"You are aware, Excellency, that we half-Indians are children of the sun; its heat does not affect us."
"You have an answer for everything, Don José."
"For you, Excellency, I feel myself capable of performing impossibilities."
"I know that you are devoted to my house."
"Is it not just, Excellency? For two centuries my family has eaten the bread of yours; and, if I acted otherwise than I am doing, I should be unworthy of those from whom I am descended."
"I thank you, my friend; you know the esteem and affection I have for you. I am about to intrust an important commission to you."
"Be assured that I shall perform it, Excellency."
"Very good. You will start at once for Hermosillo, where you will cash these bills for fifty thousand piastres, at the bank of Wilson and Co."
"Fifty thousand piastres!" the majordomo repeated, with surprise.
"It surprises you, my friend, to whom I have confided my most secret affairs, that I have so large a sum to receive. You ask yourself, doubtless, in what way I managed to obtain it."