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Dona Perfecta responded haughtily, without deigning to look at him, for which reason he asked her politely for an explanation of her coldness, to which she replied requesting Senor Pinzon to leave her house, deferring to a future occasion the explanation which she would require from him of his perfidious conduct while in it.
"I am greatly obliged to you for those words. After having been stabbed in the dark, this blow on the face in the light of day is a great satisfaction to me." "Well, I will repeat the blow, nephew," declared Dona Perfecta, with as much energy as displeasure. "You know it now I do not wish you to marry Rosario!" Pepe was silent.
It has been held that the Inquisition proceeded against Luis de Leon a third time. No evidence to support this view has been hitherto produced. Meanwhile in 1583 appeared Los nombres de Cristo and La perfecta casada. The theologian, philosopher, and poet was also a man of affairs.
One day Dona Perfecta, Don Inocencio, Jacinto, and Pinzon were conversing together in the garden. They were talking about the soldiers and the purpose for which they had been sent to Orbajosa, in which the Penitentiary found motive for condemning the tyrannical conduct of the Government; and, without knowing how it came about, Pepe Rey's name was mentioned.
Dona Perfecta smiled with maternal kindness at her nephew, as she pointed toward the leafy avenue which was visible through the glass door. "Let us go there," said Pepe, rising. Rosarito darted, like a bird released from its cage, toward the glass door. "Pepe, who knows so much and who must understand all about trees," said Dona Perfecta, "will teach you how to graft.
"This is not the act of the minister; this and other contrarieties that I am experiencing are the result of a revengeful plot, of a secret and well-laid plan of some implacable enemy, and this enemy is here in Orbajosa, this plot has been hatched in Orbajosa, doubt it not, dear aunt." "You are out of your mind," replied Dona Perfecta, with a look of compassion.
So late, and nothing has happened!" "Perhaps my uncle has heard something; he is here now, I hear him coming upstairs." "Thank God!" said Dona Perfecta, rising to receive the Penitentiary. "He will have good news for us." Don Inocencio entered hastily. His altered countenance showed that his soul, consecrated to religion and to the study of the classics, was not as tranquil as usual.
He scratched his head, gathered his gloomy brows in a frown, and with ever-increasing difficulty of speech continued: "I may be brutal, disagreeable, ignorant, quarrelsome, obstinate, and every thing else you choose, but in honor I yield to no one." "What a pity of the Cid Campeador!" said Dona Perfecta contemptuously.
"Senor Don Jose, what an excellent lady Dona Perfecta is!" "She is the only person in Orbajosa who has no nickname, the only person in Orbajosa who is not spoken ill of." "Every one respects her." "Every one adores her."
When he left Dona Perfecta and Rosario conversing with the traveller, he went over to the bird, and, allowing it to bite his forefinger with the greatest good humor, said to it: "Rascal, knave, why don't you talk? You would be of little account if you weren't a prater. The world of birds, as well as men, is full of praters."
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