The Dialogue of the Dogs by Miguel de Cervantes

Author:Miguel de Cervantes [Cervantes, Miguel de]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-61219-252-9
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2012-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Scipio: What your master’s flimflammery can do, is more like it.

Berganza: Just you listen, because there’s more—though, naturally, it pains me to speak ill of constables and notaries.

Scipio: Sure, they’re not all crooks. Many, many notaries are good, faithful, and law-abiding, and only want to be of service without hurting anybody. Not all of them paper you to death with lawsuits, or leak information to the other side, or pad their hours. Nor do they go poking into strangers’ lives to drum up business, or get in bed with the judge to play “scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.”

Nor do all constables consort with bums, no-goodniks, or girlfriends to help them work some grift. Many, many of them are classy and well brought up. Plenty of them aren’t your arrogant, insolent, misbegotten ratfinks, like those who go around flophouses measuring strangers’ swords and, if they find them a hair past legal, throw the book at them. And certainly they don’t all cut you loose right after they arrest you, or act as judge and jury whenever they feel like it.

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