I am quite capable, if he comes to disturb us with his spying, of throwing him down the stairs, the miserly devil!" And he added with an affectionate expression, a great contrast to his usual rough and taciturn character: "Come, Gabriel, we expect you in my house.

When you are tired of keeping your niece and that crazy Don Luis company, come up for a little while.

We cannot get on without your words.

Don Martin has been quite enthusiastic since he heard you the other evening; he wants to see you; he says he would go from one end of Toledo to the other to hear you.

He wishes me to let him know if you decide on rejoining your friends, because Don Antolin in speaking to him sets you down as a madman and a heretic who does not know what to be after.