| Back | They called me Teresa at my baptism, a plain, simple name, without any additions or tags or fringes of Dons or Donas; Cascajo was my father's name, and as I am your wife, I am called Teresa Panza, though by right I ought to be called Teresa Cascajo; 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!' |
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| Front | Teresa me pusieron en el bautismo, nombre mondo y escueto, sin añadiduras ni cortapisas, ni arrequives de dones ni donas; Cascajo se llamó mi padre, y a mí, por ser vuestra mujer, me llaman Teresa Panza, que a buena razón me habían de llamar Teresa Cascajo. Pero allá van reyes do quieren leyes, y con este nombre me contento, sin que me le pongan un don encima, que pese tanto que no le pueda llevar, y no quiero dar que decir a los que me vieren andar vestida a lo condesil o a lo de gobernadora, que luego dirán: ''¡Mirad qué entonada va la pazpuerca!; ayer no se hartaba de estirar de un copo de estopa, y iba a misa cubierta la cabeza con la falda de la saya, en lugar de manto, y ya hoy va con verdugado, con broches y con entono, como si no la conociésemos''. |
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