Besides, there are many foreign nuns with great flapping caps travelling about here, who are lynxes for that sort of work, and I am terrified lest they should pounce on my daughter.

I belong to the ancient Catholicism, to that pure Spanish religion, free from all modern extravagances.

It would be sad to have spent my life in saving, only to fatten the Jesuits or those sisters who cannot speak Castilian.

I do not wish my money to share the fate of that of the sacristans in the proverb.

For this reason, to the annoyance I feel at my struggles with this inimical Chapter, I must add the distress I feel at my daughter's feeble character.