At last he went to bed, out of spirits and heavy at heart, as much because he missed Sancho as because of the irreparable disaster to his stockings, the stitches of which he would have even taken up with silk of another colour, which is one of the greatest signs of poverty a gentleman can show in the course of his never-failing embarrassments.
Finalmente, él se recostó pensativo y pesaroso, así de la falta que Sancho le hacía como de la inreparable desgracia de sus medias, a quien tomara los puntos, aunque fuera con seda de otra color, que es una de las mayores señales de miseria que un hidalgo puede dar en el discurso de su prolija estrecheza.