Etext prepared by Dagny, dagnyj@hotmail.com and John Bickers, jbickers@ihug.co.nz DONA PERFECTA by B. PEREZ GALDOS Translated from the Spanish Mary J. Serrano INTRODUCTION The very acute and lively Spanish critic who signs himself Clarin, and is known personally as Don Leopoldo Alas, says the present Spanish novel has no yesterday, but only a day-before-yesterday. It