DELIBES, Miguel

5 horas con Mario

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what’s happening is that all of you have fallen for this monomania of culture, and you go around stirring up heaven and earth to let poor people study, that’s another mistake, you take poor people out of their element and they’re no good either for coarse or fine, you ruin them, make sure of that,

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for you even women of the streets deserve to be pitied, I don’t know where we’ll wind up with that idea, “Nobody does it because she wants to, victims of society”, don’t make me laugh,

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That’s another victory of El Correo you can all be proud of, that miserable Correo, that only knows how to stir up the poor and you can already see the results, fifteen hundred pesetas for a maid,

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You’ve heard Papa, at the time of the Republic, a total mess, nobody could understand anybody else, and why? Don’t be closed-minded, my boy, it was because there was no authority, why, to give you an idea, it’s like I say, at our house on April 14.

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Papa was on the point of tears and I’m still not quite sure he didn’t cry, all day long pacing back and forth, from his armchair to the study, from his study to the armchair, like he was stunned. Poor Papa aged ten years that day, for him the king was the greatest thing in the world, more than any of us, mind you, more than the whole family put together, veneration was what Papa had for the monarchy, worship.