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'I asked him how he earned his living while traipsing around the countryside, trying to be a matador. in spite of this he was required by bullfighting convention always to look sharply dressed, to Pay bribes to the news' paper critics, and to convey at all hours a sense of success and grandeur. I feared that Victoriano was not a complete man, was allowed no mind of his own, whereas G6mez was ferociously self-directed and a veteran of both triumph and despair. 'No/ CigaTro snapped.

Band plays. to discov themselves on a vast plateau bigger than any in Spain, rimmed volcanoes even more majestic than ' 1s that all you thought about?' she asked. ' 'Those of us really in the know/ I said jokingly, 'want to study the bulls to see how we would sort them out - to check our guesswork against the later facts.