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advantage to this worthy commodity.”—“ Heaven encourage goodness,” 
said Monopadis. As they thus discoursed, some one called at the gate. 
Monopadis went to it, to ask who was there. A voice replied, “ Open, 
Senor Monopadis ; it is Repolido.” As soon as Cariharte heard this, 
she called out aloud, “ No—don’t open, Senor Monopadis—don’t open 
to that sailor of Tarpeya—to that tiger of Olagno.” Monopadis, not- 
withstanding, opened the gate ; the which Cariharte seeing, she rose up, 
ran into the Hall of Bucklers, and having dashed the door after 
her, cried out from within, “ Away, away from me, with your pleasant 
countenance, you murderer of the innocent, you bugbear of the dove.” 
Maniferro and Chiquisnaque restrained Repolido, who would absolutely 
enter where Cariharte was, when they would not allow him. “ Very 
well, my good girl,” said he; “ don’t vex yourself any longer; good 
day, and I hope to hear yet of your being well married.” Married ! 
you malignant devil you,” replied Cariharte. “I hope to be hanged 
first ; though you’d give your eyes it was to yourself, that you would. 
But Id rather be the bride of a skeleton out of the grave.”— Have 
done, fool,” replied Repolido, “ have done ; it is already late, and you 
had, better not wait to be prayed to, for fear that I may not wait to pray. 
I speak to you quietly now ; but if I once get into a passion, this morn- 
ing was play to it. Hear reason, and don’t let us give a dinner to the 
evil one.’—“ That I would, and a supper to boot, if he would but carry 
thee off to where my eyes might never light on thee.’””—*“ I tell thee,” re- 
plied Repolido, “ that, as Heaven’s my hearer, if I am obliged to have 
recourse to Don Strap, you shall have it by the dozen, gratis.” Mono- 
padis interrupted him with—*“ No one should talk of being driven to 
such excess in my presence. Cariharte will come forward—not through 
fear of you, but regard for me ; and it will be as it ought—the quarrels 
of lovers are but the renewal of love. Juanna, my dear daughter, 
come out for my sake, that so Repolido may ask pardon of thee on his 
knees.”—“ Provided he promises that,” said Esculante, “we will all 
join for him in praying Cariharte to open the door.’—<« If it was to be 
looked on as a submission to the contempt of the one who made it,” 
said Repolido, “ I would not do it for an army of Swiss ; but if it is to 
give pleasure to Cariharte, I am ready to knock a nail into my fore- 
head.” Chiquisnaque and Maniferro burst out laughing, which so 
angered Repolido, imagining that they mocked at him, that, with an air 
of anger, he exclaimed, “ Whoso laughs, or is inclined to laugh at any 
thing Cariharte has said, or may say, against me—or at any thing I 
have said, or may say, against her, is a liar—aye, and will be a liar 
every time that he laughs, as I already said.” The two bravos regarded 
Repolido then with such a sullen look, that Monopadis saw well there 
would be a storm if he did not turn it off—for which reason, putting 
himself between them, he said, “‘ Senors, let this end here; and let no 
such other words pass your mouths: those that have been spoken, as 
they have gone in at one ear, have also gone out at the other, they be- 
long to nobody.”—“ Not to us, at least,” said Chiquisnaque ; “ such 
impertinences durst never have been meant for us; if they had. ? 
« I say again,” said Repolido, “ that whoso diverts himself at our ex- 
pence, lies: if any one chuses to gainsay me, he has only to follow me, 
and he shall have striking conviction of what I advance ;” and, so saying, 
he moved a step towards the gate. Cariharte, who overheard all, no sooner 
found him about to go, than out she came, exclaiming, ‘“ Don’t let him 
