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. I have dined well, Isabel; I have dined extremely well.

. It is a great pleasure to me.

. Who is playing now? That cannot be Luisita.

. No, it is the groom. He plays excellently, with rare feeling.

. Is that how you knew that it was not Luisita?

. I marvel at that young man. His wife ought to be very happy.

. Well, she does not look happy to me.

. Why? Ridiculous!

. Isabel, I am a blunt man. I have been able to swallow everything at this dinner except that couple. They stick in my throat.

. Perfectly disgusting! I hope you don't mind what he says.

. Antipathies, like sympathies, are instinctive.

. It seems incredible that that boy should be Barona's son—Barona, a man of affairs, a forceful, energetic character! To be sure he always complained of his wife, because she brought up his children badly. What sort of woman has this fellow married? Isabel, I am a blunt man

. Ramón! Be careful! 255