Excerpt from The Grandfather: Drama in Five Acts Gregoria. - Every one knows that he didn't bring back from America the yellow dust he went to find. Venancio. - No he didn't bring back anything but his skin. When he went out there he had already lost all his fortune. He hoped to make another from the gold mines left to him by his grandfather - the one who was viceroy.' But they gave him only promises, and he has come back poor as a rat, sick, half blind, with nothing to his account but his years, and he has more than seventy of those. Then his son had to die, and he had planned such a great future for him! Gregoria. - Poor old gentleman! Venancio, we'll have to help him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.