Your offers sound too liberal, and I fear that I must earn your bounty by the doing of work that honest men might shrink from.' 'A fair argument, but, as it happens, not quite a correct one.

Listen: you have been told that yonder physician, to whose house you went but now, and these'-- here he repeated four or five names--'are the greatest of their tribe in Seville.

It is not so.

I am the greatest and the richest, and I do more business than any two of them.

Do you know what my earnings have been this day alone?
I will tell you; just over twenty-five gold pesos,* more than all the rest of the profession have taken together, I will wager.