The curses which both housekeeper and niece poured out on the bachelor were past counting; they tore their hair, they clawed their faces, and in the style of the hired mourners that were once in fashion, they raised a lamentation over the departure of their master and uncle, as if it had been his death.
Las maldiciones que las dos, ama y sobrina, echaron al bachiller no tuvieron cuento: mesaron sus cabellos, arañaron sus rostros, y, al modo de las endechaderas que se usaban, lamentaban la partida como si fuera la muerte de su señor.