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The next morning the first suggestion of parting came from her. "'Hark ye, Joseito, she said. 'Have I paid you? By our law, I owed you nothing, because you're a payllo. But you're a good-looking fellow, and I took a fancy to you. Now we're quits. Good-day! "I asked her when I should see her again. "'When you're less of a simpleton, she retorted, with a laugh.
Still I shouted: "'Keep off! Nobody can pass here! "'Now, don't be spiteful, she said, making herself known to me. "'What! you here, Carmen? "'Yes, mi payllo. Let us say few words, but wise ones. Would you like to earn a douro? Some people will be coming with bundles. Let them alone. "'No, said I, 'I must not allow them through. These are my orders. "'Orders! orders!
"'Well, mi payllo, are you still angry with me? she said. 'I must care for you in spite of myself, for since you left me I don't know what has been the matter with me. Look you, it is I who ask you to come to the Calle del Candilejo, now! "So we made it up: but Carmen's temper was like the weather in our country. The storm is never so close, in our mountains, as when the sun is at its brightest.
It's only chance that has made me a gipsy, and in certain things I shall always be a thorough Navarrese,* as the proverb says. * Navarro fino. "'You're a fool, she rejoined, 'a simpleton, a regular payllo. You're just like the dwarf who thinks himself tall because he can spit a long way.* You don't love me! Be off with you! * Or esorjle de or marsichisle, sin chisnar lachinguel.
The word payllo, frequently reiterated, was the only one I understood. I knew that the gipsies use it to describe all men not of their own race. Concluding myself to be the subject of this discourse, I was prepared for a somewhat delicate explanation.
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