Is it the monster?

Cholera: “Is the monster in?”
Porter: “Do come in, your delay is strange.”
Cholera: “While he governs Spain, you don’t need me, nor shall you.”
(Don Quijote, Madrid, 1892)
(Prime minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo was sometimes referred to as “el Monstruo,” as seen in this image from El Motin.)