The Fountain - La fuente - 泉
The Fountain Every morning, when he passed in front of the fountain, he stopped for a few moments and remained oblivious to everything around him. From a window, the little Japanese girl was looking at him attentively, and he was realizing that she was watching him. So day after day, year after year. He grew old and the little Japanese girl became a beautiful young woman. One day they crossed paths in the street. Their glances met and she suddenly asked him: "Why do you stop every day in front of the beautiful fountain on the corner?" "At the foot of that fountain one day, my wife died, and through one of the nymphs of that fountain tells me every day how she is. Thus, every day, she gives me the reason to live, and every morning I find in her words the love she has always given me." Moved by that love story, two tears came from the eyes of the young Japanese woman, which he hastened to wipe with a handkerchief. From that day on, he told her confidenc...