Miguel de Cervantes

Las dos doncellas / The two damsels Miguel de Cervantes

Cinco leguas de la ciudad de Sevilla, está un lugar que se llama Castiblanco; y, en uno de muchos mesones que tiene, a la hora que anochecía, entró un caminante sobre un hermoso cuartago, estranjero. No traía criado alguno, y, sin esperar que le tuviesen el estribo, se arrojó de la silla con gran ligereza. Five leagues from the city of Seville there is a town called Castelblanco. At one of the many inns belonging to that town there arrived at nightfall a traveller, mounted on a handsome nag of foreign breed. He had no servant with him, and, without waiting for any one to hold his stirrup, he threw himself nimbly from the saddle. The host, who was a thrifty, active man, quickly presented himself, but not until the traveller had already seated himself on a bench under the gateway, where the host found him hastily unbuttoning his breast, after which he let his arms drop and fainted.