LEGEND OF THE ADUANA DE SANTO DOMINGO[1]
This gentleman who for love's sake, Señor, conquered his coldness and his laziness and became all fire and energy, was named Don Juan Gutiérrez Rubín de Celis. He was a caballero of the Order of Santiago—some say that he wore also the habit of Calatrava—and the colonel of the regiment of the Tres Villas. He was of a lovable nature, and ostentatious and arrogant, and in all his ways dilatory and apathetic to the very last degree. So great were his riches that not even he himself knew the sum of them: as you will understand when I tell you that on an occasion of state—it was the entry into the City in the year 1716 of the new Viceroy, the Marques de Valero—pearls to the value of thirty thousand pesos were used in the mere trimming of his casacón.
Being of an age to take part so nobly in that
- ↑ See Note III.
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