"You May Well Suppose, Senor, That I Understood Nothing Of Their
Discourse, For It Was All In That Strange Unchristian Tongue In
Which The Giant Answered Me When I Spoke To Him; The Sound Of It Is
Still Ringing In My Ears.
It was nothing like other languages.
Not like Bascuen, not like the language in which your worship
speaks to my namesake Signor Antonio here.
Valgame Dios! I can
compare it to nothing but the sound a person makes when he rinses
his mouth with water. There is one word which I think I still
remember, for it was continually proceeding from the giant's lips,
but his master never used it.
"But the strangest part of the story is yet to be told. The supper
was ended, and the night was rather advanced, the rain still beat
against the windows, even as it does at this moment. Suddenly the
jorobado pulled out his watch. Valgame Dios! such a watch! I will
tell you one thing, Senor, that I could purchase all the Asturias,
and Muros besides, with the brilliants which shone about the sides
of that same watch: the room wanted no lamp, I trow, so great was
the splendour which they cast. So the jorobado looked at his
watch, and then said to me, I shall go to rest. He then took the
lamp and went through the gallery to his room, followed by his big
servant. Well, Senor, I cleared away the things, and then waited
below for the servant, for whom I had prepared a comfortable bed,
close by my own.
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