-That hatred of yours to the Spanish, Rosemary said, it has still cost us dearly, Greg.

-Is my hatred is not blind, Mom, not against the Spanish general, but against the military. They believe themselves masters of the country treat us with contempt for us peasants, and because they wear epaulettes and sword figure they deserve and can do everything. To get anywhere, do not wait for the guests and once inside take the first and the most beautiful girls. This is unbearable. Even if one looks, the girls are the ones to blame. They seem to be glaring brightness of the epaulets.

-For me, Carmen noted, the rule suffers an exception.

And for me, said Adela, the same thing happens. The military, for decent they are, beyond the barracks.

-Do not talk like a girl told her mother, who is very deserving military, without going away, my uncle Lazaro Sandoval, who was colonel of the Fixed Regiment of Havana, was at the siege of Pensacola and died full of honors and scars.