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In a country where everything grotesque is covered with a mantle of seriousness, where many rise by the force of wind and hot air, in a country where the deeply serious and sincere may do damage on issuing from the heart and may cause trouble, probably this was the best way to celebrate the ingenious inspiration of the illustrious Don Custodio.
"But, Señor Simoun, such measures might provoke uprisings," objected Don Custodio, rather uneasy over the turn the affair had taken. "Uprisings, ha, ha! Did the Egyptian people ever rebel, I wonder? Did the Jewish prisoners rebel against the pious Titus? Man, I thought you were better informed in history!" Clearly Simoun was either very presumptuous or disregarded conventionalities!
Padre Salvi looked like a corpse, and the ladies, seeing that no one was paying them any attention, made the best of it by recovering. Meanwhile, the head had been reduced to ashes, and Mr. Leeds, having replaced the cloth on the table, bowed his audience out. "This show must be prohibited," said Don Custodio on leaving. "It's wicked and highly immoral."
Senor Custodio was an intelligent fellow of natural gifts, very observant and quick to take advantage of a situation. He could neither read nor write, yet made notes and kept accounts; with crosses and scratches of his own invention he devised a substitute for writing, at least for the purposes of his own business.
"He'd come a-running!" concluded Sandoval. "This is excellent soup what is it called?" "Pansit lang-lang, that is, Chinese pansit, to distinguish it from that which is peculiar to this country." "Bah! That's a hard name to remember. In honor of Don Custodio, I christen it the soup project!" "Gentlemen," said Makaraig, who had prepared the menu, "there are three courses yet.
The bread leavings, vegetable leaves and fruit cores were reserved for the feed of the pigs and hens, and what was of no use at all was cast into the rotting-place, converted into manure and sold to the orchards near the river. On the first Sunday that Manuel spent there, Senor Custodio and his wife took the afternoon off.
"That's a grand suggestion!" "That beats them all!" "But, gentlemen," cried Don Custodio, in answer to so many exclamations, "let's be practical what places are more suitable than the cockpits? They're large, well constructed, and under a curse for the use to which they are put during the week-days.
"Wherever he may be found " The sentence was completed with an expressive pantomime. Don Custodio raised both arms to the height of his face, with the right more bent than the left, turned the palms of his hands toward the floor, closed one eye, and made two movements in advance. "Ssh! Ssh!" he hissed. "And the diamonds?" inquired Ben-Zayb.
On November 23, 1891, the fleet, commanded by Custodio de Mello, took up its position in front of Rio de Janeiro, and actually fired a shot or two into the town.
This Pepay was a showy girl, supposed to be a great friend of Don Custodio. To her resorted the contractors, the employees, the intriguers, when they wanted to get something from the celebrated councilor.
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