"Well, I thought he would, and what's more, don't you count on that money.

Montalvo is a good sort of fellow in his own fashion, but he is an extravagant man and a desperate gambler, with a queer history, I fancy--at least, nobody knows much about him, not even his brother officers.

If you ask them they shrug their shoulders and say that Spain is a big kettle full of all sorts of fish.

One thing I do know, however, that he is over head and ears in debt; indeed, there was trouble about it down at The Hague.
So, cousin, don't you play with him more than you can help, and don't reckon on that thousand florins to pay your bills with.

It is a mystery to me how the man gets on, but I am told that a foolish old vrouw in Amsterdam lent him a lot till she discovered--but there, I don't talk scandal.