Yesterday I learned that, forgetful of his pledge to me, he was about to marry another, and that he was to go this morning to plight his troth, intelligence which overwhelmed and exasperated me; my father not being at home I was able to adopt this costume you see, and urging my horse to speed I overtook Don Vicente about a league from this, and without waiting to utter reproaches or hear excuses I fired this musket at him, and these two pistols besides, and to the best of my belief I must have lodged more than two bullets in his body, opening doors to let my honour go free, enveloped in his blood.
Supe ayer que, olvidado de lo que me debía, se casaba con otra, y que esta mañana iba a desposarse, nueva que me turbó el sentido y acabó la paciencia; y, por no estar mi padre en el lugar, le tuve yo de ponerme en el traje que vees, y apresurando el paso a este caballo, alcancé a don Vicente obra de una legua de aquí; y, sin ponerme a dar quejas ni a oír disculpas, le disparé estas escopetas, y, por añadidura, estas dos pistolas; y, a lo que creo, le debí de encerrar más de dos balas en el cuerpo, abriéndole puertas por donde envuelta en su sangre saliese mi honra.