Day 8 (May 15th) |

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Ever since their return from their honeymoon, Fermina Daza had chosen her husband’s clothes according to the weather and the occasion, and ________(把它们摆出来) for him on a chair the night before so they would be ready for him when he came out of the bedroom.
That was why she did not treat him like a difficult old man but as a senile baby, and that deception was providential for the two of them because it put them ________(不用被怜悯).
________(我们总是事后聪明，虽然届时已经毫无益处。)
She heard him awake with the roosters, and his first sign of life was a cough ________(毫无道理) that seemed intended to awaken her too.
“Well I’ve bathed every day,” she shouted, ________(极度兴奋/发狂) with rage, “and there’s always been soap.”
The impropriety shook the very foundations of the city, gave rise to slanders that were not easy to disprove, and was preserved in ________(地方流行) as if it were a line from an operetta: “To hell the Archbishop!”
And it was not an ________(毫无根据的) threat.
On some professional pretext or other he went to live in the interns’ ________(佣人或军人的宿舍、营房) at Misericordia Hospitals, returning home only to change his clothes before making his evening house calls.
Then, fully awake, she remembered, and ________(翻来覆去) in fury with the world because in fact she had forgotten to replace the soap in the bathroom.