While they were talking Cardenio had taken up the novel and begun to read it, and forming the same opinion of it as the curate, he begged him to read it so that they might all hear it.
Mientras los dos esto decían, había tomado Cardenio la novela y comenzado a leer en ella; y, pareciéndole lo mismo que al cura, le rogó que la leyese de modo que todos la oyesen.