I was in bed, and fast asleep, when it pleased Heaven to send the Bulgarians to our delightful castle of Thunder-ten-tronckh, where they murdered my father and brother, and cut my mother in pieces.
Durmiendo á pierna suelta estaba en mi cama, quando plugo al cielo que entraran los Bulgaros en nuestra soberbia quinta de Tunder-ten-tronck, y degollaran á mi padre y á mi hermano, é hiciesen tajadas á mi madre.