In the canon
The Three-Cornered Hat
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
- Form
- Form Novella
- Year
- Year 1874
- Originally in
- Originally in Spanish
- Pages
- Pages 130
A magistrate in a scarlet cloak and a black three-cornered hat climbs out of a millrace at midnight, soaked through, and hangs his clothes by the fire to dry. That hat is the whole trouble: a bit of felt that turns a vain, stooping old man into the law itself, and the law into a man who has decided he wants a miller's wife.
Happiest of days, those in which there was a variety of classes, of affections, and of customs in human society!
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