The old servants of the house suspected him to have been the son of the Baron's sister, by a very good sort of a gentleman of the neighborhood, whom that young lady refused to marry, because he could produce no more than threescore and eleven quarterings in his arms; the rest of the genealogical tree belonging to the family having been lost through the injuries of time.
Sospechaban los criados antiguos de la casa, que era hijo de la hermana del señor baron, y de un honrado hidalgo, vecino suyo, con quien jamas consintió en casarse la doncella, visto que no podia probar arriba de setenta y un quarteles, porque la injuria de los tiempos habia acabado con el resto de su árbol genealógico.