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He essentially becomes a homeless person for a while, wandering around aimlessly, answering to his brother's name. Angsty Surviving Twin: Esteban goes through a great deal of angst after the death of his twin Manuel.The closing lines are quite famous none other than Tony Blair quoted them at a 2011 memorial service for British victims of the 9/11 attacks (see The Power of Love below).

Perichole forsakes Uncle Pio when she starts a new life as a society lady, so Uncle Pio asks to be a tutor for her sickly son, Don Jaime. Uncle Pio is The Svengali to Camilla Perichole, a famous actress and singer. The twins are basically two halves of a unit, so Esteban is sent into an emotional crisis when Manuel dies from an infected wound.

Esteban, a young man who was left at the convent as an orphan along with his twin brother Manuel.

Madre María del Pilar, the abbess of the convent, was grooming Pepita to take over her job as abbess and continue on with the abbess's charity work. Pepita is her young servant, an orphan raised at the Convent of Santa María Rosa de la Rosas.

The Marquesa is an elderly dowager who was unhappily married, and had one daughter who left her behind to move back to Spain. Doña María, the Marquesa de Montemayor, and her handmaiden Pepita.By studying the lives of the five victims, Brother Juniper can show how God's will works on earth, or so he believes. Brother Juniper, who has long wondered about fate and the nature of God's will, seeks to study the lives of the five people who fell from the bridge that day. The bridge collapse is witnessed by Brother Juniper, a Franciscan friar who was in Peru trying to convert the natives to Christianity. The story starts with the collapse of the eponymous bridge, a rope bridge on the road between Lima and Cuzco. The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a 1927 novella by Thornton Wilder. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below."