Note 14 — CAPÍTULO III
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—si te callas, if you can be still. ¿Pero dónde estará ese maldito perro? But where can that accursed dog be? Here estará is future of probability or conjecture. me las pagará, I'll get even with him (literally, he will pay me for them: las is an indefinite pronoun here and may mean las malas cosas, las ofensas, or something of the sort).