| Back | But while he was questioning him they heard a loud outcry at the gate of the inn, the cause of which was that two of the guests who had passed the night there, seeing everybody busy about finding out what it was the four men wanted, had conceived the idea of going off without paying what they owed; but the landlord, who minded his own affairs more than other people's, caught them going out of the gate and demanded his reckoning, abusing them for their dishonesty with such language that he drove them to reply with their fists, and so they began to lay on him in such a style that the poor man was forced to cry out, and call for help. |
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| Front | Y, en tanto que le hacía esta y otras preguntas, oyeron grandes voces a la puerta de la venta, y era la causa dellas que dos huéspedes que aquella noche habían alojado en ella, viendo a toda la gente ocupada en saber lo que los cuatro buscaban, habían intentado a irse sin pagar lo que debían; mas el ventero, que atendía más a su negocio que a los ajenos, les asió al salir de la puerta y pidió su paga, y les afeó su mala intención con tales palabras, que les movió a que le respondiesen con los puños; y así, le comenzaron a dar tal mano, que el pobre ventero tuvo necesidad de dar voces y pedir socorro. |
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