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I dropped Miguel altogether, an' he dropped Jiguel, which was a relief to me, an' I took strong to Jonas, even callin' him Jone, which I consider a good deal uglier an' commoner even than Jonas. He didn't like this much, but said that if it would help me out of the Miguel, he didn't care.
"'Well, I don't know, says he, 'never havin' lived with any of 'em, but we'll let it go at that. An' how do you want to work the thing out? "'This way, says I. 'You, Miguel "'Jiguel, says he.
"'An' so your idea is that we make believe all these things, an' don't pay for none of 'em, is it? says he. "'Yes, says I; 'an' you, Miguel "'Jiguel, says he. "'Can ask me, if you don't know what chi-VAL-ric or romantic thing you ought to do or to say so as to feel yourself truly an' reely a earl, for I've read a lot about these people, an' know jus' what ought to be did.
I thought it would be a good thing, while I was Earl Jiguel and you was a noble earl-ess, to come to a place where people acted that way.
So I determined I'd give him a better one, while we was on our journey, anyhow, an' I changed his name to Miguel, which was the name of a Spanish count. He wanted me to call him Jiguel, because, he said, that would have a kind of a floating smell of his old name, but I didn't never do it.
"Which number will you have, five or seven? "'Either one will suit me, Earl Miguel, says I. "'Jiguel, says he, 'an' we'll make it seven. An' now I'll go an' look at the time-table, an' we'll buy tickets for the seventh station from here. The seventh station, says he, comin' back, 'is Pokus. We'll go to Pokus. "So when the train come we got in, an' got out at Pokus.
There was lots of trees back of the house, with walks among 'em, an' altogether it was so ole-timey an' castleish that I was as happy as a lark. "'Come along, Earl Miguel, I says; 'let us tread a measure 'neath these mantlin' trees. "'All right, says he. 'Your Jiguel attends you. An' what might our noble second name be? What is we earl an' earl-ess of?
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