Allí
estaban todos. Los cinco hermanos Bandullos,
una dinastía que al mamar llevaba
ya cuchillo; que se educó degollando
reses en el Matadero, y con una estrecha
solidaridad lograba que cada uno valiera
por cinco y el prestigio de la familia fuese
indiscutible. Allí Pepet, un valentón
rústico que usaba zapatos por la
primera vez en su vida y había sido
extraído de la Ribera por un dueño
de timba, para colocarlo frente a los terribles
Bandullos, que le molestaban con sus exigencias
y continuos tributos; y en tomo de estas
eminencias de la profesión, hasta
una docena de valientes de segunda magnitud,
gente que pasaba la vida pensando por no
trabajar; guardianes de casas de juego que
estaban de vigilancia en la puerta desde
el mediodía hasta el amanecer, por
ganarse tres pesetas; lobos que no habían
hecho aún más que morder a
algún señorito enclenque o
asustar los municipales; maestros de cuchillo
que poseían golpes secretos e irresistibles,
a pesar de lo cual habían perdido
la cuenta de las bofetadas y palos recibidos
en esta vida.
There they all were. Five brothers Bandullos, a dynasty that, on having sucked, was already taking knife; that was educated murdering animals in the Slaughterhouse, and with a narrow solidarity it was achieving that each one was costing for five and the prestige of the family was indisputable. There Pepet, a rustic bully who was using shoes for the first time in his life and it had been extracted from the Bank by a proprietor of gambling house, to place it opposite to the terrible Bandullos, which were bothering him with his requirements and continuos taxes; and in volume of these eminences of the profession, up to a dozen of brave of the second magnitude, the people who was spending the life thinking for not working; guards of houses of game who were of alertness in the door from midday up to the dawn, for gaining him three pesetas; wolves that they had not done moreover than to bite any weak gentleman or to scare the policemen; teachers of knife who were possessing secret and irresistible blows, in spite of which they had lost the account of the slaps and sticks received in this life.