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Updated: June 26, 2025
"How grateful I ought to be," said the young man, concealing his anger under the sarcastic words which he thought the most suitable to answer the covert irony of his interlocutors, "to meet with so much generosity and tolerance, when my criminal conduct would deserve " "What! Is a person of one's own blood, one who bears one's name," said Dona Perfecta, "to be treated like a stranger?
"If you eat a hearty breakfast," said Dona Perfecta to him, in affectionate accents, "you will have no appetite for dinner. We dine here at one. Perhaps you may not like the customs of the country." "I am enchanted with them, aunt." "Say, then, which you prefer to eat a hearty breakfast now, or to take something light, and keep your appetite for dinner."
"As handsome as ever," answered the peasant, pushing his beast forward a little. "Time seems to stand still with Senora Dona Perfecta. They say that God gives long life to the good, and if that is so that angel of the Lord ought to live a thousand years. If all the blessings that are showered on her in this world were feathers, the senora would need no other wings to go up to heaven with."
"I cannot get out of my head the idea of the tribulation in which Senora Dona Perfecta finds herself. Uncle, you ought to go there." "Go there to-night? The military are parading the streets! Imagine that some insolent soldier should take it into his head to The senora is well protected.
"Here is the individual," said the mistress of the house disdainfully. "It seems impossible that a man of such little account should be so much talked about. Tell me, Caballuco, is it true that one of the soldiers slapped you on the face this morning?" "Me! me!" said the Centaur, rising indignantly, as if he had received the grossest insult. "That is what they say," said Dona Perfecta.
Rey took from the girl's hand a fragment of a newspaper, on the margin of which he read these words: "They say you are going away. I shall die if you do." When he returned to the dining-room Uncle Licurgo looked in at the door and asked: "At what hour do you want the horse?" "At no hour," answered Rey quickly. "Then you are not going to-night?" said Dona Perfecta.
Wait a while, and when Don Jose Rey passes through the Calle de la Triperia on his way to the Casino, for he will certainly go to the Casino, understand me well, when he is passing you will spring out on him and give him a fright." "Maria Remedios, don't be a fool!" said Dona Perfecta with magisterial dignity. "Nothing more than a fright, senora; attend well to what I say, a fright. Why!
His nostrils expelled and drew in the air, like those of a horse. Within that massive frame a storm of rage and fury, roaring and destroying, struggled to escape. After stammering a few words and muttering others under his breath, he rose to his feet and bellowed: "I will cut off the head of Senor Rey!" "What folly! You are as brutal as you are cowardly," said Dona Perfecta, turning pale.
Never was there seen a more beautiful image of a rebellious angel. "What is this? Have you lost your senses?" said Dona Perfecta, laying both her hands on her daughter's shoulders. "I am going away, I am going away!" said the girl, with the exaltation of delirium. And she sprang out of bed. "Rosario, Rosario My daughter! For God's sake, what is this?"
In addition to Senor Ignacio's sign there was, in one of the balconies of the large house, the bust of a woman, made probably of pasteboard, with lettering beneath: Perfecta Ruiz: Ladies' Hair Dressing; on the side walls of the main entrance there hung several announcements unworthy of occupying the attention of the aforementioned historian, in which were offered low-priced rooms with or without bed, amanuenses and seamstresses.
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