possible, my friend, that all the time you served you never got any

"They gave me two," replied the page; "but just as when one quits

a religious community before making profession, they strip him of

the dress of the order and give him back his own clothes, so did my

masters return me mine; for as soon as the business on which they came

to court was finished, they went home and took back the liveries

they had given merely for show."

"What spilorceria!- as an Italian would say," said Don Quixote; "but