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People may think these things don't come suddenly outside of books, but they do oh, they do!" And, worn out by the exertions of the day, Polly curled herself in a knot and prepared to sleep. Juan Baptisto Pachuca had not availed himself of the shakedown made for him by Mrs. Van Zandt's blankets. He had put out his light because he wanted to think and he preferred thinking by moonlight.
"You are right, Señor Ibarra," replied the Governor General, who had overheard his question. "This spectacle ... barbarous ... astonishing to those who come from other countries, ought to be prohibited." Although it cannot be explained, the first saint who appeared was San Juan el Baptisto.
Soon after the instalment of the new viceroy, he appointed officers and governors to the several cities and jurisdictions of the kingdom; among whom Baptisto Munnoz a lawyer from Spain was sent to supersede my father Garcilasso de la Vega in the government of Cuzco.
The people did not begin to burn these colored lights till San Francisco was passing; San Juan el Baptisto did not enjoy this honor, passing by quickly, ashamed perhaps to go dressed in skins among so many saints covered with gold and precious jewels. "There goes our saint!" cried the daughter of the gobernadorcillo to her visitors. "I loaned her my rings, but I did it to get to Heaven."
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