The gentleman grasped her firmly by the shoulders, and being so fully occupied with holding her back, he was unable to put a hand to his veil which was falling off, as it did at length entirely, and Dorothea, who was holding the lady in her arms, raising her eyes saw that he who likewise held her was her husband, Don Fernando. The instant she recognised him, with a prolonged plaintive cry drawn from the depths of her heart, she fell backwards fainting, and but for the barber being close by to catch her in his arms, she would have fallen completely to the ground.
Teníala el caballero fuertemente asida por las espaldas, y, por estar tan ocupado en tenerla, no pudo acudir a alzarse el embozo, que se le caía, como, en efeto, se le cayó del todo; y, alzando los ojos Dorotea, que abrazada con la señora estaba, vio que el que abrazada ansimesmo la tenía era su esposo don Fernando; y, apenas le hubo conocido, cuando, arrojando de lo íntimo de sus entrañas un luengo y tristísimo ''¡ay!'', se dejó caer de espaldas desmayada; y, a no hallarse allí junto el barbero, que la recogió en los brazos, ella diera consigo en el suelo.