The majordomo kept his word, for he felt it against his conscience to kill so wise a governor by hunger; particularly as he intended to have done with him that same night, playing off the last joke he was commissioned to practise upon him.
Cumplió su palabra el mayordomo, pareciéndole ser cargo de conciencia matar de hambre a tan discreto gobernador; y más, que pensaba concluir con él aquella misma noche haciéndole la burla última que traía en comisión de hacerle.