{1}{60}Luckily,|I arriv ed in time. {551}{612}Strange things are happening|here, se�or. {683}{864}I 'v e seen it with my own eyes,|I even had it in my own hands. {874}{967}It must be all due|to the e vil spirits. {1026}{1137}I understand, se�or, that your|mind is rebelling against {1144}{1334}inexplicable phenomena, but be|so kind as to explain in detail. {1505}{1537}What are you|looking for, se�or? {1602}{1652}There was a book here. {1656}{1711}I saw the gallows. {1716}{1761}Where has it gone? {1764}{1794}Here? {1797}{1841}There's never been|a book like that here. {2028}{2093}Demons again? {2097}{2153}they are tiring,|I admit. {2158}{2251}U nfortunately,|the world is full of them. {2256}{2347}I ncantations stop|their mischief. {2353}{2392}Nonsense. {2394}{2465}Don't you believe in|incantations then? {2469}{2508}No. {2512}{2563}What if I prove it? {2567}{2691}Only if I can|perform them my self. {2698}{2734}Go on, se�or. {2736}{2822}This is not the place|for philosophical disputes. {3079}{3133}I am so glad|to see you, brother. {3138}{3192}When did you get back? {3196}{3278}This is Alfonso Van Worden,|captain of the guard. {3284}{3354}Captain,|my sister Rebecca. {3419}{3478}Don Pedro Velasquez. {3482}{3509}Se�ora. {3512}{3562}I will do my best. {3566}{3657}I am glad to con vince you of|the power of the supernatural. {3663}{3705}Of course. {3709}{3774}From Aristotle came the|principle that in the mind... {3851}{3962}Se�or Alfonso, I implore you|to tell me what you thin k {3969}{4154}of everything you'v e|experienced since arriving here. {4163}{4226}I wouldn't know|where to start. {4230}{4298}I must have been put to sleep|with a potion {4303}{4374}and ta k en to the gallows. {4378}{4489}Then you got under|the Z ota brothers' gallows? {4495}{4555}And found them both hanged? {4605}{4691}Do they, byanychance,|have the habit of coming down? {4695}{4761}Very often,|usually at night. {4894}{4947}Your hand shows that {4950}{5058}you are possessed with love|for the demons. {5064}{5132}Such people have|no fear of humans. {5137}{5176}I am afraid of nobody. {5259}{5306}I am afraid|for you. {5855}{5910}I am so glad|they came. {5969}{6052}Gaiety and fun|will prevail now. {6103}{6216}I am sorry, se�ora,|but I have different plans. {6222}{6271}Whatever your decision, {6275}{6396}you won't refuse to spend|a few hours in our compan y. {6754}{6832}Your brother is greeting|a gypsyso warmly. {6836}{6891}A gyps y? {6894}{6972}You'll see in a while|what a gypsyhe is. {7137}{7186}Welcome, Se�or Alfonso. {7190}{7243}How do you know|who I am? {7248}{7326}Our camp moves|from one place to another, {7331}{7426}and my daughters k eep|their eyes and ears open. {7679}{7750}An enchanted place. {7755}{7820}The people of the Sierra|are afraid to go near. {7825}{7897}I have no reason|to tell them they're wrong. {7902}{8010}It is better that most|of my retinue was left outside. {8017}{8095}Se�or Av adoro,|in this errant life {8101}{8166}you must have encountered|manyunusual adv entures. {8257}{8296}I have. {8299}{8338}Then tell us, {8340}{8405}and Se�or Velasquez will teach|us how to experience poetry {8410}{8463}without the help of ghosts. {8468}{8514}I do not succumb|to ghosts, {8517}{8636}but I fear your magic power,|se�ora. {8654}{8774}I reck on that from one end|of the world to the other, {8781}{8853}the story of love|is always the same. {9012}{9113}I thin k you will enjoyhearing|about my youthful adv entures. {9158}{9283}Some are surprising,|I could even sa y, miraculous. {9366}{9477}Whenever I go back to those|long gone times of my life, {9554}{9623}I hear the noise|of avariety of passions {9628}{9681}and a mix ed roaring|of storms. {10563}{10660}You seem wiser than others,|and I have a delicate problem. {10666}{10706}Will you follow me? {11068}{11136}I am the lover|of a certain young person. {11140}{11255}She tends, I thin k,|to be fickle. {11262}{11342}When you see a woman whose|dress suits this, {11347}{11411}you'll see whether|she goes to church, {11416}{11496}or in|another direction. {11502}{11531}Here. {11568}{11617}You'll get another if you|do well. {11622}{11674}You're her husband,|not her lover. {11677}{11766}I 'm pa ying you to discover|treason, not who I am. {11772}{11844}Sharpen your sight,|i�s time forvespers. {11848}{11884}I 'll wait at the inn. {11886}{11962}Of lovers.|Of lovers. {12948}{13063}What is this?|Your beauty troubled me. {13070}{13132}Somebody suspects you|of betra ying him. {13136}{13171}Follow me. {13224}{13280}You will giv e this|to Caballero Toledo. {13623}{13696}Noble caballero. {13702}{13780}My conscience forbids me ta king|pa yment from both sides. {15255}{15291}What is my fortune? {15342}{15397}We'll get married|under a big chestnut tree. {15430}{15486}Nature will accept ourvows. {15490}{15597}The rosyglow of dawn|will bless us. {15603}{15671}I 'v e lost Caballero Toledo 's|address. {15676}{15738}He in vited me|to a grand feast. {15743}{15817}On the other side|of the square. {15822}{15858}U ntil we meet again. {15862}{15892}Ma ybe. {18261}{18319}Se�or Toledo, {18323}{18421}a lady wanted me to giv e you|this little tok en. {18428}{18567}I appreciate your wit,|my friend, and honor. {18839}{18915}Would you like to become one of|my serv ants? {18920}{18997}Tha�s impossible,|I was born a nobleman. {19002}{19061}I chose the position|of beggar {19066}{19141}as it does not dim|a nobleman's jewel. {19146}{19220}An answer worth y|of a Spaniard! {19225}{19260}Le�s have a drin k. {19388}{19503}H uman life|is fragile. {19509}{19555}Whythese|dark thoughts, se�or? {19647}{19693}I am a sinner. {20078}{20183}I used to leave one mistress for|another, but I concluded that {20189}{20269}I was losing too much time|that wa y, {20274}{20344}so I started a new affair before|ha ving brok en off the last, {20348}{20439}and while planning|a third. {20444}{20517}Spanish women|have something... {20522}{20559}insistent. {20563}{20608}I swore love to each. {20611}{20660}The punishment for|brea king oaths is terrible. {20723}{20781}I ndeed,|in the other world. {20912}{20978}Yesterda y, a friend|from Malta visited. {20982}{21057}H is name is Aquillar, {21062}{21195}a noble person|and a good Christian. {21288}{21342}I cannot understand how, {21345}{21419}being endowed with such|contradictory characters, {21424}{21478}we have liv ed|in such friendship. {21520}{21562}Aren't you drin king? {21565}{21630}I 'v e nearly finished|the bottle. {21635}{21671}You haven't|touched your glass. {22083}{22123}What are you|thin king about? {22127}{22215}I was thin king of the sun|which I saw toda y, {22221}{22295}whether I would see it|again tomorrow. {22300}{22370}You doub tless will,|if there is no mist. {22374}{22422}I maynot liv e|to see tomorrow. {22516}{22584}Are you planning a duel? {22589}{22637}I could act as your witness. {22641}{22801}You are the last man|I would as k for this favor. {22810}{22843}Good heavens! {22926}{23000}You took up your old squabble|with my brother? {23005}{23084}Shall I lose my friend|or my brother in one duel? {23089}{23170}I have an ominous feeling...|wait until midnight. {23175}{23238}If I die, I will come to warn|you about the penalties {23243}{23302}a sinner faces|after he dies. {23416}{23461}I didn't want to see you, {23464}{23525}but avoice from heaven|ordered me to come. {24826}{24884}Were you killed? {24889}{24981}I was. {24986}{25094}I s there a purgatory|in the other world? {25100}{25147}There is one. {25152}{25229}And tha�s where I am! {25695}{25765}Who died? {25769}{25810}Tell me, who died? {26122}{26171}Toledo fell unconscious. {26331}{26402}I 'm sorry, but my duties are|calling me. {26407}{26462}At such|an interesting point! {26465}{26573}Doses of suspense are|the sign of a master. {26580}{26656}All that has|made me confused. {26661}{26733}I 'v e lost the feeling|of where reality ends, {26738}{26819}and fantasyta k es over. {26824}{26912}You meant to saypoetry. {26918}{26999}I do not know what|you are aiming at. {27003}{27051}I will tell you something {27054}{27122}that is based on the principles|of geometry. {27127}{27193}Wanting to define|an infinite number, {27198}{27299}I write a horizontal eight and|divide it byone. {27305}{27369}If I want to express infinite|smallness, {27373}{27484}I write a one and divide it b y|the horizontal eight. {27491}{27597}All these signs giv e me no idea|about what I want to express {27604}{27723}infinity... greatness... {27729}{27821}I n the cosmos, infinite|smallness is an infinite root {27826}{27902}of the smallest part|of an atom. {27907}{28062}So I am defining infinity,|but without comprehending. {28113}{28247}Well, if I do not comprehend|but I can define it, {28254}{28379}I am getting near poetry,|which seems to be nearer to life {28387}{28475}than we suspect. {28480}{28579}Empirical science|leads to lack of faith. {28584}{28668}Only an uneducated man|who sees a thing every da y {28674}{28768}thin k s he understands it. {28773}{28870}A true researcher|proceeds among riddles. {28876}{28975}He errs, but he gets|nearer his goal every da y. {29057}{29160}Se�or Av adoro,|will you finish Toledo's story? {29167}{29263}I remember he was disturbed|byavoice from the other world. {29269}{29283}Yes. {29315}{29387}H is tender soul was|very sensitiv e. {29447}{29515}So he was in deep despair. {30031}{30063}What will you do? {30065}{30114}I want to rethin k my life. {30310}{30420}Se�or Caballero,|let me ma k e one comment. {30427}{30482}Thevoice you heardyesterda y {30486}{30564}said what you could find|in anycatechism. {30569}{30653}Do not burden oneself|with premature worries. {30659}{30819}My friend, he who once heard|thevoice of the dead, {30828}{30920}will surely not spend|much more time among the living. {32390}{32463}Farewell, my friend. {32946}{33039}Tell the lady ...
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