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. Nothing of the sort. We wanted to get somewhere where there'd be more noise than you could make.

. Now don't begin to cry. Come on into the box.—How do you do, gentlemen?

. Baldomero!

. How charming you look to-day!

. Wonderful! Superb!

. And Jimena?

. Oh! She is with Josefina. They invited us both. Of course, we both preferred to come with you, so in order not to give offense, we had to draw lots, and I was the more fortunate.

. Did you have to draw lots last night to see who was to go to the theatre?

. I should think we did. And poor Jimena was sacrificed!

. I suppose you were there?

. Don Baldomero! Between the acts, as it were, out of curiosity—to see who was in the audience. I never heard such shouting and yelling, booing and hissing, over nothing as it seemed to me.

. They broke all our windows when they came out.

. I lost some lovely double geraniums which I had on my balcony.

. And all in the name of Liberty!

. All because we have an idiot for a governor who does not even know how to govern his wife!

. He cannot control his wife, yet he expects to rule a province.

. Papa, be careful! They'll hear us. They are in the next box.

. That is the reason he speaks so loudly,

. We want them to hear.