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OTHER STORIES OF MODERN SPAIN
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Briones: they are ringing in honor of her arrival."

The devil no sooner heard that his mother-in-law had come, than he slipped out and ran away so fast that a ray of sunlight could not overtake him, and left Briones, proud as a turkey-cock, and rejoicing in his good fortune.