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Updated: June 17, 2025
In short, my dear friend, in case you should have inadvertently spoken of this to any one, I will remind you that it is a family secret, and that will be sufficient for a person as prudent and discreet as yourself. "Joy! joy! I have just read in one of the papers here that Caballuco had defeated Brigadier Batalla." "ORBAJOSA, December 12. "I have a sad piece of news to give you.
"It is said that the Batalla brigade will leave Orbajosa, as troops are not required there, to go to Villajuan de Nahara, where guerillas have made their appearance." "The news has been confirmed that the Aceros, with a number of mounted followers, are ranging the district of Villajuan, adjacent to the judicial district of Orbajosa.
"I think he is stopping at Polavieja's," observed Jacinto. "Your nephew and Brigadier Batalla are intimate friends," continued Pinzon; "they are always to be seen together in the streets." "Well, my friend, that gives me a bad idea of your chief," said Dona Perfecta.
"I think it was he who indoctrinated our valiant Brigadier Batalla." "Good Heavens!" "Yes; and whenever he chooses," said Don Inocencio, unable to contain his laughter, "he can speak to Socrates, St. Paul, Cervantes, or Descartes, as I speak to Librada to ask her for a match. Poor Senor de Rey! I was not mistaken in saying that there was something wrong in his head."
Last night Senora Dona Perfecta, I went back to the widow De Cuzco's hotel, as you told me, and asked her for later news. Don Pepito and the brigadier Batalla are always consulting together ah, my God! consulting about their infernal plans, and emptying bottle after bottle of wine. They are a pair of rakes, a pair of drunkards. No doubt they are plotting some fine piece of villany together.
About this time the following items of news appeared in the Madrid newspapers: "There is no truth whatever in the report that there has been an insurrection in the neighborhood of Orbajosa. Our correspondent in that place informs us that the country is so little disposed for adventures that the further presence of the Batalla brigade in that locality is considered unnecessary."
Moresby entered it, and, by the merest chance, hit upon the identical narrow passage which Torres, 267 years previously, had discovered from the south side and named Boca de la Batalla, Mouth of the Battle; having, no doubt, had an encounter there with the natives.
"Complete tranquillity reigns in Orbajosa, according to a letter which we have before us, and no one there thinks of anything but cultivating the garlic fields, which promise to yield a magnificent crop. The neighboring districts, however, are infested with guerillas, but the Batalla brigade will make short work of these." Orbajosa was, in fact, tranquil.
Rey inocente a weak king, Reina traidora treacherous queen, Pueblo cobarde a coward people, Grandes sin honra nobles without honour, sums up and expresses in nine words the history of Goday's shameful bargain with Napoleon. En el Puente de Alcoléa La batalla ganó Prim, Y por eso la cantámos En las calles de Madrid.
You say that my nephew is the intimate friend of the brigadier?" "So intimate that they are together all day long; they were school-fellows. Batalla loves him like a brother, and would do anything to please him. In your place, senora, I would be uneasy." "Oh, my God! I fear there will be an attack on the house!"
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