With this Teresa hurried out of the house with the letters, and with the string of beads round her neck, and went along thrumming the letters as if they were a tambourine, and by chance coming across the curate and Samson Carrasco she began capering and saying, "None of us poor now, faith!
Salióse en esto Teresa fuera de casa, con las cartas, y con la sarta al cuello, y iba tañendo en las cartas como si fuera en un pandero; y, encontrándose acaso con el cura y Sansón Carrasco, comenzó a bailar y a decir: -¡A fee que agora que no hay pariente pobre!