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THE QUEST
BY PÍO BAROJA
TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH By ISAAC GOLDBERG
CONTENTS
PART ONE
I Preamble—Somewhat Immoral Notions of a Boarding-House Keeper—A Balcony is Heard Closing—A Cricket Chirps
II Doña Casiana's House—A Morning Ceremony—Conspiracy—Wherein is Discussed The Nutritive Value of Bones—Petra and Her Family—Manuel; his Arrival in Madrid
III First Impressions of Madrid—The Boarders—Idyll—Sweet and Delightful Lessons
IV Oh, Love, Love!—What's Don Telmo Doing?—Who is Don Telmo?—Wherein the Student and Don Telmo Assume Certain Novelesque Proportions
PART TWO
I "The Regeneration of Footgear" and "The Lion of the Bootmaker's Art"—The First Sunday—An Escapade—El Bizco and his Gang
II The "Big Yard" or Uncle Rilo's House—Local Enmities
III Roberto Hastings at the Shoemaker's—The Procession of Beggars—Court of Miracles
IV Life in the Cobbler's Shop—Manuel's Friends
V La Blasa's Tavern
VI Roberto in Quest of a Woman—El Tabuenca and his Inventions—Don Alonso or the Snake-Man
VII The Kermesse on Pasión Street—"The Dude"—A Café Chantant
VIII Leandro's Irresolution—In La Blasa's Tavern—The Man with the Three Cards—The Duel with Valencia
IX An Unlikely Tale—Manuel's Sisters—Life's Baffling Problems
PART THREE
I Uncle Patas' Domestic Drama—The Bakery—Karl the Baker—The Society of the Three
II One of the Many Disagreeable Ways of Dying in Madrid—The Orphan—El Cojo and his Cave—Night in the Observatory
III Meeting with Roberto—Roberto Narrates the Origin of a Fantastic Fortune
IV Dolores the Scandalous—Pastiri's Tricks—Tender Savagery—A Modest Out-of-the-way Robbery
V Gutter Vestals—The Troglodites
VI Señor Custodio and his Establishment—The Free Life
VII Señor Custodio's Ideas—La Justa, el Carnicerín and El Conejo
VIII The Square—A Wedding in La Bombilla—The Asphalt Caldrons







