En el momento en que su camarada intento acercar sus labios ardientes
á los de doña Elvira, habían visto al inmóvil guerrero levantar la
mano y derribarle con una espantosa bofetada de su guantelete de
piedra.




MAESE[1] PÉREZ EL ORGANISTA

[Footnote 1: maese. Obsolete for _maestro_, 'master,' a title of
respect.]


En Sevilla[1] en el mismo atrio de Santa Inés,[2] y mientras esperaba
que comenzase la Misa del Gallo,[3] oí esta tradición á una
demandadera del convento.

[Footnote 1: Sevilla. Seville, the capital of the province of
Seville, is a city of some 148,000 inhabitants situated in the
southwestern part of Spain on the Guadalquivir River. In the
sixteenth century, during the reign of Philip II (1556-1598), at
which time the events of this story are supposed to take place,
Seville reached the height of its prosperity.]

[Footnote 2: Santa Inés. A convent church founded about 1374 by Doña
Maria Coronel, its first abbess, and situated in the street named
after her. The architecture is semi-Gothic.]

[Footnote 3: la Misa del Gallo. The midnight mass preceding