How would you explain the last sentence?
13 May
Mother says tonight. In just a few hours we leave on the ferry. It isn’t possible just to go away from here, but she said, Oh yes it is. Leave everything.
Tell no one, she said: Don Enrique will be furious. Not even Cruz can know, don’t pack anything from your room yet because she would notice. Wait till it’s almost time. Take only what fits in one rucksack. Two books, only. Not those huaraches, don’t be ridiculous, your good shoes.
How would you explain the last sentence: Not those huaraches, don’t be ridiculous, your good shoes? Does it mean those huaraches were his good shoes?
PS: They were escaping from Don Enrique and Cruz was Enrique’s servent.
Thanks!
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Not those huaraches, don’t be ridiculous, your good shoes? <--- huaraches are sandals. His mother was telling him him not to pack his sandals and to pack his good shoes instead.
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For a a very brief moment, I thought it might have been an incomplete reference to the expression "goody two-shoes":
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/goody-two-shoes.html
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