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Updated: June 19, 2025
Here we sold our ponies now quite worn out for twenty-three dollars about five guineas. So that a thousand miles of locomotion had cost us a little over five guineas apiece. Not counting hotels at Madrid and such smart places, our daily cost for selves and ponies rarely exceeded six pesetas, or three shillings each all told. The best of it was, the trip restored the health of my friend.
Webb occupied the first carriage; and the consul directed the driver where to go. "Five pesetas," said the lady when they were seated. "How much is that?" "About one dollar. A peseta is the legal unit of the currency, and is of the same value as the French franc and the Italian lira, or nineteen cents, three mills of our money, as estimated by the director of the United States Mint.
People of our description are not compelled to pay for any service which they may require; however, as his excellency has bowels of compassion, he is willing to give three pesetas to any competent person who will accompany him to Viveiro, and as much bread and wine as he can eat and drink on his arrival."
"'Italian certainly, North Italian. I might as well have said South German, but I had to decide for something. "'And they must be worth...? he then asked me with eagerness. "'My dear man; according, I told him. 'A dealer would offer you a hundred or two hundred pesetas apiece. In London or New York, well placed, they might be worth twenty or thirty thousand francs.
The mill hardly brought in ten pesetas a month now, and that was from friends poor men like himself who were yet gentlemen, and found some carefully worded reason why they preferred home-milled flour. Tomaso, moreover, was deadly simple: there is nothing more fatal than simplicity in these days. It never occurred to him to sell his mill, or let it fall in ruins and go elsewhere for work.
This woman, who pays bills of thousands of pesetas to her milliner, doesn't like to give a copper to a ragamuffin. "We turned off a bit from the avenue and went up on the right, toward the Palatine. Among the ruins some women were pulling up plants and putting them into sacks.
"My child you have three million pesetas." "And if I had gone into religion and I nearly did the Church would have had them?" "Pardon me," said Sarrion. "The Jesuits not the Church. It is not the same thing though the world does not yet understand that.
The Municipality ceded the lot and granted a subsidy of five thousand pesetas to start the work; Caesar gave ten thousand, and at the Workmen's Club a subscription was opened, and performances were given in the theatre to collect funds. The school promised to be a spacious edifice with a beautiful garden.
"His excellency shall be served," said the alcalde; "however, as the way is long and the path is bad, and there is much bretima amongst the hills, it appears to me that, besides the bread and wine, his excellency can do no less than offer four pesetas to the guide who may be willing to accompany him to Viveiro; and I know no one better than my own son-in-law, Juanito."
And there the poor invalid sat at the door of the Hermitage, staring into her apron blankly, hypnotized by the glitter of all that wealth! Duros, pesetas, two-pesetas, dimes! All the money the lady had brought! Even a gold button, which must have come from her glove! Rafael shared in the general astonishment. But who the devil was that woman? "How do I know!" the rustic answered.
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