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Updated: June 26, 2025
He approached her while Dona Perfecta and Don Cayetano were discussing some domestic matter apart. "You have offended mamma," said Rosarito. Her features expressed something like terror. "It is true," responded the young man; "I have offended your mamma I have offended you." "No, not me. I already imagined that the Infant Jesus ought not to wear trousers."
Suddenly Don Cayetano Polentinos, Dona Perfecta's brother-in-law, appeared at the door, and entering the room with outstretched arms, cried: "Let me embrace you, my dear Don Jose." They embraced each other cordially.
"At the present day we learn a little of every thing, and leave school with the rudiments of various studies." "I was saying," continued the canon, "that you are no doubt a great archaeologist." "I know absolutely nothing of that science," responded the young man. "Ruins are ruins, and I have never cared to cover myself with dust going among them." Don Cayetano made an expressive grimace.
These were the town deputies, Don Lopo de la Guerra, Don Josef Savinon, Don Antonio Riquel, Don Cayetano Pereza, Don Francisco Fernandez Bello, Don Miguel de Laisequilla, and Don Juan Fernandez Calderin, with the Deputy Syndic-General, Don Filipe Carillo.
It is true that Don Cayetano never interfered in the affairs of the house nor Dona Perfecta in those of the library, except to have it swept and dusted every Saturday, regarding with religious respect the books and papers that were in use on the table or anywhere else in the room.
Pepe Rey, accepting with pleasure these formulas of concord, nevertheless felt indescribably relieved when the priest had left the dining-room and the house. A little later the scene had changed. Don Cayetano, finding rest from his sublime labors in a gentle slumber that had overcome him after dinner, reclined comfortably in an arm-chair in the dining-room.
What has he to do with the matter?" "We have reached a point, Senor Don Cayetano, in which it is necessary to take a decisive resolution. I must see Rosario and speak with her." "See her, then!" "But they will not let me," answered the engineer, striking the table with his clenched hand. "Rosario is kept a prisoner." "A prisoner!" repeated the savant incredulously.
In the rear of ancient New Orleans, beyond the sites of the old rampart, a trio of Spanish forts, where the town has since sprung up and grown old, green with all the luxuriance of the wild Creole summer, lay the Congo Plains. Here stretched the canvas of the historic Cayetano, who Sunday after Sunday sowed the sawdust for his circus-ring.
Don Cayetano and Dona Perfecta lived in such perfect harmony that the peace of Paradise was not to be compared to it. They never disagreed.
"Come, now, will Senor Don Jose deny," continued the ecclesiastic, "that science, as it is taught and propagated to-day, is fast making of the world and of the human race a great machine?" "That depends," said Don Cayetano. "Every thing has its pro and its contra." "Take some more salad, Senor Penitentiary," said Dona Perfecta; "it is just as you like it with a good deal of mustard."
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