"And," added the housekeeper, "will your worship be able to bear, out in the fields, the heats of summer,and the chills of winter, and the howling of the wolves? Not you; for that's a life and a business for hardy men, bred and seasoned to such work almost from the time they were in swaddling-clothes. Why, to make choice of evils, it's better to be a knight-errant than a shepherd! Look here, senor; take my advice--and I'm not giving it to you full of bread and wine,but fasting, and with fifty years upon my head--stay at home, look after your affairs, go often to confession,be good to the poor, and upon my soul be it if any evil comes to you."