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Last spring, an acquaintance called at the crowded flat where Carmen, her husband, her baby and her parents were living. Tall, dark, handsome Faustino Valentin, who introduced himself as a lawyer, listened with fascination to Carmen's story. "Hasta luego, Marquesita" he muttered thoughtfully, bowing over the girl's graceful hand as he left...
...weeks later, Faustino returned to the Trigo flat with a briefcase full of documents. "Right here," he said, "I have proof that you are none other than the illegitimate daughter of the late Dona Maria del Rosario Heredia de Fonte Uberta, Marquesa de Escalona del Valle, Grandee of Spain and lady-in-waiting to Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain. Here," he added, "is a copy of your mother's last will leaving you all her titles, privileges and estates...
...existed in Spain. Newspapers sent their far-flung reporters scurrying. They found that there was no mansion in San Sebastián, no ranch in Andalusia, no palace in Seville, no stocks and no cash. When Valencia's Bureau of Criminal Investigation stepped in, the whole truth emerged: Faustino was not even a lawyer, but a law student who had flunked out; his documents were all forgeries...
Last week would-be Lawyer Faustino was in jail. Would-be Marchioness Carmen Trigo had a new job scrubbing floors in a Valencia hospital. She had sold all her fine clothes, jewels and furniture to pay her debts, but she still owed thousands of pesetas. Street urchins mocked, "Yah, yah. Marquesita," as she trudged to work each morning. But the kind nuns in the hospital gave Carmen a brief smile as she pushed her rag over the tile floor...
...know of at least one Argentine who did not think as Mr. Llambi-Campbell evidently does. His name was Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, onetime President of Argentina in the-1870s. He established schools based upon the United States model, educated his people in the political institutions of the United States, which he greatly admired and respected, by having such great American documents as the Federalist, and the constitutional writings of Joseph Story, translated into Spanish...