Candide — Chapter 25 in Spanish
By Voltaire
Candide and Martin Pay a Visit to Signor Pococurante, a Noble Venetian
Emarcaronse Candido y Martin en una gondola, y fuéron por el Brenta al palacio del noble Pococurante. Candide and his friend Martin went in a gondola on the Brenta, and arrived at the palace of the noble Pococurante: the gardens were laid out in an elegant taste, and adorned with beautiful marble statues; his palace was architecturally magnificent. Recibió á los dos curiosos forasteros con mucha urbanidad, pero sin mucho cumplimiento; cosa que intimidó á Candido, y no le pareció mal á Martin. The master of the house, who was a man of sixty, and very rich, received our two travellers with great politeness, but without much ceremony, which somewhat disconcerted Candide, but was not at all displeasing to Martin.
Al instante dos muchachas bonitas y muy aseadas sirviéron el chocolate: Candido no pudo ménos de elogiar sus gracias y su hermosura. First, two very pretty girls, neatly dressed, brought in chocolate, which was extremely well frothed. Candide could not help praising their beauty and graceful carriage.
No son malas chicas, dixo el senador; algunas veces mando que duerman conmigo, porque estoy aburrido de las señoras del pueblo, de su retrechería, sus zelos, sus contiendas, su mal genio, sus nimiedades, su vanidad, sus tonterías, y mas aun de los sonetos que tiene uno que hacer ó mandar hacer en elogio suyo: mas con todo ya empiezan á fastidiarme estas muchachas. “The creatures are well enough,” said the senator; “I make them lie with me sometimes, for I am heartily tired of the women of the town, their coquetry, their jealousy, their quarrels, their humours, their meannesses, their pride, and their folly; I am weary of making sonnets, or of paying for sonnets to be made on them; but, after all, these two girls begin to grow very indifferent to me.”