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. Good morning, Don Rosendo. Come, Esperancita! Don't let me catch you looking in that window again.

. I shall send everything. Good morning.

. Do you know, instead of those pigs I believe I'd rather have that dog in the automobile? The little rascal!

. Suit yourself.

. What did I tell you? Hurry, my dear! If we don't, we shall be too late to get seats.

. Are those some of your best people?

. I should say they were! They are the wife and daughter of Don Baldomero Remolinos, the richest man in Moraleda. The girl is an only child and will inherit half the province.

. They call her the Golden Girl. Her parents deny her nothing.

. Except her marriage with Don Manolito. They have some pretty hot times together—at least so I hear from the servants.

. Why shouldn't her parents object? Who is Don Manolito? The Governor's secretary—one of those bounders from Madrid. It is all his fault the way things go here. Don Santiago does nothing. Beyond question, he was responsible for that last gambling scandal.

. You see, sir, the secretary and the Governor's wife…

. Aha! Good for Moraleda!

. And yet they make so much fuss about a play.

. How much do I owe you?

. Forty centimes, and a beer yesterday.

. That's so, I forgot. I must hurry and send those things to Doña O.