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In addition to this, physical violence is in bad taste and unbecoming a person of education and a Christian. There remained the resource of giving vent to his suppressed wrath in dignified and polite language; but this last resource seemed to him premature, and only to be employed at the moment of his final departure from the house and from Orbajosa. Controlling his fury, then, he waited.
"Now you all are at our mercy." "The authorities of the place," objected Jacinto, "still exercise their functions as usual." "I think you are mistaken," responded the soldier, whose countenance Dona Perfecta and the Penitentiary were studying with profound interest. "The alcalde of Orbajosa was removed from office an hour ago." "By the governor of the province?"
"It is said that the Batalla brigade will leave Orbajosa, as troops are not required there, to go to Villajuan de Nahara, where guerillas have made their appearance." "The news has been confirmed that the Aceros, with a number of mounted followers, are ranging the district of Villajuan, adjacent to the judicial district of Orbajosa.
With his face burning and his eyes flashing fire he cried: "I gave my word to the governor because the governor told me that they had come for a good purpose." "Barbarian, don't shout! Speak like other people, and we will listen to you." "I promised that neither I nor any of my friends would raise guerillas in the neighborhood of Orbajosa.
Such was the man, whatever slanderous tongues may say to the contrary, whom Uncle Licurgo introduced into Orbajosa just as the cathedral bells were ringing for high mass.
"Don't suppose that in Orbajosa there is no civil guard!" "Good-by, senora. I will now leave this house. I think we shall meet again." "Go, go! go now!" she cried, pointing with an energetic gesture to the door. Pepe Rey left the room.
"The bells are ringing for high mass in the cathedral," said Uncle Licurgo. "We have arrived sooner than I expected." "The appearance of your native city," said the young man, examining the panorama spread out before him, "could not be more disagreeable. The historic city of Orbajosa, whose name is no doubt a corruption of Urbs Augusta, looks like a great dunghill."
Poor Tafetan, formerly an employe in the civil department of the government of the capital of the province, now lived modestly on his salary as a clerk in the bureau of charities; eking out his income by gallantly playing the clarionet in the processions, in the solemnities of the cathedral, and in the theatre, whenever some desperate company of players made their appearance in those parts with the perfidious design of giving representations in Orbajosa.
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.
"Well, Senor Don Jose!" exclaimed the canon quickly, smiling with a triumphant expression, "that image, which to your philosophy and pantheism appears so ridiculous, is Our Lady of Help, patroness and advocate of Orbajosa, whose inhabitants regard her with so much veneration that they would be quite capable of dragging any one through the streets who should speak ill of her.
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