"The love is not the sort your worship is thinking of," said the galley slave; "mine was that I loved a washerwoman's basket of clean linen so well, and held it so close in my embrace, that if the arm of the law had not forced it from me, I should never have let it go of my own will to this moment; I was caught in the act, there was no occasion for torture, the case was settled, they treated me to a hundred lashes on the back, and three years of gurapas besides, and that was the end of it."
-No son los amores como los que vuestra merced piensa -dijo el galeote-; que los míos fueron que quise tanto a una canasta de colar, atestada de ropa blanca, que la abracé conmigo tan fuertemente que, a no quitármela la justicia por fuerza, aún hasta agora no la hubiera dejado de mi voluntad. Fue en fragante, no hubo lugar de tormento; concluyóse la causa, acomodáronme las espaldas con ciento, y por añadidura tres precisos de gurapas, y acabóse la obra.