Don Juan Tenorio | Page 5

s��. I don't know.
DON DIEGO: ?Le esper��is vos? Do you expect him?
BUTTARELLI: Por si acaso Probably he'll come, venir le place. if it pleases him.
DON DIEGO: En tal caso In that case yo tambi��n le esperar��. I'll wait for him too. (Se sienta en el lado opuesto a don (Sits on the side opposite to Gonzalo) Don Gonzalo.)
BUTTARELLI: ?Que os sirva vianda alguna Shall I serve you something while quer��is mientras? you wait?
DON DIEGO: No: tomad. No. Here. (Dale dinero.) (He gives him money)
DON DIEGO: Y excusad And forget...
BUTTARELLI: ?Excelencia! Excellency!
DON DIEGO: conversaci��n importuna. .......the unnecessary conversation.
BUTTARELLI: PerDo?ad. I'm sorry.
DON DIEGO: Vais perDo?ado: You're forgiven. dejadme pues. Go on, then.
BUTTARELLI: (?Jesucristo! (Jesus Christ! En toda mi vida he visto In all the days of my life hombre m��s malhumorado.) I've not seen a worse disposition.).
DON DIEGO: (?Que un hombre de mi linaje (That a man of my descent descienda a tan ruin mansi��n! should stoop to such a game. Pero no hay humillaci��n But for a father there's no shame a que un padre no se baje to which he'll not consent por un hijo. Quiero ver for a son. I need to see, por mis ojos la verdad with my eyes, the reality, y el monstruo de liviandad this monster of depravity, a quien pude dar el ser.) that I have caused to be.) (Buttarelli que anda arreglando (Buttarelli, who is going around sus trastos, arranging his things, contempla desde el fondo contemplates Don Gonzalo and Don Diego a don Gonzalo y a don Diego, from the back. que permanecer��n embozados y en They remain masked and in silencio.) silence.)
BUTTARELLI: ?Vaya un par de hombres de piedra! What a pair of stony-faced men! Para ��stos sobra mi abasto; My supplies are more than enough mas, ?pardiez!, pagan el gasto but Lord, they're paying for stuff que no hacen, y as�� se medra. not ordered, so much the better then.

ESCENA IX SCENE IX
(Buttarelli, Don Gonzalo, Don Diego, (Buttarelli, Don Gonzalo, Don El capit��n Diego, Captain Centellas, dos caballeros, Avellaneda) Centellas, two gentlemen, Avellaneda)
AVELLANEDA: Vinieron, y os aseguro They came, and I assure you que se efectuar�� la apuesta. the bet will be carried through.
CENTELLAS Entremos, pues. ?Buttarelli! Lets go in then. Buttarelli!
BUTTARELLI: Se?or capit��n Centellas, Captain Centellas, ?vos por aqu��? You too?
CENTELLAS S��, Crist��fano. Yes Crist��fano. ?Cu��ndo aqu��, sin mi presencia, When was anything staged, tuvieron lugar las org��as that has come to light in this age que han hecho raya en la ��poca? without my being present?
BUTTARELLI: Como ha tanto tiempo ya Why haven't I seen you que no os he visto. for such a long time then?
CENTELLAS Las guerras The wars of the Emperor, del Emperador, a T��nez in Tunis, took me away, me llevaron; mas mi hacienda but my affairs bring me me vuelve a traer a Sevilla; back to Seville again, y, seg��n lo que me cuentan, according to what they say, llego lo m��s a prop��sito I've here at just the right time para renovar a?ejas to renew all the old lines amistades. Conque apr��ntanos of friendship. So, bring us now luego unas cuantas botellas, some bottles right away y en tanto que humedecemos and while we take a drop, la garganta, verdadera give us a true account relaci��n haznos de un lance of a thing about which sobre el cual hay controversia. there's a great deal of lather.
BUTTARELLI: Todo se andar��, mas antes It will be done, but first, dejadme ir a la bodega. let me go to the wine cellar.
VARIOS: S��, s��. Well, of course!

ESCENA X SCENE X
(Dichos, menos Buttarelli) (The same minus Buttarelli)
CENTELLAS: Sentarse, se?ores, Sit down gentlemen. y que siga Avellaneda Let Avellaneda continue con la historia de don Luis. with the story of Don Luis.
AVELLANEDA: No hay ya m��s que decir de ella There's no more to tell of it sino que creo imposible except, that I think it's impossible que la de Tenorio sea for Tenorio to be the worse devil m��s endiablada, y que apuesto and I bet on por don Luis. don Luis.
CENTELLAS: Acaso pierdas. Perhaps you'll lose. Don Juan Tenorio se sabe Don Juan Tenorio is known que es la m��s mala cabeza as the most evil character del orbe, y no hubo hombre al in the world, and there's no man que aventajarle pudiera who can get the better of him con s��lo su inclinaci��n; if he's so inclined, conque ?qu�� har�� si se empe?a? so what might he do if he made an effort?
AVELLANEDA: Pues yo s�� bien que Mej��a Well, I know well that Mej��a las ha hecho tales, que a ciegas has done such deeds se puede apostar por ��l. I can blindly wager on him.
CENTELLAS Pues el capit��n Centellas Well, captain Centellas pone por don Juan Tenorio bets everything he has