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If I could only win my point, I told myself, if I could only get that young fellow out of the way, then it would be time enough to say to Don Nicasio, 'My friend, give me back my ring and my earrings! He would not have needed to be told twice. He is an honorable man, Don Nicasio!" "But when she answered you, 'Keep them yourself, I don't want them! you began to beg her, almost in tears "
You see, one bears things and bears things and bears things; and at last, rather than burst with them, one frees one's mind to the first man who comes along." "But you were not the first man who came along. You used to call at his house " "Only as a barber, your honor! Only when Don Nicasio used to send for me. And very often I would get there too late, though I tried my best."
"I ought not to have been, your honor. I have too soft a heart." "Your threats became troublesome. And not threats alone, but promise after promise! And gifts besides, a ring and a pair of earrings " "That is true. I won't deny it. I found them in my pocket, quite by chance. They belonged to my wife. It was an extravagance, but I did it, to keep poor Don Nicasio from doing something crazy.
And I, for the sake of the poor husband, whom I pitied Yes, that is why she says that I threatened her. She says so, because I was foolish enough to go and give her a talking to, the day that Don Nicasio said to me, 'I shall do something crazy! She knew what I meant, at least she pretended that she did." "No; this was what you said " "Yes, your honor, I remember now exactly what I said.
You are called Luis Habaña, Matías Belarmino, Nicasio Eigasani, Cayetano de Jesús, Mateo Elejorde, Leandro Lopez, Antonino Lopez, Silvestre Ubaldo, Manuel Hidalgo, Paciano Mercado, your name is the whole village of Kalamba.
Don Nicasio himself will bear me witness." "But Don Nicasio says " "He, too? Has he failed me? Has he turned against me? A fine way to show his gratitude!" "He has nothing to be grateful for. Don't excite yourself! Sit down again. You began by protesting that you knew nothing at all about it. And yet you knew so many things. You must know quite a number more. Don't excite yourself."
You said to yourself: 'If not for me, then not for him! The lover, I mean, not Don Nicasio. And you began to work upon the husband, who, up to that time, had let things slide, either because he did not believe, or else because he preferred to bear the lesser evil " "It may be that some chance word escaped me. There are times when a man of honor loses his head but beyond that, nothing, your honor.
"Oh, the treachery of Don Nicasio! My God! My God! Yes, your honor. Two days before no one can think of everything, no one can foresee everything he came to the shop and said to me, 'Neighbor, lend me a razor; I have a corn that is troubling me. He was so matter-of-fact about it that I did not hesitate for an instant. I even warned him, 'Be careful! you can't joke with corns!
"That woman is capable of anything! She would slander our Lord himself to His face! Passion? I? At my age? I am well on in the forties, your honor, and many a gray hair besides. Many a folly I committed in my youth, like everyone else. But now Besides, with a woman like that! I was no blind man, even if Don Nicasio was.
Do I need tongs to drag the words out of your mouth?" "What next? Why, your honor knows how it is at night, under the lamplight. You see and then you don't see that's the way it is. I turned around Don Nicasio had plunged through the doorway of his home just by the entrance to the little lane. A cry! then nothing more!" "You ran forward? That was quite natural."
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