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Updated: June 8, 2025
Caesar had no other recourse but to buy a Baedeker and read it and learn a lot of things quite devoid of interest for him. The next day Don Calixto was waiting for him in a carriage at the door, and they went to see the sights. Don Calixto was a man that made phrases and ornamented them with many adverbs ending in -ly.
"The first impression I obtained was that Don Calixto is the most influential person in the town; the second, that besides him, either with him or against him, there is a Senor Don Platon Peribanez, almost as influential as Don Calixto.
Caesar noted that Don Calixto had a great enthusiasm for the aristocracy; and so he took pains, every time he talked with him, to mix the names of a few princes and marquises into the conversation; he also gave him to understand that he lived among them, and went so far as to hint the possibility of being of service to him in Rome, but in a manner ambiguous enough to permit of withdrawing the offer in case of necessity.
"You haven't much desire to sacrifice yourself," retorted Don Calixto. "Because I believe it is damp and unwholesome down there, and a Christian bronchitis would not be wholly pleasant, despite its religious origin. And besides, as you already know, one must go without food." "We might eat something there," said Don Justo. "Eat there!" exclaimed Caesar.
The old maritime Breton showed signs of profound indignation, and his daughter, the little French mystic, had tears in her eyes. "That poor little French girl, who arrived here so full of enthusiasm, has come out of these Catacombs like a rat out of a sewer," said Caesar. "And why so?" asked Don Calixto. "Because of the things the monk said. He was really scandalous."
The men were dressed in canvas uniforms furnished by the United States government, and the commissary department had rations enough to last fifteen days after the landing. The pack train consisted of seventy-five mules and twenty-five horses. The expedition carried 7,000 rifles and 3,000,000 rounds of ammunition for General Calixto Garcia.
His wife advised him that if he had any scruples, he should ask more rent. They came to the agreement that Caesar should pay three thousand pesetas a year for the part Don Calixto had formerly inhabited. This time Caesar had the election won, and there was not the slightest fight. He was the boss of Castro, a good boss, accepted by everybody, save the Clericals.
There is a Republican book-dealer, who is a member of the Council, and on whom the Workmen's Club depends, and he has asked for information as to the facts from the Municipality, and the followers of Don Calixto and of Don Platon oppose this suggestion as an attack on the good-birth, the honour, and the reputation of such respectable personages.
One reason for this animosity was that Calixto, my brother, had escaped and maintained a guerilla war against the government on the Brazilian frontier. At length my father recovered so far from his wounds as to be able to creep out for an hour every day leaning on someone for support; then two armed men were sent to keep guard here to prevent his escape.
But now how can I speak of it?" "Not to one who is your friend, Demetria? I wish you could think that the spirit of your lost brother Calixto was here in me, for I am as ready to help you as he would have been; and I know, Demetria, that you were very dear to him." Her face flushed, and for a moment her eyes met mine; then, casting them down again, she replied sadly, "It is impossible!
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