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It's a pity: if this well-dressed man were here every one of the generals would shoot him one after the other! "There's nothing as vile as a city dude who steals!" a man says, exploding with indignation. "To rob a poor old lady!" "To steal from a poor defenseless woman!" They prove their compassion by word and deed: a harsh verdict against the culprit; a five-peso bill for the victim.
I show them what we've done. Steady work for five thousand peons. Wages raised from ten centavos a day to a hundred and ten. I show them peons ten-centavo men when we took them, and five-peso men when I showed them. And the same old smile and the same old itching palm, and the same old acceptability of a free will offering from us to the sacred cause of the revolution. By God!
Here you are, Mama," he went on, feeling in his pockets for a coin, "here is a five-peso piece for you. I hope you will consider the payment sufficient." The old Inca woman grabbed the coin and hid it away in the recesses of her girdle. "Quite sufficient, gallant cavalier," she replied. "Your generosity has not withered with the years.
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