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She had seen the chapel of San Miguel on Aralar, and the cave in which the dragon lived, and a document wherein Charles V. granted to Juan de Goni the privilege of renaming his house the Palace of San Miguel, as well as of adding a dragon to his coat of arms, besides a cross in a red field, and a broken chain. The Zornoza myth was handed down through my paternal grandmother of that name.
The Goni escutcheon also displays hearts. If I become rich, which I do not anticipate, I shall have wolves and hearts blazoned on the doors of my dazzling automobile, which will not prevent me from enjoying myself hugely inside of it. Turning to the Alzate myth, it too runs back to antiquity and the primitive struggles of rival families of Navarre and Labourt.
The Goni myth, vouched for by an aunt of mine who died in San Sebastian at an age of ninety or more, established, according to her, that she was a descendant of Don Teodosio de Goni, a Navarrese caballero who lived in the time of Witiza, and who, after killing his father and mother at the instigation of the devil, betook himself to Mount Aralar wearing an iron ring about his neck, and dragging a chain behind him, thus pilloried to do penance.
I have unearthed three family myths: the Goni myth, the Zornoza myth, and the Alzate myth.
My cousin, Justo Goni, used to express his opinion without circumlocution. He always carried off my books as they appeared, and then, a long time after, would give his opinion. Of The Way of Perfection he said: "Good, yes, very good; but it is so tiresome." I realized that there was some truth in his view.
My mother's name is Carmen Nessi y Goni. She was born in Madrid. I should be a very good man. My father was a good man, although he was capricious and arbitrary, and my mother is a good woman, firmer and more positive in her manifestations of virtue. Yet, I am not without reputation for ferocity, which, perhaps, is deserved.
One day I was walking with my friend Gil Campos and my cousin Goni, when we happened on Silverio Lanza, who took us to the Cafe de San Sebastian, where we sat down in the section facing the Plazuela del Angel. It was a company that was singularly assorted. Silverio reverted to the theme that women should be handled with the rod.
Francis Xavier, Don Teodosio de Goni, Pero Lopez de Ayala, Aviraneta a saint, a revered worthy, an historian, a conspirator these are our family gods. Now let me take my stand with Chateaubriand as attaching no importance to such things. Baroja is a hamlet in the province of Alava in the district of Penacerrada. According to Fernandez Guerra, it is an Iberian name derived from Asiatic Iberia.
At three o'clock in the afternoon of the same day the two torpedo boats, under convoy of the Huascar, went on ahead to scout; and, arriving off the port just about dusk, Lieutenant Goni of the Guacolda rashly determined to make a raid on the Peruvian shipping on his own account, and accordingly slipped away into the harbour toward the place where the enemy's warships were known to be lying.
My cousin Goni replied to this with the rare tact that was characteristic of him, arguing that within the miserable sphere of tangible reality I was right, while Lanza moved upon a higher plane, which was more ideal and more romantic.
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