Sometimes he gazes at the sky, at other times he fixes his eyes on the earth in such an abstracted way that he might be taken for a clothed statue, with its drapery stirred by the wind. In short, he shows such signs of a heart crushed by suffering, that all we who know him believe that when to-morrow the fair Quiteria says 'yes,' it will be his sentence of death."
En fin, él da tales muestras de tener apasionado el corazón, que tememos todos los que le conocemos que el dar el sí mañana la hermosa Quiteria ha de ser la sentencia de su muerte.