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And lastly, genuine sons of the capital, rabble of Madrid, ye twenty thousand manolos, whose terrible knifes, on the second morning of May, worked such grim havoc amongst the legions of Murat! And the higher orders the ladies and gentlemen, the cavaliers and senoras; shall I pass them by in silence?
The Archbishop bent his head towards the right shoulder, in a somewhat equivocal manner, but said nothing. "I am he whom the Manolos of Madrid call Don Jorgito el Ingles; I am just come out of prison, whither I was sent for circulating my Lord's Gospel in this kingdom of Spain?" The Archbishop made the same equivocal motion with his head, but still said nothing.
He said to the silent archbishop: "I suppose your lordship knows who I am? . . . I am he whom the Manolos of Madrid call Don Jorgito el Ingles; I am just come out of prison, whither I was sent for circulating my Lord's Gospel in this Kingdom of Spain." He allows the archbishop to put this celebrity on horseback: "Vaya! how you ride! It is dangerous to be in your way."
One of the ruffians of Madrid, called Manolos, came up to me one night, in a dark street, and told me that unless I discontinued selling my "Jewish books," I should have a knife "nailed in my heart"; but I told him to go home, say his prayers, and tell his employers that I pitied them; whereupon he turned away with an oath.
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