"What happened to him? Did he fight a terrible battle with that Don Vaticano, as they call him?"
"Ha, ha, ha!"
"Master Iñigo, are you also making game of me?"
"I was laughing at your ignorance and simplicity, for you are mistaking the Pope's palace for a cavalier; the Vatican is a palace, and not a man."
"Curses on the village! living in it has made me the ass I am. May I become a greater Turk than Mahomet if I don't leave it at once!"
"Learn, then, that the Cid, when he arrived in Rome, went straight to the church of St. Peter"—
"It's something like a church, I've heard, and not like the one in my village."
"Yes, Señor Bartolo, they tell wonders of it; they say it is built of blocks of diamond."
"San Pedro de Cardeña! what a great misfortune it is to live in villages and not in cities, where there are such riches!"
"Know, then, that the Cid went to St. Peter's to see the throne of the Pope, which is made of solid gold."