If It Pleased Such A Man As That To Have Six Wives Instead Of One It
Was Right And Proper
For him to have them; no person would presume to
say that he was not a good and wise and
Religious man on that account.
It may be added that Don Evaristo, like Henry VIII, who also had six
wives, was a strictly virtuous man. The only difference was that when
he desired a fresh wife he did not barbarously execute or put away the
one, or the others, he already possessed.
I lost sight of Don Evaristo when I was sixteen, having gone to live
in another district about thirty miles from my old home. He was then
just at the end of the middle period of life, with a few grey hairs
beginning to show in his black beard, but he was still a strong man
and more children were being added to his numerous family. Some time
later I heard that he had acquired a second estate a long day's
journey on horseback from the first, and that some of his wives and
children had emigrated to the new esctancia and that he divided his
time between the two establishments. But his people were not wholly
separated from each other; from time to time some of them would take
the long journey to visit the absent ones and there would be an
exchange of homes between them. For, incredible as it may seem, they
were in spirit, or appeared to be, a united family.
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