Seven years in a convent erase Elena’s memory of the incident but only intensify the man’s. Repulsion turns to adoration, however, and the child lies down beside the man while he’s napping, only to be thrown to the floor when he awakens and realizes he’s mistaken her for her mother. “Wicked Girl” is a tale of unrequited love in which an awkward 11-year-old girl becomes obsessed with the wandering minstrel who rents a room in her mother’s boarding house.įor several weeks, Elena was “repelled by the brilliantine-slick hair, the polished nails, the excessive zeal with a toothpick, the pedantry, the brazen assumption they all would serve him.”
and the rest of that story should only be told by firelight, to a rapt audience. He orders his brigands to kidnap Belisa and bring her to the camp to create his campaign speeches. Her reputation eventually reaches the ruling tyrant, who wants to become the legally elected president.
Along the way, she learns to read and write, earning a pittance as a storyteller, letter-writer and itinerant chronicler of village events. Stronger and more resourceful than her doomed brothers and sisters, Belisa sets out across her country’s arid plains toward the sea.
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