Note 238 — EL CAPITÁN VENENO[4]
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de pedirme, [the pleasure] of having you ask me: the whole sentence is poor rhetoric and syntax (the infinitives are confused); but the meaning is What can I do for you then? For it is plain you would not be passing through so much distress to do me the honor of asking me, or having me ask my cousin, for the miserable filth called lucre—for you know how much we both esteem both of you.