THE QUEST

BY PIO 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 Dona 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