to adopt Quotes

“At the end, the leading youngster, having found a couple of adults who could adopt all of the children, he hopes, bursts in tears and begs to be rid of his responsibility, to be able to play with his siblings again. “They hate me now” - he thinks and knows, because he has been so hard with them.”

“The new local mayor, a blacksmith whom the monks would not let adopt Marcelino because of his coarse behaviour, uses the incident as an excuse to try to shut down the monastery.”