Volume VI Part 10 (1/2)
”I have not givenon him”
This proceeds in part from idleness and in part from Castilian pride A Castilian should not lower hi on a Gavacho, by which naners It is not so offensive as the Turkish appellation of dog, or the dalish Of course, persons who have travelled or have had a liberal education do not speak in this way, and a respectable foreigner will find reasonable Spaniards as he will find reasonable Turks and Englishreda, a sreda becain, which she affirmed to have been dictated to her by the Mother of the Lord The State Inquisitors had given me this work to read when I was under the Leads, and it had nearly drivenand weary leagues they seeht I saw a dozen Capuchins walking slowly in front of us, but e caught thees
”Are they mad?” I said to Senior Andrea
”Not at all They wear the Capuchin habit out of devotion, and you would not find a che in their not having chemises, for the che God by wearing a Capuchin's habit struckadventure which befell ate of a town not far from Madrid I was asked for ot down to aed in an argun priest as on his way to Madrid, and had no passport for the capital He skewed one he had had for Bilbao, but the official was not satisfied The priest was a Sicilian, and I asked hireeable predicaht it was unnecessary to have a passport in Spain when one had once journeyed in the country
”I want to go to Madrid,” said he to randee I have a letter for him”
”Shew it; they will let you pass then”
”You are right”
The poor priest drew out the letter and skewed it to the official, who opened it, looked at the signature, and absolutely shrieked when he saw the na to Madrid with a letter from Squillace, and you dare to skew it?”
The clerks, constables, and hangers-on, hearing that the hated Squillace, ould have been stoned to death if it had not been for the king's protection, was the poor abbe's only patron, began to beat him violently, much to the poor Sicilian's astonishment
I interposed, however, and after so the priest, as then allowed to pass, as I believe, as a set-off against the blows he had received
Squillace was sent to Venice as Spanish ae He was a ned to be an object of intense hatred to the people; he was simply ruthless in his taxation
The door of my room had a lock on the outside but none on the inside
For the first and second night I let it pass, but on the third I told Senor Andrea that I must have it altered
”Senor Don Jacob, you must bear with it in Spain, for the Holy Inquisition ners”
”But what in the devil's name does your cursed Inquisition want?”
”For the love of God, Senor Jacob, speak not thus! if you were overheard we should both be undone”
”Well, what can the Holy Inquisition want to know?”
”Everything It wants to knohether you eat meat on fast days, whether persons of opposite sexes sleep together, if so, whether they are married, and if not married it will cause both parties to be imprisoned; in fine, Senor Don Jai over our souls in this country”
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