EBOOK THE QUEST ***
Produced by Eric Eldred, Cam,
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
THE QUEST
BY PIO BAROJA
TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH By ISAAC GOLDBERG
CONTENTS
PART ONE
I Preamble--Somewhat Immoral Notions of a Boarding-House Keeper--A
Balcony is Heard Closing--A Cricket Chirps
II Dona Casiana's House--A Morning Ceremony--Conspiracy--Wherein is
Discussed The Nutritive Value of Bones--Petra and Her Family--Manuel;
his Arrival in Madrid
III First Impressions of Madrid--The Boarders--Idyll--Sweet and
Delightful Lessons
IV Oh, Love, Love!--What's Don Telmo Doing?--Who is Don
Telmo?--Wherein the Student and Don Telmo Assume Certain Novelesque
Proportions
PART TWO
I "The Regeneration of Footgear" and "The Lion of the Bootmaker's
Art"--The First Sunday--An Escapade--_El Bizco_ and his Gang
II The "Big Yard" or Uncle Rilo's House--Local Enmities
III Roberto Hastings at the Shoemaker's--The Procession of
Beggars--Court of Miracles
IV Life in the Cobbler's Shop--Manuel's Friends
V La Blasa's Tavern
VI Roberto in Quest of a Woman--_El Tabuenca_ and his
Inventions--Don Alonso or the Snake-Man
VII The _Kermesse_ on Pasion Street--"The Dude"--A Cafe Chantant
VIII Leandro's Irresolution--In La Blasa's Tavern--The Man with the
Three Cards--The Duel with _Valencia_
IX An Unlikely Tale--Manuel's Sisters--Life's Baffling Problems
PART THREE
I Uncle Patas' Domestic Drama--The Bakery--Karl the Baker--The Society
of the Three
II One of the Many Disagreeable Ways of Dying in Madrid--The
Orphan--_El Cojo_ and his Cave--Night in the Observatory
III Meeting with Roberto--Roberto Narrates the Origin of a Fantastic
Fortune
IV Dolores the Scandalous--_Pastiri's_ Tricks--Tender Savagery--A
Modest Out-of-the-way Robbery
V Gutter Vestals--The Troglodites
VI Senor Custodio and his Establishment--The Free Life
VII Senor Custodio's Ideas--_La Justa, el Carnicerin_ and _El
Conejo_
VIII The Square--A Wedding in La Bombilla--The Asphalt Caldrons
PART ONE
CHAPTER I
Preamble--Somewhat Immoral Notions of a Boarding-House Keeper--A
Balcony Is Heard Closing--A Cricket Chirps.
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