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Perhaps it is the crowing of a cock?" "Perhaps so." "It sounds like the words, 'I am going there, I am going there!" "Now, now I hear," murmured Pepe Rey. "It is a cry." "It is a cornet." "A cornet!" "Yes. Let us hurry. Orbajosa is going to wake up. Now I hear it clearly. It is not a trumpet but a clarionet. The soldiers are coming." "Soldiers!"
He might have been examining some plan for the junction of two railroads. "In truth," said Don Juan, "in that remote Orbajosa, where, by the way, you have some land that you might take a look at now, life passes with the tranquillity and the sweetness of an idyl. What patriarchal customs! What noble simplicity! What rural and Virgilian peace!
This hatred that you have taken to our poor Orbajosa is nothing but a caprice. But of course you can only live among counts and marquises and orators and diplomats all you want is to get married and separate me forever from my daughter," she added, wiping away a tear.
"Senora," said Pepe Rey gravely, laying down his knife and fork, "I entreat you not to mock me in so pitiless a manner. I cannot meet you on equal ground. All I have said is that I came to Orbajosa at your invitation." "And it is true. Your father and I arranged that you should marry Rosario. You came in order to become acquainted with her. I accepted you at once as a son.
I shall await your answer by return of mail. "I shall soon go to Madrid for the purpose of having my long delayed work, the 'Genealogies of Orbajosa, printed. I appreciate your kindness, my dear friend, but I cannot accept your too flattering expressions.
So true is this that Caballuco himself, one of the most important figures of the historic rebellion of Orbajosa, said frankly to every one that he did not wish to quarrel with the Government nor involve himself in a business which might cost him dear.
As it had given to the world so many illustrious sons, it desired, no doubt, that its actual scions, the Caballucos, Merengues, and Pelosmalos, should renew the glorious Gesta of their predecessors. Whenever there was disaffection in Spain, Orbajosa gave proof that it was not in vain that it existed on the face of the earth, although it is true that it was never the theatre of a real war.
"Don't you agree with me, Senor Penitentiary, that there is not a single man left in Orbajosa who has any shame in him?" "That is a serious view to take of the case," responded the capitular, without looking at his friend, or removing from his chin the hand on which he rested his thoughtful face; "but I think this neighborhood has accepted with excessive submission the heavy yoke of militarism."
And with the popularity of the guerillas and their chiefs coincided, in ever-increasing proportion, the unpopularity of every one who entered Orbajosa in the character of a delegate or instrument of the central power.
"Senora," declared the canon, with energy, "before I would consent that there should be an attack on this honorable house before I would consent that the slightest harm should be done to this noble family I, my nephew, all the people of Orbajosa " Don Inocencio did not finish. His anger was so great that the words refused to come.
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