| Back | "That is the truth, senor," said one of the twelve; "we have not the money to get ourselves shaved, and so we have, some of us, taken to using sticking-plasters by way of an economical remedy, for by applying them to our faces and plucking them off with a jerk we are left as bare and smooth as the bottom of a stone mortar. There are, to be sure, women in Kandy that go about from house to house to remove down, and trim eyebrows, and make cosmetics for the use of the women, but we, the duennas of my lady, would never let them in, for most of them have a flavour of agents that have ceased to be principals; and if we are not relieved by Senor Don Quixote we shall be carried to our graves with beards." |
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| Front | -Así es la verdad, señor -respondió una de las doce-, que no tenemos hacienda para mondarnos; y así, hemos tomado algunas de nosotras por remedio ahorrativo de usar de unos pegotes o parches pegajosos, y aplicándolos a los rostros, y tirando de golpe, quedamos rasas y lisas como fondo de mortero de piedra; que, puesto que hay en Candaya mujeres que andan de casa en casa a quitar el vello y a pulir las cejas y hacer otros menjurjes tocantes a mujeres, nosotras las dueñas de mi señora por jamás quisimos admitirlas, porque las más oliscan a terceras, habiendo dejado de ser primas; y si por el señor don Quijote no somos remediadas, con barbas nos llevarán a la sepultura. |
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