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"Won't you give me a few coins for the churumbeles?" "No." "Wicked woman! Why won't you give me a few coins for the churumbeles?" "What does churumbeles mean?" asked the lady. "Her children," answered Leandro, laughing. "Have you children?" Fanny asked the gipsy. "Yes." "How many?" "Two. Here they are." And the gipsy fetched a blond little fellow and a girl of about five or six.
The gipsy women in their motley garments were combing their little brunettes and their black-skinned, large-eyed churumbeles in the sun; a knot of vagrants was carrying on a serious discussion; mendicants wrapped in rags, maimed, crippled, were shouting, singing, wailing, and the Sunday throng, in search of bargains, scurried back and forth, stopping now and then to question, to pry, while folks passed by with faces congested by the heat of the sun, a spring sun that blinded one with the chalky reflection of the dusty soil, glittering and sparkling with a thousand glints in the broken mirrors and the metal utensils displayed in heaps upon the ground.
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