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His sole heir was a daughter a few months old. With the death of Perfecta's husband the terrors of the family were at an end, but the great struggle began. The house of Polentinos was ruined; the estates were in danger of being seized by the money-lenders; all was in confusion: enormous debts, lamentable management in Orbajosa, discredit and ruin in Madrid.
"During the many years that I have lived in Orbajosa," said the priest, with a frown, "I have seen innumerable persons come here from the capital, some brought by the electoral hurly-burly, others to visit some abandoned site, or to see the antiquities of the cathedral, and they all talk to us about the English ploughs and threshing-machines and water-power and banks, and I don't know how many other absurdities.
"And to do away with the cultivation of garlic in Orbajosa to plant cotton or cinnamon trees in its stead?" Pepe could not help laughing at these absurdities. "All he has come for is to make a collection of pretty girls to take back with him to Madrid," said Tafetan. "Ah! I'll be very glad to go!" cried one. "I will take the three of you with me," said Pepe.
A noise at the street-door was heard, then the voice of Caballuco speaking to the servant, and a little later the hero of Orbajosa entered the room. "What is the news? Give us the news, Senor Ramos," said the priest. "Come! If you don't give us some hope in exchange for your supper and our hospitality What is going on in Villahorrenda?"
As there is so much disturbance in this part of the country, as two of the neighboring provinces are already infested, and as this municipal district of Orbajosa has, besides, so brilliant a record in all the civil wars, there are fears that the bravos of the place may take to the roads and rob all they can lay hands on." "A good precaution!
He goes home early with his uncle; he never goes at night to the Casino, nor plays nor squanders money, and he is employed in the office of Don Lorenzo Ruiz, who is the best lawyer in Orbajosa. They say Jacinto will be a great lawyer, too." "His uncle did not exaggerate when he praised him, then," said Pepe. "I am very sorry that I talked all that nonsense I did about lawyers.
"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.
"There is no more to be said then. Let us go, Senora Dona Maria." "Now, my dear niece," said Don Inocencio, half seriously, half jestingly, "since we have finished supper bring me the basin." He gave his niece a penetrating glance, and accompanying it with the corresponding action, pronounced these words: "I wash my hands of the matter." "ORBAJOSA, April 12.
A fresh cause of anxiety was soon added to those which already embittered his existence. He had now been in Orbajosa for two weeks, and during that time he had received no letter from his father.
As I have no love for fighting, and as I am not a soldier, my pulse trembles a little. In due time I will give you further particulars of this war. "Yours affectionately, etc., etc." "MY EVER-REMEMBERED FRIEND: "To-day we have had a bloody skirmish on the outskirts of Orbajosa. The large body of men raised in Villahorrenda were attacked by the troops with great fury.
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