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I believe your brother will pull you through with all his care . '' And then followed a comparison between her healthy and vigorous old age and his ruined youth , which was fighting so tenaciously against death . `` Here you see my seventy years , and never an illness in all my life . Summer and winter I never hear four o'clock strike in bed , and all my teeth are as sound as in the days when Don Sebastian came in his red dress as server in the church and wanted to steal half my breakfast . You Lunas have always been delicate ; your father , long before he was my age , could barely walk , and was always complaining of rheum and of the damp in this garden . Here am I in it constantly , and I feel just the same as when I am upstairs in the Claverias . We , the Villalpandos , are made of iron ; for , of course , we are descended from that famous Villalpando who made the screen of the high altar , the custodia , and an innumerable quantity of other things .