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"Nor has he any idea how he went," thought Caesar, and added: "That is the Library; over there is the Secretary of State's apartment; there is where the Holy Office meets"; and he said whatsoever occurred to him, perfectly tranquilly. They took their carriage, and as they passed a shop for objects of religion, Don Calixto said to the Canon: "What do you say to this, Don Justo?
"After having given me these data, Don Calixto told me that by counting on Senor Peribanez, the election was almost sure; and since the quicker things go the better, he proposed that we should go to see him, and I immediately agreed.
But when you see those gardens, you will be enthusiastic, too." "Get ahead." "During our promenade Don Calixto talked to me of the immense good he has done for the town and of the ingratitude he constantly receives for it.
Don Calixto, who knew neither Italian nor French, found a source of help, for the days he was to spend in Rome, in Caesar's friendship, and made him accompany him everywhere. Caesar was able to collect and preserve, though not precisely cut in brass, the phrases Don Calixto uttered in front of the principal monuments of Rome.
His predecessor was no doubt more of a diplomat, more intelligent." "Yes, the other seemed more of a rogue," said Caesar, laughing at the precautions Don Calixto took in giving his opinion. The proofs of the photographs came in the evening, and Don Calixto was enchanted with them. In one of them you could see the Swiss guard at the door, with his lance. It was splendid.
Fifteen years old, senor, only fifteen, when he galloped into the fight, for he had the light heart, the brave spirit, and the hand swift to strike of a Peralta. And after the fight our colonel, Santa Coloma, who was killed the other day at San Paulo, embraced the boy before all the troops. He is dead, senor, and with Calixto died the house of Peralta." "You knew Santa Coloma, then?" I said.
"Well, I think that all this has no transcendency.... That is to say...." "No, it has none. You may well say so, Don Calixto." "But it did have it. That cannot be doubted, can it? And a great deal. This is undeniable." "It was really a magnificent business concern," said Caesar. "Think of monopolizing heaven and hell, selling the shares here on earth and paying the dividends in heaven!
My father picked up the paper and read these words: 'Let there be displayed on every house in this department a red flag, in token of joy at the happy tidings of a victory won by the government troops, in which that recreant son of the republic, the infamous assassin and traitor, Calixto Peralta, was slain! Alas, senor, loving his son above all things, hoping so much from him, and enfeebled by long suffering, my poor father could not resist this last blow.
At first they believed that Caesar wasn't interested; but they were soon able to understand at Castro that he was interested enough, but not in them. The Minister of the Treasury served him as a battering-ram to use against the Clericals at Castro Duro. Don Calixto was inwardly rejoiced to see his rivals reduced to impotency.
Caesar told them that popular legend claims that one of these statues, the one representing Justice, is Julia Farnese, sister of Pope Paul III, and mistress of Pope Alexander VI; but such a supposition seems unlikely. "Entirely," insisted the Canon gravely; "those are things invented by the Free Thinkers." Don Calixto allowed himself to say that most of the Popes looked like drum-majors.
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