C. Thème

1. Don José told Mérimée that he was born in Elizondo, and that he was a Basque. 2. His father and his mother wished him to go into the Church, and made him study, but he was too fond of playing. 3. Soon he enlisted in the Almanza cavalry regiment. 4. He became a corporal when they placed him on guard at the Seville tobacco factory. 5. “One Friday,” he said, “I met Carmen, at whose house I saw you several months ago. 6. It was very hot that day.” 7. Two or three hours afterwards a janitor told him that a woman had been murdered in the factory. 8. He took two men and went to see about it. 9. The case was clear; he took Carmen by the arm. 10. The sergeant said she would have to be taken to prison, xi. José placed her between two dragoons and set out for the city.