hole party should come with him to his house; and though Don Juan
would have declined the invitation, the corregidor was so pressing that
he carried his point, and the whole party got into his coach, which he
had previously sent for. But when the corregidor bade Costanza take her
place in it, her heart sank within her; she threw herself into the
landlady's arms, and wept so piteously, that the hearts of all the
beholders were moved. "What is this, daughter of my soul?" said the
hostess; "Going to leave me? Can you part from her who has reared you
with the love of a mother?" Costanza was no less averse to the
separation; but the tenderhearted corregidor declared that the hostess
also should enter the coach, and that she should not be parted from her
whom she regarded as a daughter, as long as she remained in Toledo. So
the whole party, including the hostess, set out together for the
corregidor's house, where they were well received by his noble lady.

After they had enjoyed a sumptuous repast, Carriazo related to his
father how, for love of Costanza, Don Tomas had taken service as hostler
in the inn, and how his devotion to her was such that, before he knew
her to be a lady, and the daughter of a man of such quality, he would
gladly have married her even as a scullery-maid. The wife of the
corregidor immediately made Costanza put on clothes belonging to a
daughter of hers of the same age and figure, and if she had been
beautiful in the dress of a working girl, she seemed heavenly in that of
a lady, and she wore it with such ease and grace that one would have
supposed she had never been used to any other kind of costume from her
birth. But among so many who rejoiced, there was one person who was full
of sadness, and that was Don Pedro, the corregidor's son, who at once
concluded that Costanza was not to be his; nor was he mistaken, for it
was arranged between the corregidor, Don Diego de Carriazo, and Don Juan
de Avendano, that Don Tomas should marry Costanza, her father bestowing
upon her the thirty thousand crowns left by her mother; that the
water-carrier Don Diego de Carriazo should marry the daughter of the
corregidor, and that Don Pedro the corregidor's son, should receive the
hand of Don Juan de Avendano's daughter, his father undertaking to
obtain a dispensation with regard to their relationship. In this manner
all were finally made happy. The news of the three marriages, and of the
singular fortune of the illustri