![]() ![]() ![]() On Sundays, however, he put on a plush coat and short velvet breeches and soft slippers with silver buckles. On week days he wore a coarse blouse and blue trousers of homespun stuff. His face was thin, his nose was long, his hair was turning gray. He was more than fifty years of age, and quite tall and slender. ![]() Quixana was rather odd in his appearance and dress, as all old-fashioned gentlemen are apt to be. A poor man who lived in a cottage near by was employed to do the work on the farm and he did so well that the master had much leisure time and was troubled but little with the cares of business. So the house was kept and managed by an old servant woman who was more wrinkled than wise and more talkative than handsome. His niece was not yet twenty years of age. He lived with his niece in his own farmhouse close by a quiet little village in the province of La Mancha. He was gentle and kind, and very brave and all who knew him loved him. Some said it was this, some said it was that but his neighbors called him "the good Mr. What his real name was, no one outside of his village seemed to know. This gentleman had so many odd ways and did so many strange things that he not only amused his neighbors and distressed his friends, but made himself famous throughout the world. ![]() Many years ago there lived in Spain a very old-fashioned gentleman whom you would have been glad to know. ![]()
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