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diff --git a/53489-0.txt b/53489-0.txt index 2418adc..c0d86f8 100644 --- a/53489-0.txt +++ b/53489-0.txt @@ -1,23 +1,5 @@ *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 53489 *** -E-text prepared by Josep Cols Canals, Ramon Pajares Box, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images -generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) - - - -Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this - file which includes the original illustrations. - See 53489-h.htm or 53489-h.zip: - (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53489/53489-h/53489-h.htm) - or - (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/53489/53489-h.zip) - - - Images of the original pages are available through - Internet Archive. See - https://archive.org/details/lifeoflazarillod00markiala - Transcriber’s note: @@ -1934,7 +1916,7 @@ here.” [Illustration: “_Gave me a piece of a cow’s foot and several pieces of boiled tripe._”] -“Do not be troubled about that, sir,“ I replied to him, “for cursed be +“Do not be troubled about that, sir,” I replied to him, “for cursed be he who asks the question, and myself if I tell him anything. No, we shall soon be free from want. When I saw that nothing good came into this house I went out. Surely the ground must be bad, or there must be diff --git a/53489-h/53489-h.htm b/53489-h/53489-h.htm index 3b2933b..432b106 100644 --- a/53489-h/53489-h.htm +++ b/53489-h/53489-h.htm @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> <head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> -<title>The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes, by Anonymous</title> - <link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover.jpg" /> - <style type="text/css"> +<meta charset="utf-8"> + +<title>The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes | Project Gutenberg</title> + <link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover.jpg" > + <style> body { margin: 0 auto; } p { margin: 0.5em 0 0 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.25em; } @@ -137,29 +137,6 @@ #tnote li { margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: justify; } .tnotetit { font-weight: bold; text-align: center; text-indent: 0; margin-bottom: 1em; } - - @media handheld, print - { - p { margin: 0; } - - .pt3 { padding-top: 3em; } - .pt6 { padding-top: 6em; } - - hr { clear: both; width: 34%; margin-left: 33%; } - hr.chap { width: 20%; margin-left: 40%; } - hr.chap0 { display: none; visibility: hidden; } - hr.sep { width: 40%; margin-left: 30%; } - - .chapter { margin: 0 0 1em 0; } - .toc { max-width: 100%; } - .x_link { display: none; } - .screenonly { display: none; } - .pagenum { display: none; } - .footnotes { border: none; } - .footnote { margin: 1em 0; } - .sidenote { float: right; clear: none; max-width: 8em; min-width: 8em; } - } - div.body { max-width: 32em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } @@ -189,34 +166,6 @@ </head> <body> <div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 53489 ***</div> -<div class="pg"> -<h1 class="pg">The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes, by -Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> -<p> </p> -<h4>E-text prepared by Josep Cols Canals, Ramon Pajares Box,<br /> - and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> - (<a href="http://www.pgdp.net">http://www.pgdp.net</a>)<br /> - from page images generously made available by<br /> - Internet Archive<br /> - (<a href="https://archive.org">https://archive.org</a>)</h4> -<p> </p> -<p> </p> -<table border="0" style="background-color: #ccccff;margin: 0 auto;" cellpadding="10"> - <tr> - <td valign="top"> - Note: - </td> - <td> - Images of the original pages are available through - Internet Archive. See - <a href="https://archive.org/details/lifeoflazarillod00markiala"> - https://archive.org/details/lifeoflazarillod00markiala</a> - </td> - </tr> -</table> -<p> </p> -<hr class="pg" /> -</div> <div class="body"> <p> </p> <p> </p> @@ -227,24 +176,24 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> <p><a href="#ToC">Table of Contents</a></p> <p><a href="#LoI">List of Illustrations</a></p> <p><a href="#Index">Index</a></p> - <hr class="chap" /> + <hr class="chap" > </div> <div class="screenonly"> <div class="figcenter"> <img src="images/cover.jpg" - alt="Book cover" /> + alt="Book cover"> </div> - <hr class="chap" /> + <hr class="chap" > </div> <div class="aftit pt3"> <p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_ii">[p. ii]</span>AGENTS</p> - <table class="ag mt1" summary="Table of Agents"> + <table class="ag mt1"> <tr> <td class="tdlu"><span class="smcap">America</span></td> - <td class="tdlh"><span class="smcap">The Macmillan Company<br /> + <td class="tdlh"><span class="smcap">The Macmillan Company<br > 64 & 66 Fifth Avenue, New York</span></td> </tr> <tr> @@ -253,13 +202,13 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> </tr> <tr> <td class="tdlu"><span class="smcap">Canada</span></td> - <td class="tdlh"><span class="smcap">The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd.<br /> + <td class="tdlh"><span class="smcap">The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd.<br > 27 Richmond Street West, Toronto</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tdlu"><span class="smcap">India</span></td> - <td class="tdlh"><span class="smcap">Macmillan & Company, Ltd.<br /> - Macmillan Building, Bombay<br /> + <td class="tdlh"><span class="smcap">Macmillan & Company, Ltd.<br > + Macmillan Building, Bombay<br > 309 Bow Bazaar Street, Calcutta</span></td> </tr> </table> @@ -267,11 +216,11 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> <div class="aftit pt3"> - <hr class="chap" /> + <hr class="chap" > <p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_iii">[p. iii]</span></p> - <h1 title="THE LIFE OF LAZARILLO DE TORMES">THE LIFE OF<br /> + <h1 title="THE LIFE OF LAZARILLO DE TORMES">THE LIFE OF<br > LAZARILLO DE TORMES</h1> - <hr class="chap" /> + <hr class="chap" > </div> @@ -279,12 +228,12 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> <p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_vi">[p. vi]</span></p> <div class="figcenter" id="Fp"> <img src="images/pa006.jpg" - alt="Frontispice illustration" /> + alt="Frontispice illustration"> <p class="caption"> <span class="x_link"><a href="images/pa006-g.jpg"><img src="images/xpnd.jpg" alt="Enlarge" - title="Enlarge" /></a> </span> + title="Enlarge"></a> </span> <i>Lazarillo begging.</i> </p> </div> @@ -292,25 +241,25 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> <div class="tit pt3"> - <hr class="chap0" /> + <hr class="chap0" > <p class="fs250"><span class="pagenum" id="Page_vii">[p. vii]</span><span - class="g1">The Life</span><br /> - <small>of</small><br /> + class="g1">The Life</span><br > + <small>of</small><br > <span class="g1">Lazarillo de Tormes</span></p> <p class="xl mt1">His Fortunes & Adversities</p> - <p class="medium mt2">TRANSLATED FROM THE EDITION OF 1554<br /> + <p class="medium mt2">TRANSLATED FROM THE EDITION OF 1554<br > <small>(PRINTED AT BURGOS)</small></p> <p class="xs mt1">BY</p> - <p class="large"><span class="smcap">Sir CLEMENTS MARKHAM, K.C.B.</span><br /> + <p class="large"><span class="smcap">Sir CLEMENTS MARKHAM, K.C.B.</span><br > <span class="small"><span class="smcap">D.Sc. (Camb.)</span></span></p> <div class="just"> - WITH A NOTICE OF THE MENDOZA FAMILY,<br /> - A SHORT LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, DON DIEGO<br /> - HURTADO DE MENDOZA, A NOTICE OF<br /> - THE WORK, AND SOME REMARKS ON THE<br /> + WITH A NOTICE OF THE MENDOZA FAMILY,<br > + A SHORT LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, DON DIEGO<br > + HURTADO DE MENDOZA, A NOTICE OF<br > + THE WORK, AND SOME REMARKS ON THE<br > CHARACTER OF LAZARILLO DE TORMES </div> @@ -319,7 +268,7 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> <p class="large">1908</p> </div> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt3" id="ToC"> @@ -327,9 +276,9 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> <h2 class="nobreak">ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS</h2> </div> -<table class="toc" summary="Table of contents"> +<table class="toc"> <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc"><big>INTRODUCTORY</big></td> + <td colspan="2" class="tdc"><span style="font-size: larger">INTRODUCTORY</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt05"><small>THE FAMILY OF MENDOZA</small></td> @@ -449,7 +398,7 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_xxxvi">xxxvi</a></td> </tr> <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt2"><big>PROLOGUE</big></td> + <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt2"><span style="font-size: larger">PROLOGUE</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tdlh pt05">Lazaro’s reason for relating all the circumstances of his life</td> @@ -464,7 +413,7 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_3">3</a></td> </tr> <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt2"><big>I</big></td> + <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt2"><span style="font-size: larger">I</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt05"><small>LAZARO RELATES THE WAY OF HIS BIRTH @@ -495,7 +444,7 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td> </tr> <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt2"><big>FIRST MASTER</big></td> + <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt2"><span style="font-size: larger">FIRST MASTER</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt05"><small>HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A BLIND MAN</small></td> @@ -557,7 +506,7 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_28">28</a></td> </tr> <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt2"><big>SECOND MASTER</big></td> + <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt2"><span style="font-size: larger">SECOND MASTER</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt05"><small>HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A CLERGYMAN, @@ -628,7 +577,7 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_44">44</a></td> </tr> <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt2"><big>THIRD MASTER</big></td> + <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt2"><span style="font-size: larger">THIRD MASTER</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt05"><small>HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A GENTLEMAN, @@ -764,7 +713,7 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_82">82</a></td> </tr> <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt2"><big>FOURTH MASTER</big></td> + <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt2"><span style="font-size: larger">FOURTH MASTER</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt05"><small>HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A FRIAR @@ -776,7 +725,7 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt2"><span class="pagenum" - id="Page_xiii">[p. xiii]</span><big>FIFTH MASTER</big></td> + id="Page_xiii">[p. xiii]</span><span style="font-size: larger">FIFTH MASTER</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt05"><small>HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE @@ -824,7 +773,7 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_92">92</a></td> </tr> <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt2"><big>SIXTH MASTER</big></td> + <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt2"><span style="font-size: larger">SIXTH MASTER</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt05"><small>HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A CHAPLAIN, @@ -839,7 +788,7 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_96">96</a></td> </tr> <tr> - <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt2"><big>SEVENTH MASTER</big></td> + <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt2"><span style="font-size: larger">SEVENTH MASTER</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="tdc pt05"><small>HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A CONSTABLE, @@ -875,7 +824,7 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> </tr> </table> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt3" id="LoI"> @@ -884,7 +833,7 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> <p class="centra large"><span class="smcap">By Stephen Baghot de la Bere</span></p> </div> -<table class="toc" summary="Table of contents"> +<table class="toc"> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="tdr pt05"><small>PAGE</small></td> </tr> @@ -948,7 +897,7 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> </tr> </table> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt3" id="Ch_1"> @@ -957,7 +906,7 @@ Anonymous, Translated by Clements Markham</h1> <h3>THE FAMILY OF MENDOZA</h3> </div> -<div class="sidenote">Descent of the<br />author of <i class="normal">Lazarillo<br />de +<div class="sidenote">Descent of the<br >author of <i class="normal">Lazarillo<br >de Tormes</i>.</div> <p class="ti0"><span class="smcap">The author</span> of <i>Lazarillo @@ -983,7 +932,7 @@ Gonzalez de Aguero, and had a son Gonzalo.</p> <p>This Gonzalo Hurtado de Mendoza married Juana Fernandez de Orozco, and was the father of a very distinguished son—of Pedro Gonzalez.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">A Mendoza saved<br />the life of King<br />Juan I. of +<p><span class="sidenote">A Mendoza saved<br >the life of King<br >Juan I. of Castille.</span>Pedro Gonzalez Hurtado de Mendoza married Aldonza, daughter of Fernan Perez de Ayala. He was with Juan I., of Castille, at the battle of Aljubarrota. In the flight the King’s horse was killed. @@ -1005,7 +954,7 @@ son, Inigo Lopez, was by his second wife.</p> <p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_xvii">[p. xvii]</span></p> -<p><span class="sidenote">The Poet Marquis<br />of +<p><span class="sidenote">The Poet Marquis<br >of Santillana.</span>Inigo Lopez Hurtado de Mendoza was born in 1396. He served with distinction at the battle of Olmedo, and was created Marquis of Santillana in 1445. He was opposed to Alvaro de Luna, the @@ -1053,7 +1002,7 @@ fleet and the Genoese. At the request of King Juan II. he also made a <i>collection of proverbs</i> for his son Enrique IV. This was the earliest collection of proverbs made in modern times.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Children of the<br />Marquis of<br /> +<p><span class="sidenote">Children of the<br >Marquis of<br > Santillana.</span>The noble poet married Catalina Suarez de Figueroa, daughter of Don Lorenzo Suarez de Figueroa, Lord of Feria and Zafra. The Marquis died in 1454, leaving ten children:—</p> @@ -1096,7 +1045,7 @@ from the second son, the usurper Sancho.</p> <p class="mt2">Don Inigo Lopez de Mendoza was created first Count of Tendilla in 1465. He was Captain-General of Andalusia. <span -class="sidenote">The Counts of<br />Tendilla.</span> He married Doña +class="sidenote">The Counts of<br >Tendilla.</span> He married Doña Elvira de Quiñones, daughter of Don Diego Fernandez, Lord of Luna. Their children were:—</p> @@ -1156,7 +1105,7 @@ Padilla.</p> <p class="dr"><span class="smcap">Lope de Vega.</span></p> </div></div> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt6" id="Ch_2"> @@ -1178,7 +1127,7 @@ the walls of Bracamonte’s house.</p> <p>The palace and the esquire’s house, both within the walls of the Alhambra, looked across the valley of the Darro to the Albaicín. Both buildings were surrounded by gardens and fruit-trees. <span -class="sidenote">Birth of Don<br />Diego in the<br />Alhambra.</span> +class="sidenote">Birth of Don<br >Diego in the<br >Alhambra.</span> In this romantic spot Diego was born in the year 1503, and he passed his early years with his brothers and sisters there. Pedro<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxiv">[p. xxiv]</span> Martir de Angleria @@ -1186,11 +1135,11 @@ was his tutor. At an early age he went to the university of Salamanca, where he learnt Latin, Greek, and Arabic, and studied canon and civil law.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Don Diego at<br />Salamanca.</span>While he +<p><span class="sidenote">Don Diego at<br >Salamanca.</span>While he was a student at Salamanca Don Diego wrote <i>Lazarillo de Tormes</i>.</p> <p>On leaving the university Don Diego went to serve with the -Spanish armies in Italy. <span class="sidenote">His services<br />in +Spanish armies in Italy. <span class="sidenote">His services<br >in Italy.</span> He also attended lectures at Rome, Bologna, and Padua, and was a profound scholar as well as a statesman and a soldier. Charles V. appreciated his ability and his acquirements. In 1538, @@ -1210,7 +1159,7 @@ library, in his house at Granada.</p> <p>In his retirement he wrote a good deal of poetry. But his great work was the <i>Guerra de Granada</i>, a narrative of the rebellion of -the Moors in 1568-1570. <span class="sidenote">The <i>Guerra<br />de +the Moors in 1568-1570. <span class="sidenote">The <i>Guerra<br >de Granada</i>.</span> He did the Moors such impartial justice that his book could not be published until many years after his death. Sallust was his model. The first edition appeared in 1610, and the second @@ -1226,10 +1175,10 @@ diligent in obtaining Greek MSS., and in other respects his library was quite unique. He bequeathed it to Philip II., and it is now in the Escurial.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Death of Don<br />Diego Hurtado<br />de +<p><span class="sidenote">Death of Don<br >Diego Hurtado<br >de Mendoza.</span>Don Diego died at Madrid in April 1575, aged 72.</p> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt6" id="Ch_3"> @@ -1240,7 +1189,7 @@ Mendoza.</span>Don Diego died at Madrid in April 1575, aged 72.</p> <p class="ti0"><span class="smcap">Ticknor</span><a id="FNanchor_3" href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> describes <i>Lazarillo de Tormes</i> as “a work of genius unlike anything that had preceded it. -<span class="sidenote">Ticknor’s opinion<br />of the work.</span> Its object +<span class="sidenote">Ticknor’s opinion<br >of the work.</span> Its object is to give a pungent satire on all classes of society. It is written in a very bold, rich, and idiomatic Castilian style. Some of its sketches are among the most fresh and spirited that can be found in the whole @@ -1269,7 +1218,7 @@ guineas. Colonel Stanley’s copy fetched £31:10s.; Mr. Hanroth’s, <p>A second part, by some wretched scribbler, soon appeared, without any merit. It makes Lazarillo go to sea in the Algiers expedition of 1541. The ship founders, he sinks to the bottom, crawls into a cave, -and is turned into a tunny fish. <span class="sidenote">Spurious<br />second +and is turned into a tunny fish. <span class="sidenote">Spurious<br >second parts.</span> He is then caught in a seine, returns by an effort of will to the human form, and finally goes to live at Salamanca. There was another second part by Juan de Luna, a teacher of Spanish at @@ -1323,7 +1272,7 @@ editions. Spanish names are scarcely recognisable. Gelves is called <p>All these translations are from late editions; none from the first edition.</p> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt6" id="Ch_4"> @@ -1341,8 +1290,8 @@ in which he wrote, through the medium of his boy hero.</p> <p>The author himself was a boy at the time, or at least a very young man, a student at Salamanca. He had no model, and the conception was quite original. He makes Lazarillo de Tormes a boy of his own -age. <span class="sidenote">The author made<br />Lazaro’s age<br />coincide -with<br />his own.</span> Don Diego was born in 1503. Assuming Lazarillo +age. <span class="sidenote">The author made<br >Lazaro’s age<br >coincide +with<br >his own.</span> Don Diego was born in 1503. Assuming Lazarillo to have been born in 1503,<a id="FNanchor_6" href="#Footnote_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a> he was about 10 years old when he took service with the blind man, three years<span class="pagenum" @@ -1356,8 +1305,8 @@ Diego really completed his little romance, also aged 21.</p> <p>In conceiving the character of Lazaro it is likely that the young student had in his mind what he himself might have been, if he had -been born in the same obscurity. <span class="sidenote">The author’s<br /> -conception of<br />the two destinies.</span> “The two destinies”<a +been born in the same obscurity. <span class="sidenote">The author’s<br > +conception of<br >the two destinies.</span> “The two destinies”<a id="FNanchor_7" href="#Footnote_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> were framed out of a noble and an ignoble birth, success in the latter case being far more meritorious than in the former. We find this reflection in @@ -1376,8 +1325,8 @@ us.</p> was a widow who had intimacies with a groom of Moorish blood, had a child by him, and lived on the proceeds of his thieving, while Lazaro was employed to dispose of the stolen goods. <span -class="sidenote">Lazaro’s baneful<br />surroundings as a<br />child. -His mother<br />not unfeeling.</span> When they were found out, the +class="sidenote">Lazaro’s baneful<br >surroundings as a<br >child. +His mother<br >not unfeeling.</span> When they were found out, the widow’s position became most precarious. Just then the wonderfully clever and plausible blind man appeared on the scene. He offered what, in comparison with the boy’s lot with his mother, seemed to @@ -1390,8 +1339,8 @@ not a mother without feeling.</p> <p>The account of the professional cleverness and knowledge of the blind man is very interesting, but, in spite of it all, the little boy seems to have held his own to some extent with the old rascal. -<span class="sidenote">Capital stories<br />most amusingly<br -/>told.</span> The trick with the half blancas, the story of +<span class="sidenote">Capital stories<br >most amusingly<br +>told.</span> The trick with the half blancas, the story of the wine, and of the bunch of grapes, are<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxxiv">[p. xxxiv]</span> capitally told and very amusing. It is true that the old man was handicapped by his blindness, though @@ -1419,7 +1368,7 @@ only of concealing his poverty. Lazaro had to resort to begging, and so he kept his poor master, as well as himself, alive.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_xxxv">[p. xxxv]</span> Here Lazaro comes out in an excellent light. He <span class="sidenote">Lazaro’s -higher<br /> qualities shown<br />in his intercourse<br />with the +higher<br > qualities shown<br >in his intercourse<br >with the esquire.</span>was not only kind-hearted and generous, but he showed tact and a wish to avoid hurting the poor proud creature’s feelings. Don Diego thus shows his hero in the light of one of nature’s @@ -1433,8 +1382,8 @@ and a very amusing story it is, no doubt true to life. For it aroused the anger of the Inquisition, and was expurgated from future editions. But Lazaro merely appears as a narrator; and his character is not developed; though it is in the rapid sketch of his rise to -prosperity. <span class="sidenote">Development<br />of Lazaro’s<br -/>character.</span> He was a lad who was liked. His girl-friends who +prosperity. <span class="sidenote">Development<br >of Lazaro’s<br +>character.</span> He was a lad who was liked. His girl-friends who were kind to him in adversity, as well as the archpriest and many others who were good friends when he rose to prosperity, showed that he was a favourite among those with whom he came in contact.</p> @@ -1448,13 +1397,13 @@ contrary, the conclusion is the other way, and the story ends with a defence of his wife by Lazaro himself.</p> <p>The work is the production of a genius. <span -class="sidenote">Merits<br />of the work.</span> Its originality, and the +class="sidenote">Merits<br >of the work.</span> Its originality, and the admirable way in which the stories in it are told make it deserving of a wider audience, though of course it is well known to students of the literature of Europe. Seldom has so much wit, fun, and wisdom been gathered into so small a compass.</p> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt3" id="Ch_5"> @@ -1465,8 +1414,8 @@ gathered into so small a compass.</p> <p class="ti0"><span class="smcap">I hold</span> it to be good that such remarkable things as have happened to me, perhaps never before seen or heard of, should not be buried in the tomb of oblivion. -<span class="sidenote">Reasons for<br />relating all the<br -/>circumstances<br />of his life.</span> It may be that some one who +<span class="sidenote">Reasons for<br >relating all the<br +>circumstances<br >of his life.</span> It may be that some one who reads may find something that pleases him. For those who do not go very deep into the matter there is a saying of Pliny “<i>that there is no book so bad that it does not contain something that is good</i>.”<a @@ -1481,8 +1430,8 @@ fruit might be plucked from such a tree.</p> id="Page_2">[p. 2]</span> at all, for it cannot be done without hard work.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Motives of authors<br />not to gain -money,<br />but to win fame.</span>Authors do not wish to be +<p><span class="sidenote">Motives of authors<br >not to gain +money,<br >but to win fame.</span>Authors do not wish to be recompensed with money, but by seeing that their work is known and read, and, if it contains anything that is worthy, that it is praised. On this point Tully says: “Honour creates the arts.” Think @@ -1505,8 +1454,8 @@ will accept the poor service of one who would be richer if his power was equal to his desire. Well, your Honour! This author writes what he writes, and relates his story very fully.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Success<br />of the poor<br />should be a -lesson<br />to the rich.</span>It seemed to him that he should not +<p><span class="sidenote">Success<br >of the poor<br >should be a +lesson<br >to the rich.</span>It seemed to him that he should not begin in the middle, but quite at the beginning, so that there might be a full notice of his personality, and also that those who inherit noble estates may consider how little fortune owes them, having been @@ -1514,7 +1463,7 @@ so very partial to them in its gifts; and how much more those have done who, not being so favoured, have, by force and management, arrived at a good estate.</p> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt3" id="Ch_6"> @@ -1550,8 +1499,8 @@ among the adventurers was my<span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[p. went in the position of attendant on a knight who also went, and, with his master, like a loyal servant, he ended his life.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Death of Lazaro’s<br />father, and his<br -/>mother goes<br />into service.</span>My widowed mother, finding +<p><span class="sidenote">Death of Lazaro’s<br >father, and his<br +>mother goes<br >into service.</span>My widowed mother, finding herself without husband or home, determined to betake herself to the good things so as to be among them; so she went to live in the city. She hired a small house, and was employed to prepare victuals @@ -1569,8 +1518,8 @@ was afraid of his colour and<span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[p. of better living, I began to like him, for he always brought pieces of meat, bread, and in the winter, fuel to warm us.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">A swarthy<br />stepfather and<br />a little -brown<br /> brother.</span>This intercourse went on until one day +<p><span class="sidenote">A swarthy<br >stepfather and<br >a little +brown<br > brother.</span>This intercourse went on until one day my mother gave me a pretty little brown brother, whom I played with and helped to keep warm. I remember once that when my stepfather was fondling the child, it noticed that my mother and I were white, @@ -1582,8 +1531,8 @@ who run from others because they do not see themselves in them.”</p> <p>It was our fate that the intimacy of the Zayde, for so they called my stepfather, came to the ears of the steward. <span -class="sidenote">The punishment<br />for receiving<br />and living -on<br />stolen goods.</span>On looking into the matter he found that +class="sidenote">The punishment<br >for receiving<br >and living +on<br >stolen goods.</span>On looking into the matter he found that half the corn he gave out for the horses was stolen, also that the fuel, aprons, pillions, horse-cloths, and blankets were missing, and that when nothing else was left, the horse-shoes were taken. With @@ -1595,7 +1544,7 @@ brings him to this.</p> <p>All I have related was proved, because they cross-questioned me with threats, and being a child I answered and let out all I knew from -fear, <span class="sidenote">Stolen<br />horse-shoes.</span>down to certain +fear, <span class="sidenote">Stolen<br >horse-shoes.</span>down to certain horse-shoes which, by my mother’s order, I sold to a blacksmith. They flogged my unhappy stepfather, and put my mother on the accustomed penance as a punishment. An order was given that she was not to enter @@ -1604,8 +1553,8 @@ house.</p> <p>The poor woman complied with the sentence that she might not lose all; and to avoid danger and silence evil tongues she went away into -service. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro helps<br />at the inn.Takes<br />service -with<br />a blind man.</span>She was employed in the open gallery of an inn, +service. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro helps<br >at the inn.Takes<br >service +with<br >a blind man.</span>She was employed in the open gallery of an inn, and so she contrived to rear the little brother, though suffering from many difficulties. She raised him until he could walk, and me until I was a fine little boy, who went for wine and lights for the guests, and @@ -1614,17 +1563,17 @@ for anything else they wanted.</p> <div class="figcenter mt3" id="p009"> <p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[p. 9]</span></p> <img src="images/pb009.jpg" - alt="Illustration" /> + alt="Illustration"> <p class="caption"> <span class="x_link"><a href="images/pb009-g.jpg"><img src="images/xpnd.jpg" alt="Enlarge" - title="Enlarge" /></a> </span> + title="Enlarge"></a> </span> <i>Lazarillo helps at the Inn.</i> </p> </div> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt3" id="Ch_7"> @@ -1636,7 +1585,7 @@ for anything else they wanted.</p> <p class="ti0"><span class="smcap">At that time</span> a blind man came to lodge at the inn, who, seeing that I would do to lead him, asked for me from my mother. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro -enters<br />the service<br />of a blind man.</span>She gave me +enters<br >the service<br >of a blind man.</span>She gave me to him, saying that I was the son of a good father, and boasting that he had been killed at the Island of Gelves.<a id="FNanchor_13" href="#Footnote_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a> She told the blind man @@ -1646,7 +1595,7 @@ was an orphan. He answered that he would do so, and that he received me not as his servant but as his son. Thus it was that I began to serve and to lead my new master. We were in Salamanca for some days, but, as the earnings were not to my master’s liking, he determined -to go somewhere else. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro’s farewell<br />to +to go somewhere else. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro’s farewell<br >to his mother.</span>When we were about to depart, I went to see my mother, and, both weeping, she gave me her<span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[p. 12]</span> blessing and said, “I shall see you no @@ -1654,7 +1603,7 @@ more. Strive to be good, and may God direct your ways. You have been brought up, and are now put with a good master. Farewell!” And so I went away to my master who was waiting for me.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">A cruel trick<br />of the wicked<br />old blind +<p><span class="sidenote">A cruel trick<br >of the wicked<br >old blind man.</span>We went out of Salamanca and came to the bridge. There is, at the entrance of it, an animal of stone<a id="FNanchor_14" href="#Footnote_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a> which almost has the @@ -1664,7 +1613,7 @@ you will hear a great noise inside.” I did so, like a simpleton, believing it to be as he said. When he felt that my head was against the stone, he raised his hand and gave me a tremendous blow against the devil of a bull, so that I felt the pain for more than three days. -<span class="sidenote">Lazaro and<br />the blind man.</span>Then he said +<span class="sidenote">Lazaro and<br >the blind man.</span>Then he said to me, “This will teach you that a blind man’s boy ought to be one point more knowing than the devil himself”; and he laughed heartily at his joke. It seemed to me that, in an instant, I awoke from <span @@ -1675,12 +1624,12 @@ myself.”</p> <div class="figcenter mt2" id="p013"> <img src="images/pb013.jpg" - alt="Illustration" /> + alt="Illustration"> <p class="caption"> <span class="x_link"><a href="images/pb013-g.jpg"><img src="images/xpnd.jpg" alt="Enlarge" - title="Enlarge" /></a> </span> + title="Enlarge"></a> </span> “<i>He answered that he received me, not as his servant but as his son.</i>” </p> </div> @@ -1689,8 +1638,8 @@ myself.”</p> I showed myself to be sprightly, which pleased the blind man, and he said, “I can give you neither gold nor silver, but I can teach you much in the ways of getting a livelihood.” <span -class="sidenote">Wonderful<br />sagacity and<br />cleverness of -the<br />blind man.</span>It was so that, after a few days, he showed +class="sidenote">Wonderful<br >sagacity and<br >cleverness of +the<br >blind man.</span>It was so that, after a few days, he showed me many things, and being blind himself, he enlightened and guided me in the ways of life. I mention these trifles to your Honour to show how much knowledge men must have when they are down, and to keep from @@ -1720,8 +1669,8 @@ know that, in spite of all he acquired and had, I never met a man so avaricious and stingy, insomuch that he nearly killed me with hunger, depriving me of the necessaries of life.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">The blind man’s<br />way of making<br -/>money and<br />his avarice.</span>I tell the truth, that if, by +<p><span class="sidenote">The blind man’s<br >way of making<br +>money and<br >his avarice.</span>I tell the truth, that if, by way of subtlety and cunning, I had not found a remedy, I should many times have succumbed to starvation. With all his knowledge and experience, I managed so well that, oftener than not, I got the best @@ -1734,7 +1683,7 @@ knapsack, closing the mouth with an iron chain having a padlock and key. He put in and took out his things himself, using great vigilance, and he kept such a close account that there was not a man in all the world who could have taken so much as a crumb without his knowing -it. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro finds his<br />way into the blind<br />man’s +it. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro finds his<br >way into the blind<br >man’s knapsack.</span>Well, I had to take the lazar’s allowance which he gave me. It was all despatched in less than two mouthfuls. After he had locked the bag and was not looking out, thinking that I was attending @@ -1744,7 +1693,7 @@ only of bread but of good pieces of bacon and sausage. Thus I watched for convenient times to make up for the infernal wrong that the wicked blind man inflicted on me.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro’s adroit<br />contrivance with<br />the half +<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro’s adroit<br >contrivance with<br >the half “blancas.”</span>All that I could pilfer and steal I carried in half “blancas.” When they paid him for saying prayers for them, they gave him a whole “blanca.” But as he could not see, I had got it in my @@ -1765,7 +1714,7 @@ he used to recite, and that he had given it.</p> dined; and quick as thought I gave it silent kisses when I put it down for him. But it was not long before he noticed the loss in what he drank, so he never let the jug out of his hand, but always kept -it by him. <span class="sidenote">Various ways<br />of getting<br />at the +it by him. <span class="sidenote">Various ways<br >of getting<br >at the wine.</span>However,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[p. 19]</span> he had no magnet to point to what went on, while I had a long oaten straw which I prepared for this need of mine. Slipping it into the @@ -1784,7 +1733,7 @@ astonishment was expressed in curses, devoting the wine and the jug to the devil. “You cannot think that I have been drinking, uncle!” I said, “for you have not let the jug out of your hand.” But he gave the jug so many twists and turns that at last he found the hole. He said nothing. -<span class="sidenote">The wicked<br />blind man’s<br />cruel revenge.</span>Next +<span class="sidenote">The wicked<br >blind man’s<br >cruel revenge.</span>Next day I was sucking at my hole as usual, thinking no evil,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[p. 20]</span> and little dreaming of what he was getting ready for me. I was seated on the ground, taking @@ -1797,7 +1746,7 @@ to me as if the sky and all that was in it had fallen upon me. The blow was so great that the pieces of the jug cut my face in several parts and broke my teeth, so that I remain without them to this day.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">A coolness<br />arises between<br />Lazaro and<br />the +<p><span class="sidenote">A coolness<br >arises between<br >Lazaro and<br >the blind man.</span>From that time I wished evil to the cruel blind man, and, although he was kind to me afterwards and cured me, I saw very well that he enjoyed my cruel punishment. He washed the bruises and @@ -1821,7 +1770,7 @@ and he never did anything else.</p> <p>So I led him by the worst ways, seeking to do him harm, taking him over stony places and into mud. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro -is beaten,<br />so the blind<br />man is led<br />into the mud.</span>He always +is beaten,<br >so the blind<br >man is led<br >into the mud.</span>He always beat me on the back of my head, so that it was covered with bruises, and although I cried out that I did not do it on purpose, but only because there was no better road, he did not believe me, such was the @@ -1843,8 +1792,8 @@ determined to have a banquet with it, instead of putting it in his bag. For on that day he had given me many blows and kicks.</p> <p>We sat down in an enclosed place and he said: “Now I am going to -treat you with liberality. <span class="sidenote">The way Lazaro<br />and -the blind<br />man shared<br />a bunch of grapes.</span>We will both eat this +treat you with liberality. <span class="sidenote">The way Lazaro<br >and +the blind<br >man shared<br >a bunch of grapes.</span>We will both eat this bunch of grapes in equal shares, and it shall be in this way. You take one and I will take another. You must only take one at a time, and I will take another until it is finished. In this way there can be no @@ -1853,7 +1802,7 @@ trick.” So we began. At the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[p. As he had broken the agreement I thought that I ought to do the same. Not content to do as he did, I began to take three at a time. When the bunch was finished, he sat for some time with the stalk -in his hand. <span class="sidenote">An example<br />of the blind man’s<br /> +in his hand. <span class="sidenote">An example<br >of the blind man’s<br > cleverness.</span>Then he said, “Lazaro, you have deceived me. I would swear to God that you have been eating three at a time.” “I did not eat so,” I declared. “Why do you suspect me?” “Would you know how I am @@ -1871,7 +1820,7 @@ class="fnanchor">[17]</a> a town belonging<span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[p. 24]</span> to the Duke of that name, lodging at an inn.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro falls into<br />temptation and<br />eats the +<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro falls into<br >temptation and<br >eats the sausage.</span>The blind man gave me a piece of sausage to roast. When the sausage had been basted and the toasted bread on which the grease was poured had been eaten, he took a maravedi out of his bag @@ -1897,7 +1846,7 @@ turned to swear, and swore again, that it was not me. But it availed me nothing. From the cunning of the cursed blind man nothing could be hidden.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Dreadful trouble<br />about the sausage.</span>My +<p><span class="sidenote">Dreadful trouble<br >about the sausage.</span>My master got up and took me by the head. Presently he began to smell me, and forcing my mouth open, he put his nose in. It was a long pointed nose. What with the turn I had, the choke in my throat, and the fright @@ -1916,7 +1865,7 @@ including the story of the jug and of the bunch of grapes. The laughter was so loud that all the passers-by came in to see the fun; for the old wretch told the stories of my misfortunes so well that even I, ill-treated as I was, could not help half joining in the laughter. -<span class="sidenote">Lazaro recovers<br />from the effects<br />of the +<span class="sidenote">Lazaro recovers<br >from the effects<br >of the sausage.</span>Remembering my troubles there came a weakness upon me. But my stomach recovered, and the landlady of the inn, with others who were present, washed my face and throat with the wine that had been @@ -1939,7 +1888,7 @@ href="#Footnote_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a> The evil things he did to me made me sad, though I paid him back, as your Honour will presently hear.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro<br />determined<br />to leave<br />the blind +<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro<br >determined<br >to leave<br >the blind man.</span>Seeing all this, and how the blind man made me a laughing-stock, I determined that at all hazards I would leave him. This resolution was always in my mind, and the last game he played @@ -1957,12 +1906,12 @@ becomes much narrower, and by jumping we can clear it.” This seemed good advice, so he said, “You are discreet and you shall take me to that place where the stream becomes so narrow, for it is winter time, and a bad thing to get our feet wet.” <span class="sidenote">Lazaro -prepares<br />to revenge himself<br />on the blind man.</span>Seeing that things +prepares<br >to revenge himself<br >on the blind man.</span>Seeing that things were going as I wished, I took him out of the arcade, and placed him just in front of a stone pillar that stood in the square. Then I said to him, “Uncle, this is the narrowest part of the stream.”</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro’s<br />cruel vengeance<br />on the blind +<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro’s<br >cruel vengeance<br >on the blind man.</span>As the rain continued and he was getting wet, we were in a hurry to get shelter from the water that was falling upon us. The principal thing was (seeing that God blinded my understanding in that @@ -1975,7 +1924,7 @@ one step backwards, and then sprang with all<span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[p. 29]</span> his force. His head came with such a noise against the pillar that it sounded like a great calabash. He fell down half dead. “How was it you could smell the sausage and not -the post? Oh! Oh!” I shouted. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro leaves<br /> +the post? Oh! Oh!” I shouted. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro leaves<br > his first master.</span>I left him among several people who ran to help him, while I made for the gate of the town at a sharp trot, so that before nightfall I might be in Torrijos, not knowing nor @@ -1984,10 +1933,10 @@ href="#Footnote_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a></p> <div class="figcenter mt2" id="p029"> <img src="images/pb029.jpg" - alt="Illustration" /> + alt="Illustration"> </div> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt3" id="Ch_8"> @@ -1998,7 +1947,7 @@ href="#Footnote_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a></p> </div> <p class="ti0"><span class="smcap">Next day</span>, <span -class="sidenote">The clergyman’s<br />chest.</span> as I did not feel +class="sidenote">The clergyman’s<br >chest.</span> as I did not feel that I should be quite safe at Torrijos,<a id="FNanchor_21" href="#Footnote_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a> I stopped at a place called Maqueda,<a id="FNanchor_22" href="#Footnote_22" @@ -2008,7 +1957,7 @@ class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[p. 31]</span> whether I knew how to assist at Mass. I said yes, which was true, for though the blind man ill-treated me, he taught me many useful things, and one of them was this. Finally the clergyman took me as his servant. <span -class="sidenote">Out of<br />the frying-pan<br />into the fire.</span>I had +class="sidenote">Out of<br >the frying-pan<br >into the fire.</span>I had escaped from the thunder to fall under the lightning. For compared with this priest, the blind man was an Alexander the Great. I will say no more than that all the avarice in the world was combined in this @@ -2023,8 +1972,8 @@ shelf or in a cupboard, or a few pieces of bread that may have remained over from the table. It seemed to me that the sight of such things, even if I could not have them, would have been a consolation.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Nothing in the<br />clergyman’s house<br -/>but an old chest,<br />and a string<br />of onions.</span>There +<p><span class="sidenote">Nothing in the<br >clergyman’s house<br +>but an old chest,<br >and a string<br >of onions.</span>There was only a string of onions, and these<span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[p. 32]</span> were under lock and key in an upper chamber, one being allowed for every four days. If I asked for the @@ -2044,14 +1993,14 @@ parts, and my master sent me for one that was to cost three maravedis. He cooked it and ate all the eyes, tongue, brains, and the meat off the cheeks, giving me the well-picked bone on a plate, and saying, “Take! Eat! Triumph! for you is the world, and you live better than -the Pope.” <span class="sidenote">Lazaro was<br />sinking into<br />the silent -tomb<br />from hunger.</span>At the end of three weeks I became so weak +the Pope.” <span class="sidenote">Lazaro was<br >sinking into<br >the silent +tomb<br >from hunger.</span>At the end of three weeks I became so weak that I could scarcely stand on my feet for hunger. I saw myself<span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[p. 33]</span> sinking down into the silent tomb. If God and my own intelligence had not enabled me to avail myself of ingenious tricks, there would have been no remedy for me.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Extraordinary<br />stinginess of<br />the +<p><span class="sidenote">Extraordinary<br >stinginess of<br >the clergyman.</span>When we were at the offertory not a single blanca was dropped into the shell without being registered by him. He kept one eye on the congregation and the other on my hands, moving his eyes about @@ -2067,8 +2016,8 @@ he lied shamefully. For at meetings and funerals where we had to say prayers and responses, and where he could get food at the expense of others, he ate like a wolf and drank more than a proposer of toasts.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro prayed<br />for the deaths<br />of sick -people,<br />for the sake of<br />the funeral feasts.</span>And why do I speak +<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro prayed<br >for the deaths<br >of sick +people,<br >for the sake of<br >the funeral feasts.</span>And why do I speak of funerals? God<span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[p. 34]</span> forgive me! for I never was an enemy to the human race except on those occasions. Then we could eat well, and I wished, and even prayed to @@ -2097,8 +2046,8 @@ The first starved me, the second brought me to death’s door, and a third might finish me. It appeared that any change might be for the worse.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro is saved<br />from starvation<br -/>by an angel <br />of a locksmith.</span>One day when my wretched +<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro is saved<br >from starvation<br +>by an angel <br >of a locksmith.</span>One day when my wretched master was out, a locksmith came to the door by chance. I thought that he was an angel sent to me by the hand of God, in the dress of a workman. He asked me whether I had any work for him to do. @@ -2110,8 +2059,8 @@ began to try his keys, and soon the chest was opened, and I beheld the Lord’s gift in the form of bread. “I have no money,” I said, “to give you for the key, but take what you like in payment.” He took one of the loaves that looked the best, and went away quite satisfied, -leaving the key with me. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro is happy<br />until -the<br />clergyman begins<br />to smell a rat.</span>I did not touch anything, +leaving the key with me. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro is happy<br >until +the<br >clergyman begins<br >to smell a rat.</span>I did not touch anything, at the moment, because I did not feel the need. My wretched master came back, and, as God willed<span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[p. 36]</span> it, he did not look into the trunk which that angel @@ -2120,8 +2069,8 @@ paradise and took a loaf between the hands and teeth. In two <i>credos</i> I made it invisible. Not forgetting the open chest, I rejoiced to think that, with this remedy, my life would be less miserable. Thus I was happy with him for two days, but it was not destined that this -should continue. <span class="sidenote">The clergyman<br />counts the -loaves<br />of bread.</span>For on the third day, at the very time that +should continue. <span class="sidenote">The clergyman<br >counts the +loaves<br >of bread.</span>For on the third day, at the very time that I was dying of hunger, he was to be seen at our chest, counting and recounting the loaves. I dissimulated, and, in my secret prayers and devotions, I implored that he might be blinded. After he had been @@ -2159,7 +2108,7 @@ class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[p. 38]</span> this which the rat has cleaned.” Thus the work of my hands, or rather nails, was added to my allowance.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">The clergyman<br />boards up<br />all the rat holes<br /> +<p><span class="sidenote">The clergyman<br >boards up<br >all the rat holes<br > in the old chest.</span>Presently I beheld another piece of work. The wretched priest was pulling nails out of the wall, and looking for small boards with which to cover all the holes in the ancient chest. @@ -2178,12 +2127,12 @@ hole left large enough for a mosquito to get in.”</p> <div class="figcenter mt2" id="p039"> <p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[p. 39]</span></p> <img src="images/pb039.jpg" - alt="Illustration" /> + alt="Illustration"> <p class="caption"> <span class="x_link"><a href="images/pb039-g.jpg"><img src="images/xpnd.jpg" alt="Enlarge" - title="Enlarge" /></a> </span> + title="Enlarge"></a> </span> “<i>‘It is the rats,’ he declared.</i>” </p> </div> @@ -2205,8 +2154,8 @@ good meal, and went back to my straw bed, where I rested and slept.</p> provisions. He began to commend the rats to the devil, saying, “What shall we say to this! Never have I known rats in this house until now.” He may well have spoken the truth, for such creatures do not stay where -there is nothing to eat. <span class="sidenote">What the<br />clergyman did<br /> -by day, Lazaro<br />undid by night.</span> He turned to find more nails +there is nothing to eat. <span class="sidenote">What the<br >clergyman did<br > +by day, Lazaro<br >undid by night.</span> He turned to find more nails in the wall, and a small board to cover the hole. Night came and he retired to rest, while I set to work to open by night what he had closed up in the day. It was like the weaving of Penelope, for all he @@ -2224,14 +2173,14 @@ some pieces of cheese from the neighbours. This was a great help to me. In truth I did not need much sauce for my bread, still, I enjoyed the bits of cheese which I got from the rat-trap.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">The rat-trap<br />adds cheese<br />to Lazaro’s +<p><span class="sidenote">The rat-trap<br >adds cheese<br >to Lazaro’s bread.</span>When he found the bread eaten in rat’s fashion, the cheese gone, and no rats caught, he again commended the rats to the devil. He asked the neighbours how the cheese could have been taken without the rat being caught. They agreed that it could not have been a rat. One neighbour remembered that there used to be a snake in the house, and they all concurred that it must have been the snake. <span -class="sidenote">It must have<br />been a snake.</span>As it is long it +class="sidenote">It must have<br >been a snake.</span>As it is long it could have taken the cheese without being caught in the trap. This exercised the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[p. 43]</span> mind of my master very much, and from that time he slept so lightly that @@ -2252,8 +2201,8 @@ apply a remedy.</p> <p>I began to be afraid that, with all my diligence, he might find my key which I kept amongst the straw. I thought it would be safer to put -it in my mouth. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro<br />determined<br />to keep the -key<br />in his mouth—a<br />fatal mistake.</span>For when I lived with the blind +it in my mouth. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro<br >determined<br >to keep the +key<br >in his mouth—a<br >fatal mistake.</span>For when I lived with the blind man I used my mouth<span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[p. 44]</span> as a purse, keeping ten or twelve maravedis in it, all in half blancas, without being prevented from eating. Without that plan I could not have @@ -2273,8 +2222,8 @@ the straw, and he raised the club with the intention of giving it such a blow as to kill it. So he hit me on the head with all his force and left me senseless.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro<br />is found out,<br />and half -killed<br />in the process.</span>Seeing the quantity of blood he +<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro<br >is found out,<br >and half +killed<br >in the process.</span>Seeing the quantity of blood he understood the harm he had done me, and went in a great hurry to get a light. Coming back he found me with the key in my mouth, half of it<span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[p. 45]</span> projecting, in @@ -2292,8 +2241,8 @@ understand what had happened. At this time an old woman came in and dressed my wound. Then the neighbours began to take off the bandages. They rejoiced when they saw that I had recovered my senses, and began to laugh over my misfortunes while I, as the sinner, mourned over -them. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro recovers<br /> and is shown<br -/>the door.</span>With all this they gave me something to eat, so +them. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro recovers<br > and is shown<br +>the door.</span>With all this they gave me something to eat, so that in a fortnight I could get up and was out of danger, though suffering from hunger. On another day, when I was up, my master took me by the hand and put me outside the door.<span class="pagenum" @@ -2306,10 +2255,10 @@ back into the house, and shut the door.</p> <div class="figcenter mt2" id="p046"> <img src="images/pb046.jpg" - alt="Illustration" /> + alt="Illustration"> </div> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt3" id="Ch_9"> @@ -2322,13 +2271,13 @@ back into the house, and shut the door.</p> <p class="ti0"><span class="smcap">Thus</span> I was obliged to seek strength out of weakness, and little by little, with the help of kind people, I reached this famous city of Toledo. <span -class="sidenote">Lazaro reaches<br />Toledo, and seeks<br />for a master.</span> +class="sidenote">Lazaro reaches<br >Toledo, and seeks<br >for a master.</span> At the end of fifteen days, by the mercy of God, my wound was healed. While I was ill people gave me some alms, but as soon as I was well they all said, “You lazy little vagabond, go and seek for a master whom you may serve.” “But where can I find one?” I said to myself.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">On the road<br />to Toledo.</span>I was +<p><span class="sidenote">On the road<br >to Toledo.</span>I was wandering about from door to door, without any settled purpose, when I came upon an esquire,<a id="FNanchor_24" href="#Footnote_24" class="fnanchor">[24]</a> who was walking down the street, fairly well @@ -2340,7 +2289,7 @@ shown mercy to you by letting you meet with me.” So I followed him, giving thanks to God. Judging from his dress and manner I thought he was the sort of master of whom I stood in need.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro enters<br />the service<br />of an +<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro enters<br >the service<br >of an esquire.</span>It was in the morning when I met with my third master, and I followed him over a great part of the city. He passed by the place where they sell bread and other provisions, and I thought and @@ -2360,17 +2309,17 @@ before which my master stopped, and I with him.</p> <div class="figcenter mt1" id="p049"> <img src="images/pb049.jpg" - alt="Illustration" /> + alt="Illustration"> <p class="caption"> <span class="x_link"><a href="images/pb049-g.jpg"><img src="images/xpnd.jpg" alt="Enlarge" - title="Enlarge" /></a> </span> + title="Enlarge"></a> </span> “<i>I followed him over a great part of the city.</i>” </p> </div> -<p class="mt1"><span class="sidenote">The esquire<br />takes Lazaro<br />to his +<p class="mt1"><span class="sidenote">The esquire<br >takes Lazaro<br >to his house.</span>Throwing the end of his cloak over his left shoulder, he took a key out of his sleeve and opened the door. We entered the house. It was so dark and dismal that it might cause fear to any one coming @@ -2385,7 +2334,7 @@ for laying the cloth and getting the meal ready than for answering what he asked. Nevertheless, I satisfied his curiosity with the best lies I could invent, relating all I had done well, and holding my tongue about the rest, which did not appear to me to be appropriate. -<span class="sidenote">Nothing to eat<br />in the esquire’s<br />house.</span>This +<span class="sidenote">Nothing to eat<br >in the esquire’s<br >house.</span>This done, we remained in the same<span class="pagenum" id="Page_52">[p. 52]</span> place for a while. It was now nearly two o’clock in the afternoon, and there was no more sign of anything to eat than there @@ -2399,7 +2348,7 @@ juncture he said to me, “You, my boy! have you eaten?” “No, sir,” said I, “for it was not eight o’clock when I met your worship.” “Well,” he said, “although I have breakfasted this morning, I shall be fasting until night, so you must hold on, and afterwards we will have supper.” -<span class="sidenote">Lazaro sees<br />trouble ahead<br />about food, but<br />he +<span class="sidenote">Lazaro sees<br >trouble ahead<br >about food, but<br >he dissimulates.</span>When I heard this I was very much depressed, not so much from hunger, as from the knowledge that the luck was continuing to be against me. For my hardships seemed to be coming back. I mourned @@ -2421,8 +2370,8 @@ I understand you,” said I to myself, “and cursed be such medicine, and such kindness as I have had from my masters, who give me nothing but starvation.”</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">The esquire and<br />Lazaro sup on<br />the boy’s -three<br />pieces of bread.</span>I then put myself in one corner of the +<p><span class="sidenote">The esquire and<br >Lazaro sup on<br >the boy’s +three<br >pieces of bread.</span>I then put myself in one corner of the doorway, and took some pieces of bread out of my bosom, which remained from what had been given me. When he saw it he said to me, “Come here, my boy, what is it you are eating?” I came to him and showed @@ -2436,7 +2385,7 @@ master, and, putting it to his mouth, he began to take as voracious mouthfuls as I did with mine. “It is most delicious,” he said. I feared he would finish first, and that he would want to help me with what was left of mine, so we both came to an end at the same time. <span -class="sidenote">A meagre supper<br />and a wretched<br />bed.</span>My master +class="sidenote">A meagre supper<br >and a wretched<br >bed.</span>My master then began to collect with his hand a few crumbs which had remained on our breasts. Then he went into a small room and brought out a jug without a spout, and not very new. After he had had a drink he offered @@ -2463,7 +2412,7 @@ We must do the best we can, and to-morrow, when it is light, God will have mercy. Being alone I am not provided, for I have been in the habit of having my meals outside, but now we will arrange things in another way.” <span class="sidenote">The esquire’s<br -/>apology for<br />no supper. His<br /> philosophical view<br />of +>apology for<br >no supper. His<br > philosophical view<br >of starvation.</span> “Sir,” I replied, “do not trouble about me, for I can pass a night like this.” “You will become more and more healthy,” he then told me, “for there is nothing in the world that @@ -2484,7 +2433,7 @@ ill-luck a thousand times, may God pardon me! I was like that most of the night, not daring to turn for fear of awakening my master; and I prayed to God many times for death.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">The esquire<br />attends<br />to his outward<br /> +<p><span class="sidenote">The esquire<br >attends<br >to his outward<br > appearance.</span>When morning came we got up and began to shake and brush the doublet and hose, the coat and cloak. My master dressed himself very carefully, combed his hair, washed his hands, and put his @@ -2506,18 +2455,18 @@ come in when I return.”</p> <div class="figcenter mt1" id="p057"> <img src="images/pb057.jpg" - alt="Illustration" /> + alt="Illustration"> <p class="caption"> <span class="x_link"><a href="images/pb057-g.jpg"><img src="images/xpnd.jpg" alt="Enlarge" - title="Enlarge" /></a> </span> + title="Enlarge"></a> </span> “<i>What there was we spread out.</i>” </p> </div> -<p class="mt1"><span class="sidenote">Stately<br />appearance of the<br />esquire -when he<br />walked abroad.</span>He then marched down the street with such +<p class="mt1"><span class="sidenote">Stately<br >appearance of the<br >esquire +when he<br >walked abroad.</span>He then marched down the street with such a contained and noble air that any one who did not know the contrary would have thought that he was a very near relation to the Count of Arcos,<a id="FNanchor_25" href="#Footnote_25" class="fnanchor">[25]</a> @@ -2526,8 +2475,8 @@ you, my lord,” I was left saying, “who gives the disease and provides the remedy.” Who would meet my master, and, judging from his satisfied look, not suppose that he had supped well and slept in a comfortable bed, and that in the morning he had had a good breakfast? <span -class="sidenote">Lazaro’s<br />reflections on<br />the secrets hidden<br />under the -<br />esquire’s cloak.</span>Great secrets, sir, are those which you keep and +class="sidenote">Lazaro’s<br >reflections on<br >the secrets hidden<br >under the +<br >esquire’s cloak.</span>Great secrets, sir, are those which you keep and of which the world is ignorant.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_60">[p. 60]</span> Who would not be deceived by that fair presence and decent cloak? And who would think that the same gentleman passed all that day @@ -2539,8 +2488,8 @@ have suspected it. O Lord! how many such as him must be scattered over the world, who suffer for the jade they call honour that which they would not suffer for a friend.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro’s<br />reflections.<br />He goes for water<br />and -finds his<br />master flirting<br />on the river bank.</span>I was standing at +<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro’s<br >reflections.<br >He goes for water<br >and +finds his<br >master flirting<br >on the river bank.</span>I was standing at the door, looking out and thinking of these and many other things until my master disappeared down the long and narrow street. Then I went back into the house, and in the time that it would take to say a <i>credo</i> @@ -2562,15 +2511,15 @@ and not seeing any more of my master I went back to the house.</p> <p>I thought of sweeping some part of it, which was very necessary, but I could find nothing with which to do it; so I set myself to think -what I should do next. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro waits long<br />for -his master<br />to bring food, but<br />he never came.</span>I thought I would +what I should do next. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro waits long<br >for +his master<br >to bring food, but<br >he never came.</span>I thought I would wait for my master until noon. When he came he might by good luck bring something for us to eat. But there was no such experience for me. It was two o’clock, my master had not come, and I was desperately hungry. So I shut the door, put the key where I was told, and gave all my attention to my own necessities.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro’s<br />successful begging<br /> +<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro’s<br >successful begging<br > expedition.</span>With a low and feeble voice, and my hands in my bosom, the good God before my eyes, and<span class="pagenum" id="Page_62">[p. 62]</span> my tongue repeating His Name, I began to @@ -2596,24 +2545,24 @@ waited for you to eat, and when you did not <span class="pagenum" id="Page_65">[p. 65]</span>come I ate what there was, but you have done well in this, for it is better to beg in the name of God than to steal. He helps me as He sees fit. <span class="sidenote">What touches -the<br />esquire’s honour.</span>I merely charge you that people must not +the<br >esquire’s honour.</span>I merely charge you that people must not be told that you live with me, for it touches my honour; though I well believe that it will be kept secret, because very few people know me here.”</p> <div class="figcenter mt1" id="p063"> <img src="images/pb063.jpg" - alt="Illustration" /> + alt="Illustration"> <p class="caption"> <span class="x_link"><a href="images/pb063-g.jpg"><img src="images/xpnd.jpg" alt="Enlarge" - title="Enlarge" /></a> </span> + title="Enlarge"></a> </span> “<i>Gave me a piece of a cow’s foot and several pieces of boiled tripe.</i>” </p> </div> -<p class="mt1">“Do not be troubled about that, sir,“ I replied to him, +<p class="mt1">“Do not be troubled about that, sir,” I replied to him, “for cursed be he who asks the question, and myself if I tell him anything. No, we shall soon be free from want. When I saw that nothing good came into this house I went out. Surely the ground must be bad, or @@ -2624,8 +2573,8 @@ own.”</p> <p>I sat down at the end of the bench, and, that he might not take me for a glutton, I said nothing about the meal. I began supper, and to -bite my bread and tripe. <span class="sidenote">The esquire longs<br />for -a share of<br />Lazaro’s supper.</span>Looking stealthily I saw that my +bite my bread and tripe. <span class="sidenote">The esquire longs<br >for +a share of<br >Lazaro’s supper.</span>Looking stealthily I saw that my unhappy master could not take his eyes off my skirt, which served as a plate. May God have as much pity for me as I had for him! I could feel what he felt, and have been feeling so every day. I thought whether it @@ -2642,7 +2591,7 @@ when he had no such longing before.” “The great longing that you have makes you think my way of eating so beautiful,” I said to myself, “and causes your wish to help me.”</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro’s courtesy,<br />tact, and +<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro’s courtesy,<br >tact, and kindness.</span>He longed to join me, and I opened a way by saying, “Sir, the good tools make the good craftsman. This bread is delicious, and this cow’s foot is so well cooked and seasoned that there is no @@ -2650,7 +2599,7 @@ one that would not be drawn to it by the smell alone.” “Cow’s foot, is it?” he said. “Yes, sir!” “I tell you that is the best mouthful in the world, there is not even a pheasant that is so good.” “Try it, sir!” said I, “and see whether it is as good as you think.” -<span class="sidenote">Lazaro generously<br />provides<br />his master<br />with a +<span class="sidenote">Lazaro generously<br >provides<br >his master<br >with a supper.</span>I put on one side<span class="pagenum" id="Page_67">[p. 67]</span> the cow’s foot and three or four pieces of bread, and he sat down by my side, and began to eat as if he would like to devour every @@ -2674,8 +2623,8 @@ better. My feeling was rather of sorrow than of enmity. Often I<span class="pagenum" id="Page_68">[p. 68]</span> fared ill in bringing to the house that with which he might be satisfied.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro examines<br />the esquire’s<br />clothes, and -<br />finds nothing.</span>One morning the sad esquire got out of bed in his +<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro examines<br >the esquire’s<br >clothes, and +<br >finds nothing.</span>One morning the sad esquire got out of bed in his shirt and went up to the roof of the house. I quickly searched the hose and doublet at the head of the bed, and found a small purse of velvet, but there had not been so much as a blanca in it for many a day. “This @@ -2687,7 +2636,7 @@ for me to detest, but for this poor man to have a tender feeling.” God is my witness that even now when I meet with any one dressed like this, and walking with the same pompous air, it makes me sad to think that he might be suffering what I saw my poor master suffer. -<span class="sidenote">Lazaro has a<br />kindly feeling for<br />his third +<span class="sidenote">Lazaro has a<br >kindly feeling for<br >his third master.</span>With all his poverty I liked serving him; but not the other two masters. I only felt some discontent, for I should have liked him not to be quite so proud, and to have lowered his pretensions just @@ -2697,7 +2646,7 @@ id="Page_69">[p. 69]</span> march with their caps well cocked, though they have not a blanca to their names. The Lord have mercy on those who have to die of this disease!</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Begging<br />prohibited.</span>I was in this +<p><span class="sidenote">Begging<br >prohibited.</span>I was in this condition, passing the life I have described, when my ill-luck again began to pursue me. In that land the year was one which only yielded a bad harvest, so the municipal authorities resolved that all mendicants @@ -2709,8 +2658,8 @@ streets.</p> <p>This so frightened me that I did not dare to transgress by begging. So you may imagine the abstinence of our house, and the sadness and silence of its inmates. We were two or three days without eating a -mouthful or speaking a word. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro is kept<br /> -alive by some<br />kind shop-girls.</span>Some young women, sewers of cotton +mouthful or speaking a word. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro is kept<br > +alive by some<br >kind shop-girls.</span>Some young women, sewers of cotton who made caps and lived near us, kept me alive, for I had made friends with them. From the little they had, they gave me enough to keep body and soul together. I was not so unhappy for myself as for my forlorn @@ -2720,15 +2669,15 @@ I do not know where he went or<span class="pagenum" id="Page_70">[p. come back at noon, walking along the street with dignified carriage, thinner than a greyhound of good breed, and with regard to what touched the nonsense he called honour, he brought a straw of which we had -not enough in the house. <span class="sidenote">Master and boy in<br />a -miserable and<br />starving condition.</span>Coming to the door he would +not enough in the house. <span class="sidenote">Master and boy in<br >a +miserable and<br >starving condition.</span>Coming to the door he would grind his teeth with nothing between them, complaining all the time of his bad lodging and saying: “It is a bad thing to see, and a most unlucky place to have to live in, and while we have to be here it will always be wretchedly sad. We have got to endure it, but I wish that this month was over, so that we might leave it.”</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">The esquire brings<br />home a real, but<br />bemoans +<p><span class="sidenote">The esquire brings<br >home a real, but<br >bemoans his fate.</span>Being in this miserable and starving condition, one day, I know not through what good-fortune or chance, my poor master became possessed of a real. He came to the house with it, as delighted @@ -2752,7 +2701,7 @@ this occasion.</p> <p>As I ran up the street I was calculating how I could spend the money to the best advantage and most profitably, giving thanks to God that my master had got something to spend. <span class="sidenote">Terror -of Lazaro,<br />thinking they were<br />bringing a dead<br />body to his +of Lazaro,<br >thinking they were<br >bringing a dead<br >body to his house.</span>Suddenly I met a funeral with many priests and mourners. I got up against the wall to let them pass. Presently they came, one in deep mourning, apparently the wife of the deceased, with other women. @@ -2764,7 +2713,7 @@ drink.” When I heard this the<span class="pagenum" id="Page_72">[p. “O unhappy me! it is to our house that they are taking this dead body.” I turned back, slipped through the crowd of people, and ran down the street as fast as I could to our house. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro -bars the<br />door to keep out<br />the dead body.</span>When I got there I began +bars the<br >door to keep out<br >the dead body.</span>When I got there I began to close the door in great haste, calling on my master to come and help, and to defend the entrance. He was rather surprised, thinking it was something else, and said to me, “What is this, my boy, what are @@ -2780,7 +2729,7 @@ heartily that it was a long time before he could speak. By this time I had got the beam across the door and put my shoulder against it, to make it more secure.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro barring<br />the door.</span>The people +<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro barring<br >the door.</span>The people passed with their corpse, and<span class="pagenum" id="Page_73">[p. 73]</span> all the time I pushed against the door, to prevent them from getting into the house. At last, when he had had much more of laughing @@ -2788,8 +2737,8 @@ than of eating, my good master said to me, “In truth, Lazaro, seeing what the widow was saying, you were right to think as you did. But God has been good to us, and they have passed. So open, open, and go and get the food.” “Let me wait, sir, until they are out of the street,” -I begged. <span class="sidenote">At last the esquire<br />unbars the door,<br /> -and Lazaro does<br />his marketing.</span>At last my master came and opened +I begged. <span class="sidenote">At last the esquire<br >unbars the door,<br > +and Lazaro does<br >his marketing.</span>At last my master came and opened the door in spite of me, which was necessary, because I was so upset with fear and excitement. I then went out. We ate well on that day, but I took no pleasure in it, nor did my colour come back for three more @@ -2801,7 +2750,7 @@ esquire, for several succeeding days, always longing to know the reason of his coming and remaining in this place. For, from the first day that I took service with him, I saw that he was a stranger, from the little intercourse he had with the inhabitants. <span -class="sidenote">The esquire<br />tells his story<br />to Lazaro.</span>At +class="sidenote">The esquire<br >tells his story<br >to Lazaro.</span>At last I accomplished my desire, and came to know what I wanted. It was one day when we had eaten reasonably well,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_74">[p. 74]</span> and were rather well satisfied. He told @@ -2814,8 +2763,8 @@ his off as well.” He went on to say that the knight did take off his cap to him; but that he had taken his off first so many times, that it was well to see what the other would do. “It seems to me, sir,” said I, “that you should have doffed to one greater and richer than -yourself.” <span class="sidenote">The esquire<br />expounds his<br />views of -honour<br />to Lazaro.</span>“You are only a boy,” he replied, “and cannot +yourself.” <span class="sidenote">The esquire<br >expounds his<br >views of +honour<br >to Lazaro.</span>“You are only a boy,” he replied, “and cannot understand the things appertaining to honour in which, at the present time, is all the wealth of respectable people. You must remember that I am, as you know, an esquire. I swear to God that if I met a count in @@ -2829,8 +2778,8 @@ and nearly came to blows with an officer, because whenever I saluted him he said, ‘May God preserve your honour!’ ‘You are a wretch,’ I said, ‘for you are not well bred. You said to me “God preserve you,” as if I was nobody.’ From that time he took off his cap, and behaved -properly.” <span class="sidenote">The esquire<br />continues to<br />discourse on -<br />the same subject.</span>“Is it not good manners for one man to salute +properly.” <span class="sidenote">The esquire<br >continues to<br >discourse on +<br >the same subject.</span>“Is it not good manners for one man to salute another,” I asked, “or to say ‘God preserve you’?” He answered, “It is only underbred people who talk thus. To gentlemen like myself, it should be not less than ‘I kiss the hands of your honour!’ or at the @@ -2849,8 +2798,8 @@ repair; and I also have a pigeon<span class="pagenum" id="Page_76">[p. hundred pigeons every year, as well as other things about which I am silent, as it might touch my honour.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">The esquire’s<br />honour makes<br />him fastidious<br />in -accepting<br />employment.</span>“I came to this city because I expected to +<p><span class="sidenote">The esquire’s<br >honour makes<br >him fastidious<br >in +accepting<br >employment.</span>“I came to this city because I expected to find a good appointment, but things have not turned out as I thought. Canons and other Churchmen find plenty, because their profession is not overcrowded. Careless gentlemen also seek me, but to serve with such @@ -2858,8 +2807,8 @@ people involves great trouble, for a man must lose his self-respect with them. If not they tell you to go in God’s name, while the pay is usually at long intervals; when they wish to clear their consciences, and pay for your work, they make you free of a wardrobe containing a -worn doublet and a frayed cloak. <span class="sidenote">Service with<br /> -a great lord is not<br />to the esquire’s<br />liking.</span>When a man takes +worn doublet and a frayed cloak. <span class="sidenote">Service with<br > +a great lord is not<br >to the esquire’s<br >liking.</span>When a man takes service with a titled lord there is also misery. I cannot undertake to serve or content such. By the Lord! if I should engage myself to one, I think that I should be a great favourite, and that he would confer @@ -2880,8 +2829,8 @@ houses. On the contrary, they hate and despise them, calling them useless and unacquainted with business. I do not wish to trust my fortunes with such people.”</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">When the people<br />came for their<br />rent, the -esquire<br />disappeared.</span>In this way my master was lamenting his +<p><span class="sidenote">When the people<br >came for their<br >rent, the +esquire<br >disappeared.</span>In this way my master was lamenting his ill-fortune, and giving me an account of his valorous person. While he was thus employed a man and an old woman came in by the door. The man asked for the rent of the house, and the old woman for the rent of the @@ -2902,8 +2851,8 @@ I did not know where he was, but that he had gone out to get change. I thought that he had gone with the change from me as well as from them.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Creditors search<br />for the esquire’s<br />effects, -but<br />there are none.</span>When they had heard what I had to say they +<p><span class="sidenote">Creditors search<br >for the esquire’s<br >effects, +but<br >there are none.</span>When they had heard what I had to say they went for an officer and a scrivener. Presently they returned with them. They took the key, called me and some witnesses, opened the door and went in to take possession of my master’s effects until he had @@ -2911,7 +2860,7 @@ paid his debts. They went all over the house and found it empty. Then they asked me where my master’s effects were, his chest, clothes, and jewelry. I said that I did not know. No doubt, they said, they have got up in the night and taken <span class="pagenum" id="Page_81">[p. -81]</span>them somewhere else. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro is taken<br /> +81]</span>them somewhere else. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro is taken<br > into custody.</span>“Sir,” they said to the officer, “take this boy into custody, for he knows where the effects are.” On this the officer came and took me by the collar, saying, “Boy, you are my prisoner if @@ -2919,12 +2868,12 @@ you do not show us the goods of your master.”</p> <div class="figcenter mt1" id="p079"> <img src="images/pb079.jpg" - alt="Illustration" /> + alt="Illustration"> <p class="caption"> <span class="x_link"><a href="images/pb079-g.jpg"><img src="images/xpnd.jpg" alt="Enlarge" - title="Enlarge" /></a> </span> + title="Enlarge"></a> </span> “<i>They returned in the afternoon.</i>” </p> </div> @@ -2944,7 +2893,7 @@ business,” they exclaimed, “and where is his country?” “He told me that it was in Old Castille,” I said. The officer and the scrivener laughed a good deal, and said, “This is a good story to cover your debts!”</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro is released,<br />at the intercession<br /> +<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro is released,<br >at the intercession<br > of his girl-friends.</span>The girls who were my neighbours, and who were present, then said: “Sirs! this is<span class="pagenum" id="Page_82">[p. 82]</span> an innocent child, and has only been a few @@ -2961,7 +2910,7 @@ that they had been taken away from other business of more consequence. Finally, after making a great noise, they went away, and I do not know how it ended.</p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro finds<br />himself deserted<br />by his +<p><span class="sidenote">Lazaro finds<br >himself deserted<br >by his master.</span>Having rested from my past troubles I went about to seek employment. Thus I left my poor third master, and know not his unhappy fate. Looking back at all that had gone against me, I found that I had @@ -2969,7 +2918,7 @@ managed my affairs in a reverse way. Masters are usually deserted by their boys, but with me it was not so. For my master deserted and fled from me.</p> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt3" id="Ch_10"> @@ -2990,7 +2939,7 @@ not last eight days. I could not endure so much trotting about. For this reason, and some other little things I will not mention, I left him.</p> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt3" id="Ch_11"> @@ -3014,7 +2963,7 @@ business, and inducing their parishioners to buy his Indulgences.</p> <p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_85">[p. 85]</span></p> -<p><span class="sidenote">Subtle<br />contrivances<br />of the seller<br />of +<p><span class="sidenote">Subtle<br >contrivances<br >of the seller<br >of Indulgences.</span>If they said that they understood Latin, he did not say a word in that language, for fear of stumbling, but he resorted a gentle and well-considered way of telling his story, with a most @@ -3031,8 +2980,8 @@ using all his accustomed arts, but no one had bought an Indulgence, nor was there any sign of an intention to do so. He had devoted them all to the Devil, and was meditating what to do next, when he determined to call the parishioners together the next morning and make a last -effort. <span class="sidenote">Sham quarrel<br />between the seller<br />of -Indulgences<br />and the constable.</span>That night he and the constable,<a +effort. <span class="sidenote">Sham quarrel<br >between the seller<br >of +Indulgences<br >and the constable.</span>That night he and the constable,<a id="FNanchor_27" href="#Footnote_27" class="fnanchor">[27]</a> after supper,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_86">[p. 86]</span> sat down to play at cards, and they began to quarrel over the game, and make @@ -3056,7 +3005,7 @@ people assembled, but they came murmuring at the Indulgences,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_87">[p. 87]</span> saying that they were false, and that the constable himself had found it out. If before they disliked buying them they now detested the idea. <span -class="sidenote">The seller<br />of Indulgences<br />begins his sermon.</span>The +class="sidenote">The seller<br >of Indulgences<br >begins his sermon.</span>The commissary or seller of Indulgences went up into the pulpit, and began his sermon by urging the people not to fail in getting the benefit of such a blessing and such Indulgences as the sacred Bull brought @@ -3067,8 +3016,8 @@ and addressed the people in a loud voice. “Good people,” he said, here with this cheat who is preaching to you, and he deceived me. He said that I should help him in this business, and that we would divide the profits. Now see the harm he would have done to my conscience -and to your pockets. <span class="sidenote">Sham<br />denunciation<br />of the -Indulgences<br />by the constable.</span>I plainly declare to you that the +and to your pockets. <span class="sidenote">Sham<br >denunciation<br >of the +Indulgences<br >by the constable.</span>I plainly declare to you that the Indulgences he is preaching about are false, and that you should not believe in them nor buy them. I will not be a party to it, directly nor indirectly. From this time I give up the wand of office and put it on @@ -3096,8 +3045,8 @@ says. I only pray for justice. Some who are present may perchance have intended to take these holy Indulgences, and on hearing the false words of that man they may have changed their minds.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_89">[p. 89]</span> So I pray to Thee, O Lord, that Thou wilt -work a miracle in this way. <span class="sidenote">Sham miracle<br />worked -on<br />the constable.</span>If what my accuser says is true, that I am +work a miracle in this way. <span class="sidenote">Sham miracle<br >worked +on<br >the constable.</span>If what my accuser says is true, that I am evil and false, let this pulpit sink from me forty feet under ground, and never appear again. But if what I say is true, and that man is persuaded by the Devil to try to deprive those present of such great @@ -3119,7 +3068,7 @@ were not careful, kicks also.</p> and eyes raised to heaven, transported by the divine essence.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_90">[p. 90]</span> The noise and disturbance in the church had no effect on his sacred contemplations. <span -class="sidenote">The people<br />intercede for<br />the constable.</span>Some +class="sidenote">The people<br >intercede for<br >the constable.</span>Some good men came to him, and, speaking loudly to arouse him, entreated him to succour that poor creature who was dying. They besought him not to dwell upon things that were past, and not to consider his evil deeds, @@ -3128,7 +3077,7 @@ good, he would deliver the man from his sufferings for the love of God. They declared that they clearly saw the sin of the culprit, and my master’s truth and goodness, but entreated him to pray to the Lord not to prolong the man’s punishment. <span class="sidenote">All the -people<br />pray for<br />the constable<br />to be forgiven.</span>The commissary, +people<br >pray for<br >the constable<br >to be forgiven.</span>The commissary, like one awaking from a delicious dream, looking long at the culprit and at those who were round him, then said: “My good friends, you have interceded for a man on whom God has so signally laid his Hands. But He @@ -3146,7 +3095,7 @@ on their knees before the altar, while the clergy began to chant a litany in a low voice, coming with a cross and the holy water, after singing over it. My master raised his hands to heaven, and turned his eyes up until scarcely anything could be seen but the whites. <span -class="sidenote">The farce<br />is carried on<br />to completion.</span>He then +class="sidenote">The farce<br >is carried on<br >to completion.</span>He then commenced an address not less long than devout, which made the people weep as they do over a sermon on the Passion delivered by a famous preacher. He prayed to the Lord not to require the death of the sinner, @@ -3171,7 +3120,7 @@ church. In ten or twelve villages of that neighbourhood where we were, my master sold as many thousand Indulgences, without having to preach a single sermon. When he performed this farce, I confess that I was astounded and believed like many others. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro -was<br />behind the scenes.</span>But afterwards I was a witness to the +was<br >behind the scenes.</span>But afterwards I was a witness to the jokes and laughter that my master and the constable had over the business. I knew how it had been planned and arranged by the industry and inventive talent of my master. Though only a boy I fell into @@ -3182,17 +3131,17 @@ master, during which I also suffered plenty of hardships.</p> <div class="figcenter mt1" id="p093"> <p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_93">[p. 93]</span></p> <img src="images/pb093.jpg" - alt="Illustration" /> + alt="Illustration"> <p class="caption"> <span class="x_link"><a href="images/pb093-g.jpg"><img src="images/xpnd.jpg" alt="Enlarge" - title="Enlarge" /></a> </span> + title="Enlarge"></a> </span> “<i>The news soon spread to the neighbouring villages.</i>” </p> </div> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt3" id="Ch_12"> @@ -3220,11 +3169,11 @@ any longer.</p> <div class="figcenter mt2" id="p096"> <img src="images/pb096.jpg" - alt="Illustration" /> + alt="Illustration"> </div> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt3" id="Ch_13"> @@ -3245,8 +3194,8 @@ made me retire from the constable’s service.</p> little for my old age, it pleased God to enlighten me, and to put me on a profitable road. With the favour of friends and patrons all my labours and hardships, up to that time, were repaid, on reaching -what I sought and obtained. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro gets<br />a -Government<br />appointment,<br />and is married.</span>This was a Government +what I sought and obtained. <span class="sidenote">Lazaro gets<br >a +Government<br >appointment,<br >and is married.</span>This was a Government appointment such as enabled no one to thrive except those who occupied it. In it I live and reside to this day, in the service of God and your Honour.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_98">[p. 98]</span> My @@ -3297,12 +3246,12 @@ my mouth.</p> <div class="figcenter mt1" id="p101"> <img src="images/pb101.jpg" - alt="Illustration" /> + alt="Illustration"> <p class="caption"> <span class="x_link"><a href="images/pb101-g.jpg"><img src="images/xpnd.jpg" alt="Enlarge" - title="Enlarge" /></a> </span> + title="Enlarge"></a> </span> “<i>But evil tongues are never wanting.</i>” </p> </div> @@ -3312,7 +3261,7 @@ entreated her to leave off crying, and I swore that never in all my life would I refer to the matter again. I declared that I should rejoice to see her go in and out of our patron’s house whenever she liked, as I was convinced of her honesty. <span class="sidenote">A -good<br />understanding.</span>So we all three continued to have a good +good<br >understanding.</span>So we all three continued to have a good understanding as to this, and have never heard more about it. When any one tries to say anything I stop him by saying: “Look here! if you are a friend do not say anything that will annoy me, for I do not @@ -3337,7 +3286,7 @@ summit of all good fortune.</p> <p class="centra mt3"><small>PRINTED AT BURGOS IN THE HOUSE OF JUAN DE JUNTA IN THE YEAR 1554</small></p> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt3" id="Index"> @@ -3346,7 +3295,7 @@ DE JUNTA IN THE YEAR 1554</small></p> <h3>PEOPLE MENTIONED</h3> </div> -<table class="ind mt-1" summary="Index of people mentioned"> +<table class="ind mt-1"> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="tdr"><small>PAGE</small></td> </tr> @@ -3423,7 +3372,7 @@ DE JUNTA IN THE YEAR 1554</small></p> <h3 class="mt2">PLACES MENTIONED</h3> -<table class="ind mt1" summary="Index of places mentioned"> +<table class="ind mt1"> <tr> <td class="tdlh">Almorox, road to Toledo</td> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td> @@ -3488,9 +3437,9 @@ DE JUNTA IN THE YEAR 1554</small></p> <h3 class="mt2">VICTUALS AND DRINK MENTIONED BY LAZARO</h3> -<table class="ind mt1" summary="Index of vituals and drink"> +<table class="ind mt1"> <tr> - <td class="tdlh">*Bodigo (small loaves made of the finest flour offered to the Church)<br /> + <td class="tdlh">*Bodigo (small loaves made of the finest flour offered to the Church)<br > <i>Dic. Acad.</i> quotes Lazaro.</td> <td class="tdr"><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td> </tr> @@ -3584,19 +3533,19 @@ drunk by Lazaro. The rest only talked about.</small></p> <p class="centra mt3"><small><i>Printed by</i> <span class="smcap">R. & R. Clark, Limited</span>, <i>Edinburgh</i>.</small></p> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt3"> <div class="figcenter" id="mapa"> <p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_107">[p. 107]</span></p> <img src="images/mapa.jpg" - alt="Map" /> + alt="Map"> <p class="caption"> <span class="x_link"><a href="images/mapa-g.jpg"><img src="images/xpnd.jpg" alt="Enlarge" - title="Enlarge" /></a> </span> + title="Enlarge"></a> </span> Sketch Map of the Route <i>from</i> SALAMANCA <i>to</i> TOLEDO </p> </div> @@ -3604,7 +3553,7 @@ R. Clark, Limited</span>, <i>Edinburgh</i>.</small></p> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="ad"> @@ -3615,7 +3564,7 @@ R. Clark, Limited</span>, <i>Edinburgh</i>.</small></p> <p class="centra">Painted and described by EDGAR T. A. WIGRAM.</p> <p class="centra">Containing 75 full-page illustrations in colour.<br -/>Square demy 8vo, cloth, gilt top.</p> +>Square demy 8vo, cloth, gilt top.</p> <p class="large centra"><b>Price 20s. net</b></p> @@ -3631,7 +3580,7 @@ this is a book to read, admire, and to enjoy.”—<i>The Guardian.</i></p> placing before us such a charming collection of picturesque landscapes and beautiful architectural examples.”—<i>British Weekly.</i></p> -<hr class="sep" /> +<hr class="sep" > <p class="xxl centra">SOUTHERN SPAIN</p> @@ -3640,7 +3589,7 @@ and beautiful architectural examples.”—<i>British Weekly.</i></p> <p class="centra">Described by A. F. CALVERT.</p> <p class="centra">Containing 75 full-page illustrations in colour.<br -/>Square demy 8vo, cloth, gilt top.</p> +>Square demy 8vo, cloth, gilt top.</p> <p class="large centra"><b>Price 20s. net</b></p> @@ -3667,7 +3616,7 @@ charm.</p> </div> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="ad"> @@ -3678,9 +3627,9 @@ charm.</p> <p class="centra large">By JOHN LOMAS</p> <p class="centra small">Author of “Sketches in Spain from Nature, Art, -and Life.”<br /> Editor of “O’Shea’s Guide to Spain.”</p> +and Life.”<br > Editor of “O’Shea’s Guide to Spain.”</p> -<p class="centra">With 50 illustrations from photographs.<br />Large crown +<p class="centra">With 50 illustrations from photographs.<br >Large crown 8vo, cloth, gilt top.</p> <p class="large centra"><b>Price 5s. net</b></p> @@ -3696,9 +3645,9 @@ to take Mr. Lomas’s book with them. They will find it of the utmost service. Those who do their travelling by the fireside will scarcely find it less attractive.”—<i>Scotsman.</i></p> -<hr class="sep" /> +<hr class="sep" > -<p class="xxl centra">O’SHEA’S GUIDE<br />TO SPAIN AND PORTUGAL</p> +<p class="xxl centra">O’SHEA’S GUIDE<br >TO SPAIN AND PORTUGAL</p> <p class="centra">Thirteenth edition. Edited by JOHN LOMAS.</p> @@ -3722,7 +3671,7 @@ many years as the best published.”—<i>Continental Traveller.</i></p> </div> -<hr class="chap0" /> +<hr class="chap0" > <div class="chapter pt3"> @@ -4056,7 +4005,7 @@ i. 664 (2).</p> </div> </div> -<hr class="full" /> +<hr class="full" > <p> </p> <div class="chapter pt3"> @@ -4076,9 +4025,6 @@ i. 664 (2).</p> </div> <p> </p> -<div class="pg"> -</div> <div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 53489 ***</div> </body> </html> - diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt index 6312041..b5dba15 100644 --- a/LICENSE.txt +++ b/LICENSE.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This eBook, including all associated images, markup, improvements, +This book, including all associated images, markup, improvements, metadata, and any other content or labor, has been confirmed to be in the PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE UNITED STATES. @@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ the "Copyright How-To" at https://www.gutenberg.org. 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