Oh, but that lady did well who, they say, had at the end of her reception room a couple of figures of duennas with spectacles and lace-cushions, as if at work, and those statues served quite as well to give an air of propriety to the room as if they had been real duennas."
¡Oh, cuán bien hacía aquella señora de quien se dice que tenía dos dueñas de bulto con sus antojos y almohadillas al cabo de su estrado, como que estaban labrando, y tanto le servían para la autoridad de la sala aquellas estatuas como las dueñas verdaderas!