It is now some twenty-two years since I left my father's house, and all that time, though I have written several letters, I have had no news whatever of him or of my brothers; my own adventures during that period I will now relate briefly.
»Éste hará veinte y dos años que salí de casa de mi padre, y en todos ellos, puesto que he escrito algunas cartas, no he sabido dél ni de mis hermanos nueva alguna. Y lo que en este discurso de tiempo he pasado lo diré brevemente.