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I’ve only seen you as upset as that when Recondo put Crusade instead of your civil war, what difference does that make, like I say, or when the business about the policeman, or when the thing about the apartment happened, I’d like to know what you were thinking of, you’re always putting your foot in it, and then to keep insisting that, since the apartments were for public servants, preferably married and preferably with large families, legally they didn’t have a leg to stand on, it makes me laugh, you men only pay attention to laws when they suit you, and then in the end, why, Canido didn’t have any children, look, how many children can a widower sixty years old and I don’t know how much more have, or Agustín Vega, he’s a bachelor, and all of them were like that, at least they’re people who’re politically reliable, don’t argue about that, but what a person can’t do, you rascal, get it into your head, no matter how much of a public servant he is and how large a family he has, is to bluster about things, taking the attitude of “Here I stand,” that’s why there’s a commission or whatever it’s called, and it chooses this one yes and that one no, especially because of their past behavior, so there, even though the law doesn’t say so, everybody understands it, and that whole story about appealing was ridiculous, you tell me, you get into a quarrel with the authorities and you’d have no apartment at all and, if you really want the truth, you’d even have to sell the bedroom furniture.
Sólo te he visto igual cuando Recondo te puso Cruzada en vez de guerra civil, que qué lo mismo dará, como digo yo, o cuando lo del guardia, o cuando lo de la casa, que a saber qué te pensabas, que eres más infeliz que un cubo, y todavía dale con que si los pisos eran para funcionarios, preferibles casados y preferibles familias numerosas, legalmente no tenían salida, me río yo, que vosotros sólo acatáis las leyes cuando os conviene, y, a fin de cuentas, si Cánido no tiene hijos, ya ves tú qué hijos va a tener un viudo de sesenta y no sé cuantos años, o Agustín Vega, está soltero, y todos así, por lo menos son gente adicta, no lo discutas, que lo que no se puede, zascandil, métetelo en la cabeza, por muy funcionario y muy familia numerosa que seas, es exigir las cosas por las bravas, por aquello del aquí estoy yo, que para eso existe un Consejo, o como se llame, y éste sí, éste no, selecciona, por sus antecedentes sobre todo, a ver, que eso aunque no lo diga la ley, es de cajón, se sobreentiende, que toda esa historia de recurrir son tonterías, tú dirás, meterte en pleitos con las autoridades, te quedas sin piso y, si me apuras un poco, tienes que vender hasta la alcoba.
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