Note 143.2 — Front matter (continued 3)

que no le pesaba nada, who was not at all sorry. Cf. the more usual construction two lines below. The former is however a thoroughly Spanish construction, though more common in the older language than to-day. Cf. que estaba diciéndoles su ama, "to whom his housekeeper was saying." D. Quijote, I, ch. V. It is in reality a sort of aposiopesis: "whom—it did not at all grieve her (dat.)."