"Alas! my good dame," said she, "unless you had been ravished by two Bulgarians, had received two deep wounds in your belly, had seen two of your own castles demolished, had lost two fathers, and two mothers, and seen both of them barbarously murdered before your eyes, and to sum up all, had two lovers whipped at an auto-da-fe, I cannot see how you could be more unfortunate than I. Add to this, though born a baroness, and bearing seventy-two quarterings, I have been reduced to the station of a cook-wench."
¡Ay! le dixo, madre, á ménos que haya vm. sido violada por dos Bulgaros, que le hayan dado dos cuchilladas en la barriga, que hayan demolido dos de sus granjas, que hayan degollado en su presencia dos padres y dos madres de vm., y que haya visto á dos de sus amantes azotados en un auto de fe, no se como pueda haber corrido mayores borrascas: sin contar que he nacido baronesa con setenta y dos quarteles en mi escudo de armas, y he sido cocinera.