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. Where is Don Trino? Why don't you send me Don Trino? How is this? What are these things doing here?

. I don't know. Your Excellency. I was at service at the cathedral during the morning.

. So? That will do for to-day. Send me Don Trino. [Ironically to himself] A good government! A pretty government!

. Are you making an address for the opposition?

. I?

. You were just saying "A good government! A pretty government!"

. Never mind about the government; the government can take care of itself. Where am I to sit? Where am I to write? [To the ] Send me Don Trino.

. Don Trino? He is busy doing something for me.

. Oh! That will do for to-day.

. I asked him to decorate the table for the refreshments.

. But, Josefina! A man in his position, a public servant 155