from her, and the "thou" form.
[319] =se sintió morir de ventura=: reminds us of Gil y Zarate's _Guzmán
el Bueno_ I, 4: =me siento fallecer de ventura=, when doña Sol admits she
loves him. In this story there are nine places strikingly like Guzmán
and close together.
[320] =Etiamsi Omnes=: this Latin, literally, "though all (should)", seems
to be for _etiam sic omnes_, 'even so all', or, freely, _it is ever
thus_, or _all are alike_. The Bible has _etsi omnes_, 'even though all
be offended yet will I never leave thee'; Matthew 26:33: _Etsi omnes
scandalizati fuerint in te, ego nunquam scandalizabor_; and verse 35:
_Etiamsi oportuerit me mori tecum, non te negabo_, 'Though I should die
with thee, yet will I not deny thee'. Alarcón often uses biblical
phrases playfully, e.g. =En verdad os digo= often in _Diario_. The Latin
here is erroneous, as it is several times in Alarcón, e.g. =tememos
abutere patientia vestra= for =abuti=. _Mayo_, p. 316, ed. Rivadeneyra,
1905.
[321] =levitón=: as Alarcón called woman =faldas=, _petticoats_, so he calls
this servant in livery a _swallow-tail_ and a _piece of broadcloth_.
[322] =quitándose=: that is at mention of the dead.
[323] =Pedro=, etc.: say _like Jack in his own house_. Cf. _Diario_ I,
273, =para andar por este país como Pedro por su casa=. Pedro is used in
several common expressions. Cf. =Mucho va de Pedro a Pedro=, _There is a
big difference between one man and another_, or _No two men are alike_.
[324] =El capitán= has done everything he swore he would never do, and the
children are in no danger of the =Inclusa=.
[325] There isn't in all Denmark an infamous man who isn't a great
villain.--_Hamlet_ I. 13.
End of Project Gutenberg's El Capitán Veneno, by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón