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Sánchez Gómez the printer, who was also known by the nickname Plancheta, was a wealthy man, though he toiled away daily like a common workman. He was a person of diabolically uneven temper, of corrosive joviality and, at bottom, good-hearted.
He was the most picturesque and versatile printer in Madrid, and his business was likewise the most complicated and interesting.