| Back | The fact is, then, Senor Don Quixote, that though you see me seated in this chair, here in the middle of the kingdom of Aragon, and in the attire of a despised outcast duenna, I am from the Asturias of Oviedo, and of a family with which many of the best of the province are connected by blood; but my untoward fate and the improvidence of my parents, who, I know not how, were unseasonably reduced to poverty, brought me to the court of Madrid, where as a provision and to avoid greater misfortunes, my parents placed me as seamstress in the service of a lady of quality, and I would have you know that for hemming and sewing I have never been surpassed by any all my life. |
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| Front | «Es, pues, el caso, señor don Quijote, que, aunque vuesa merced me vee sentada en esta silla y en la mitad del reino de Aragón, y en hábito de dueña aniquilada y asendereada, soy natural de las Asturias de Oviedo, y de linaje que atraviesan por él muchos de los mejores de aquella provincia; pero mi corta suerte y el descuido de mis padres, que empobrecieron antes de tiempo, sin saber cómo ni cómo no, me trujeron a la corte, a Madrid, donde por bien de paz y por escusar mayores desventuras, mis padres me acomodaron a servir de doncella de labor a una principal señora; y quiero hacer sabidor a vuesa merced que en hacer vainillas y labor blanca ninguna me ha echado el pie adelante en toda la vida. |
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