![]() ![]() His wife was lost in the labyrinths of dementia, and spent her days being cared for inside the house, creating monsters with paper and paint. He went out every day, in the fierce August sun and the icy January winds, walking for hours with his pilgrim’s staff, battered leather hat, and hunting dog. ![]() He had been a professor of history at the Central University in the days of King Alfonso XII, and remained quite active despite his advanced years. Guzman, from an illustrious family that had fallen on hard times thanks to generations of lazy sons who squandered money and lands, was spending his last years in an isolated mansion surrounded by mountains and rocks, but full of sentimental memories. ![]() The most outstanding pianist among Professor Dalmau’s students was Roser Bruguera, a young girl from the village of Santa Fe de Segarra who, had it not been for the generous intervention of Santiago Guzman, would have shepherded goats all her life. ![]()
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