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Updated: June 8, 2025
The next morning Caesar went to the hotel in the Carrera de San Jeronimo where he had a room, and in the afternoon to the Chamber. He telephoned to Alzugaray to come and see him after the exchange closed. Alzugaray arrived, looking pale, in company with Amparito's father, Don Calixto, and the broker. They were all wretched. The news was horrible.
Tell that insolent slave of Brazil that when I was disabled I passed my sword on to my son Calixto, who knows how to use it, fighting for his country's independence. The officer, who had mounted his horse by this time, laughed, and, tossing the order from the comandancia at our feet, bowed derisively and galloped away.
The next evening, Caesar, in his evening clothes, betook himself to an hotel in the Piazza di Spagna, where Don Calixto Garcia Guerrero was staying. Don Calixto received him very cordially. He doubtless knew that Caesar was nephew to Cardinal Fort and brother to a marchioness, and doubtless that flattered Don Calixto.
Don Calixto represents the modern Conservative tendency and is, let us say, the Canovas of the district; with him are the rich members of the Casino, the superior judge, the doctors, the great proprietors, etc.
"The priest of course thought that he was in the way, and he left. "When we were alone, Don Calixto said: "'All right, Caesar, I am happy to see you. I see that you remember our conversation in Rome. You must have lunch with me and my family. "'With great pleasure. "'I'll go and tell them to put on another place. "Don Calixto went out and left me alone. For a while I studied the boss's office.
"Don Calixto is astonished that when he has done the Castrians the honour to make them loans at eighty or ninety percent, they are not fond of him. After the garden we saw the house; I won't tell you anything about it, I don't want you to accuse me again of being a Ruskinian. "When we reached the dining-room Don Calixto said: 'I am going to present you to my family.
The Cubans, including General Calixto Garcia, who were to go on the expedition, were sent to Atlantic City, there to engage a fishing sloop to take them off-shore where they would be picked up by the Bermuda on her way. The ship was under suspicion, and was followed down the bay by tugboats carrying United States marshals, customs officers, and newspaper reporters.
Don Calixto honoured Caesar with an excellent dinner, and during dessert became candid with him. He had come to Rome to put through his obtaining a Papal title. He was a friend of the Spanish Ambassador to the Vatican, and it wouldn't have cost him any more to be made a prince, a duke, or a marquis; but he preferred the title of count.
In three weeks he has sold a hundred and fifty kilos of rosaries blessed by the Pope, two hundred kilos of medals, and about half a square kilometre of scapulars." "What an exaggeration!" said Don Calixto. "No, it is the truth.
From the Colosseum the carriage went to the Capitol, and then Don Calixto asserted with energy: "One cannot deny that, say what you will, Rome is one of the places most fertile in memories." Don Calixto was an easy traveller for his cicerone. He far preferred talking to being given explanations; Caesar had said to him: "Don Calixto, you understand everything, by intuition."
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