Ah! sir, did you but know what it is to be obliged to receive every visitor; old tradesmen, counselors, monks, watermen, and abbes; to be exposed to all their insolence and abuse; to be often necessitated to borrow a petticoat, only that it may be taken up by some disagreeable wretch; to be robbed by one gallant of what we get from another; to be subject to the extortions of civil magistrates; and to have forever before one's eyes the prospect of old age, a hospital, or a dunghill, you would conclude that I am one of the most unhappy wretches breathing."
Ha, señor, si se figurara vm. qué cosa tan inaguantable es halagar sin diferencia al negociante viejo, al letrado, al frayle, al gondolero, y al abate; estar expuesta á tanto insulto, á tantos malos tratamientos; verse á cada paso obligada á pedir prestado un guardapesillo para que se le remangue á una un hombre asqueroso; robada por este de lo que ha ganado con aquel, estafada por los alguaciles, y sin tener otra perspectiva que una horrible vejez, un hospital y un muladar, confesaria que soy la mas malbadada criatura de este mundo.