The Quest

Produced by Eric Eldred, Cam, and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team
TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH By ISAAC GOLDBERG
I Preamble—Somewhat Immoral Notions of a Boarding-House Keeper—A Balcony is Heard Closing—A Cricket Chirps
II Doña Casiana's House—A Morning Ceremony—Conspiracy—Wherein is Discussed The Nutritive Value of Bones—Petra and Her Family—Manuel; his Arrival in Madrid
III First Impressions of Madrid—The Boarders—Idyll—Sweet and Delightful Lessons
IV Oh, Love, Love!—What's Don Telmo Doing?—Who is Don Telmo?—Wherein the Student and Don Telmo Assume Certain Novelesque Proportions
I The Regeneration of Footgear and The Lion of the Bootmaker's Art —The First Sunday—An Escapade— El Bizco and his Gang
II The Big Yard or Uncle Rilo's House—Local Enmities
III Roberto Hastings at the Shoemaker's—The Procession of Beggars—Court of Miracles
IV Life in the Cobbler's Shop—Manuel's Friends
V La Blasa's Tavern