Miguel de Cervantes,
Don Quixote — Volume 1, Chapter XXXII
(1885)
“ I don't know what sort of folk they can be, so unfeeling and heartless, that rather than bestow a glance upon a worthy man they leave him to die or go mad. I don't know what is the good of such prudery; if it is for honour's sake, why not marry them? That's all they want.""Hush, child," said the landlady; "it seems to me thou knowest a great deal about these things, and it is not fit for girls to know or talk so much.""As the gentleman asked me, I could not help answering him," said the girl."Well then," said the curate, "bring me these books, senor landlord, for I should like to see them." ”
