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Updated: June 28, 2025
While they were talking an automobile horn was heard, and a little later Don Calixto's niece entered the drawing-room. This was Amparito, the flat-faced girl with black eyes, of whom Caesar had spoken to Alzugaray. Her father accompanied her. The priest patted the girl's cheeks. Her father was a clumsy man, red, sunburned, with the face of a contractor or a miner.
Caesar had a seat assigned between Don Calixto's elder daughter and Amparito, and Alzugaray one between the second daughter and the judge's girl. A few moments before they sat down, Amparito went running out of the gallery into the garden. "Where has that child gone?" asked Don Calixto's wife. "Something or other has occurred to her," said Amparito's father, laughing.
"Caesar is right; this is quite a lively girl," murmured Alzugaray. The mayor's son now arrived, and his sister. He was an insignificant little gentleman, mild and courteous; he had studied law at Salamanca, and it seemed that he had certain intentions about Don Calixto's second daughter.
Caesar impatiently awaited Senor Peribanez's reply, so that he might return to Madrid. He was fed up with Don Calixto's conversation and his wife's, and with the familiarity they had established with him. Alzugaray, on the other hand, was entertained and content. Amparito's father showed a great liking for him and took him everywhere in his automobile.
"You are an extremist, for I can assure you that you were actually rude to her." "Actually rude, I don't think; but I admit that I was cool and not very amiable." "And why were you?" "First, because it is politic of me, since Don Calixto's family do not care for Amparito; and secondly, because the little creature didn't please me, either." "And why didn't she please you? For no reason at all?"
Meanwhile he stared at the red chrysanthemum which was in the button-hole of his coat, and remembered Amparito. "That child is a prodigy of coquetry and bad bringing-up," he thought with vexation; "these emancipated small town young ladies are more unattractive than any others. I prefer Don Calixto's daughter, who at least is naively and unobjectionably stupid.
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