Chapter 19: A Schoolmaster’s Difficulties El vulgo es necio y pues lo paga, es justoHablarle en necio para darle el gusto.LOPE DE VEGA. The ...

Chapter 16: Sisa Through the dark night the villagers slept. The families who had remembered their dead gave themselves up to quiet and satisfied sleep, ...

Chapter 14: Tasio: Lunatic or Sage The peculiar old man wandered about the streets aimlessly. A former student of philosophy, he had given up his career ...

Chapter 10: The Town Almost on the margin of the lake, in the midst of meadows and paddy-fields, lies the town of San Diego. From it sugar, rice, ...