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 reasonable. Bah! You draw too much on your imaginations. Shall we sit down?

. No, let us take a turn through the plaza; we can rest later. We are ahead of the crowd.

. [Bowing] Good morning, Don Basilio. Señoritas, good morning

. The rector of the university and his daughters, Jimena and Belisa.

. Are those names or jokes?

. They are no jokes. We call them Poetry and Rhetoric; the father afflicts the community with them both.

. They are thinking of marriage. They get no rest during the feria, when there are strangers in town.

. Whom have we here? A magnificent woman!

. Most extraordinary! The Governor's wife.

. Yes, Josefina, and my daughter with her.

. And Esperanza Remolinos.

. Do you mean to tell me that woman is only a governor's wife? Why then do we have empires?

. Look, Carmen, we are among friends. This is a reception! [The men rise and bow] How do you do?

. [To ] How is that for a corrida?

. A whole herd in herself!

. Are you on your way from the cathedral? How was the service?

. Divine! Everybody was there.

. It was simply suffocating.

. You ought to have heard His Reverence. What a sermon!