Eleven o'clock
Thus , after so many vicissitudes , Isabella 's parents recovered their daughter , and re-established their fortune ; and she , favoured by heaven , and aided by her many virtues , in spite of so many crosses and troubles , obtained for her husband a man so deserving as Richard , with whom it is believed that she lives to this day , in the house facing Santa Paula , which her father had hired , and which they subsequently bought of the heirs of a gentleman of Burgos , named Hernando Cifuentes . This tale may teach us what virtue and what beauty can effect , since they are sufficient together , or either singly , to win the love even of enemies ; and how Heaven is able to bring forth our greatest happiness even out of our heaviest misfortunes . One night , after a sultry summer 's day , an old hidalgo of Toledo walked out to take the air by the river 's side , along with his wife , his little boy , his daughter aged sixteen , and a female servant . Eleven o'clock had struck : it was a fine clear night : they were the only persons on the road ; and they sauntered leisurely along , to avoid paying the price of fatigue for the recreation provided for the Toledans in their valley or on the banks of their river . Secure as he thought in the careful administration of justice in that city , and the character of its well-disposed inhabitants , the good hidalgo was far from thinking that any disaster could befal his family . But as misfortunes commonly happen when they are least looked for , so it chanced with this family , who were that night visited , in the midst of their innocent enjoyment , by a calamity which gave them cause to weep for many a year . There was in that city a young cavalier , about two-and-twenty years of age , whom wealth , high birth , a wayward disposition , inordinate indulgence , and profligate companions impelled to do things which disgraced his rank .