"The case is this, senor," continued the farmer, "that by God's mercy I am married with the leave and licence of the holy Roman Catholic Church; I have two sons, students, and the younger is studying to become bachelor, and the elder to be licentiate; I am a widower, for my wife died, or more properly speaking, a bad doctor killed her on my hands, giving her a purge when she was with child; and if it had pleased God that the child had been born, and was a boy, I would have put him to study for doctor, that he might not envy his brothers the bachelor and the licentiate."
-Es, pues, el caso, señor -prosiguió el labrador-, que yo, por la misericordia de Dios, soy casado en paz y en haz de la Santa Iglesia Católica Romana; tengo dos hijos estudiantes que el menor estudia para bachiller y el mayor para licenciado; soy viudo, porque se murió mi mujer, o, por mejor decir, me la mató un mal médico, que la purgó estando preñada, y si Dios fuera servido que saliera a luz el parto, y fuera hijo, yo le pusiere a estudiar para doctor, porque no tuviera invidia a sus hermanos el bachiller y el licenciado.