"Well, why don't you?"
"Why, if one only knew which was the best."
At this moment the tinkling of a mule's bells, mingled with the song of the muleteer, came on the air.
"Hist! here comes counsel," exclaimed the young man whom the other named Ernest. "Holla, señor hidalgo! do you know the castle of the Conde di Miranda?"
"Yes."
"Where is it?"
"Where it was."
"Near?"
"That's as one finds it."
"And how shall we find it?"