidence in his Soho rooms. Jekyll disavows Hyde and shows a note, which Utterson’s clerk remarks resembles Jekyll’s handwriting; Lanyon then falls fatally ill after a secret rupture with Jekyll and dies, leaving a sealed packet, while Jekyll grows reclusive. The section ends as Poole, Jekyll’s servant, fearfully begs Utterson to come at once, implying something is terribly wrong behind the locked laboratory door. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

The last dragon

Dan Totheroh

"The Last Dragon" by Dan Totheroh is a children's fantasy novel written in the early 20th century. It follows siblings Johnathan, Janet Jane, and Peter Baxter, their intrepid Grandma, and two dogs as they befriend a gentle, blue‑eyed dragon—the last of his kind—and ride him back into the Dark Ages. The tale sets up a quest to save the enchanted Princess Silver Toes from the rival dragon Dallahan, aided by a prickly cave-gnome named Crubby. The opening of this story finds the Baxter children staging Arthurian games in a meadow beside a mysterious woodlot, where six-year-old Peter wanders into a cave and awakens a kindly green dragon who calls himself the last in the world. After the children warm to him (and Grandma welcomes him), their mother drives him away, and their father can’t see him at all; but before dawn the dragon taps at the nursery window and carries Johnathan, Janet Jane, Peter, the dogs, and Grandma (who floats down in her rocking chair) on a headlong ride “backwards” through history. They pass scenes from the past, reach a volcano so the dragon can “eat fire,” and retire to his vast cave home, where they meet the tiny, bossy Crubby. He reveals that the dragon’s enchanted companion, Princess Silver Toes, has been stolen, prompting the dragon to tell her backstory—from silver-dipped toes to a witch’s spell and a storm-swept escape. Learning that the kidnapper is Dallahan, the Irish dragon, the group resolves to rescue her and hurries to an armorer on the king’s highway, where Grandma, the children, and even the dogs are fitted with mail and swords, setting the quest in motion. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Marigold : A story

Edith Allonby

"Marigold : A story by Edith Allonby" by Edith Allonby is a fantastical allegorical novel written in the early 20th century. Set in Lucifram—a contrarian shadow-world near Hell—the tale blends satire of religion and power with a fairy-tale sensibility. It follows Marigold, a spirited princess who disguises herself as a beggar to pursue and test the revered High Priest Alphonso, while the enigmatic St Armand and the coldly brilliant Prince Plucritus weave larger designs. The opening of Marigold introduces Lucifram’s ruler, Prince Plucritus, his glittering web over the world, and his austere consort Vestné, then pauses for a sharp interlude on Eve, obedience, and the making of woman. We see Plucritus and Vestné plot to strengthen their “net,” hinting at Alphonso’s role as a gatekeeper. The story then shifts to Marigold of Ellel, who, bored by luxury, dons rags to seek the High Priest’s attention, boldly begs him after vespers, and later faces his cool scrutiny in the Palace after a humiliating meal among the poor. A chance encounter in the Temple grounds with a small, chillingly charismatic stranger (St Armand) unsettles her, while her tender visit to a dying neighbor boy reveals her compassion. Parallel scenes show Alphonso and St Armand discussing a haunted Marble House and an old friend, and at dawn St Armand slips, catlike, through Friar’s Court to observe the sleeping Marigold, foreshadowing a contest of influence around her. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Willy's travels on the railroad : Intended for young children

Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet

"Willy's travels on the railroad : Intended for young children" by Mrs. Marcet is a children's didactic tale written in the mid-19th century. It follows an inquisitive boy, Willy, whose railway journey with his parents turns into a string of lively lessons about steam power, travel, manners, industry, and nature. Through meetings with fellow passengers and townspeople and visits to an inn, an arboretum, a factory, a farm, and a country house, the story blends gentle moral guidance with clear, practical explanations aimed at young readers. The opening of the story finds six-year-old Willy at a bustling station, learning that locomotives run by steam and marveling at speed, perspective, carriage classes, and the eerie whistle before a dark tunnel prompts talk of shafts and construction. A vignette with a spoiled child and a stern but fair old lady leads to a lesson in self-control and rewards, then a stop at Wolverton and a discussion of the “infirmities” of old and young. Moving to an open third-class carriage, Willy befriends a market girl bound for Derby who speaks of her blind mother’s hoped-for cure and the public Arboretum created by Joseph Strutt; at an inn he learns how paying “a little more” works and practises honesty and restraint while fruit picking with the landlady’s daughter. An evening at the Arboretum reunites him with the market girl’s family; the children play, make daisy chains, and receive a new ball, while conversations explain factories (water- and steam-power, children piecing broken threads) and farm life’s give-and-take. A visit to the Milford cotton mill and its great water-wheel cements these lessons, before the family reaches Grandmamma’s country house, where Willy begins tending his own small garden and discovers peas, lettuces, and the homely spinning-wheel—a calm segue to further instruction. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Tenhotar

Hans von Kahlenberg

"Tenhotar" by Hans von Kahlenberg is an epistolary novel written in the early 20th century. Through a correspondence between a romantic country nobleman and a skeptical city writer, it examines love, purity, and modern moral unrest. The story centers on Achim von Wustrow’s idealized devotion to the young Mathilde and the counterpoint of Herbert Gröndahl’s worldly, often cynical entanglements with fashionable Berlin society. The opening of the novel unfolds as alternating letters: Achim writes rapturously of first love, recounting a chaste mountain encounter with Mathilde, his respectful courtship within her family, and his resolve to be worthy of her innocence, even pressing for an early marriage. In sharp contrast, Herbert narrates how two schoolgirls seek him out, then begins a clandestine affair with one he nicknames “Hempukka,” dissecting her family’s ambitions and his own jaded attitudes while exposing the hypocrisies of urban life. Achim dreams of shared readings, patriotic duty, orderly home life, and fatherhood, guarding Mathilde from dubious influences. Herbert, meanwhile, oscillates between indulgence and moral disgust, turning their liaison into a study of decadence. This early exchange sets up the novel’s central tension between idealism and cynicism, country virtue and city corruption. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Lahjoitusmailla : Historiallinen näytelmä

Santeri Ivalo

"Lahjoitusmailla : Historiallinen näytelmä" by Santeri Ivalo is a historical play written in the early 20th century. Set in 1830s Valkjärvi, it portrays peasants caught between conscience, law, and power as the Veikkola manor enforces “donation land” contracts and a disputed church build stalls. The drama centers on the hard-edged steward Hukka, an aging pastor who refuses to bend, the advocate Koironen, the forthright Harsia and Holttinen, the wavering Kyllästinen family (with Kaija and their daughter Siljo), and the upward-striving Laihanen. The opening of the play unfolds on the church hill: the old pastor mourns the halted construction and declines to sign a lease for his tiny plot despite Hukka’s pressure. Villagers arrive with shingles to roof the half-built church, while Kyllästinen’s household wavers over Siljo’s marriage—breaking with Laihanen, who has signed the manor’s contract, and circling toward Holttinen’s Antti. Koironen, a crafty local advocate, claims to hold documents proving long-held peasant ownership, urges tact—yield in small things, refuse the lease—and collects funds to appeal. Manor officials interrupt, order the men to the estate, and threaten force; the community resolves to appear but not sign, tempers flare in the tavern, and reports come back that the men endured beatings rather than put their marks to the contracts, as private jealousies (Laihanen, Siljo, Antti) and Marketta’s ominous chant darken the mood. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Provença : Poems selected from Personae, Exultations, and Canzoniere of Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

"Provença : Poems selected from Personae, Exultations, and Canzoniere of Ezra…" by Ezra Pound is a collection of poetry compiled in the early 20th century. The book brings together dramatic monologues, lyrics, and formal experiments that channel medieval Provence and Italy through modernist craft. Its likely topic is the renewal of old songs and courtly themes—love, war, piety, and fame—through vivid personae and finely wrought forms. The volume is arranged in three parts. Personae stages bold voices—troubadours, mystics, warriors, and wanderers—speaking from settings that range from Provençal courts and Italian roads to ash woods, sea caves, and modern London; poems like “La Fraisne,” “Cino,” “Na Audiart,” “Sestina: Altaforte,” “Ballad of the Goodly Fere,” and “Piccadilly” show desire, revolt, and spiritual hunger in archaic yet urgent diction. Exultations mixes litany and flare—Venetian night prayers, martial exultation, portraits of artists, poetic self-possession in “Histrion,” and visionary pieces like “Paracelsus in Excelsis,” alongside adaptations (Lope de Vega’s lullaby, a Greek epigram) and laments and albas in Provençal manner. Canzoniere presents strict studies in form—octaves, sonnets, ballate, and canzoni modeled on Arnaut Daniel, Dante, and Cavalcanti—where light, sea, angels, and the “Lady” organize longing and praise, culminating in an epilogue to Guido Cavalcanti and notes that gloss the medieval sources. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Olimpia; ossia, L'orfana della Selleide : romanzo

Adolfo Mezzanotte

"Olimpia; ossia, L'orfana della Selleide: romanzo" by Adolfo Mezzanotte is a novel written in the early 19th century. Set among the Suliote mountains of Epirus, it blends historical melodrama and romantic feeling, following the orphan Olimpia, her eremitic uncle Atanasio, and the young warrior Demetrio against the backdrop of Greek resistance to Ottoman rule. Themes of liberty, piety, and love intertwine as a tender attachment grows between Olimpia and Demetrio amid communal battle, devotion, and loss. The opening of the novel evokes the Suliotes’ stubborn freedom, then narrows to Olimpia’s origins: her father Alessio is disgraced for a retreat, dies in illness, and her mother Evantìa perishes giving birth, leaving the child to the care of the hermit-uncle Atanasio. Olimpia grows in a cliffside hermitage, charitable and devout. As Ali Pasha attacks, Demetrio leads a daring counterstrike that routs the Turks; during the victory rites he and Olimpia fall in love at first sight. Their separation breeds lovesickness until a chance encounter in the forest, a shy flight, a letter left by the spring, and Atanasio’s blessing bring them together, with marriage planned for the spring festival of roses. A sudden storm then claims Atanasio’s life in a torrent; after retrieving his body and burying him, the lovers vow to wed as he wished, and Olimpia goes under the protection of Demetrio’s kind mother Eutimia. (This is an automatically generated summary.)