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"Yes, I know now what it was," said Licurgo, pointing to a light cloud of smoke which was to be seen some distance off, to the right of the road. "They have peppered them there. That happens every other day." The young man did not understand. "I assure you, Senor Don Jose," added the Lacedaemonian legislator, with energy, "that it was very well done; for it is of no use to try those rascals.
"My two boys quarrelled with each other yesterday," said Licurgo, "because one of them wanted to join Francisco Acero and the other didn't. 'Easy, boys, easy, I said to them; 'all in good time. Wait; we know how to fight here as well as they do anywhere else."
After half an hour's ride, during which neither Senor Don Jose nor Senor Licurgo manifested much disposition to talk, the travellers came in sight of an ancient-looking town seated on the slope of a hill, from the midst of whose closely clustered houses arose many dark towers, and, on a height above it, the ruins of a dilapidated castle.
Turned out everywhere, either by superior authority or by his own tedium, he had no resource but to return to his aunt's house, where he found waiting for him: First, Uncle Licurgo, to announce a second lawsuit to him; second, Senor Don Cayetano, to read him another passage from his discourse on the "Genealogies of Orbajosa"; third, Caballuco, on some business which he had not disclosed; fourth, Dona Perfecta and her affectionate smile, for what will appear in the following chapter.
"With Uncle Licurgo and other land-owners whose property borders on the estate called The Poplars." Pepe Rey was astounded. "Yes, senor," continued the little lawyer. "To-day Uncle Licurgo and I had a long conference. As I am such a friend of the family, I wanted to let you know about it, so that, if you think well of it, you may hasten to arrange the matter." "But what have I to arrange?
"Perhaps that would not be so easy, Senor Licurgo," returned the young man, just as they were entering a path bordered on either side by wheat-fields, whose luxuriance and early ripeness gladdened the eye. "This field appears to be better cultivated. I see that all is not dreariness and misery in the Poplars."
Licurgo and the three countrymen laughed boisterously. "When the soldiers and the new authorities," said Dona Perfecta, "have taken from us our last real, when the town has been disgraced, we will send all the valiant men of Orbajosa in a glass case to Madrid to be put in the museum there or exhibited in the streets." "Long life to the mistress!" cried the man called Vejarruco demonstratively.
When I tell you that that very tile-yard and that very mill on which Licurgo bases his claim are mine " "The title-deeds of the property ought to be examined, to see if possession may not constitute a title in this case." "Possession! Those scoundrels are not going to have the pleasure of laughing at me in that way.
When Rosarito left him so abruptly the Penitentiary looked toward the garden wall, and seeing the faces of Licurgo and his companion, said to himself: "So the prodigy is already here, then."
"That is the Penitentiary," answered the countryman, with naturalness. "My cousin has seen us she has left the priest, and is running toward the house. She is beautiful." "As the sun!" "She has turned redder than a cherry. Come, come, Senor Licurgo." Before proceeding further, it will be well to tell who Pepe Rey was, and what were the affairs which had brought him to Orbajosa.
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