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"'And, señor surely' Ferrero had only stopped to get his breath 'it would be criminal not to view Torellas in all his splendor not as you have viewed him this mor-rn-ing that was play but in the full strength of his science, his art deliverin-g, señor, the final stroke to the ferocious bull.
Three in number, Johnny and Charley and Freddy, with castigating elders, even to the second and third generation back, dimly discerned through closed window-panes, they didn't at all haunt the halls of Ferrero it was a part of their homely grace and their social tone, if not of their want of the latter, that this couldn't in the least be in question for them; on the other hand they frequented, Charley and Freddy at least, the Free School, which was round in Thirteenth Street Johnny, the eldest, having entered the Free Academy, an institution that loomed large to us and that I see as towered or castellated or otherwise impressively embellished in vague vignettes, in stray representations, perhaps only of the grey schoolbook order, which are yet associated for me with those fond images of lovely ladies, "hand-painted," decorating at either end the interior of the old omnibusses.
He is genial very willing to talk with polyglot headwaiters and chauffeurs; in fact the wife and daughters are also practised conversationalists, although their most loyal admirers must admit that their voices are a trifle sharp or flat. These ladies are more widely read than "papa." He has not had much leisure for Ruskin and Symonds and Ferrero.
He looked at her in silence for a little while, then returned to his mother. "She is tired. She sleeps. Let her rest." "It is unsafe." "How unsafe, mother? She is only a child." "She may have men behind her." "It is not likely." "She may have men behind her," repeated his mother. "Such men as you are thinking of, mother, do not come to this valley nowadays. Ulisse Ferrero was the last of them.
Torellas and my niece they have regard for each other, and she, the señora, sees no harm until this Guavera, the politician, comes. Oh, a great man he is to be in the next cabinet possibly. I repeat possibly. The señora waits for a chance to terminate with Torellas. Very well. Torellas receives many letters from foolish girls. So do I, and Ferrero. Pir-r-h what torero of fame does not?
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