There we waited till Flannagan became fierce with the heat and the impatience of him.
“Discretionary!” he says, striding around with his nostrils full of wrath, and banging at doors. “Would they be boilin' us the night wid the discreetness of 'em?”
With that there was an opening of a door, and there waddled in a little fat mestizo, both shorter and fatter than seemed right or natural. He wore red and yellow livery and shining buttons, and we thought he was likely the official butler or door boy. He seemed to have eaten too much, as a rule, and looked sleepy and in a bad temper.
“Boy” says Flannagan, striding up to him, “where's the misbegotten and corrupt official of Disthressionary Regularities? Do we wait here till the explosion of doom? Spheak, ye lump of butther!” he says. “Or do we not?”
“Carambos!” says the extraordinary clothes, backing off and speaking snappish. “If you don't like it, get out!”
“Carambos, is it?” says Flannagan, enraged and grabbing him by the collar. “Impidence!” he says, “an' ye talk so to the Manager of the Flannagan and Imparial!”
With that he gets him also by his new trousers and heaves him into the corridor, where was a handsome half-caste Spanish woman, more Spanish than Indian, who looked dignified and happy in a purple dress. She fell against the wall to avoid him, and appeared surprised. He scrambled up. Then he clutched his hair, and waddled down the corridor, shrieking, and the purple dress began to gobble with her laughter.
“Why,” she says, in a mellow voice—“Ho! ho! haw! haw! Why does the distinguished senor cast the Minister of Military and Internal Peace thus upon his digesting, immediately his too great meal thereafter?”
“Hivins!” says Flannagan.
“Now he will say the internal peace is disturbed, meaning his digestion, and bring the military, to the end that the distinguished senors shall be placed in the dungeons of La Libertad, which,” she says kindly, “beyond expectation are wet, and the senors will probably decay. He is my husband—Ho, ho! haw, haw!” she says. “He is a pig.”