style unlike that which might have been expected from his limited intelligence, and says things so subtle that he does not think it possible he could ha

d his happiness a bowshot off, so much so that it made her ask

God's will, I should be very glad not t

by saying you would be glad, if it were God's will, not to be well pleased;

ers me with the thought that I may find another hundred crowns like those we have spent; though it makes me sad to have to leave thee and the children; and if God would be pleased to let me have my daily bread, dry-shod and at home, without taking me out into the byways and cros

joined on to a knight-errant you talk in such a

so that he may be fit to take arms; double his feed, and see to the pack-saddle and other harness, for it is not to a wedding we are bound, but to go round the world, and play at give and take w

don't eat their bread for nothing, and so I will be always prayin

not expect to see myself governor of an island

who live without a government, and continue to live all the same, and are reckoned in the number of the people. The best sauce in the world is hunger, and as the poor are never without that, they always eat with a relish. But mind, Sancho, if by good luck you should find yourself with some government, don't forget me and your children. Remember that Sanchico is now

government, I intend, wife, to make such a high match for Mari-Sanch

s, out of her grey flannel petticoat into hoops and silk gowns, out of the plain 'Marica' and 'thou,' into 'Dona So-and-so' and 'my lady,' the

ree years; and then dignity and decorum will fit her as easily as a glove;

n-bred and clodhopper's daughter and spinning wench. I have not been bringing up my daughter for that all this time, I can tell you, husband. Do you bring home money, Sancho, and leave marrying her to my care; there is Lope Tocho, Juan Tocho's son, a stout, sturdy young fellow that we know, and I can see he does not look sour at the girl; and with him, on

ildren that will be called 'your lordship'? Look ye, Teresa, I have always heard my elders say that he who does not know how to take advantage of luck when it comes to him, has

lower down, that made the translator of the hi

I like; and you yourself will find yourself called 'Dona Teresa Panza,' and sitting in church on a fine carpet and cushions and draperies, in spite and in defiance of all the born

ajo; but 'kings go where laws like,' and I am content with this name without having the 'Don' put on top of it to make it so heavy that I cannot carry it; and I don't want to make people talk about me when they see me go dressed like a countess or governor's wife; for they will say at once, 'See what airs the slut gives herself! Only yesterday she was always spinning flax, and used to go to mass with the tail of her petticoat over her head instead of a mantle, and there she goes to-day in a hooped gown with her broaches and airs, as if we didn't know her!' If God keeps me in my seven senses, or five, or whatever n

I may call you, when you don't understand my words, and run away from good fortune), if I had said that my daughter was to throw herself down from a tower, or go roaming the world, as the Infanta Dona Urraca wanted to do, you would be right in not giving way to my will; but if in an instant, in les

man people only throw a hasty glance; on the rich man they fix their eyes; and if the said rich man was once on a time poor,

s, for what I am about to say are the opinions of his reverence the preacher, who preached in this town last Lent, and who said, if I remember rightly, that a

on account of which the translator says he regards this chapte

which, whether it may have been poverty or low birth, being now a thing of the past, has no existence; while the only thing that has any existence is what we see before us; and if this person whom fortune has raised from his original lowly state (these were the very words the padre used) to his p

you like, and don't break my head with any more speechifyin

say, woman," said Sa

-the-way phrases; and I say if you are bent upon having a government, take your son Sancho with you, and teach h

ey, of which I shall have no lack, for there is never any want of people to lend it to governors when t

resa, "and I'll dress him up

our daughter is to be a

once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, tho

d put it off as long as possible. Here their conversation came to an end, and