human
Que he subido de puntillas. The bajado de costillas.
gpt
Uncle Pedro, asked the muleteer, laughing,
human
No, said Pedro,
gpt
Aunt Maria did not want you to be stoned to death like Saint Stephen,
human
It was not that, boy; the truth is, that Miguel Ortiz, who had just completed his term, returned to the place, and it suited Maria to forsake one and take up with another who----
gpt
Was not afraid, interrupted Maria,
human
I think so, Maria, because the married pass their purgatory in this world--the men, because their wives torment them, and the women, through what their children cause them to suffer. Well, sirs, I took the matter so to heart that I could not stay in Dos-Hermanas when the wedding was celebrated, and I went to Alcalá.
gpt
Where he remembered me so well, that he came back married to another.
human
It is true, for I have always thought it best 'when one king is dead, to set up another.'
gpt
Ah Pedro! everlasting talker, said Maria getting up,
human
Yes, let us go; for the sun is as hot as if he were flying away from the clouds, and I think it will rain.
gpt
God forbid! exclaimed Maria,
human
Why should it rain, since we are in March?