He believed they were come to conduct him to the scaffold; so that when he saw merely and simply, instead of the executioner he expected, only his commissary of the preceding evening, attended by his clerk, he was ready to embrace them both.
Creía que venían a buscarlo para conducirlo al cadalso; así, cuando vio pura y simplemente aparecer, en lugar del verdugo que esperaba, a su comisario y su escribano de la víspera, estuvo a punto de saltarles al cuello.