"My dear children," pursued the black marble clergyman, with pathos, "this is a sad, a melancholy occasion; for it becomes my duty to warn you, that this girl, who might be one of God's own lambs, is a little castaway: not a member of the true flock, but evidently an interloper and an alien.
-Queridas niñas -siguió él-: lamentable es tener que manifestar que esta muchacha es una pequeña réproba.