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...father, retired Brigadier General José María Sánchez de Toca, 66, says he and his wife tried to instill in their eight children the same family values they'd learned from their own parents. "We taught them to work hard," he says, and also gave them "a sense of austerity. Children should not be given everything they ask for. In my day our parents didn't give in to us." Rigid discipline and corporal punishment were common, he recalls, both at home and at school, and women's roles were largely limited to the family. Though...
...wife burned her hand. Always on the prowl for a likely wench, he writes, in his easily decipherable code, about Deb, a servant: on March 31, 1668, "Yo did take her, the first time in my life, sobra me genu and did poner mi mano sub her jupes and toca su thigh." Yet Pepys' journals are far more than an account of appetites satisfied or denied; along his way the diarist recounts the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague and the Great Fire...
From the six strings of his guitar, he plucked the haunting, staccato music that only gypsies can make. "Se toca asi [That's the way]!" cried someone. "Your hands are not of silver, but of gold." He moved among the crowd, found a pretty French girl, and sang her a Spanish compliment: "You are beautiful. Your husband is a silly man unworthy of you, and we should meet tomorrow." The girl smiled in mystification, and De Plata moved away. At last, before dawn, the concert ended. "I have rarely played so well," said De Plata. "I have the guitar...
Even if Senor Toca didn't succeed in the said recognition, as a protection for the approximate 2,000 Swiss citizens residing in Rebel territory, he was allowed to open an office in Berne to conduct his business. But he managed to obtain a tag with the letters "C.D." from the Department of Interieur, the branch of vehicles & traffic of the canton of Berne, for his car, distinguishing it from other people's cars. ("C.D." means Corps Diplomatique...
...Toca has got in possession of this tag has not been ascertained; it was a fact...