| Back | "I will answer that briefly," replied the curate; "you must know then, Senor Don Quixote, that Master Nicholas, our friend and barber, and I were going to Seville to receive some money that a relative of mine who went to the Indies many years ago had sent me, and not such a small sum but that it was over sixty thousand pieces of eight, full weight, which is something; and passing by this place yesterday we were attacked by four footpads, who stripped us even to our beards, and them they stripped off so that the barber found it necessary to put on a false one, and even this young man here"-pointing to Cardenio—"they completely transformed. |
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| Front | -A eso yo responderé con brevedad -respondió el cura-, porque sabrá vuestra merced, señor don Quijote, que yo y maese Nicolás, nuestro amigo y nuestro barbero, íbamos a Sevilla a cobrar cierto dinero que un pariente mío que ha muchos años que pasó a Indias me había enviado, y no tan pocos que no pasan de sesenta mil pesos ensayados, que es otro que tal; y, pasando ayer por estos lugares, nos salieron al encuentro cuatro salteadores y nos quitaron hasta las barbas; y de modo nos las quitaron, que le convino al barbero ponérselas postizas; y aun a este mancebo que aquí va -señalando a Cardenio- le pusieron como de nuevo. |
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