9-30
Damaso came back to the room at the crack of dawn. Ana, his wife six months pregnant, was waiting for him seated on the bed, dressed and with her shoes on. The oil lamp began to go out. Damaso realized that his wife had been waiting for him every minute through the whole night, and even now, at that moment when she could see him in front of her, was waiting still. He made a quieting gesture which she didn't reply to. Damaso caught her by the chemise with a silent violence. He exhaled a bitter odor.
10-1
Senator Onesimo Sanchez had six months and eleven days to go before his d**h when he found the woman of his life. He met her in Rosal Del Virrey, an illusory village which by night was the furtive wharf for smugglers' ships, and on the other hand, in broad daylight looked like the most useless inlet on the desert, facing a sea that was arid and without direction and so far from everything no one would have suspected that someone capable of changing the destiny of anyone lived there.
10-2
King George VI, whose live broadcast of hope and inspiration kept the spirits of the British people alive during the dark days of World War II, met the challenge of stuttering with courage. If you stutter, you should know about this gentle and courageous man, dramatized in the King's Speech.
10-3
Endira was bathing her grandmother when the wind of her misfortune began to blow. The enormous mansion of moonlight concrete lost in the solitude of the desert trembled down to its foundations with the first attack. But Endira and her grandmother were used to the risks of the wild nature there, and in the bathroom decorated with a series of peaco*ks and childish mosaics of Roman baths they scarcely paid any attention to the caliber of the wind.