| Back | "God bless me!" said the niece, "that you should know so much, uncle—enough, if need be, to get up into a pulpit and go preach in the streets—and yet that you should fall into a delusion so great and a folly so manifest as to try to make yourself out vigorous when you are old, strong when you are sickly, able to put straight what is crooked when you yourself are bent by age, and, above all, a caballero when you are not one; for though gentlefolk may be so, poor men are nothing of the kind!" |
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| Front | -¡Válame Dios! -dijo la sobrina-. ¡Que sepa vuestra merced tanto, señor tío, que, si fuese menester en una necesidad, podría subir en un púlpito e irse a predicar por esas calles, y que, con todo esto, dé en una ceguera tan grande y en una sandez tan conocida, que se dé a entender que es valiente, siendo viejo, que tiene fuerzas, estando enfermo, y que endereza tuertos, estando por la edad agobiado, y, sobre todo, que es caballero, no lo siendo; porque, aunque lo puedan ser los hidalgos, no lo son los pobres! |
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