text:  "_Santa Virgen!_" exclaimed he--"By the blessed Redeemer of Atolnico! May I never see heaven if it is not the very noble senor Don Manuel nephew of his excellency Count San Jago the first cavalier in Mexico and son of the not-quite-so-noble but still very-tolerably-noble Senor Don Sebastian and of the Gachupina Senora Donna Anna de Villagio and _cortejo_ of the greatest angel in Mexico and consequently in the whole world the Countess Elvira!" This characteristic and thoroughly Mexican apostrophe was accompanied by vehement gesticulation on the part of the Metis in whose expressive and variable countenance a strange mixture of fun and irony with reverence for the illustrious persons he was speaking of was discernible