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Stories of Don Quixote · Stories of Don Quixote

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  Getting ready for adventures. Many years ago, there lived in Spain a very
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  old fashioned gentleman whom you would have been glad to know. This gentleman had
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  so many odd ways and did so many strange things that he not only amused
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  his neighbors and distressed his friends, remade himself famous throughout the world. What
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  his real name was, No one outside of his village seemed to know.
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  Some said it was this, some said it was that. But his neighbors
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  called him the good mister Kihana, and no doubt this was correct. He
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  was gentle and kind and very brave, and all who knew him loved him.
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  He had neither wife nor child. He lived with his niece in his
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  own farmhouse, close by a quiet little village in the province of La Mancha.
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  His niece was not yet twenty years of age, so the house was
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  kept and managed by an old servant woman who was more wrinkled than wise,
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  and more talkative and handsome. A poor man who lived in the cottage near
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  by was employed to do the work on the farm, and he did so
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  well that the master had much leisure time and was troubled but little with the
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  cares of busyness. Mister Kihan was rather odd in his appearance and dress,
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  as all old fashioned gentlemen are apt to be. He was more than fifty
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  years of age, and quite tall and slender. His face was thin,
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  his nose was long, his hair was turning gray. He dressed very plainly.
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  On weak days, he wore a coarse blouse and blue trousers of homespun
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  stuff. On Sundays, however, he put on a plush coat and short
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  velvet breeches and soft slippers with silver buckles. In the hallway of his old
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  fashioned house, a short rusty sword was always hanging and leaning against the wall,
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  where a rusty lance and the big raw hide shield. These weapons had
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  belonged to his great grandfather, long ago, when men knew but little about
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  guns and gunpowder. On the kitchen doorstep, an old greyhound was always lying.
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  This dog was very lean and slender, and his hunting days had long
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  been passed, But all old fashioned gentlemen kept greyhound in those days. In
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  the barn there was a horse as old and as lean as the greyhound.
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  But if this horse, I will tell you much more in the course of
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  my story. Like many other gentlemen, mister Keihana did not work much.
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  He spent almost all his time in wreathing, reathing reading. He was seldom
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  seen with how the book in his hand. When the weather was fine,
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  he would sit in his little library, or under the apple trees in his
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  garden and read all day. He often forgot to come to his meals.
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  He was so wrapped up in his books that he forgot his horse, his
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  dog, and even his niece. He forgot his friends, he forgot himself.
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  Sometimes he sat up and read all night. Now what kind of books
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  do you suppose he read? He read no histories, nor books of travel.
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  He cared nothing for poetry or philosophy. His whole mind was given to
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  stories, stories of knights and their daring deeds. He read so many of
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  these stories that he could not think of anything else. His head was full
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  of knights and knightly deeds, of magic and witchcraft, of tournaments and battlefields.
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  If he had read less, he would have been wiser. For much
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  reading does not always improve the mind. At length, this old fashioned gentleman
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  said to himself, why should I always be a plain farmer and sit here
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  at home? Why may I not become a famous knight. The more he
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  thought about this matter, the more he wished to be a hero like those
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  of whom he had read in his books. Yes, I will be a
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  knight, he said to himself. My mind is fully made up. I
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  will arm myself in a coat of mail. I will mount my noble steed.
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  I will ride out into the world and seek adventures. No danger shall
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  affright me. With my strong arm. I will go forth to protect the
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  weak and to be friend friendless. Yes, I will be a knight,
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  and I will fight against err wherever I find it. So he began at
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  once to get ready for his great understaking. The first thing to be done
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  was to find some suitable armor for what knight ever rode out into the world
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  without being encased in steel. In the garret of his house there was an
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  old coat of mail. It then lain there among the dust and cobwebs for
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  a hundred years and more. It was rusted and battered, and some of
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  the parts were missing. It was a poor piece of work at the very
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  best, but he cleaned it as well as he could, and polished it
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  with great care. He cut some pieces of pasteboard to supply the missing parts,
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  and painted them to look like steel when they were properly fitted, they
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  answered very well, especially when no fighting was to be done with the coat
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  of mail. There was an old brass helmet. It too was broken,
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  and the straps for holding it on were lost. But mister Keihana patched it
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  up and found some green ribbons which served instead of straps. As he held
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  it up and looked at it from every side, he felt very proud to
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  think that his head would be adorned with so rare a piece of workmanship.
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  And now a steed must be provided for every night. Must needs have a
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  noble horse. The poor old creature in the barn was gaunt and thin and
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  very bony, but he was just the stuff for a war horse, wiry
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  and very stubborn. As the old fashioned gentleman looked at him, he fancied
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  that no steed had ever been so beautiful or so swift. He will carry
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  me most gallantly, he said, and I shall be proud of him.
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  But what shall I call him? A horse that is ridden by a noble
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  knight must needs have an honorable and high sounding name. So he spent four
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  days in studying what he should call his steed. At last, he said
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  I have it. His name shall be Rosenante. And why do you give
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  him that strange name, asked the niece. I will tell you, he
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  answered. The word rosen means common horse, and the word ante is good
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  Latin for before or formerly. Now, if I call my gallant steed formerly
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  a common horse, the meaning is plain, for everybody will understand that he
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  is now no longer common, but very uncommon. Do you see? So
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  his name shall be Rosenant. Then he patted the horse lovingly and gently repeated
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  ulusinante uuzinante. He thought that if he could only find as good a name
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  for himself, he would feel like riding out and beginning his adventures at once,
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  for what more could he need? Every night, he said, has
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  the right to put down at the beginning of his name, for that as
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  a title of honor and respect. Now, and I shall call myself done
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  John, done something. But what shall it be? He studied the question
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  for eight days, and then a happy thought came into his mind. I
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  will call myself don Quixote, he cried, And since my home is in
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  the district of La Mancha, I should be known throughout the world as Don
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  Quixote di la mancha. What name is more honorable than that? What title
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  can be more honorable? The name was indeed not very different from his real
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  name, For have we not said that his neighbors called him Kihanna. The
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  good old gentleman had now minted and polished his armor and found new names for
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  himself and his steed. He felt himself well equipped for adventures. But suddenly
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  the thought came to him that still another thing must be settled, for he
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  could ride out and do battle as a real and true knight. In all
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  the stories he had read, every hero who was worthy of knighthood had claims
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  some fair lady, whom he invoked in times of peril, and to whom
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  he brought the prizes which he had won. It was at her feet that
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  the knight must kneel at the end of every quest. It was from her
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  that he must receive the victor's crown to him. Therefore, a lady friend
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  was as necessary as a steed or a south of armor. Don Quixote was
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  not well acquainted with many ladies, but he felt that as a knight he
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  must center his thoughts upon one who would be his guiding star as he went
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  faring through the world. Who should it be? This question troubled him more
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  than any other had done. He sat in his house for two whole weeks
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  and thought of nothing else. How would his niece do well? She was
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  very young, and he was her uncle. In all the books in his
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  library, there was no account of a knight kneeling at the feet of his
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  own niece. She was not to be thought of. As for his housekeeper,
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  she was too old and homely. He could never think of doing homage
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  to one in her humble station. At length, he remembered a handsome,
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  red cheeked maiden who lived in or near the village of Tubasso. Her name
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  was Adonza Lorenzo, and many years ago she had smiled at him as he
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  was passing on the road. He had not seen her since she had grown
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  up, But she must now be the most charming of womankind. He fancied
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  that no lady in the world was better fitted to receive his knightly homage.
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  A Don Delrinzo, it shall be, he cried, rubbing his hands together.
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  But what a name. How would it sound when coupled with that of
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  the velorous Don Quixote di la Mancha. Surely it was too common, and
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  she must have a title more like that of a princess. What should it
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  be? He studied over this for many days, and at last hit upon
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  a name which pleased him much. It shall be Dulcinea, he cried,
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  It shall be Dulcinea del Toboso. No other name is so sweet, so
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  harmonious, so like the lady herself. Thus, after weeks of labor and
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  study, Don Quixote di la Mancha at length felt himself prepared to ride forth
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  into the world to seek adventures. He waited only for a suitable opportunity to
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  put his cherished plans into action. End of chapter one, an introductory note.
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  Chapter two, The Adventure at the Inn. One morning in midsummer,
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  don Quixote arose very early, long before anyone else was awake. He put
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  on his coat of nail and the old helmet, which he had patched with
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  pasteboard and green ribbons. He took down the short sword that had been his
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  great grandfather's, and belt in it to his side. He grasped his long
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  lance. He swung the leather shield upon his shoulder. Then he went out
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  very quietly by the back door, lest he should awaken his niece or the
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  housekeeper. He went softly to the barn and saddled his steed. Then he
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  mounted and rode silently away through the sleeping village and the quiet fields. He
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  was pleased to think how easily he had managed things. He was glad that
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  he had gotten away from the house and the village without any unpleasant scenes.
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  I trust that I shall presently meet with some worthy adventure, he said to
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  himself. But soon a dreadful thought came into his mind. He was not
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  a knight, for no one had conferred that honor upon him, and the
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  laws of chivalry would not permit him to contend and mattle with any one of
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  noble rank until he himself was knighted. Whoa Rosinante, He said, I
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  must consider this matter. He stopped underneath a tree and thought, and thought,
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  must he give up his enterprise and return home? No, that I
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  shall never do, he cried. I will ride onward, and the first
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  worthy man that I meet shall make me knight. So he spoke cheeringly to
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  Rosanante, and resumed his journey. He dropped the reins loosely upon the horse's
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  neck and allowed him to stroll hither and thither as he pleased. It is
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  thus, he said, that knights ride out upon their quests. They go
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  where fortune and their steeds may carry them. Thus leisurely he sat in the
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  saddle while Rosanante wandered and unfrequented past, cropped the green herbage by the road
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  side, or rested himself in the shade of some friendly tree. The hours
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  passed, but neither man nor beast took note a time or distance. We
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  shall have an adventure. By and by, said don Quixote softly to himself.
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  The sun was just sinking in the west when rose Soonante, in quest
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  of sweeter grass, carried his master to the summit of a gentle hill.
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  There in the valley below him, don Quixote beheld a little inn, nestling
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  snugly by the roadside. Humph, he cried, Did I not say that
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  we should have an adventure? He gathered up the reins, He took his
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  long glance in his hand. He struck spurs into his loitering steed, and
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  he charged down the hill with the speed of a plow horse. He imagined
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  that the inn was a great castle, with four towers and a deep moat,
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  and a drawbridge at some distance from the gate, he checked his steed
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  and waited. He expected to see a dwarf come out on the wall of
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  the castle, and found a trumpet to give notice of the arrival of a
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  strange night, for it was always so in the books which he had read.
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  But nobody came. Don Quixote grew impatient. At length, the urge
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  roseanante forward at a gentle pace, and was soon within hailing distance of the
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  inn. Just then a swineherd in a field near by lewis horn to call
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  his pigs together. Alhamp cried, don Quixote, there is the dwarf.
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  At last he is blowing his bugle to tell them that I am coming.
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  And with the greatest joy in the world, he rode onward to the door
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  of the inn. The innkeeper was both fat and jolly, and when he
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  saw don Quixote riding up, he went out to welcome him. He could
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  not help laughing at the warlike appearance of his visitor, with his long glance,
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  his battered shield, and his ancient coat of mail. But he kept
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  as sober a face as possible, and spoke very humbly, Sir knight,
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  He said, will you honor me by alighting from your steed. I have
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  no bed to offer you, but you shall have every other accommodation that you
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  may ask. Don Quixote still suppose that the inn was a castle, and
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  he thought that the innkeeper must be the governor. So he answered, in
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  pompous tones, Signor Costellano, anything is enough for me. I care for
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  nothing but arms, and no bed is so as sweet to me as the
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  field of battle. The innkeeper was much amused. You speak well, sir
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  knight. Since your wants are so few, I can promise that you shall
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  lack nothing. Alight and enter, and with that he went and held don
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  Quixote's stirrup while he dismounted. The poor old man had eaten nothing all day.
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  His armor was very heavy, he was stiff from riding so long.
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  He could hardly stand on his feet, but with the innkeeper's help, he
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  was soon comfortably seated in the kitchen of the inn. I pray you,
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  Senor Costallano, he said, take good care of my steed. There is
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  not a finer horse in the universe. The innkeeper promised that the horse should
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  lack nothing, and led him away to the stable. When he returned to
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  the kitchen, he found Don Quixote pulling off his armor. He had relieved
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  himself of the greater cart of his coat of mail, but a helmet had
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  been tied fast with the green ribbons, as I had told you, and
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  it could not be taken off without cutting them. Never shall any one harm
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  those ribbons, cried Don Quixote, and after vainly trying to untie them,
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  he was obliged to leave them as they were. It was a funny sight
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  to see him sitting there with his head enclosed in the old, patched up
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  helmet. Now, Sir Knight, said the innkeeper, Will you not deign
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  to partake of a little food? It is quite past our supper time,
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  and all our guests have eaten, But perhaps you will not object to taking
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  a little refreshment alone. I will indeed take some with all my heart,
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  answered Don Quixote. I think I shall enjoy a few mouthfuls of food more
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  than anything else in the world. As luck would have it, it was
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  Friday, and there was no meat in the house. There were only a
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  few small pieces of salt fish in the pantry, and these had been picked
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  over by the other guests. Will you try some of our fresh trout,
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  asked the landlord. They are very small, but they are wholesome, well,
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  answered don Quixote. If there are several of the small fry, I
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  shall like them as well as a single large fish. But whatever you have,
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  I pray you fring it quickly. For the heavy armor and the day's
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  travel had given me a good appetite. So a small table was set close
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  by the door for the sake of fresh air, and on Quixote he drew
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  his chair up beside it. Then the innkeeper brought some bits of the fish,
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  ill dressed and poorly cooked. The bread was brown and moldiest on Keixote's
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  armor, and there was nothing to drink but cold water. It was hard
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  for the poor man to get the food to his mouth, for his helmet
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  was much in his way. By using both hands, however, he managed
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  to help himself. Then he would have laughed to see him eat, for
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  indeed he was very hungry. No true knight will complain of that which is
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  set before him, he said to himself. Suddenly, however, the thought
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  again came to him that he was not yet a knight. He stopped eating
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  the last poor morsel of fish was left untouched on the table before him.
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  His appetite had left him alas alas. He groaned, I cannot lawfully ride
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  out on any adventure until I have been dubbed a knight. I must see
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  his business at once. He arose and beckoned to the innkeeper to follow him
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  to the barn. I have something to say to you. He whispered,
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  Your steeds, sir, knight, said. The innkeeper has already had his
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  oats. I assure you he will be well taken care of. It is
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  not of the steed that I wish to speak, answered Don Quixote, and
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  he carefully shut the door behind him. Then, falling at the innkeeper's feet,
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  he cried, sir, I shall never rise from this place till you
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  have promised to grant the boon which I am about to beg of you.
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  The innkeeper did not know what to do. He tried to raise the poor
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  man up, but he could not. At last, he said, I
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  promise name the which you wish, and I will give it to you.
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  Oh noble sir, answered don Quixote. I knew you would not refuse me
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  the bone which I beg is this allow me to watch my armor in the
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  chapel of your castle to night, and then in the morning, Oh,
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  in the morning. And what shall I do in the morning, asked the
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  innkeeper. Kind sir, he answered, do this be stolen me in the
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  honor of knighthood? For I longed to ride through every corner of the earthen
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  quest of adventures, and this I could not do until after I had been
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  dubbed a night. The innkeeper smiled and his eyes twinkled, for he was
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  a right jolly fellow, and he saw that here was a chance for some
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  merry sport. Certainly, certainly, he said, right kindly, you are
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  well worthy to be a knight, and I honor you for choosing so noble
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  a calling. Arise, and I will do all that you ask of me.
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  I thank you, said yn Quixote. Now lead me to your chapel.
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  I will watch my armor there, as many a true and worthy knight
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  has done in the days of yore. I would gladly lead you thither,
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  said the innkeeper, But at the present time there is no chapel in my
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  castle. It will do just as well, however, to watch your armor
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  in some other convenient place. Many of the greatest knights have done this when
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  there is no chapel to be found. Noble sir, I believe you are
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  right, said Don Quixote. I have read of their doing so, and
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  since you have no chapel, I shall be content with any place. Then
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  bring your armor into the courtyard of my castle, said the innkeeeper. Guard
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  it bravely until morning, and at sunrise I will w you a knight.
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  I thank you, noble sir, said Don Quixote. I will bring the
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  armor at once. But stop, cried the innkeeper. Have you any money?
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  Not a penny was the answer. I have never read of any knight
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  carrying money with him. Oh well, you are mistaken there, said the
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  innkeeper. The books you have read may not say anything about it, but
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  that is because the authors never thought it worth while to write about such common
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  things as money and clean shirts and the like. Have you any proof of
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  that? Most certainly I have. I know quite well that every knight had
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  his purse stepped full of money. Every one also carried some clean shirts and
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  a small box of salve for the healing of wounds. It does look reasonable,
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  agreed Don Quixote. But I never thought of it. Then let me
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  advise you as a father advises his son, said the innkeeper. As soon
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  as you have been made a knight, ride homeward and provide yourself with these
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  necessary articles. I will obey you, most noble sir, answered Don Quixote.
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  He then made haste and find his armor. Together, he carried it
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  to the barnyard and laid it in a horse draw by the well. The
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  evening was now well gone and it was growing dark. Don Quixote took his
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  shield upon his left arm. He grasped his long glance in his right hand.
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  Then he began to pace to and fro across the barnyard. He held
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  his head high, like a soldier on duty in the old patched helmet,
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  falling down over his face give him a droll, if not fearful appearance.
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  The full moon rose bright and clear. The barnyard was lighted up, almost
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  as by day. The innkeeper and his guests stood at the windows of the
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  inn and watched to see what would happen. Presently, a mule driver came
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  into the yard to water his mules. He saw something lying in the trough
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  and was stooping to kick it out before drawing water from the well. But
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  at that moment Don Quixote rushed upon him. Stop rash night, he cried,
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  Touch not those arms. They are the arms and the bravest man that
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  ever lived. Touch them naught or instant death shall be your doom. The
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  mule driver was a dull fellow and very slow. He but dimly understood what
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  was said to him, and so paid no attention to the warning. He
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  laid hold of the coat of mail and threw it upon the ground. Oh,
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  my lady Dulcinea, help me in this first trial of my valor,
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  cried don Quixote. At the same moment, he lifted his lance with both
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  hands and gave the mule driver a thrust, which laid him flat in the
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  dust of the barnyard. Another such knock would it put an and to the
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  poor fellow. But Don Quixote was too brave to think of striking a fallen
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  foe. He picked up the coat of mail and laid it again in the
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  horsetraw. Then he went on walking back and forth, as though nothing had
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  happened. The poor mule driver lay senseless by the side of the trough.
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  The innkeeper and his friends still watched from the inn. He is a heart
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  headed fellow, said one he is used to our not Senuel soon recover.
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  In a few moments, a noisy wagoner drove into the barnyard. He took
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  his team quite close to the trough. Then he began to clear it out
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  in order to give water to his horses. Don Quixote, however, was
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  ready for him. He said not a word, but lifted his lance and
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  hurled it at the wagoner's head. It is a wonder that the fellow's skull
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  was not broken. The wagoner fell to the ground, yelling most grievously,
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  and the ann were frightened, and all ran quickly to the barnyard to put
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  an end to the rough sport. When don Quixote saw them coming, he
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  braced himself on his shield and drew his sword. Oh my Dulcinea, thou
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  queen of beauty, he cried, thou give strength to my arm and courage
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  to my beating heart. He felt brave enough to fight all the wagoners and
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  mule drivers in the world. But just then several of the wagoner's friends came
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  running into the barnyard, and each began to throw stones at don Quixote.
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  The stones fell in a shower about his head, and he was forced to
• 27:38
  shelter himself under his shield. Yet he stood bravely at his post, and
• 27:45
  nothing could make him abandon his arms. Fling on, he cried, do
• 27:51
  your worst. I dare you to come within my reach. He spoke with
• 27:56
  such fierceness that every man shrank back in fear. Some took refuge in the
• 28:02
  barn, but kept on throwing stones. Let him alone, cried the innkeeper.
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  He is a harmless fellow who wishes to become a knight. He has
• 28:11
  lost his senses to too much reading. Come away and leave him in peace.
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  The men stopped throwing stones. Don Quixote put down his shield and began
• 28:22
  again to pace back and forth between the horse drop and the barn. He
• 28:26
  allowed the servants to carry away the wounded wagoner and the unconscious mule driver,
• 28:32
  but he glared at them so fiercely that they were glad to be out of
• 28:36
  his reach. The innkeeper began to think that he had carried the sport far
• 28:41
  enough. He was afraid that more and worse mischief might be done, so
• 28:47
  he spoke right gently to don Quixote. Brave sir, you have done nobly.
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  You have guarded your armor with courage you have shown yourself worthy of knighthood.
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  I will give you that honor without further delay. But it is not
• 29:03
  yet daybreak, answered Don Quixote. I must guard my armor till the dawn
• 29:08
  appears. It is not unnecessary, said the innkeeper. I have read of
• 29:15
  some merry, famous knights who stood guard only two hours, and you have
• 29:19
  watched for more than four hours. Although be set by many foes, time
• 29:26
  lies swiftly when one is doing his duty, said Don Quixote. The brave
• 29:30
  man is bravest when he curbs his anger. But if I am again attacked,
• 29:36
  I shall not be able to restrain my fury. No man in this
• 29:41
  castle shall be left alive unless it be to please you. You shall not
• 29:45
  be attacked, said the innkeeper. You have guarded your armor quite long enough,
• 29:51
  and I will make you a knight at once if you are willing.
• 29:55
  Nothing can please me better, answered Don Quixote, and he laid his lance
• 30:00
  gently down by the side of his armor. The innkeeper thereupon called to his
• 30:06
  guests and servants to come and see the ceremony. A book was brought to
• 30:11
  him in which he kept his account, some hay and straw. He opened
• 30:15
  it with much dignity. While don Quixote stood with closed eyes beside his armor.
• 30:21
  The women of the inn gathered in a circle about them. A boy
• 30:25
  held a piece of lighted candle while the innkeeper pretended to read a chapter from
• 30:30
  the book. The reading being finished, don Quixote knelt down in the dust
• 30:36
  of the barnyard. The innkeeper stood over him and mumbled some words without meaning.
• 30:41
  He gave him a blow on the neck with his hand. Then he
• 30:45
  slapped him on the back with the flat of his sword. Arise, sir,
• 30:48
  knight, he said, thou art don Quixote de la Mancha, the
• 30:55
  most valorous of men. Be brave, be brave, always brave. Don
• 31:02
  Quixote arose, feeling that he was now in truth a knight and ready to
• 31:07
  de valorous deeds. One of the women handed him his sword. May your
• 31:12
  worship be a lucky knight, she said. Another arranged the green ribbons which
• 31:18
  held his helmet in place. May you prosper, brave, sir, wherever
• 31:23
  you go, she said. John Quixote threw his arms around the innkeeper's neck
• 31:29
  and thanked him. He could not rest until he had done some gallant deed,
• 31:34
  so he sat up all the rest of the night, polishing his armor,
• 31:38
  and thinking impatiently of the morrow and of chapter two, Chapter three,
• 31:45
  The Adventurer of the Farmer. At the earliest break of day, don Quixote
• 31:51
  made ready to ride out in quest of adventures. He buckled on his armor.
• 31:55
  He took his lance and the shields in his hands. His gallant steed,
• 31:59
  Rosinante, stood saddled and bridled at the door of the inn. He
• 32:04
  again embraced the innkeeper. Farewell, thou, greatest of my benefactors, he
• 32:08
  cried, May Heaven bless THEE for having made me a knight. Then,
• 32:13
  with the help of a groom, he mounted and rode forth into the world.
• 32:19
  Right gaily did he ride, for he felt that he was now,
• 32:22
  in truth a knight, and his mind was filled with lofty thoughts. Right
• 32:25
  gaily also did Rosinante cancer along the highway, and proudly did he hold his
• 32:30
  head, for did he not know that he was carrying the bravest of brave
• 32:35
  men. They had gone but a little way when don Quixote suddenly remembered the
• 32:38
  innkeeper's command to provide himself with money, clean shirts, and some salve.
• 32:44
  The command must be obeyed, he said, I must go home to get
• 32:47
  these necessary things. So he turned his horse's head and took the first by
• 32:52
  road that led towards his village. And now Rosinantes seemed to have new life
• 32:57
  when into his lean body, he sniffed the air and trotted so fast that
• 33:00
  his heels seemed scarcely to touch the ground. This is after the matter of
• 33:06
  heroes, said Don Quixote. Yet I still lack one thing. I need
• 33:09
  a faithful squire to writhe with me and serve me. All the knights I
• 33:14
  have ever read about at squires who followed in their footsteps and looked on while
• 33:17
  they were fighting. I think therefore, that while I am providing myself with
• 33:22
  money and shirts, I will also get me a squire. Presently, as
• 33:28
  they were passing through a lonely place, the knight fancied that he heard distressing
• 33:31
  cries. They seemed to come from the midst of a woody thicket near the
• 33:36
  roadside. I thank Heaven for this lucky moment, he said to himself.
• 33:40
  I shall now have an adventure. No doubt I shall rescue someone who is
• 33:45
  in peril, or I shall correct some grievous wrong. He put spurs through
• 33:51
  zanante, and with as fast as he could, to the spot from which
• 33:53
  the cry seemed to issue. At the edge of the woody thicket, he
• 33:58
  saw a horse tied to a small oak tree. Not far away, a
• 34:01
  lot of about fifteen years was tied to another oak. The lad's shoulders and
• 34:06
  back were bare, and it was he he was making the doleful outcry for
• 34:09
  a stout country fellow was standing over him and beating him unmercifully with a horsewhip.
• 34:15
  Hold Hold, cried Don Quixote, rushing up. It is an unmanly
• 34:21
  act to strike a person who cannot strike back. The farmer was frightened at
• 34:24
  the sudden appearance of a knight on horseback. He dropped his whip. He
• 34:29
  stood with an open mouth and trembling hands, not knowing what to expect.
• 34:34
  Come, Sir, said Don Quixote, sternly, take your lance, mount
• 34:37
  your horse, and we will settle this matter by a trial of arms.
• 34:42
  The farmer answered him very humbly, Sir Knight, He said, this boy
• 34:46
  is my servant, and his business is to watch my sheep. But he
• 34:50
  is lazy and careless, and I have lost half of my flock through his
• 34:53
  neglect. What of that, said don Quixote, You have no right to
• 34:59
  beat him when you I know he cannot beat you. I beat him only
• 35:02
  to make a better boy of him, answered the farmer. He will tell
• 35:07
  you that I do it to cheat him out of his wages. But he
• 35:09
  tells lies even while I am correcting them. What what, cried don Quixote.
• 35:15
  Do you give him the lie? Right here before my face? I
• 35:20
  have a good mind to run you through the body of my lance untie the
• 35:22
  boy and pay him his money. Obey me this instant, and let me
• 35:27
  not hear one word of excuse from you. The farmer, pale with fear,
• 35:34
  loosed the boy from the coins, which bounce him through the tree.
• 35:37
  Now, my young man, said don Quixote, how much does this fellow
• 35:40
  owe you? He owes me nine months wages and seven dollars a month was
• 35:45
  the answer. Nine times seven are sixty three, said the knight. Sir,
• 35:52
  you owe this land sixty three dollars. If you wish to save your
• 35:54
  life, pay it at once. The farmer was now more alarmed than before.
• 36:00
  He fell upon his knees. He lifted his hands, imploring mercy.
• 36:04
  He sobbed with fright. Noble sir, he cried, it is too much,
• 36:09
  for I have bought him three pairs of shoes at a dollar a pair,
• 36:13
  and twice when he was sick, I paid the doctor a dollar.
• 36:16
  That may be, answered don Quixote, But we will set those dollars against
• 36:21
  the beating you have given him without cause. Come pay him the whole amount.
• 36:27
  I would gladly do so, said the farmer. But I have not
• 36:30
  a penny in my pocket. If you will let the lad go home with
• 36:32
  me, I will pay him every dollar. Go home with him, cried
• 36:37
  the lad. Not I why he would beat me to death and not pay
• 36:40
  at all. He won't dare to do it, answered don Quixote. I
• 36:45
  have commanded him, and he must obey. His money is at his house.
• 36:52
  I give him leave to go and get it. His honor as a
• 36:54
  knight will make him pay his debt to you. A knight, said the
• 36:59
  lad. He is no knight. He is only John Haldudo the farmer.
• 37:04
  What of that, said Don Quixote. Why may not the how Dudos have
• 37:07
  a knight in the family. Oh, he is not much of a knight.
• 37:10
  A knight would pay his debts, said the lad, And he will
• 37:15
  pay you for I have commanded him, said Don Quixote. Then, turning
• 37:20
  to the farmer, he said, go and make sure that you obey me.
• 37:23
  I will come this way again soon, and if you have failed,
• 37:27
  I will punish you. I will find you out, even though you will
• 37:30
  hide yourself as close as a lizard. The farmer arose from his knees and
• 37:35
  was about to speak, but the knight would not listen. I have no
• 37:37
  words from you, he said. You have naught to do but to obey.
• 37:43
  And if you would ask who it is that commands you, you know
• 37:45
  that I am the valorous Don Quixote di la Mancha, the right of wrongs,
• 37:51
  and the friend of the down trodden. So good bye. Having said
• 37:54
  this, he gave spurs to Rosinante and galloped away. The farmer watched him
• 38:00
  till he was quiet out of side. Then he turned and called to the
• 38:02
  boy. Come Andrew. He said, come to me now, and I
• 38:07
  will pay thee what I owe thee. I will obey this friend of the
• 38:10
  down trodden. You will do well to obey him, said the boy.
• 38:15
  He is a knight, and if you fail to pay me, he will
• 38:19
  come back and make things hot for you. Yes, I know answered the
• 38:22
  farmer, I will pay you well and show you how much I love you.
• 38:27
  Then, with another word, he caught hold of the boy and again
• 38:30
  tied him to the tree. The boy yelled lustily, but don Quixote was
• 38:32
  too far away to hear his cries. The farmer fell upon him and beat
• 38:37
  him with fists and stakes until he was almost dead. Finally he loosed him
• 38:42
  and let him go. Now, Andrew, go find your friend of the
• 38:46
  down trodden, he said, tell him how well I have paid you.
• 38:52
  Poor Andrew said nothing. He hobbled slowly away, while the farmer mounted his
• 38:58
  horse and rode grimly homeward. In the Meanwhile, don Quixote was speeding toward
• 39:01
  his own village. He was very much pleased with himself and with his first
• 39:06
  adventure as a knight. Oh Dulcinea, most beautiful of beauties, he cried,
• 39:12
  Well, mayest thou thyself be happy, for thy knight has done a
• 39:15
  noble deed this day. And thus he rode gallantly onward, his lance,
• 39:21
  clinging against his coat of mail at every motion of his steed. End of
• 39:27
  Chapter three, Chapter four, the Adventure with the Merchants, don Quixote he
• 39:34
  had not ridden more than two miles when at a turn in the road he
• 39:37
  saw several horsemen approaching him. There were merchants of Toledo, and they were
• 39:44
  going to some distant town to buy silks. There were six of them,
• 39:49
  and each carried an umbrella over his head to shielding from the sun. Following
• 39:54
  behind these horsemen there were four servants and three mule drivers, all on foot.
• 40:01
  Don Quixote's heart beat fast when he saw this company. Here is an
• 40:07
  adventure worthy of my courage, he cried. He fixed himself in his stirrups,
• 40:13
  he couched his lance, he covered his breast with his shield. Then
• 40:16
  he posted himself in the middle of the road, at the top of a
• 40:21
  gentle hill. As soon as the merchants were within hearing, he called out,
• 40:27
  hold there, let all mankind stands still. No person shall pass here
• 40:34
  unless he is ready to declare that the feerless Dulcinea del Teboso is the most
• 40:39
  beautiful lady in the universe. The merchants stalk and wonder at this strange beam
• 40:45
  who thus farther away. They were not long in guessing the truth. It
• 40:51
  is some poor gentleman who has lost his senses, They said, to one
• 40:54
  another. Then their leader rode forward a few paces and salt to the Knight.
• 41:00
  Sir Knight, he said, we do not know the fair lady whom
• 41:05
  you name. If you will let us see her, and if she proves
• 41:08
  to be as beautiful as you think, we will agree to all that you
• 41:13
  require of us. Let you see her, cried Don Quixote. I might
• 41:19
  do that if I chose, But the importance of the thing is in making
• 41:22
  you confess and declare her beauty without seeing her. Come, now, raise
• 41:29
  your right hands and say what I demand of you. The merchants sat quietly
• 41:34
  in their saddles and made no answer. What cried Don Quixote. Are you
• 41:38
  silent? Then? Know that I am your enemy, and I challenge you
• 41:44
  to combat. Write here and now. He braced himself in his saddle and
• 41:47
  shook his lance. But still the merchants made no reply. Are you afraid,
• 41:53
  you cowards? Shouted the Knight. Come one by one, or come
• 41:59
  all together there as you please. I am ready for the combat. Then
• 42:04
  he spurred his horse and rode furiously down the hill toward the astonished merchants.
• 42:09
  There is no telling what might have happened had Rosanante behaved himself, but that
• 42:15
  gallant steed had gone scarcely twenty yards when he stumbled and fell in the middle
• 42:20
  of the road. Don Fione was pitched headlong into the dust. His long
• 42:25
  lance went flying into the weeds on one side of the highway, his shield
• 42:30
  was thrown among the bushes on the other. The knight himself made a funny
• 42:35
  appearance as he rolled and tumbled on the ground. The weight of his resting
• 42:39
  armor held him down, But even while he lay helpless in the dust,
• 42:45
  he was a hero with his tongue. Stay, you cowards, he shouted,
• 42:50
  Do not run away. It is my horse's fault that I have been
• 42:52
  thus dismounted. The merchants laughed. His sorry plight amused them no less than
• 42:59
  his oneerful pluck. They spread their umbrellas above their heads and rode onward over
• 43:05
  the hill. But one of the mule drivers, who was an ill natured
• 43:08
  fellow, could not bear to hear his master called a coward. He picked
• 43:14
  up the fallen lance and broke it in pieces. Then with one of the
• 43:19
  longer parts he belabored Don Quixote's sides until he was splintered in a dozen fragments,
• 43:24
  nor did he stop till he was tired out. Still, don Quixote
• 43:30
  was not conquered through all this storm of blows. He lay kicking on the
• 43:35
  ground and daring his enemies to do their worst. Slay me if he will,
• 43:40
  he cried. But still I affirm that the lady Dulcinea is without her
• 43:45
  equal on earth. At last, the mule driver left him and ran onward
• 43:51
  to overtake his mules and his master. When don Quixote found himself alone,
• 43:57
  he tried once more to get on his feet. But if he was unable
• 44:01
  to do this at first, how was he to do it now? All
• 44:05
  Bruce gnittered as he was as he lay helpless on his back. It so
• 44:09
  happened that a plowman came that way. This plowman, who lived in don
• 44:15
  Quixote's village, had been to the mill and was returning with a bag of
• 44:19
  meal on his donkey's back when he saw the knight sprawling in the dust.
• 44:24
  He stopped, while the donkey began to make acquaintance with poor Rosanante, who
• 44:30
  was picking grass by the road side. Hello, my good friend, cried
• 44:35
  the plowman. What has happened to you? Don Quixote made no answer.
• 44:39
  He looked up at the sky and began to repeat a long speech he had
• 44:44
  read in one of his books. The fellow has lost his senses, said
• 44:49
  the plowman to himself. Then he stooped and lifted the knight's helmet from his
• 44:52
  face. It was the helmet that had been patched with pasteboard and tied on
• 44:58
  with green ribbons. But the mule driver had broken it with kicks and blows,
• 45:02
  and the ribbons were torn into shreds. As soon as the plowman saw
• 45:07
  the knight's face, he knew him. Oh, my good neighbor, Chihana,
• 45:12
  He said, how came you here? And what is the matter.
• 45:15
  The poor gentleman paid no attention to his friend, but kept on repeating passages
• 45:21
  from his books. In fact, he was very badly hurt. The plowman,
• 45:25
  with a good deal of trouble, lifted him up and set him astride
• 45:30
  of his donkey. He placed him so that he could lean over and rest
• 45:35
  upon the bag of mule. Then he got all the knight's armored together,
• 45:38
  and even the splinters of the lance, and tied him on the back of
• 45:43
  Rosenante. Having seen that everything was secure, He took the steed by the
• 45:47
  bridle and the donkey by the halter, and walking before them, he made
• 45:53
  his way slowly toward the village. He trudged thoughtfully along, often looking back
• 46:00
  and speaking kindly to the wounded man, but don Quixote, resting on the
• 46:05
  bag of meal, answered only with sighs and groans. He complained most dolefully,
• 46:10
  but would not tell how he had fallen into misfortune. My dear Kihanna,
• 46:15
  at length, said the plowman. I fear you do not know me.
• 46:21
  That is no matter, said don Quixote. I know very well who
• 46:25
  I am. What's more, I and perhaps not only myself, but a
• 46:30
  dozen other brave knights all joined in one. It was about sunset when they
• 46:36
  reached the village. The plowman did not wish his neighbors to see the poor
• 46:39
  knight in his battered than bruised condition, for he knew that much depended upon
• 46:45
  keeping him as quiet as possible, So he tarried in a grove outside of
• 46:50
  the village until daylight had faded into dusk. Then he led the poor man
• 46:54
  into his own house. As he went up cautiously to the door, he
• 47:00
  heard voices within the curate of the village, and his friend and Barbara were
• 47:05
  there. These men were neighbors, said Don Quixote, and it had been
• 47:09
  their habit to come in often and spend a pleasant evening with him. The
• 47:15
  plowman stopped at the door and listened. What do you think, cried the
• 47:19
  housekeeper. My master has not been seen for two whole days. His horse,
• 47:24
  his shield, his lance, and the old arma that was his grandfather's
• 47:29
  has also disappeared. Indeed, and where can he have gone? Inquired the
• 47:35
  curate. Where where but riding over the world and making believe that he is
• 47:40
  a knight? Answered the woman. It's all because of those vile books which
• 47:45
  he was forever poring over. The niece then spoke, certainly, it's the
• 47:52
  books, she said, The books made him foolish. Why I have known
• 47:57
  him to read forty eight hours without stopping. Then he would flame the book
• 48:02
  from him and make Maline draw his sword, slashing it about him in a
• 48:07
  most fearful manner. I have known him to do even wilder things than that,
• 48:13
  said the housekeeper. Once, in broad daylight he ran around this very
• 48:17
  room, shouting that he had killed four giants as tall as church tables.
• 48:22
  It was the books they made him mad. Indeed, that's true, declared
• 48:29
  the niece. It was the books, and they ought to be burned,
• 48:32
  every one of them. You are right, said the curate. Those books
• 48:37
  have unsettled his mind. During the setting of another sun. They shall be
• 48:42
  brought to trial and condemned to the flames. During all this discourse, the
• 48:46
  plowmen and don Quixote were just outside of the door, unseen in the darkening
• 48:52
  twilight. Now, without more ado, the plowmen cried out, Hello,
• 48:57
  their house, open the gates. Here are a dozen valors knights, bring
• 49:00
  a prisoner with them. The housekeeper shrinked and dropped her broom on the floor.
• 49:07
  The curate and the barber rushed to the door, and the niece followed
• 49:10
  them with a lighted candle in your hand. When they saw don Quixote astride
• 49:15
  of the donkey, they all ran to embrace him. Have a care,
• 49:21
  he groaned, Be gentle, for I am sorely hurt. It was all
• 49:25
  on account of my steed failing me. Carry me to bed, and sender
• 49:30
  the enchantress your ganda to heal my wounds. There, didn't I say so,
• 49:37
  whispered the housekeeper to the curate, his head is full of these wicked
• 49:42
  books. Where are you wounded, uncle, asked the niece. Wounded,
• 49:46
  I am not wounded. I'm only bruised. I had a bad fall from
• 49:52
  Rosanante while I was fighting ten giants. You never saw such giants. They
• 49:57
  were the wickedest fellows and ever rolled near. But I was a match for
• 50:00
  them. Hear him, whispered the curate to the housekeeper. He talked some
• 50:07
  giants. It is as we feared. Those vile books must be condemned and
• 50:12
  burned without further delay. They lived in the night from the donkey's back.
• 50:17
  They helped him into the house and put him in his favorite chair. Then
• 50:22
  the woman asked him a thousand questions, but his only answer was that they
• 50:27
  should give him something to eat and let him alone. This they did.
• 50:31
  When he had eaten a hearty supper, he crept off to bed without so
• 50:36
  much as saying good night. End of chapter four. Chapter five the Library
• 50:45
  read by Aaron Luboitz. Early the next morning, the curate and the barber
• 50:52
  came again. Don Quixote was still sleeping. Indeed, he did not awake
• 50:55
  until the day was more than half gone. We have come to remove the
• 51:00
  cause of his illness, said the curate, and he asked the nise to
• 51:02
  give him the key to the room where her uncle kept his books. Here
• 51:07
  it is, she said, and I hope you will make clean work of
• 51:09
  it. They unlocked the door and went in, the housekeeper following them.
• 51:15
  There ranged neatly on the shelves, they saw a hundred large volumes and the
• 51:20
  goodly number of small ones. The curate began to read the titles. Wait,
• 51:24
  wait, cried the housekeeper. She ran out and soon came back with
• 51:29
  a sprinkling can full of water. Here, doctor, she said, take
• 51:32
  this and sprinkle every nook and cranny in the room. Some unseen sorcer may
• 51:37
  be looking among the books, and the water will drive him out. The
• 51:42
  curate smiled, and did she desired. Then he asked the barber to hand
• 51:45
  him the books one by one while he opened them and examined the title pages.
• 51:51
  They are not all equally bad, he said, Perhaps there are some
• 51:54
  that do not deserve to be burned. Oh no, cried the niece,
• 52:00
  Do not spare any of them. Every one is bad. Every one has
• 52:02
  helped to undo my uncle. Throw the mouths of the window into the garden,
• 52:07
  said the housekeeper. Then we will carry them around into the back yard
• 52:12
  and burn them where the smoke will not annoy anybody. They worked all the
• 52:17
  morning. Often the curate would find the volume over which he would linger for
• 52:22
  some time. He would turn the leafs lovingly and look slyly at the pictures.
• 52:27
  It's a great pity to burn that out, he would whisper, and
• 52:30
  then he would lay the book aside for his own reading. The most of
• 52:34
  the volumes, however, were romances of knighthood, and of really no value.
• 52:38
  The quickeye of the curate easily detected such trash as these, and they
• 52:43
  were cast out and doomed to destruction. Towrs noon, everyone began to tire
• 52:47
  of the business. It's no use to examine any more of these volumes,
• 52:52
  said the curate. They're all bad. Cast the mound cast them out.
• 52:55
  The housekeeper was delighted. A bonfire was kindled in the back yard, and
• 53:00
  while the curate and the barber were resting themselves, she threw into it not
• 53:05
  only the books that had been condemned, but also the pleasant volumes which the
• 53:08
  good curate had decided to spare for his own edification. Thus the goods sometimes
• 53:15
  perished with the bad. In the afternoon, don Quixote awoke from his long
• 53:19
  sleep. He was so bruised and so lame, however, that he could
• 53:22
  not rise. He could only lie in bed and feebly mutter the names of
• 53:27
  the housekeeper and his niece. They brought him some food, and when he
• 53:30
  had eaten it and he fell asleep again, it is best to let him
• 53:35
  rest, whisper the curate, And they left him alone for two whole days.
• 53:39
  The knight did not go out of his room. That he was well
• 53:43
  cared for, and though he suffered not a little, he was never heard
• 53:45
  to complain. While he thus lay helpless in his bed. The curate and
• 53:50
  the barber paid frequent visits to the house. They spent much time in stopping
• 53:53
  at the door of the little room where the night's library had been. This
• 53:59
  they did so cuttingly that the housekeeper herself could not tell exactly where the door
• 54:01
  had been. If he cannot find the room, he will soon forget about
• 54:06
  the book, said the curate. On the fourth day, don Quixote was
• 54:08
  able to walk about a little, but he did not seem to feel sure
• 54:12
  of himself or of any object about him. The first thing he did was
• 54:17
  to look for his library. He went feebly up and down the long hallway,
• 54:22
  trying to find the door he felt of the wall. He groped here
• 54:28
  and there, and stared confusedly around him. At length he gave up the
• 54:31
  search. That he said not a word to any one. The next day
• 54:36
  he spoke to the housekeeper. I do believe that I have lost the way
• 54:39
  to the study. What study, asked the woman. There is no study
• 54:45
  in this house. I feel quite sure that I once had a study with
• 54:50
  many books in it, said don Quixote. Oh that was long ago,
• 54:54
  answered the housekeeper. But during your sickness, one of those wicked enchants about
• 55:00
  whom you have read ran away with it. He took not only the room,
• 55:04
  but all the books that were in it. Don Quixote groaned, Yes,
• 55:08
  uncle, said the niece. And enchanter did it. He came one
• 55:13
  night writing in the dragon. He alighted and went into your study, and
• 55:16
  a little while he flew out through the chimney. He left the house so
• 55:21
  full of smoke that we could not see our own eyes. We looked everywhere
• 55:24
  for your library, but could find neither room nor books. I think I
• 55:30
  know who it was, said Don Quixote. It was that famous enchanter Freston.
• 55:36
  He has a spite against me and is my worst enemy. You are
• 55:39
  right, uncle, said the nist. It was either Freston or Friston.
• 55:44
  At any rate, his name ended with T O n. He is a
• 55:49
  bad fellow, answered the Knight. No doubt he will try to do me
• 55:52
  some other mischief. He knows where I live and will come often. But
• 55:58
  I am not afraid of him. Some day I will meet him in fair
• 56:01
  fight and vanquish him. Then he arose, and, with his feeble hands,
• 56:06
  took down the sword which had been hanging over the mantelpiece ever since his
• 56:08
  sad return. He felt its edge and murmured, Ah, Freston, Freston,
• 56:15
  thou shalt yet learn of the prowess of the valorous Don Quixote di la
• 56:20
  Mancha. End of Chapter five, Chapter six, the Choosing of a Squire.
• 56:30
  For fifteen days, the good old gentleman stayed at home. He moved
• 56:34
  quietly about the house and seemed happy and contented. The loss of his library
• 56:38
  did not disturb him. A true knight will bear the disappointments of life with
• 56:44
  becoming fortitude, he said. The niece, and the housekeeper, and indeed
• 56:49
  everyone else began to hope that he would forget his strange delusion. They spoke
• 56:54
  to him cheerfully and tried to keep his mind on other things. The Curate
• 57:00
  called to see him every day, and they had many pleasant talks, on
• 57:04
  many pleasant subjects. But always toward the end, don Quixote would ramble back
• 57:08
  to the thoughts which still seemed uppermost in his memory. I tell you what,
• 57:15
  my dear friend, he would say, The world would be better off
• 57:17
  if there were more nights in it. What we need most is knights,
• 57:22
  knights, plenty of knights. Then he would go on for an hour or
• 57:27
  more, talking upon his favorite subject. The good Curate would nod his head
• 57:31
  and smile. He knew that it was better to humor his poor friend and
• 57:35
  let him have his own way. As the days passed by, don Quixote
• 57:39
  became more and more uneasy. The house was too quiet for him. He
• 57:45
  longed to be riding forth in quest of new adventures. He could not think
• 57:50
  or talk of anything else. But there is one thing lacking, said he
• 57:53
  to the Curate. I must find me a squire. All the nights that
• 57:59
  I ever read of, had faithful squires who followed them on their journeys and
• 58:02
  looked on while they were fighting. The curate smiled and said nothing. Now.
• 58:08
  There lived in the village a poor man whose name was Sancho Panza.
• 58:13
  He was a common laborer who had often done odd jobs about don Quixote's farm.
• 58:19
  He was honest, but poor, poor in purse, and poor in
• 58:22
  brains. To this man, don Quixote had taken a strange fancy. Almost
• 58:29
  every day he walked down the street to talk with him. He was just
• 58:31
  the kind of fellow he wished for his squire. At last, he mentioned
• 58:36
  the matter Sancho Panza. He said, I am a knight, and I
• 58:40
  shall soon ride out on a nightly errand you cannot do better than to go
• 58:45
  with me as my squire. I promise that you shall earn great renown,
• 58:50
  second only to myself renown, good master, queried Sancho. And what sort
• 58:54
  of a thing is that? Why your name will be in everybody's mouth,
• 58:59
  answered don Quixote. All the great ladies and gentlemen will be talking about your
• 59:04
  achievements. How very fine that will be, said Sancho. And it may
• 59:08
  happen that in one of my adventures I shall conquer an island, continued don
• 59:13
  Quixote. Indeed, it is very likely that I shall conquer an island.
• 59:17
  Then, if you are with me, I will give it to you to
• 59:21
  be its governor. Well, I don't know much about islands, said Sancho,
• 59:25
  but I'm sure I should like to govern one. So if you'll promise
• 59:30
  me the first island you get, I'll be your man. I'll go with
• 59:34
  you and do as you say. I promise, said Don Quixote. You
• 59:38
  shall be my squire, and since you will share my labors, you shall
• 59:42
  also share my rewards. Then followed busy days for Don Quixote. He provided
• 59:49
  himself with money by selling a part of his farm. He mended his broken
• 59:52
  armor. He borrowed a lance of a friendly neighbor. He patched up his
• 59:58
  old helmet as best he could. At last everything was in readiness, and
• 1:00:01
  the Knight went down the street to talk with Sancho Panza. He wished to
• 1:00:06
  advise him of the hour he expected to start. I will be ready,
• 1:00:09
  sir, said Sancho, And be sure you have with you whatever it is
• 1:00:14
  necessary to carry, said Don Quixote. Above all things. Bring your wallet,
• 1:00:19
  indeed, I will, master, said Sancho. And I will also
• 1:00:22
  bring my dappled donkey along, for I am not much used to foot travel.
• 1:00:28
  Don Quixote was puzzled. He could not remember of reading about any knight
• 1:00:31
  whose squire rode on a donkey. Yet he feared to offend Sancho lest he
• 1:00:37
  should lose his services, which now seemed indispensable to him. Your dapple donkey,
• 1:00:44
  oh, certainly, he said, You may ride him until good fortune
• 1:00:46
  shall present you with a horse. And I promise that the first discourteous knight
• 1:00:52
  who meets us shall give up his steed to you. I thank you,
• 1:00:55
  master, said Sancho Panza. But being used to the donkey, I shall
• 1:01:00
  be more at home on his back than on the back of any prancing steed
• 1:01:04
  you might give me. End of Chapter six, Chapter seven, The Adventure
• 1:01:10
  with the Windmills. Very early the next morning, the knight and his squire
• 1:01:15
  set out on their travels. They stole silently away from the village, without
• 1:01:20
  bidding goodbye to anyone, and they made such haste that at sunrise they felt
• 1:01:23
  themselves quite safe from pursuit. Don Quixote, riding in full armor astride of
• 1:01:30
  gaunt. Rosinante felt that he was indeed the most valorous knight in the world,
• 1:01:36
  and no doubt he was a formidable sight. As for Sancho Banza,
• 1:01:39
  he rode like a patriarch, with his knapsack on one side of him and
• 1:01:44
  a leather bottle on the other, his feet almost dragging on the ground.
• 1:01:49
  His mind was full of thoughts about that island of which he hoped to be
• 1:01:52
  the governor. The sun rose high above the hills. The two travelers jogged
• 1:01:57
  onwards across the plains of Montielle. Both were silent, for both had high
• 1:02:01
  purposes in view. At length, Sancho Panza spoke, I beseech you,
• 1:02:07
  sir, knight Errant, be sure to remember the island you promised me.
• 1:02:10
  I dare say I shall make out to governess. Let it be ever so
• 1:02:15
  big. Don Quixote answered with becoming dignity. Friend, Sancho, you must
• 1:02:21
  know that it has always been the custom of knights errant to conquer islands and
• 1:02:24
  put their squires over them as governors. Now it is my intention to keep
• 1:02:30
  up that good custom. You are indeed a rare master, said Sancho Panza.
• 1:02:35
  Well, I am thinking I might even improve upon that good custom,
• 1:02:38
  said Don Quixote. What if I should conquer three or four islands and set
• 1:02:44
  you up as master of them all? You could do nothing that would please
• 1:02:47
  me better, answered Sancho. While they were thus riding and talking, they
• 1:02:52
  came to a place where there were a great many windmills. There seemed to
• 1:02:57
  be thirty or forty of them scattered here and there on the plane, And
• 1:03:00
  when the wind blew, their long white arms seemed to wave and beckon in
• 1:03:05
  a droll and most threatening manner. Don Quixote drew rein and paused in the
• 1:03:09
  middle of the road. There there he cried, fortune is with us.
• 1:03:15
  Look yonder, Sancho, I see at least thirty huge giants, and I
• 1:03:21
  intend to fight all of them. When I have overcome and slain them,
• 1:03:23
  we will enrich ourselves with their spoils. What giants, asked Sancho Panza,
• 1:03:30
  Why those who were standing in the fields just before us, answered the Knight.
• 1:03:34
  See their long arms. I have read that some of their race had
• 1:03:37
  arms which reached more than two miles. Look at them, better, masters,
• 1:03:42
  said Sancho. Those are not giants, They are windmills. The things
• 1:03:46
  which you call arms are sails, and they flap around when the wind blows.
• 1:03:52
  Friend Sancho, said the knight very sternly. It is plain that you
• 1:03:55
  are not used to adventures. I tell you those things are giants. If
• 1:04:01
  you are afraid, go and hide yourself and say your prayers. I shall
• 1:04:05
  attack them at once without another word. He spurred Rosinante into a sturdy trot,
• 1:04:11
  and was soon right in the midst of the windmills. Stand cowards,
• 1:04:15
  he cried, stand your ground, Do not fly from a single knight who
• 1:04:19
  dares you all to meet him in a fair fight. At that moment,
• 1:04:24
  the wind began to blow briskly, and all the mill sails were set moving.
• 1:04:29
  They seemed to be answering his challenge. He paused a moment. Oh
• 1:04:33
  my Dulcinea, fairest of ladies, he cried, help me in this perilous
• 1:04:39
  adventure. Then he couched his lance. He covered himself with his shield.
• 1:04:45
  He rushed, with Rosinante's utmost speed upon the nearest windmill. The long lance
• 1:04:50
  struck into one of the whirling sails, and was carried upwards with such swiftness
• 1:04:55
  that it was torn from the night's firm grasp, it was whirled into air
• 1:05:00
  and broken into shivers. At the same moment, the Knight and his steed
• 1:05:04
  were hurled forward and thrown rolling upon the ground. Sancho Panza hurried to the
• 1:05:10
  place as quickly as his dappled donkey could carry him. His master was lying
• 1:05:14
  helpless by the roadside. The helmet had fallen from his head, and the
• 1:05:18
  shield had been hurled to the farther side of the hedge. Mercy on me,
• 1:05:23
  master, cried the squire. Didn't I tell you they were windmills,
• 1:05:27
  Peace, friend, Sancho answered Don Quixote, rubbing the dust from his eyes.
• 1:05:32
  There is nothing so uncertain as war. That wicked enchanter Freston, who
• 1:05:38
  stole my books, has done all this. They were giants, as I
• 1:05:41
  told you, But he changed them into windmills, so that I should not
• 1:05:45
  have the honor of victory. But mind you, Sancho, I will get
• 1:05:48
  even with him in the end. So be it, say, I,
• 1:05:53
  cried Sancho. As he dismounted from his donkey, he lifted the fallen Knight
• 1:05:58
  from the ground. He brought his shield and adjusted the helmet. Then he
• 1:06:02
  led his unlucky steed to his side. And helped him to remount. The
• 1:06:06
  sun was now sloping towards the west, and the Knight and squire rode thoughtfully
• 1:06:11
  onward across the plain of Montiel end of chapter seven, Chapter eight, the
• 1:06:18
  Adventure with the Monks. Through all that afternoon, don Quixote and his squire
• 1:06:26
  jogged slowly along, and neither house or other friendly shelter did they see.
• 1:06:31
  The sun had gone down and twilight was darkening when they saw near the road
• 1:06:35
  a clump of green trees, which seemed to offer them a safe resting place.
• 1:06:41
  Here, Sancho said the Knight, let us go no farther. Since
• 1:06:45
  there is no castle, nor even an inn in this barren country, we
• 1:06:48
  must lodge here in this grove. They dismounted, and while Sancho was caring
• 1:06:55
  for the animals, don Quixote strolled around among the trees. On an old
• 1:07:00
  oak, he found a withered branch some ten feet long and quite smooth and
• 1:07:04
  straight. With much labor, he wrenched it from the tree. He carried
• 1:07:09
  it back to his lodging place, and began with much patience to remove the
• 1:07:13
  twigs from it. This will serve me instead of the lance which I lost
• 1:07:17
  in my encounter with the windmill, he said, I have read of nights
• 1:07:21
  who used such makeshifts and did wonderful deeds with them. Night came on.
• 1:07:29
  He sat silently upon the bare ground and looked at the stars. His mind
• 1:07:33
  was full of the stories he had read of heroes and forests and in deserts
• 1:07:39
  keeping guard through the hours of darkness, And so he sat bravely awake until
• 1:07:45
  the morning dawned. As for Sancho Panza, he did not spend the night
• 1:07:50
  in that foolish fashion. He sprawled himself upon a bed of leaves, closed
• 1:07:56
  his eyes, and made one nap of it. Had not his master awakened
• 1:08:00
  him, he would have slept till high noon. They lost no time in
• 1:08:03
  breakfasting. To the valorous Don Quixote, the day held so many promises that
• 1:08:09
  he was unwilling to waste a moment. They saddled their steeds, they mounted,
• 1:08:15
  and were away with the rising of the sun. After many miles of
• 1:08:18
  travel, they came at length to a more rugged country, and in the
• 1:08:23
  afternoon they entered the pass of La Pie, where the road runs through a
• 1:08:28
  narrow valley between rocky hills. Here, Sancho said Don Quixote, here is
• 1:08:33
  the place where we may have our fill of adventures. Do you think that
• 1:08:38
  you will find me that island somewhere near, asked Sancho Panza. Indeed,
• 1:08:43
  I cannot say, answered his master. But I wish to caution you on
• 1:08:46
  a very particular point. It is I that am to do the fighting.
• 1:08:51
  You may see me in great danger and beset by many foes, but you
• 1:08:57
  must not offer to fight for me unless you know that those foes are only
• 1:09:01
  common scoundrels. The laws of chivalry forbid a squire to encounter a knight.
• 1:09:09
  I see, I see, said Sancho. And I shall do as you
• 1:09:12
  say, for I was never any great hand at fighting, and I don't
• 1:09:15
  get into quarrels with anyone. If I can help it for a man in
• 1:09:20
  your humble station, that is right, said Don Quixote. Still, if
• 1:09:26
  a knight should set upon me first, said Sancho, I am not sure,
• 1:09:30
  but that I would give him a few hard whacks, that would be
• 1:09:33
  right. And I will not forbid it, said Don Quixote. But as
• 1:09:38
  for helping me against any knight or knights, I command you not to do
• 1:09:42
  it. I'll obey you. I'll obey you, master, said Sancho,
• 1:09:46
  I have no desire to encounter any knight or knights. While they were thus
• 1:09:53
  talking, they saw two monks writing leisurely down the path towards them. The
• 1:09:58
  monks were dressed in black robes and mounted on mules so high and stately as
• 1:10:02
  to look like travelers on the backs of camels. They wore masks over their
• 1:10:08
  faces to keep off the dust, and each held an umbrella above him as
• 1:10:12
  a shield from the sun. A little way behind the monks there came a
• 1:10:16
  four wheeled coach drawn by two small horses. Following this were four or five
• 1:10:24
  mounted men and two mule drivers on foot. Inside of the coach sat a
• 1:10:29
  richly dressed lady who was traveling to the nearest city. I think we are
• 1:10:34
  about to have a famous adventure, said Don Quixote. Why so, asked
• 1:10:40
  Sancho. Well, I am quite sure that those two persons in black are
• 1:10:45
  magicians who are carrying away some princesses in that coach. It is my duty
• 1:10:50
  to prevent so wicked an act. Ah, sighed Sancho. I'm afraid this
• 1:10:57
  will be a worse affair than the windmills. The next moment, Don Quixote
• 1:11:02
  gave spur to his steed and galloped forward in the middle of the road to
• 1:11:06
  meet the approaching monks. Halt there, you lawless magicians, he cried,
• 1:11:12
  I command you to give those high born princesses their freedom, or else prepare
• 1:11:16
  for instant death. The monks stopped their mules and lifted their masks. They
• 1:11:24
  wondered what sort of man this was whom they had met. For indeed,
• 1:11:28
  he made a strange appearance. Sir Knight, they cried, we are not
• 1:11:32
  magicians. We are religious men going about our own affairs. We know nothing
• 1:11:38
  about any princesses. You can't deceive me, answered don Quixote, I know
• 1:11:44
  you well enough, and none of your enchantments will prevail against me. Then,
• 1:11:49
  without further parley, he couched his lance, set spurs to his steed,
• 1:11:55
  and dashed furiously upon the nearest monk. The monk, taken by surprise,
• 1:12:00
  flung himself to the ground on the farther side of his mule. In
• 1:12:03
  this way he saved his life, for had Don Quixote struck him with the
• 1:12:08
  rude lance from the oak tree, he would certainly have been killed. The
• 1:12:13
  other monk was badly Frightened, he lashed his mule's flanks and fled out of
• 1:12:17
  the pass and over the plain as though racing with the wind. By this
• 1:12:21
  time Sancho Panza had come up. He slipped quickly from his donkey's back and
• 1:12:28
  ran up to the first monk, who was still on the ground, and
• 1:12:30
  began to strip him of his robe. Why do you do that, you
• 1:12:33
  robber, cried the two mule drivers, who were in fact servants of the
• 1:12:38
  monks. I'm not a robber, answered Sancho. I'm only taking the spoils
• 1:12:43
  which my master has lawfully won in battle. But the rude fellows cared nothing
• 1:12:47
  for his words. They fell upon him and beat him without mercy. They
• 1:12:53
  threw him into a ditch by the roadside. They stamped upon him, and
• 1:12:57
  left him sprawling in the mud without censor. The monk, seeing that don
• 1:13:01
  Quixote had ridden onward, now climbed upon his mule as quickly as possible.
• 1:13:08
  With whip and spur, he urged the poor beast forward and went speeding away
• 1:13:12
  after his friend. He neither paused nor looked behind until he was safely out
• 1:13:16
  of the pass. In the meanwhile, don Quixote had halted the coach and
• 1:13:21
  dismounted beside it. He looked in at the door and began to address the
• 1:13:27
  lady fair princess. He said, I am the valorous knight, don Quixote
• 1:13:32
  de la Mancha. I have given battle to your captors, and I am
• 1:13:36
  pleased to say that you are now delivered from their power. I ask no
• 1:13:42
  recompense for my valorous deed, but I beg that you go on to Toboso
• 1:13:46
  and there tell my lady Dulcinea of the great service I have rendered to you.
• 1:13:54
  At that moment, one of the ladies squires came riding up. In
• 1:13:57
  haste. He seized the stick, which don Quixote called his lance, and
• 1:14:01
  wrenched it from his hands. Get gone, he cried in bad Spanish.
• 1:14:06
  Leave the coach, or I'll kill thee as sure as I am a Biscayan.
• 1:14:12
  Were you a gentleman, as you are not, I would chastise you
• 1:14:15
  as you deserve, said don Quixote. What cried the Biscayan, Me,
• 1:14:20
  no gentleman. I'll show thee that I am a gentleman, a gentleman by
• 1:14:26
  land, a gentleman by sea, a gentleman in spite of everything. Then
• 1:14:31
  if you are a gentleman, I will try titles with you, said Don
• 1:14:35
  Quixote. With that he remounted with surprising quickness, and sword in hand dashed
• 1:14:43
  furiously upon the Biscayan. The fellow was so taken by surprise that had not
• 1:14:48
  his unruly mule reared and leaped to one side, he might have fared badly
• 1:14:54
  in the encounter. But quickly recovering himself, he snatched a cushion from the
• 1:14:59
  coat to serve as a shield, and with his other hand drew his sword.
• 1:15:04
  The lady screamed, Her coachman, cracking his whip, drove away at
• 1:15:10
  a rattling speed. The road was left clear for the desperate combat. With
• 1:15:15
  swords raised in the air, Don Quixote and the Biscayan faced about and glared
• 1:15:19
  fiercely at each other. The foot servants and mule drivers, who now came
• 1:15:25
  running forward, tried in vain to pacify them. Don Quixote would not so
• 1:15:30
  much as look at them. Oh, Dulcinea, thou flower of beauty,
• 1:15:34
  he cried, lend help to me, thy champion, in this most dangerous
• 1:15:39
  encounter. At the next moment, the Biscayan's sword fell with a mighty blow
• 1:15:45
  upon his back. Had not his armor been of such rare good metal,
• 1:15:48
  his body would have been cleft in halves. Luckily, however, no harm
• 1:15:54
  was done save to the edge of the Biscayan's weapon. Don Quixote steadied himself
• 1:16:00
  recovering from the blow. He gripped his sword with a firmer grasp. He
• 1:16:03
  raised it high in the air. He gathered all his strength for the final
• 1:16:09
  stroke. The servants and mule drivers who saw him were terrified by his rage.
• 1:16:14
  The lady and the coach, who was now looking back from a safe
• 1:16:16
  distance, clasped her hands and vowed to the saints to do all sorts of
• 1:16:21
  good deeds if only her squire might escape from his deadly peril. But why
• 1:16:28
  should I prolong this chapter to describe the result of that ever memorable conflict.
• 1:16:33
  Here you may see the biscay in struggling with his unruly mule, covering himself
• 1:16:38
  with his cushion, and swinging his battered sword in the air. And here
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  you may behold the valorous don Quixote de la Mancha, with a flifted blade,
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  urging his steed to the conflict. And but let us draw the curtain
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  and end the chapter. Without another word. End of Chapter eight, Chapter
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  nine, The Lost Helmet. Doubtless you have already guessed how the great compact
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  between Don Quixote and the biscay And ended. As the knight rush blindly forward,
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  his enemy's sword descended for the second time. Had it not turned in
• 1:17:14
  his hand, the story of Don Quixote would be ended here. Luckily,
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  However, it did no further damage than to destroy the nine's helment and shave
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  off half of his left eagar. Before don Quixote could return to blow,
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  the Biscayan's mule became unmanageable. It had leapt suddenly forward and ran with great
• 1:17:31
  speed into the open plain. It ran straight for the lady's coach, but
• 1:17:35
  in vaulting over a brook, it trusted its body so suddenly as the hurl
• 1:17:40
  its master to the ground. The poor Biscayon was stunned by the fall.
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  He lay helpless and senseless in the mud and mire. Don Quixote was not
• 1:17:49
  far behind. He checked his steed when in full gallop, and slipped nimbly
• 1:17:53
  from the saddle. He ran to his fallen foe and set the point of
• 1:17:57
  his sword against his breast. Now yield thee as a recreant, or thy
• 1:18:00
  head shall pay the forfeit. He cried the biscay and scarcely heard him,
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  but lay species at his feet. There is no telling what might have happened
• 1:18:10
  had not. The lady leaped from the coach and ran to the rescue.
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  With tears. She besought don Quixote to spare the life of her faithful squire.
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  Truly must, beautiful lady, said the victorious knight. I will grant
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  your request. I will spare his life on one condition. What is the
• 1:18:28
  condition, asked the lady. He must give me his word of honor,
• 1:18:31
  answered Don Quixote, that he will go straightway to the Bosso at do Bosso.
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  He must present himself and my name to the peerless lady Dulcinea. She
• 1:18:41
  will dispose of him as she thinks best. I promise it for him,
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  said the lady. He will do all that you require of him. Then
• 1:18:49
  he may live, said Don Quixote. He bowed gallantly to the lady.
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  He remounted his steed. He turned himself with great dignity, and resumed his
• 1:18:59
  journey as though nothing had happened. Sancho Panza was not long overtaking his master.
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  He rode up to him and seized his hand. If it please you,
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  my good don Quixote, he said, don't forget to make me governor
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  of the island you have run in this great fight, brother Sancho, answered
• 1:19:16
  Don Quixote, These are not adventures of islands. These are only little skirmishes
• 1:19:23
  along the road. We can expect from them, nothing more than broken heads
• 1:19:26
  and bleeding ears. But I have patience. Have patience. Perhaps in the
• 1:19:30
  next adventure I shall conquer a kingdom. How nice that would be, said
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  Sancho. But does not your ear give you pain? Ant is only a
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  trifle, answered don Quixote. No true knight ever complains of trifles when he
• 1:19:47
  permits his wounds to be dressed. Come, I have some lint in little
• 1:19:50
  white cell in my wallet. They paused beneath a spreading tree, and while
• 1:19:56
  Sancho was binding up the bleeding ear, his master kept on talking. Friend
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  Sancho, He asked, did you ever read an history of any knight who
• 1:20:03
  showed more skill or greater activity than I did in this memorable combat? No,
• 1:20:10
  never, answered Sancho. I can safely say that I never, in
• 1:20:14
  any book of history read of any knight so active as you, For you
• 1:20:18
  must know that I never learned to read, nor even to write. Be
• 1:20:23
  very gentle friend, Sancho, said Don Quixote, wincing under his rough surgery.
• 1:20:29
  The boldest knight has feelings after the battle has been won. Never did
• 1:20:33
  I serve a bolder knight than you, good master, answered Sancho. And
• 1:20:38
  your ears now very gently dressed, don Quixote, you put up his hand
• 1:20:42
  to touch the injured part, And as he did so, he discovered for
• 1:20:45
  the first time the loss of his helmet. Tell me, Sancho, where
• 1:20:48
  is my helmet? He cried? Uh, I think you lost it in
• 1:20:53
  the field of battle, answered the squire. Don Quixote. Forgot the dignity
• 1:20:58
  that belongs to knighthood. He could scarcely be made to believe that his helmet
• 1:21:00
  was not still on his head. Then he began to rave. You would
• 1:21:05
  have thought him stark, staring mad, But in a few minutes he became
• 1:21:11
  more calm. With his right hand on his sword, he lifted his eyes
• 1:21:15
  toward the tree tops and made a solemn vow. Never while I live,
• 1:21:19
  said he will I eat bread on a table cloth till I have taken revenge
• 1:21:25
  on the night, and has done me this injury, dear master, said
• 1:21:30
  Sancho, Think on what you are saying this. The fellow who split your
• 1:21:32
  helmet has gone on to Toboso according to promise to deliver himself to the lady
• 1:21:38
  Dulcinea. Are you not already even with him? It may be as you
• 1:21:44
  say, answered don Quote. I will therefore change the birding of my vow
• 1:21:48
  and declare that, never so long as I live, while I eat bread
• 1:21:51
  on a table cloth, that I have captured another helmet as good as the
• 1:21:56
  one that I have lost. So first, good, said Sancho. But
• 1:22:00
  suppose we should not for a long time meet any one with a helmet on?
• 1:22:04
  Think of this sad case we shall be in. There are few who
• 1:22:08
  travel this road except wagoners and mule drivers, and they never wear helmets.
• 1:22:13
  Ay you are mistaken, answered don Quixote. Before we go much further,
• 1:22:17
  you shall see more men in arms than you ever dreamed of. Sancho Panza
• 1:22:24
  made no reply. He remounted his donkey, and the two rode onward through
• 1:22:28
  the pass of La Pais. As they rode, they beguiled the time with
• 1:22:31
  much talk concerting knighthood and other matters of less lofty and inspiring. They journeyed
• 1:22:38
  slowly through the hill country beyond the pass. At night they rested in the
• 1:22:41
  friendly inn. And the next day, and for many days they jogged aimlessly
• 1:22:45
  along, ready for any new adventures and adventures. They had in great plenty,
• 1:22:50
  perilous adventures, amusing adventures, chivalrous adventures. But of all the persons
• 1:22:58
  whom they met, there was not one who wore a helmet. Don Quixote
• 1:23:02
  was therefore obliged to ride bareheaded and to eat bread from uncovered tables. End
• 1:23:10
  of Chapter nine, Chapter ten, The Adventure with the Sheep. One day,
• 1:23:15
  as they passed the crest of a hill, they saw a great cloud
• 1:23:18
  of dust rising in the road at some distance below them. Don Quixote's eyes
• 1:23:24
  flashed with excitement as he watched it. The day has come, Sancho,
• 1:23:29
  he cried, The day has come that shall bring us good fortune and happiness.
• 1:23:33
  Now I shall perform an exploit that will be remembered through the ages.
• 1:23:40
  Seest thou that cloud of dust, Sancho, I see it, brave Master,
• 1:23:44
  answered the squire. Well, that dust is raised by an army that
• 1:23:48
  is marching this way, said don Quixote. It is a mighty army made
• 1:23:53
  up of many nations. If that is the case, said Sancho, there
• 1:23:57
  must be two armies, for over to the left of us there is another
• 1:24:00
  cloud of dust. Don Quixote looked, and his heart was filled with joy,
• 1:24:06
  for he firmly believed that two vast armies were marching towards each other and
• 1:24:12
  about to meet in battle. His mind was so filled with fights, adventures,
• 1:24:16
  enchantments, and other wonderful things which he had read about, that his
• 1:24:21
  fancy easily changed everything he saw into something that he wished to see. Even
• 1:24:28
  his own eyes could not make him believe that the dust was raised by two
• 1:24:31
  large flocks of sheep which were being driven along the road. He was so
• 1:24:36
  positive about the two armies that even Sancho soon began to feel that he was
• 1:24:42
  right. Well, Sir, what are we to do now, asked the
• 1:24:45
  squire. Our duty is plain, answered the knight. What ought we to
• 1:24:49
  do but aid the weaker and injured side. The army in front of us
• 1:24:55
  is commanded by the Great Alifan Fharon, Emperor of the vast island of India.
• 1:25:00
  The army on our left is led by his enemy, King Pentapolen,
• 1:25:04
  of the naked arm. Pray tell me, brave master, said Sancho,
• 1:25:10
  what is the cause of the trouble? Why are those two great men going
• 1:25:14
  thus together by the ears? It is the old old story, answered Don
• 1:25:18
  Quixote. Alifanfaron is a pagan, and he is in love with Pentapoleon's daughter,
• 1:25:25
  who is a Christian, but he shall not have her unless he becomes
• 1:25:29
  converted and gives up his false belief. No, never, cried Sancho.
• 1:25:34
  I will stand by Pentapolon and his daughter and help them all I can.
• 1:25:41
  You are right, said Don Quixote. There is no need of being a
• 1:25:44
  knight to fight in such battles. Men of all conditions may take part in
• 1:25:47
  this conflict. Then, pointing to the clouds of dust with his long finger,
• 1:25:53
  he described the various warriors whom he imagined were marching to the conflict.
• 1:25:59
  Sancho Panza listened in silence. He turned his eyes this way and that,
• 1:26:03
  trying to see the knights and valiant men whom his master was naming. At
• 1:26:09
  last, growing impatient, he cried, you might as well tell me it
• 1:26:12
  is snowing, for not a man nor a knight can I see either in
• 1:26:15
  this cloud? Of dust or in that indeed, answered don Quixote. But
• 1:26:21
  don't you hear their horses? Nay, their trumpets sound, their drums beat
• 1:26:27
  not, I said Sancho. I opened my ears very wide, and I
• 1:26:31
  hear nothing but the bleating of sheep. And now the two flocks were drawing
• 1:26:36
  very near to them, and the sheep could not only be heard, but
• 1:26:40
  plainly seen. You are frightened, Sancho said, don Quixote, go hide
• 1:26:45
  yourself in some safe place, while I alone charge into the ranks of the
• 1:26:49
  heathen. Then he couched his lance, set spurs to rosinante, and rushed
• 1:26:56
  onward like a thunderbolt to meet the nearest flock. Sancho Panza looked after him
• 1:27:01
  in amazement. Hold sir, he cried, come back, are you mad?
• 1:27:05
  Those are sheep? And neither Pagans nor Christians? Come back, I
• 1:27:11
  say, But don Quixote did not hear him. He rode forward furiously.
• 1:27:16
  Courage brave knights, he shouted, march up, fall on the victory is
• 1:27:21
  ours, Follow me and take your revenge. He charged into the midst of
• 1:27:28
  the flock. He thrust right and left and began to spear the poor dumb
• 1:27:33
  creatures as gallantly as though they were his mortal enemies. The men who were
• 1:27:39
  driving the sheep called out to him, but he would not listen. He
• 1:27:43
  rushed madly this way, and that the sheep were routed and trampled upon in
• 1:27:47
  a most terrible manner. Where is the general of this army, cried don
• 1:27:53
  Quixote. Where art thou, cried, alifan pharon? See here is a
• 1:27:59
  single knight who challenges THEE to combat, and who will punish THEE for this
• 1:28:02
  unjust war. Shepherds were now greatly alarmed. They ran forward and began to
• 1:28:09
  throw stones at the night. Some of these, as big as a man's
• 1:28:14
  fist, flew close about his ears, some fell upon his shield, and
• 1:28:18
  others belabored the back end sides of unhappy Rosinante. But paying no attention to
• 1:28:25
  this shower of missiles, don Quixote rode unafraid, shouting as though in the
• 1:28:30
  thick of battle, and seeking everywhere for some worthy foe. Where art thou,
• 1:28:35
  alifanfaron? He cried again, But just at that moment a stone struck
• 1:28:41
  him in the side with such force as almost to break his ribs. He
• 1:28:45
  reeled in his saddle. He felt sure that he was killed, or at
• 1:28:49
  least badly wounded. But he remembered the bottle of healing balsam, which the
• 1:28:55
  innkeeper had advised him to carry, and he felt in his pocket for it.
• 1:29:00
  He was about to put the bottle to his lips when bang, another
• 1:29:04
  stone came whizzing through the air. It broke the bottle, It maimed his
• 1:29:10
  hand. It struck him fairly on the mouth. Such a blow was too
• 1:29:14
  much for the valiant Knight to withstand. He fell from his horse and lay
• 1:29:18
  upon the ground as though dead. The shepherds got their flocks together and hurried
• 1:29:24
  away with all speed. They feared that they had killed the Knight, and
• 1:29:28
  that greater trouble would follow. Throughout the strange conflict, Sancho sat on his
• 1:29:34
  dappled donkey at the top of the hill. He felt ashamed and alarmed at
• 1:29:39
  sight of his master's mad doings. He groaned and tore his beard in vexation
• 1:29:44
  and dismay. But when he saw the Knight knocked from his steed and stretched
• 1:29:48
  upon the ground, he hastened to his aid. Ah Master, He cried,
• 1:29:54
  this comes of not taking my advice. Did I not tell you that
• 1:29:58
  it was a flock of sheep and no army. Don Quixote groaned and sat
• 1:30:02
  up, Friend Sancho, He said, it is an easy matter for enchanters
• 1:30:08
  to change the shapes of things as they please. At the very moment that
• 1:30:13
  my victory was complete, my old enemy changed the routed army into a flock
• 1:30:18
  of sheep. It was all done to rob me of the glory that belonged
• 1:30:23
  to me. Well, I saw nothing but sheep from the first, said
• 1:30:27
  Sancho. Don Quixote, with much ado, arose and stood on his feet.
• 1:30:32
  He opened his mouth and felt of the teeth that had been loosened by
• 1:30:36
  that last cruel blow. Friend Sancho, learn of me, he said.
• 1:30:43
  All these storms are only the signs of calmer days. Better success will soon
• 1:30:48
  follow. Neither good luck nor bad luck will last always at any rate,
• 1:30:54
  interrupted Sancho, Many words will not fill a bushel. I think you would
• 1:30:59
  make a better preacher, then, Knight errant. Knights errant, answered don
• 1:31:03
  Quixote. Ought to know everything. Some of them have been as good preachers
• 1:31:09
  as any who preach in the churches. Very well, said Sancho. You
• 1:31:14
  may have it as you will, but let us leave this unlucky place,
• 1:31:17
  and seek lodgings where we may rest and have a bite of wholesome food.
• 1:31:21
  He helped his master to climb again upon the back of gentle Rosinante, and
• 1:31:28
  then he remounted his dappled donkey, My trusty, Sancho, go thy own
• 1:31:32
  pace, said don Quixote, I will follow thee. Sancho obeyed and led
• 1:31:39
  the way, keeping to the road which passed over the hills. Don Quixote
• 1:31:44
  followed him, riding slowly and gently, for he had been so bruised and
• 1:31:48
  wounded in his encounter with the shepherds that every movement of his steed gave him
• 1:31:54
  pain. End of chapter ten, chapter the Adventure with the Barber. Days
• 1:32:02
  passed, and still don Quixote rode bare headed, for as yet he had
• 1:32:08
  found no means whereby to win for himself a new helmet. Every day,
• 1:32:12
  however, had its adventures, and every turn of the road seemed to lead
• 1:32:15
  the knight and his squire into new fields of action. One morning, as
• 1:32:19
  they were riding along a highway from a small village to a larger one,
• 1:32:24
  they saw a horseman coming slowly towards them. See there, cried Don Quixote,
• 1:32:30
  now I shall have an adventure that will redound to my glory. Why
• 1:32:34
  do you think so, asked Sancho. Do you not see that horseman,
• 1:32:39
  asked Don Quixote, he wears something on his head that glitters like gold.
• 1:32:43
  If I mistake not, he is a knight, and it is Mambrino's helmet
• 1:32:46
  that he wears. Mambrino's helmet. Master, what about Mambrino's helmet? Thou
• 1:32:54
  knowest my vow, Sancho, was the answer. Tomorrow, I shall eat
• 1:32:58
  bread on a table cloth, for that knight who is riding toward us on
• 1:33:02
  his prancing steed, has a helmet of gold on his head. I don't
• 1:33:06
  see any knight, said Sancho. I see only a common man riding a
• 1:33:12
  great donkey, much like my own. There is something bright on the top
• 1:33:15
  of his head, but all is not gold that glitters. I tell thee
• 1:33:20
  it is Mombrino's helmet, and it is gold, cried Don Quixote, growing
• 1:33:26
  angry. Now the truth of the matter is this. The smaller of the
• 1:33:30
  two villages I have mentioned had no barber. The people therefore were obliged to
• 1:33:34
  depend on the barber of the larger village, who rode over whenever he was
• 1:33:40
  wanted. Sometimes he was called upon to trim the men's beards, sometimes to
• 1:33:45
  dress the lady's hair. But he was oftenest required to bleed some person who
• 1:33:49
  was not feeling well, For in those times it was the custom when anyone
• 1:33:55
  was sick, to open one of his veins and let the bad blood run.
• 1:34:00
  This was thought to be the best medicine and a cure for all sorts
• 1:34:03
  of ailments. To do this blood letting was indeed the main business of a
• 1:34:08
  barber. His sign was a pole with red stripes running spirally around it.
• 1:34:15
  These red stripes represented the bloody bandage which was used to bind up the wound.
• 1:34:20
  The same sign is used by barbers even now. But good barbers never
• 1:34:25
  bleed their customers. In those olden times, the barber always had a brass
• 1:34:30
  basin in which to catch the blood as it flowed from the patient's arm.
• 1:34:34
  This basin was kept very bright and clean, for it was a necessary thing
• 1:34:39
  in every barber's shop and often used. And now let us go back to
• 1:34:44
  our story. The night on his prancing steed was nobody but the barber of
• 1:34:49
  the bigger village, riding on his gray donkey to visit his patients in the
• 1:34:54
  smaller village. The morning was cloudy, and rain might begin to fall at
• 1:34:59
  any minute. The barber had a new hat, which the rain would spoil.
• 1:35:03
  To guard against this misfortune, he clapped his brass basin upside down upon
• 1:35:09
  his head. It covered hat and all, and was proof against the rain.
• 1:35:14
  Don Quixote, as we know, wanted a helmet. He had read
• 1:35:17
  so much about Mambrino's helmet that he could think of nothing else. His mind,
• 1:35:23
  having dwelt so long upon this subject, could turn anything he chose into
• 1:35:29
  a golden helmet. Some people in our own times can do as much.
• 1:35:33
  As the barber came nearer, the knight raised his lance, which you will
• 1:35:38
  remember was only the branch of a tree. He braced himself in his stirrups
• 1:35:43
  and made ready for a charge. Then he shouted, wretch, defend thyself,
• 1:35:47
  or at once surrender that which is justly mine. And without further parley,
• 1:35:54
  he rushed upon the barber as fast as Rosinante, with his blundering feet,
• 1:35:59
  could carer him. The barber saw him coming and had just time enough
• 1:36:02
  to throw himself from his donkey and take to his heels. He leaped the
• 1:36:08
  hedge at the side of the road and ran across the fields with the swiftness
• 1:36:13
  of a deer. But the brass basin, having slipped from his head,
• 1:36:16
  was left lying in the dust. Don Quixote checked his steed. Here Sancho,
• 1:36:23
  he cried, here is my helmet. Come and pick it up.
• 1:36:27
  Upon my word, that is a fine basin, said Sancho, as he
• 1:36:30
  stooped and handed it to his master. Don Quixote, with great delight,
• 1:36:35
  clapped it on his head. He turned it this way and that, and
• 1:36:40
  tilted it backward and forward. It is pretty large, he said. The
• 1:36:45
  head for which it was made must have been a big one. The worst
• 1:36:48
  is that it has no visor, and half of one side is lacking.
• 1:36:54
  Sancho could not help smiling. What is the fool grinning at now, cried
• 1:36:58
  his master angrily. Oh nothing, answered Sancho. I was only thinking what
• 1:37:03
  a big jolt head it must have been to wear a helmet so much like
• 1:37:06
  a barber's basin. Well, it does look like a barber's basin, said
• 1:37:12
  Don Quixote, but that is because some enchanter has changed its form. When
• 1:37:16
  we come to a town where there is an armorer. I will have it
• 1:37:20
  made over into its proper shape, for there is no doubt that it is
• 1:37:25
  really the helmet of the famous Mambrino. He turned it about on his head
• 1:37:30
  and pulled it well down over his ears. I'll wear it as it is,
• 1:37:33
  he said. It is better than nothing there is that knight's dappled steed,
• 1:37:39
  said Sancho, pointing to the barber's gray donkey, which was nibbling grass
• 1:37:43
  by the road side. I have a good mind to exchange my own faithful
• 1:37:46
  beast for him. Well, exchange is no robbery, answered don Quixote.
• 1:37:51
  We do not plunder those whom we meet, for that would be unbecoming to
• 1:37:56
  a knight. The dappled steed is no doubt very dear to its master,
• 1:38:00
  and therefore should be spared to him. But I give thee leave Sancho to
• 1:38:04
  exchange saddles. You are a wise master, said Sancho, and without another
• 1:38:11
  word, he made his own poor donkey look three times better by dressing him
• 1:38:15
  in the barber's saddle. Then, well satisfied with themselves and their plunder,
• 1:38:20
  the knight and the squire renewed their journey. End of chapter eleven, Chapter
• 1:38:29
  twelve, the adventure with the prisoners. Day after day, the two travelers
• 1:38:35
  jogged slowly along, rambling hither and thither wherever their fancy chose to wander.
• 1:38:43
  At length they came into the rugged highway which leans through the Black mountains,
• 1:38:47
  or as they are called in Spain, the Sierra Morena. Now we shall
• 1:38:54
  have our fill of adventures, said Don Quixote. It was to me even
• 1:38:59
  so, for at the top of this first hill they saw twelve strange men
• 1:39:04
  trudging along the highway and slowly approaching them. The men were all in a
• 1:39:10
  row, one behind another, like beams on a string, for they were
• 1:39:15
  linked to a long chain by means of iron collars around their necks. In
• 1:39:20
  front of this procession rode two horsemen with guns, and the rear was brought
• 1:39:26
  up by two foot guards with swords and clubs. See their master, said
• 1:39:32
  Sancho. See those poor fellows who are being taken away to serve the king
• 1:39:38
  in the galleys. Why are they being treated in that ugly fashion, asked
• 1:39:43
  Don Quixote, raining in his steed. Well, they are rogues, was
• 1:39:47
  the answer. They have broken the law and been caught at it. They
• 1:39:51
  are now on their way to the King's galleys to be punished. If that
• 1:39:56
  is the case, said don Quixote, they I shall have my help,
• 1:40:00
  for I am sworn to hinder violence and oppression. But these wicked wretches are
• 1:40:05
  not oppressed, said Sancho. They are only getting what they deserve. Don
• 1:40:12
  Quixote was not satisfied at any rate. They are in trouble, he answered.
• 1:40:17
  Soon the chain of prisoners had come up. Pray, sir, said
• 1:40:23
  don Quixote to one of the mountain men, who is captain of the guards.
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  Why are these men being led along in that manner? They are criminals,
• 1:40:32
  answered the captain. They have been condemned to serve the king in his
• 1:40:36
  valleys. I have no more to say to you. Well, I should
• 1:40:41
  like to know what each one has done, said don Quixote. I can't
• 1:40:45
  talk with you, said the captain, But while they rest heer at the
• 1:40:49
  top of the hill, you may ask the rogues themselves if you wish.
• 1:40:54
  They are so honest and truthful that they will not be ashamed to tell you.
• 1:40:59
  Don Quixote was much pleased. He rode up to the chain and began
• 1:41:03
  to question the men. Why were you condemned to the galleys, My good
• 1:41:09
  fellow, he asked of the leader. Oh, only for being in love?
• 1:41:14
  Was the careless answer, indeed, cried don Quixote. If all of
• 1:41:19
  you who are in love must be sent to the galleys, what will become
• 1:41:24
  of us? True enough, said the prisoner. But my love was not
• 1:41:29
  of the common kind. I was so in love with the basket of clothes
• 1:41:33
  that I took it at my arms and carried it home. I was accused
• 1:41:38
  of stealing it, And here I am. Don Quixote then turned to another.
• 1:41:44
  And what have you done, my honest man, he asked, Why
• 1:41:47
  are you in this sad case? I will tell you, answered the man.
• 1:41:54
  I am here for the lack of two gold pieces to pay an honest
• 1:41:57
  debt. Well, well, that is too bad, said the knight.
• 1:42:02
  I will give you four gold pieces and set you free. Thank you,
• 1:42:08
  sir, said the prisoner. But you might as well give money to a
• 1:42:12
  starving man at sea, where there is nothing to buy. If I had
• 1:42:15
  had the gold pieces before my trial, I might now be in a different
• 1:42:20
  place. Thus don Quixote went from one prisoner to another, asking each to
• 1:42:27
  tell his history. The last man in the chain was a clever, well
• 1:42:30
  built fellow about thirty years old. He's squinted with one eye and had a
• 1:42:36
  wickeder look than any of the others. Don Quixote noticed that this man was
• 1:42:42
  strangely loaded with irons. He had two collars around his neck, and his
• 1:42:46
  wrists were so fastened to an iron bar that he could not lift his hands
• 1:42:50
  to his mouth. The knight turned to one of the foot guards. Why
• 1:42:56
  is this man so hampered with irons, he asked, Because he is the
• 1:43:00
  worst of the lot, was the answer. He is so bold and cunning
• 1:43:05
  that no jail nor fetters will hold him. You see how heavily ironed he
• 1:43:11
  is, and yet we are never sure that we have him. But what
• 1:43:15
  has he done? Asked don Quixote. Done, said the guard. What
• 1:43:20
  has he not done? Why? Sir? He is the famous thief and
• 1:43:25
  robber Gennes de Passimante. Then the prisoner himself spoke up quickly, Sir,
• 1:43:31
  if you've anything to give us, give it quickly and write on. I
• 1:43:35
  won't answer any of your questions, my friend, said don Quixote, you
• 1:43:42
  appear to be a man of consequence, and I should like to know your
• 1:43:45
  history. It is all written down in black and white, answered Genes.
• 1:43:50
  You may buy it and read it. He tells you the truth, said
• 1:43:55
  the guard. He has written this whole history in a book. What is
• 1:44:00
  the title of the book, asked don Quixote. I must have it.
• 1:44:04
  It is called the Life of Gene Dee Pasimonte, and every word of it
• 1:44:10
  is true, answered the prisoner. There is no fanciful tale that compares with
• 1:44:15
  it. For tricks and adventures, you are an extraordinary man, said Don
• 1:44:21
  Quixote. By this time the guards had given the command, and the human
• 1:44:27
  chain was again toiling along slowly along over the hill. But don Quixote was
• 1:44:32
  not yet satisfied. He followed making a long speech, first to the prisoners
• 1:44:40
  and then to the guards. At length, he raised himself up in his
• 1:44:43
  stirrups and cried out, gentlemen of the Guard, I am the renowned don
• 1:44:48
  Quixote, Gila Mancha. I command you to release these poor men. If
• 1:44:55
  you refuse, then know that this lance, this sword, and this invincible
• 1:45:00
  arm will force you to yield. That's a good joke, said the captain
• 1:45:05
  of the guard. Now set your mason right on top of your empty head
• 1:45:10
  and go about your business. Don't meddle any more with us, for those
• 1:45:15
  who play with cats are likely to be scratched. This made don Quixote very
• 1:45:19
  angry. You are a cat and a rat and a cotward to boot,
• 1:45:26
  he cried. Had he charged upon him so suddenly and so furiously that the
• 1:45:31
  captain had no time to defend himself, but was tumbled headlong and helpless into
• 1:45:36
  the mud. The other guards hurried to the rescue. They attacked don Quixote
• 1:45:43
  with their swords and clubs, and he, wheeling rose aenanting around, defended
• 1:45:47
  himself with his heavy lance. He would have fared very badly had not the
• 1:45:53
  prisoners made a hurry burly and begun to break their chain. Seeing the confusion
• 1:46:00
  and wishing to give aid to his master, Sancho leaped from his donkey,
• 1:46:04
  and, running up to Genie Dee Pasamante, began to unfasten his irons.
• 1:46:10
  The conflict which now followed was dreadful. The guards had enough to do to
• 1:46:15
  defend themselves from the wild thrusts of don Quixote's lance, they seemed to lose
• 1:46:19
  their senses, so great was the uproar. The prisoners soon freed themselves from
• 1:46:25
  their irons and were masters of the field, the guards were routed. They
• 1:46:30
  fled with all speed down the highway, followed by a shower of stones from
• 1:46:34
  the prisoners. It was a mile to the nearest village, and thither they
• 1:46:40
  hastened for help. Sancho Panza remounted his donkey and drew up to his master's
• 1:46:45
  side. Hearken, He whispered, the king's officers will stoon me after us.
• 1:46:51
  Let us hurry into the forest and hide ourselves. Hush, said don
• 1:46:56
  Quixote, impatiently. I know what I have to do. Then he called
• 1:47:00
  the prisoners around him and made a little speech. Gentlemen, you understand when
• 1:47:06
  a great service I have rendered you. For this, I desire no recompense.
• 1:47:13
  But I shall require each of you to go straightway to the city of
• 1:47:16
  Toboso and present himself before that fairest of all ladies, the matchless Lady Dulcinea,
• 1:47:25
  give her an exact account of this famous achievement, and receive her permission
• 1:47:30
  to seek your various fortunes in such ways and places as you most desire.
• 1:47:35
  The prisoner s grinned insolently, and geniees die passimonte made answer, most noble
• 1:47:43
  deliverers, that which you require of us is impossible. We must part right
• 1:47:48
  quickly. Some of us must spok one way some another. We must lie
• 1:47:55
  hidden in holes and among rocks. The man hounds will soon be on our
• 1:48:00
  tracks. And we dare not show ourselves as to going to Toboso to see
• 1:48:04
  that lady Dulcinea. That's all nonsense. These words put don Quixote into a
• 1:48:12
  great rage. He shook his lance at the robber and cried out, Now,
• 1:48:16
  you, sir Genes, or whatever your name may be, hear me,
• 1:48:20
  you yourself shall go along to Toboso like a dog with a scalded tail.
• 1:48:28
  You shall go with the whole chain wrapped around your shoulders, and shall
• 1:48:31
  deliver the message as I have commanded. Jeanne smiled at this bold threat and
• 1:48:38
  made no answer. But his companions, with one accord, fell upon the
• 1:48:42
  knight, dragged him from his steed, and threw him upon the ground.
• 1:48:46
  They stripped him of his coat, and even robbed him of his long black
• 1:48:50
  stockings. One of them scratched the basin from his head and knocked it against
• 1:48:55
  the rock until it was stented and scarred most shamefully. And one broke his
• 1:49:00
  long lance in two and threw it into a thicket of thorns. As for
• 1:49:05
  Sancho, he fared but little better. They took his coat, but left
• 1:49:10
  him his vest. They would have taken his shoes, had they been worth
• 1:49:14
  the trouble. Having thus amused themselves for a few hasty minutes, the rascals
• 1:49:19
  departed. They scattered in different directions, each one to ships for himself.
• 1:49:26
  They were much more anxious to escape the officers of the law than to present
• 1:49:30
  themselves before the Lady Dulcinea dal Tebozo. Thus the dappled Donkey, Rosenante,
• 1:49:39
  Sancho, Panza, and Don Quixote were left the sole masters of the field.
• 1:49:45
  But they were sorry masters, every one of them. Friends. Sancho,
• 1:49:50
  said don Quixote, rising from the muddy road, there is a proverb
• 1:49:56
  which I desire thee to remember. It is this one might as well throw
• 1:50:00
  water into the sea as do a kindness to clowns. He sought in the
• 1:50:06
  thicket for its broken lance, and having recovered the half of it, he
• 1:50:12
  made shift to climb upon Rosenante's back. The day was far gone, and
• 1:50:17
  he rode silently and thoughtfully onward into the heart of the black mountains and Sancho
• 1:50:24
  Panza on his stample donkey followed him. End of Chapter twelve. Chapter thirteen.
• 1:50:32
  In the Black Mountains, the darkness of night found our two travelers in
• 1:50:36
  the midst of the mountains, and far from any friendly inn. The sky
• 1:50:42
  was clear, however, and above the tree tops the round full moon was
• 1:50:46
  shining brightly. Both Night and Squire were weary from long traveling, and soar
• 1:50:53
  from the beating which they had received from the ungrateful thieves. Here we are
• 1:50:59
  at length, Crite'sancho pulling up his donkey by the side of a huge rock.
• 1:51:02
  Here we are, master, This is a pleasant sheltered place. Let
• 1:51:08
  us tarry here till morning. Truly, I am willing, said don Quixote.
• 1:51:13
  Both men were so tired that they were loath to get down from their
• 1:51:16
  steeds. They sat quietly in their saddles, thinking, thinking, and soon
• 1:51:23
  both were fast asleep. Don Quixote sat upright, bracing himself with the remnant
• 1:51:29
  of his oaken lance, which he had rescued from the thicket. Sancho doubled
• 1:51:33
  himself over upon the pommel of his saddle and snored as peacefully as though he
• 1:51:39
  were on a feather bed, as for Rosinante and patient Dapple. They were
• 1:51:45
  no less weary than their masters. They stood motionless in their places, and
• 1:51:49
  nothing short of a goad could have caused them to stir. It chanced about
• 1:51:54
  midnight that the thief Guiines di Pasamonte came to this very spot, seeking the
• 1:52:00
  best way to escape from the forest. As he was passing by the great
• 1:52:03
  Rock, he was astonished to see the two beasts and their riders resting quietly
• 1:52:09
  in its shadow. He crept up to them very gently, not wishing to
• 1:52:13
  disturb their slumbers. Ha he whispered to himself, how soundly they sleep.
• 1:52:19
  These two foolish fellows ride safely along the public road and are afraid of nothing.
• 1:52:25
  But I, with all my smartness, am obliged to skulk through the
• 1:52:29
  woods and tire myself to death with much walking. I wish I had one
• 1:52:33
  of these steeds. He walked around Rosinante and gently felt his ribs and stroked
• 1:52:40
  his long head. He's only a frame of bones, he said, and
• 1:52:45
  there's no telling how soon he may fall to pieces. I might manage to
• 1:52:48
  ride him, but at the end of the road I could neither sell him
• 1:52:53
  nor give him away. Then he went softly up to the dappled donkey and
• 1:52:57
  examined him from his nose to his hoofs. This beast could carry me,
• 1:53:01
  I know, and I could sell him for a dollar or two anywhere.
• 1:53:04
  But how shall I get him? He leaned against the rock and thought the
• 1:53:09
  matter over, while Sancho Panza made the woods resound with his snoring. It
• 1:53:14
  would be easy enough to tumble him off and take his steed by main force,
• 1:53:18
  said Guines, still talking to himself. But the poor fellow did me
• 1:53:23
  a good turn to day, and I don't like to disturb his slumbers.
• 1:53:27
  Presently, he took his jackknife from his pocket and went stealthily into a grove
• 1:53:31
  of small trees by the road side. There, having found some slender saplings,
• 1:53:38
  he cut four strong poles, as large as his wrist and as long
• 1:53:42
  as his body. With these in hands, he returned to the donkey and
• 1:53:46
  slyly unbuckled the girths of the saddle. Sancho Panza, with his feet firmly
• 1:53:53
  in the stirrups and his short body doubled snugly upon the pommel, was not
• 1:53:57
  at all disturbed. He snored so loudly that no other sound could possibly be
• 1:54:01
  heard. The cunning Guines smiled at his own ingenuity. He placed one end
• 1:54:08
  of each of his four poles under a corner of the saddle, the other
• 1:54:13
  resting firmly upon the ground. Then he carefully and very gradually moved the bottom
• 1:54:18
  ends closer and closer to the donkey's feet. This, of course, raised
• 1:54:23
  the saddle some inches above the animal's back. While Sancho still slept the sleep
• 1:54:28
  of the weary, Guinus tried each pole to see that it stood like a
• 1:54:32
  brace, strong and secure. Then he led the donkey out from under,
• 1:54:39
  leaving the saddle and Sancho high up in the air. It was a funny
• 1:54:43
  sight there in the still light of the moon, and Guines di Pacemonte looked
• 1:54:47
  back and laughed. He then threw himself upon the donkey's bare back and rode
• 1:54:53
  joyfully away. Sancho Panza slept and snored and stirred not an inch. The
• 1:55:00
  of the night passed silently by, and the moon and stars journeyed slowly down
• 1:55:04
  the western sky. At length, the day dawned and the sunlight began to
• 1:55:10
  peep through the trees. Sancho was at most times an early riser, with
• 1:55:15
  the coming of the morning, he stopped snoring. Then he slowly opened his
• 1:55:19
  eyes, raised his arms, and yawned. The motion of his body caused
• 1:55:24
  the supporting poles to twist around and give way. The saddle suddenly turned beneath
• 1:55:29
  him, and he fell, sprawling to the ground. The sudden noise awoke
• 1:55:32
  don Quixote. Where is thy donkey, friend, Sancho, he asked,
• 1:55:36
  looking around quickly, you may well ask where is my donkey? Answered the
• 1:55:41
  squire, rising from the ground and rubbing his eyes. My donkey's gone.
• 1:55:45
  Some thief has led him away in the night and left me nothing but four
• 1:55:49
  sticks and the saddle, which I got in exchange from the barber thief.
• 1:55:54
  Indeed, said Don Quixote, it was no thief. Those same wicket enchanters
• 1:55:59
  have done it. They have changed the poor beast into four sticks. And
• 1:56:03
  now you will have to walk until we learn how to remove the enchantment and
• 1:56:08
  change the sticks back to a donkey. Sancho Panza was sorely distressed. He
• 1:56:14
  looked at the saddle, and at the sticks, and then at the tracks
• 1:56:17
  which the donkey had left in the dust of the road. Tears came to
• 1:56:21
  his eyes, and he broke out into the saddest and most pitiful lamentation that
• 1:56:27
  ever was heard. Oh my dapple, my donkey, Oh dear one born
• 1:56:32
  and bred under my own roof, thou wert, the playfellow of my children,
• 1:56:38
  the comfort of my wife, the envy of my neighbors, thou wert,
• 1:56:42
  the easer of my burdens, the staff and stay of my life.
• 1:56:46
  And now thou art gone, thou art gone, Oh my dapple, my
• 1:56:51
  donkey, How can I live without thee? Don Quixote's kind heart was touched.
• 1:56:58
  Never mind, dear Soncho, he said, dry thy tears, I
• 1:57:01
  have five donkeys at home, and I will give thee an order on my
• 1:57:05
  niece for three of them. I will write it with the first pen and
• 1:57:10
  ink we encounter. This generous offer turned Sancho's grief into joy. It dried
• 1:57:15
  his tears, it hushed his cries, It changed his moans to smiles and
• 1:57:21
  thanks. You are always a good master, he said, And I would
• 1:57:26
  rather meet with that pen and ink than with any number of knights. Then
• 1:57:31
  Knight and Squire sat down together on the ground and munched some bits of dry
• 1:57:35
  bread, merely to say they had breakfasted, and after Rosinante had eaten his
• 1:57:41
  fill of the sweet grass by the road side. They resumed their journey through
• 1:57:45
  the mountains. Don Quixote rode in advance, and Sancho followed slowly, with
• 1:57:50
  the donkey's saddle astride of his shoulders. End of Chapter thirteen, Chapter fourteen,
• 1:58:00
  the Message to Dulcinea. One day, as Don Quixote with his squire,
• 1:58:05
  was strolling aimlessly through the roughest and wildest part of the mountains, he
• 1:58:11
  became suddenly very silent. Friend, Sancho, he said, as you value
• 1:58:18
  your life, I bid you not to speak a word to me until I
• 1:58:23
  give you leave. His mind was filled with clear, unreasoning fancies, and
• 1:58:29
  he seemed to be pondering upon some new and weighty subject. So all the
• 1:58:33
  day they toiled wearily and slowly along, and neither spoke to the other.
• 1:58:40
  Sancho Panza was very tired. He was almost ready to burst for want of
• 1:58:45
  a little chat. Still, with the saddle on his shoulders, he trudged
• 1:58:49
  silently at the heels of Rosonante and kept his thoughts to himself. At length,
• 1:58:56
  however, he could bear it no longer. He quickened his pace till
• 1:59:00
  he came alongside of his master. Then he laid his hand on don Quixote's
• 1:59:05
  knee and spoke, good sir, give me your blessing, and let me
• 1:59:11
  go home to my wife and children. There I may talk till I am
• 1:59:15
  weary, and nobody can hinder me. I tell you this, tramping over
• 1:59:18
  hills and dales by night and by day without opening my lips is killing me.
• 1:59:25
  I cannot endure it, friends, Sancho, I understand thee, answered
• 1:59:30
  don Quixote, and I give thee leave to use my tongue freely. So
• 1:59:35
  long as we are alone together on this mountain road. Then let us make
• 1:59:40
  hay while the sun shines, cried Sancho. I will talk while I can,
• 1:59:45
  for who knows what I may do afterward. Every man for himself and
• 1:59:49
  God for us, all, say I little said. As soon ast mended.
• 1:59:55
  There is no padlocking of men's mouths, for a closed mouth catches no
• 1:59:59
  fly pray. Have done with your proverbs, said don Quixote. Sternly.
• 2:00:05
  Listen to me, and I will unfold a plan which I have formed for
• 2:00:10
  my future course and for yours also, dear Sancho. Then he explained to
• 2:00:15
  the squire that it was his intention to send him forthwith to Toboso to carry
• 2:00:20
  a letter to the lady Dulcinea. I desire that you shall start within three
• 2:00:26
  days, he said, And as you are very poor at walking, you
• 2:00:30
  may have the use of Rosinante, who will carry you with great safety and
• 2:00:34
  speed. Very well, master, said Sancho. But what will you do
• 2:00:41
  while I am gone? Do? Do you ask? What I will do?
• 2:00:45
  Answered the knight. Why I have a mind to imitate that famous knight
• 2:00:49
  Orlando. I mean to go mad, just as he did. I will
• 2:00:55
  throw away my armor, tear my clothes, pull up trees by the roots,
• 2:01:00
  knock my head against the rocks, and do a thousand other things of
• 2:01:02
  that kind. You must wait and see me in some of my performances,
• 2:01:08
  Sancho, And then you must tell the lady Dulcinea what you have beheld with
• 2:01:12
  your own eyes. Oh, you need not go to any trouble about it,
• 2:01:16
  said Sancho, for I will tell the lady just the same. I
• 2:01:20
  will tell her of your thousand mad tricks and bring you back her answer all
• 2:01:25
  full of sweet words. As for those tricks, as you call them,
• 2:01:30
  said Don Quixote, I mean to perform them seriously and solemnly, for a
• 2:01:35
  knight must tell no lies. But I will write the letter immediately, and
• 2:01:41
  you shall set out on your journey tomorrow at sunrise. And please, sir,
• 2:01:46
  said Sancho, do not forget to write that order to your niece for
• 2:01:50
  those three donkeys which you promised me. They stopped in the midst of the
• 2:01:55
  green thicket of Underwood's, and there after much ado the letter was written,
• 2:02:00
  and also the order for the donkeys. These were scrawled with a bit of
• 2:02:04
  charcoal in a little notebook which Don Quixote happened to find in his pocket.
• 2:02:11
  They are not very plainly written, Sancho, he said, but in the
• 2:02:15
  first village to which you come, it will be easy to have the schoolmaster
• 2:02:19
  talking them neatly for you. Sancho took the notebook and put it carefully in
• 2:02:25
  his waistcoat pocket. Now I am even wild to be gone, he said,
• 2:02:30
  I will mount Rosinante and be off at once, For a bearer of
• 2:02:35
  messages should never delay at his starting. Give me your blessing, dear master,
• 2:02:41
  and I will not wait to see any of your tricks. Nay,
• 2:02:45
  said don Quixote. Wait a little while, for you should see me practice
• 2:02:48
  twenty or thirty mad gambles such as knocking my head against rocks and the like.
• 2:02:55
  I can finish them at half an hour. Say not so, answered
• 2:02:59
  Sancho. It would grieve me to the heart to see you plain the mad
• 2:03:02
  man. I would cry my eyes out, and I have already beloved too
• 2:03:06
  much since I lost my poor donkey. But I will tell the lady Dulcinea
• 2:03:12
  about your tricks, just the same as though I had seen you do them.
• 2:03:16
  Then I will give thee my blessing and let thee go, said Don
• 2:03:20
  Quixote. But tell me, good master, said Sancho, what will you
• 2:03:26
  do for food when I am gone? Will you rob travelers on the highway
• 2:03:30
  and steal your dinner from the shepherds hereabout? Don't worry about that, Sancho
• 2:03:35
  said his master. I shall feed on the herbs and fruits of the forest
• 2:03:41
  and want nothing more, for it is the duty of a mad knight to
• 2:03:45
  have starved himself. But you shall find me in good condition when you return.
• 2:03:50
  But now comes another thing into my head, said Sancho. How shall
• 2:03:55
  I know this out of the way place when I come back? How shall
• 2:03:59
  I find you again in this wilderness strew a few green branches in the path.
• 2:04:04
  Sancho strew them as you ride along till you reach the main highway.
• 2:04:11
  This will serve as a clue to show you the way hither. If by
• 2:04:15
  chance you should forget the turning place, I will go about it at once,
• 2:04:19
  said Sancho. So he went among the trees and cut a bundle of
• 2:04:24
  green boughs. Then he came and asked his master's blessing, and after both
• 2:04:29
  had wept many tears, he mounted Rosinante. Be good to the noble steeds,
• 2:04:34
  Sancho said, don Quixote, remember to be as kind to him as
• 2:04:40
  you have been to his master. Indeed, I will not forget, said
• 2:04:44
  Sancho, and he rode away, stirring the boughs as he went. Don
• 2:04:48
  Quixote watched him until a turn of the road hid her from sight. Then
• 2:04:53
  he wandered into the wildest part of the woods, and was really as mad
• 2:04:58
  as the maddest knight he had ever run about. End of Chapter fourteen.
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  Chapter fifteen Sancho Panza on the road. The next day, as Sancho Panza
• 2:05:12
  was plodding slowly along the highway, he came to a little inn. He
• 2:05:15
  knew the place quite well, for he and his master had lodged there not
• 2:05:19
  a month before. It was dinner time, and the odors of the kitchen
• 2:05:23
  filled the air. Sancho's mouth watered at the thought of a bit of hot
• 2:05:28
  roast beef, for he had tasted nothing but cold victuals for many days.
• 2:05:32
  He rode up to the gate and stopped. He had had some trouble with
• 2:05:36
  the servants on his former visit to this inn, and therefore he had some
• 2:05:41
  misgivings about the reception that might now be given him. So he sat still
• 2:05:45
  outside the gate and enjoyed the savory smells which came to him through open windows.
• 2:05:51
  Presently, two men came out, and when they saw him at the
• 2:05:55
  gate, they paused. Then one said to the other, look there,
• 2:05:59
  master doctor ter, isn't that Sancho Panza. Most truly, it is,
• 2:06:02
  said the other. And more than that, he rides don Quixote's horse.
• 2:06:08
  Now, these two men were the curate and the barber of don Quixote's own
• 2:06:12
  village. They were the men who had passed sentence on his books, and
• 2:06:15
  they knew more than any one else about the poor man's malady. They were
• 2:06:20
  now going through the country in search of him, for they wished to persuade
• 2:06:24
  him to return to the care of his family and friends. They spoke to
• 2:06:28
  Sancho, and he was not a little surprised to meet them in that out
• 2:06:31
  of the way place. Where is your master, Sancho, Where is Don
• 2:06:35
  Quixote, they asked. My master is engaged with some important business of his
• 2:06:41
  own, answered Sancho quite stiffly. But where is he? Said the curate
• 2:06:45
  that I dare not tell you, said Sancho. Now, Sancho Panza,
• 2:06:49
  cried the barber. Don't try to put us off with any flim flam's story.
• 2:06:55
  If you don't tell us where he is, we shall believe you have
• 2:06:58
  murdered him and stolen his horse. So out with it. Tell us the
• 2:07:02
  truth, or we'll have you laid by the heels and punished as you deserve.
• 2:07:06
  Oh, come now, neighbors, said Sancho, Why should you threaten
• 2:07:11
  me. I don't know where my master is at this particular moment, but
• 2:07:14
  I left him in Yonder Mountain, knocking his head against the trees, tearing
• 2:07:18
  up rocks, and doing a thousand queer things which I need not mention.
• 2:07:23
  Then He told the whole story as I have told it to you, adding
• 2:07:27
  to it a great many fanciful touches of his own. And now he said,
• 2:07:31
  I am on my humble way to Toboso, where I mean to give
• 2:07:35
  my master's letter into the hands of the lady Dulcinea. Let us see the
• 2:07:42
  letter, said the barber. Sancho put his hand into his pocket to get
• 2:07:45
  the note book. He fumbled a great while without finding it. He searched
• 2:07:50
  first in one pocket, then in another. He searched in his sleeve,
• 2:07:55
  in his bosom, in his hat. But had he searched until now,
• 2:08:00
  he would not have found it. It had slipped through a hole in his
• 2:08:03
  pocket and was lost in the dust of the highway. He turned pale,
• 2:08:07
  and his hands trembled. Then he began to rave and to stamp like a
• 2:08:11
  madman. He tore his beard. He beat himself with his fists. Why
• 2:08:18
  need you be so angry, Sancho asked the curate kindly, What is the
• 2:08:22
  matter? Matter enough, he answered, I deserve the worst beating in the
• 2:08:26
  world, for I have lost three donkeys, which were as good as three
• 2:08:31
  castles. How so asked the barber, were the donkeys in your pocket.
• 2:08:35
  Not exactly, answered Sancho, but I have lost a note book which contained
• 2:08:41
  not only the letter to Dulcinea, but an order on don Quixote's niece for
• 2:08:46
  three of his five donkeys. Then, with tears and sobs, the poor
• 2:08:50
  man told them how he had recently lost his own dapple, the joy of
• 2:08:54
  his household, the hope of his life. Cheer up, Sancho, said
• 2:08:58
  the curate. We are going to find your master, and I will see
• 2:09:03
  that he gives you another order written in due form on paper, will you
• 2:09:07
  indeed, said Sancho, brightening up. Well, then the loss is not
• 2:09:11
  so bad after all. As for Dulcinea's letter, I don't care a straw
• 2:09:15
  about that. I know it all by heart and will carry it to her
• 2:09:18
  by word of mouth. In other words, I will repeat it to her
• 2:09:22
  just as it was written, and I will repeat it to you if you
• 2:09:26
  wish. You speak like a wise man, said the curate. But what
• 2:09:30
  concerns us now is to find your master and persuade him to give up his
• 2:09:35
  mad pranks and projects. So come into the inn with us, and we'll
• 2:09:39
  talk it over while we eat dinner. You too, may go in,
• 2:09:43
  answered Sancho. But as for me, I feel best out here in the
• 2:09:46
  open air. However, you may send me a dish of hot victuals if
• 2:09:50
  you like, and I will eat while I am waiting, and you may
• 2:09:54
  tell the stable boy to bring rosanante an armful of fodder. So Sancho said
• 2:09:58
  U at the gate, while the curate and the barber went inside. Presently
• 2:10:03
  a dish of hot meat was sent out to him, and he feasted as
• 2:10:07
  he had not feasted for many a day. The hearty meal put him in
• 2:10:11
  fine, good humor, and as he thought over the words of the Curate
• 2:10:15
  and the barber, he made up his mind to return with them into the
• 2:10:18
  mountains. He was anxious to receive from Don Quixote a second order for the
• 2:10:24
  three donkeys. He had scarcely finished his meal when the curate and the barber
• 2:10:28
  came riding out from the inn yard, ready to begin the journey. No
• 2:10:33
  further time was wasted, and late that very afternoon they reached the place where
• 2:10:37
  Sancho had strewn the green branches in the road. It was right about here
• 2:10:41
  that I left him, he said, and sure enough they soon discovered the
• 2:10:46
  night sitting quietly upon a rock and gazing at the sky. He was pale
• 2:10:50
  and almost starved, and Sancho could hear him sighing dolefully and muttering the name
• 2:10:56
  of the lady Dulcinea. He need not stop here to tell of the manner
• 2:11:01
  in which don Quixote received his friends, who were so disguised that he did
• 2:11:05
  not know them, Nor shall I describe the ingenious trick by which they induced
• 2:11:11
  him to put on his armor again and ride out of the forest. At
• 2:11:15
  first all went well, for he was persuaded that he was going to the
• 2:11:18
  aid of a fair princess whom a tyrant had driven from her kingdom. Come
• 2:11:24
  on, he cried, as he mounted Rosinante. Let us all go together
• 2:11:28
  and avenge the wrongs of this unfortunate lady. They set out, the curate
• 2:11:33
  and the barber, being disguised and unknown to their poor friend. Sancho was
• 2:11:39
  obliged to travel on foot again, while the rest rode gallantly along the highway
• 2:11:43
  on horseback. But his heart was light and free, and he kept thinking
• 2:11:48
  of the three donkeys and the glorious time when don Quixote would make him the
• 2:11:52
  governor of an island. The next day, when the party were well out
• 2:11:56
  of the mountains, they suddenly saw at a turn in the road a stranger
• 2:12:01
  riding slowly along at a little distance ahead. He was dressed like a gypsy
• 2:12:05
  and was mounted upon a small donkey, which he could not by any means
• 2:12:09
  urge out of a snail's pace. Sancho Panza's eyes opened very wide, for
• 2:12:15
  at the first glance he knew that the gypsy was none other than the thief
• 2:12:20
  Guiines de Pasamonte, and that the donkey was his own long lost dapple.
• 2:12:24
  The next moment he was running to overtake the pear, and although Guines tried
• 2:12:30
  hard to whip the donkey into a trot, Sancho was soon beside them.
• 2:12:33
  Ah, thou thief, He shouted, get off from the back of my
• 2:12:37
  dear beast, Away from my dapple, Away from my comfort, Take to
• 2:12:43
  thy heels and be gone. He had no need to use so many words,
• 2:12:46
  for Guines, seeing several men so close upon him, dismounted quickly and
• 2:12:52
  took to his heels. No doubt he thought that the king's officers were after
• 2:12:56
  him, for he bounded into the woods and was soon out of sight.
• 2:13:01
  And now Sancho's joy was too great to be described. He stroked the donkey
• 2:13:05
  with his hands. He kissed it again and again. He called it by
• 2:13:11
  every endearing name, My treasure, my darling, my dear dapple. Is
• 2:13:16
  it possible that I have thee again? How hast thou been since I saw
• 2:13:20
  thee last? He cried? As for the donkey, it was as silent
• 2:13:24
  as any donkey could be. It said not one word in answer to Sancho's
• 2:13:30
  questions, but allowed him to kiss its nose as often as he pleased.
• 2:13:33
  The rest of the company rejoiced at the squire's good fortune, and Don Quixote
• 2:13:39
  said, I am glad that you have found your beast, Sancho, but
• 2:13:41
  it shall make no difference with the order which you have on my niece.
• 2:13:46
  She is to give you the three donkeys just the same. I thank you,
• 2:13:50
  sir, said Sancho. You are always a kind master. End of
• 2:13:56
  chapter fifteen. Chapter sixteen the ox cart journey. They were still far from
• 2:14:03
  their home village, and Don Quixote's malady grew worse every day. He gave
• 2:14:09
  himself up to so many strange fancies that there was really no getting along with
• 2:14:13
  him at length. When he would ride no farther in the right direction.
• 2:14:18
  The curate and the barber were forced to find some other plan by which to
• 2:14:20
  carry him home. Luckily, one day, as they were stopping at an
• 2:14:24
  inn, a wagoner with his team of oxen came that way looking for something
• 2:14:30
  to do. He was willing to undertake almost anything, and so the curate
• 2:14:35
  soon made a bargain with him. With much labor and care, a sort
• 2:14:39
  of wooden cage was made which could be fastened firmly on the ox driver's wagon.
• 2:14:43
  It was fitted up very comfortably with a stool and a cushion, and
• 2:14:46
  it was so high and roomy that a man might sit or lie in it
• 2:14:50
  with ease. Don Quixote knew nothing about the plot which his friends were making
• 2:14:54
  against his liberty. While they were busy in the barnyard, he sat in
• 2:14:58
  the inn and talked to knights and knighthood to everyone who would listen. Late
• 2:15:03
  in the evening, as he lay quietly sleeping in his chamber, a number
• 2:15:07
  of strangely dressed men made their way softly to his door. They had masks
• 2:15:11
  on their faces, they wore long white robes, and their whole appearance was
• 2:15:16
  very frightful. Indeed, They were the curate and the barber, and the
• 2:15:20
  other guests of the inn. But they were so disguised that not even Sancho
• 2:15:24
  Panza could have guessed who they were. They opened the chamber door and stole
• 2:15:28
  in. Don Quixote awoke with us start. He looked round him in amazement,
• 2:15:35
  but not in fear. When he saw the white robed figures standing by
• 2:15:39
  his bedside, he sat up very quietly and said not a word. He
• 2:15:45
  felt sure that he was now in an enchanted castle, and that these figures
• 2:15:50
  were ghosts and hobgoblins which had been called up to frighten him. He knew
• 2:15:54
  that it was useless to fight with such creatures, for enchantment could be met
• 2:15:58
  only by enchant Therefore, he quietly gave himself up and made no resistance.
• 2:16:05
  The hobgoblins lifted him out of bed. They dressed him in his best clothes.
• 2:16:09
  Then they carried him out and put him in the wooden cage, which
• 2:16:13
  stood ready at the door. They shut him safely in and fastened the bars
• 2:16:18
  securely. The ox cart was waiting in the courtyard of the inn. The
• 2:16:22
  men lifted the cage upon it very gently and strapped it fast Then the wagoner
• 2:16:28
  cracked his whip, and the oxen began to move slowly and solemnly towards the
• 2:16:33
  great gate. Don Quixote was not altogether displeased. He spoke to the people
• 2:16:39
  who had come out in the dim moonlight to see him depart. In all
• 2:16:43
  my books I never read of a knight errant being drawn in a slow moving
• 2:16:48
  ox cart, He said. They used to be whisked along with marvelous speed
• 2:16:52
  on winged steeds and other quick going beasts. But this traveling in an ox
• 2:16:58
  cart is not so bad, and I don't object. Having said this,
• 2:17:01
  he became very quiet and did not speak again for a long time. It
• 2:17:07
  was an odd looking company that jogged along the road across the great Plain.
• 2:17:11
  The next day. The wagoner led the way with his oxen and his nightly
• 2:17:16
  prisoner on either side of him. Rode an officer whose acquaintance the Curate had
• 2:17:20
  made at the inn. Close behind the cart, followed Sancho, riding his
• 2:17:26
  stapple donkey and leading Rosinante. Lastly, the Curate and the barber, with
• 2:17:31
  veiled faces and riding astride of mighty mules, brought up the rear. Don
• 2:17:37
  Quixote sat most of the time leaning against the bars of the cage. He
• 2:17:43
  was free to move about or to lie down as he chose, but he
• 2:17:46
  sat silent and motionless, and seemed more like a lifeless statue than a living
• 2:17:50
  man. And thus they journeyed slowly over the long and seldom traveled road.
• 2:17:56
  As the day wore on, the heart of Sancho Panza was filled with pain
• 2:18:01
  because of his master's grievous plight. He could not bear to think of him
• 2:18:05
  thus caged like a wild beast, and hold from place to place against his
• 2:18:09
  will. So, while the guards were eating their noonday luncheon, he spent
• 2:18:15
  the hour in talking with Don Quixote. The night seemed more like himself,
• 2:18:20
  and he spoke very cheerfully with his squire, Good Sancho, he said,
• 2:18:24
  have courage. I assure you that we shall soon escape from the power of
• 2:18:30
  these wicked enchanters. Well, master, said Sancho, I'll tell you the
• 2:18:35
  plain truth about this enchantment. Who would you think now are those two fellows
• 2:18:39
  that ride behind with their faces covered? Why they are the enchanters, of
• 2:18:43
  course, answered Don Quixote. Enchanters, never, said Sancho. They are
• 2:18:48
  only the curate of our village and the barber. They are in a plot
• 2:18:52
  against you, for they fear that your brave deeds will make you more famous
• 2:18:56
  than they can ever be. There is no no enchantment at all in this
• 2:19:01
  business. It's only your senses turned topsy turvy, friend, Sancho answered,
• 2:19:07
  Don Quixote, I tell you it is enchantment, and the idea that those
• 2:19:11
  who guard us are my old friends, the curate and the barber, is
• 2:19:13
  a wicked delusion. The power of magic is great, and if these enchanters
• 2:19:20
  seem to be clothed in bodies like those of my friends, it proves only
• 2:19:24
  their skill and their wonderful ingenuity. At length, by the Curate's permission,
• 2:19:30
  Sancho opened the cage and helped his poor master to step out upon the ground.
• 2:19:35
  Come, sir, he said, I will set you free from this
• 2:19:37
  prison. See now whether you can get on your trusty Rosinante's back. The
• 2:19:43
  poor thing jogs on, as drooping and sorrowful as if he too were enchanted.
• 2:19:48
  I will do as you say, friend, Sancho, answered his master.
• 2:19:52
  But I give my word of honor to these gentlemen that I will make
• 2:19:56
  no effort to escape. I desire only to ride my stea as becomes a
• 2:20:00
  true knight, that is, if I find myself strong enough to do so.
• 2:20:05
  He walked feebly up to Rosinante and lovingly stroked his neck and back.
• 2:20:11
  Ah thou flower and glory of horse flesh, he said, I trust that
• 2:20:15
  we shall soon be ourselves again. But his strength had all left him.
• 2:20:20
  Even when he was lifted into the saddle, he was too feeble to sit
• 2:20:24
  there. A dizziness came over him, and he remembered with longing his quiet
• 2:20:28
  home and his loving neighbors and friends. Help me once more into the enchanted
• 2:20:33
  car, Friend, Sancho, he said, for I am not in a
• 2:20:37
  condition to press the back of Rosinante with all my heart, said Sancho,
• 2:20:41
  and let me advise you to go willingly back to our village. With these
• 2:20:46
  gentlemen at home, we may plan some other journey that will be more profitable
• 2:20:50
  and perhaps more pleasant than this has been. Your advice is good, answered
• 2:20:54
  the knight. But until this enchantment has been removed, I shall be inactive.
• 2:21:00
  The wagoner threw some new mown hay into the cage. Then they lifted
• 2:21:05
  the night gently and laid him upon this fragrant couch. They fastened no bars,
• 2:21:09
  but left the place open so that he would not feel like a prisoner.
• 2:21:13
  Then the wagoner cracked his whip, and the procession moved on as before,
• 2:21:18
  And thus they journeyed slowly along the seldom traveled road across the hills and
• 2:21:24
  the plain. It was about noon of the sixth day when they at length
• 2:21:28
  reached their home village. It was Sunday, and nearly all the people were
• 2:21:33
  on the street when the ox cart was seen trundling along with a cage upon
• 2:21:37
  it. It was at once surrounded by a crowd of men and boys.
• 2:21:41
  All wanted to know what kind of show beast it was that was being thus
• 2:21:46
  hauled through the village. What was their surprise, however, when they saw
• 2:21:48
  no beast at all, but only their honored neighbor and friend, the man
• 2:21:54
  whom they knew only by the name of mister Quihanna. He was lying on
• 2:21:58
  the hay and taking but little notice of anything round him. The village seemed
• 2:22:03
  strange to him, and the faces of his friends were unknown and unrecognized.
• 2:22:09
  While the villagers were gaping and wondering, a little boy suddenly left the crowd
• 2:22:13
  and ran by the shortest way to Don Quixote's dwelling. He rushed into the
• 2:22:18
  house and cried out to the niece and housekeeper that their uncle and master was
• 2:22:22
  coming home, and was almost at the door. And oh, he is
• 2:22:26
  so lean and pale, piped the boy, all out of breath, and
• 2:22:30
  he's on a bundle of hay and a big wagon, and the wagon is
• 2:22:33
  an ox cart, and you can soon see him for yourselves. The two
• 2:22:37
  women listened, and then it was piteous to hear their weeping. It's all
• 2:22:43
  on account of his reading those books, sobbed the niece. We ought to
• 2:22:46
  have made way with them long before, sighed the housekeeper. The ox cart,
• 2:22:52
  with its honored passenger and faithful guards, moved slowly down the street,
• 2:22:56
  while the odd villagers followed silently and with much wonder. Suddenly a woman rushed
• 2:23:03
  from one of the cottages and ran out to meet the procession. It was
• 2:23:07
  Huana, the wife of Sancho Panza. Welcome Sancho, she cried, how
• 2:23:11
  is the dear donkey. The donkey has come back in better health than his
• 2:23:16
  master, answered the squire. How thankful I am for that, said Juana.
• 2:23:22
  But what have you brought home? Have you brought me a new petticoat,
• 2:23:26
  or the children some shoes? In truth, sweet wife, said Sancho,
• 2:23:31
  I have brought none of those things. But the next time we ride
• 2:23:33
  out, I shall return right soon, and you will find me the governor
• 2:23:37
  of an island. I hope so with all my heart, answered the good
• 2:23:41
  wife. For surely we need it. But what do you mean by that
• 2:23:46
  word island? I never heard it before. I don't understand what sort of
• 2:23:50
  thing it is. All in good time, Juanna, said Sancho. Honey
• 2:23:56
  is not made for a donkey's mouth. But you shall see what sort of
• 2:23:58
  thing it is is. And let me tell you there is nothing so good
• 2:24:03
  for an honest man as to be the squire to a knight that is hunting
• 2:24:07
  adventures. Well, I'm glad you think so, she said. Oh I
• 2:24:11
  not only think, but I know it, said Sancho. It's rare sport
• 2:24:16
  to climb mountains, to scramble over rocks, to beat through the woods,
• 2:24:20
  to visit great castles, and to put up at inns without a penny to
• 2:24:24
  pay. By this time, the ox cart, with its company of guards
• 2:24:28
  and villagers, had reached the door of don Quixote's dwelling. The curate and
• 2:24:33
  the barber lifted the poor knight from his couch of hay and carried him tenderly
• 2:24:37
  into his own chamber. He was as helpless as a child, and neither
• 2:24:41
  spoke nor attempted to move. The housekeeper and the niece undressed him and put
• 2:24:48
  him in his ancient bed. He lay there, looking at them curiously and
• 2:24:52
  wondering who they were. Their faces seemed altogether strange to him. He could
• 2:24:58
  not imagine where he was. The Curate charged the niece to be very careful
• 2:25:03
  and tender of her uncle, and by all means, he said, be
• 2:25:07
  watchful lest he should try to ride out a third time in quest of adventures.
• 2:25:11
  One by one, the good man's neighbors and friends returned to their homes.
• 2:25:16
  Sancho Panza, with his donkey, sought his own dwelling, and Don
• 2:25:22
  Quixote once more reposed quietly beneath his own roof end of Chapter sixteen, Chapter
• 2:25:31
  seventeen, with friends and neighbors. For nearly a month, Don Quixote remained
• 2:25:35
  at home, seeing known at all but his niece and his housekeeper. The
• 2:25:39
  curate and the barber came daily to inquire who he was doing, but they
• 2:25:43
  kept carefully out of his sightlas they might hinder his recovery. At length,
• 2:25:46
  the niece told him that he was well and in his right mind. Would
• 2:25:50
  they not come in and see him? With much pleasure, answered the barber,
• 2:25:54
  and they were ushered in. They found the poor gentleman sitting up in
• 2:25:58
  his bed. He wore a waistcoat of baz and on his head was in
• 2:26:01
  the red knight, and on his head was a red nightcap. His eyes
• 2:26:05
  were bright and his voice was clear, but his face and body were so
• 2:26:09
  withered and wasted that he looked like a mummy. They sat down by his
• 2:26:13
  bedside and talked with him about the great mini matters. They tried to say
• 2:26:18
  nothing about Knight Erranty, but at last the subject came up in spite of
• 2:26:22
  them. Then don Quixote grew eloquent. He talked about knights and giants and
• 2:26:26
  famous heroes, scarcely giving the curate room to put in the word. His
• 2:26:31
  friend saw with sadness that his mind still ran toward the same great passion.
• 2:26:37
  They saw that there was his intention, sooner or later, to ride out
• 2:26:39
  again to seek new adventures. So at last, they took their departure.
• 2:26:45
  The curate again whispered a word of caution to the niece. Keep a good
• 2:26:48
  watch upon him, he said, Let everything be very quiet around him,
• 2:26:52
  and don't let him think about going away from home. As Don Quixote improved
• 2:26:58
  in strength and became a walk about the house, other neighbors and frans dropped
• 2:27:03
  him to see him. He welcomed each one cheerfully, and never failed to
• 2:27:05
  say something in praise of knighthood. But they, having been cautioned by the
• 2:27:09
  curate, talked to him only about the weather and the crops, and soon
• 2:27:13
  took their leave. And so the poor man gradually grew stronger and seemed to
• 2:27:18
  be quite well contented. One morning, however, who should knock at the
• 2:27:22
  door but Sancho Panza. I have come to see the valorous Don Quixote,
• 2:27:28
  He said to the niece. You shall see nobody, she answered, holding
• 2:27:31
  the door against him. You shall not enter this house, you vagabond.
• 2:27:35
  Go go, cried the housekeeper. It's all along of you and nobody else
• 2:27:41
  that he has been enticed and carried out rumbling all over the world. No
• 2:27:46
  such thing, answered Sancho. It's I that have been enticed and carried a
• 2:27:50
  rambling. Not your master. It was he that took me from the house
• 2:27:54
  and home, saying he would give me an island, and I'm still waiting
• 2:27:56
  for it. An island. What's that, said the niece. If it's
• 2:28:01
  anything to eat, I hope it'll choke you. You're wrong there, answered
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  Sancho. I'll do not to eat. They're to govern well anyhow, you
• 2:28:11
  don't come in here, said the niece. Don't govern your own house,
• 2:28:13
  plow your own field, and don't trouble yourself about anybody's islands and dry lands.
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  They're not for such as you. It so happened that the Curate and
• 2:28:22
  the barber, who were just taking their leave after a short visit, heard
• 2:28:24
  the whole of this little quarrel. They were much amused by it, and
• 2:28:28
  were about to give their help to the niece, when don Quixote himself came
• 2:28:31
  to the door. Welcome, my faithful friend, he said, and giving
• 2:28:37
  his niece a sharp rebuke, he led Sancho into the house. Now mark
• 2:28:41
  me, whispered the curate. Our neighbor will soon be rambling again, in
• 2:28:45
  spite of all that we can do. Don Quixote led his squire into the
• 2:28:48
  bedroom and locked the door, and the two sat down together and talked of
• 2:28:52
  the glories and perils of knighthood. What say you, friend, Sancho said
• 2:28:58
  the knight, will you return to my service? What does your good wife
• 2:29:01
  say? She says that the man must not be his own carver, answered
• 2:29:05
  Sancho. She says it is good to be certain that the bird in the
• 2:29:09
  hand is worth two in the bush, and that one hold fast is better
• 2:29:15
  than two. May be so's o, women's counsel is not worth much.
• 2:29:18
  Yet he that despises it is no better than he should be. I say
• 2:29:22
  so too, said Don Quixote. You talk like pearls today. But what
• 2:29:26
  shall I understand from all that? I wish you to give me so much
• 2:29:31
  a month for my wages? For other rewards may come late, and may
• 2:29:33
  not come at all. A little in one's own pocket is better than such
• 2:29:37
  in another's purse. Say they hit upon an egg, Every little makes a
• 2:29:41
  mickle. You are wine, Sancho, said Don Quixote. And I understand
• 2:29:46
  the drift of all your proverbs, certainly, answered Sancho. And I should
• 2:29:50
  like to know what I'm going to get if you should sometimes give me that
• 2:29:54
  island. I would then be willing to knock a proper amount off the wages.
• 2:29:58
  As to the wages, said don Quixote, I would pay them willingly
• 2:30:03
  if it were allowed by our order. But in all the books I have
• 2:30:07
  ever read, there is no account of a knight paying wages to his squire.
• 2:30:11
  The servant was always given an island or something of that sort, and
• 2:30:15
  there was an end of it. But suppose the island was not forthcoming,
• 2:30:20
  said Sancho. I abide by the customs of chivalry, said Don Quixote firmly.
• 2:30:26
  If you desire not to take the same risks of fortune as myself,
• 2:30:31
  Heaven be with you. I can find the squire more obedient and careful than
• 2:30:35
  you have ever been, and much less talkative. Sancho's heart sank within him.
• 2:30:41
  He had not expected an answer like this. In fact, he had
• 2:30:43
  thought that Don Quixote could not possibly do without him. He was so taken
• 2:30:48
  the bag that he did not know what to say or do. At that
• 2:30:50
  moment, there was a knock at the door. They was opened, and
• 2:30:54
  in came the housekeeper and the niece, and with them a young man of
• 2:30:58
  the village whose name was Samson Carrascal. This young man was just home from
• 2:31:03
  the great college at Salamanca, where he had received his bachelor's degree. He
• 2:31:07
  was none of the biggest in Bonny, but a very great man in all
• 2:31:11
  sorts of drawlry. He was about twenty four years old. His face was
• 2:31:15
  round, his mouth was large, and his eyes sprinkled with good humor.
• 2:31:18
  You are a scholar, whispered the niece as they entered the room. Try
• 2:31:22
  to persuade him from riding out again. But Samson liked nothing so well as
• 2:31:26
  sport, and he was a great actor and mimic. He threw himself at
• 2:31:31
  Don Quixote's feet and delivered the speech that was full of flattery and big words.
• 2:31:35
  O Flower of chivalry. He cried, refulgent, glory of arms,
• 2:31:41
  the pride of Spain. Let all who would prevent thy third going out to
• 2:31:46
  be lost and disappointed in their perverse wishes. Then, turning to the housekeeper,
• 2:31:50
  he said, you must not attain him, for while he stays here
• 2:31:54
  idle, the poor are without a helper, orphans are without a friend,
• 2:31:58
  the oppressed are out the defender, and the world is deprived of a most
• 2:32:01
  valorous knight. To this speech. The housekeeper could make no reply, and
• 2:32:07
  Samson therefore turned again to don Quixote. Go forth in my graceful, my
• 2:32:13
  fearless hero, he said, let your greatness be on the wing, and
• 2:32:16
  if anything be needful to your comfort or your service here, I am to
• 2:32:20
  supply it. I am ready to do anything. I am ready, yet
• 2:32:24
  ambitious, to attend you as your squire and faithful servant. Don Quixote was
• 2:32:31
  deeply moved. He took the young man by the hand and embraced him.
• 2:32:35
  No, my friend, he said, it would be unfair that Samson Carrasco,
• 2:32:39
  the darling of courts, on the glory of the settle months of schools,
• 2:32:43
  should devote his talents to such a purpose. I forbid it remain in
• 2:32:48
  thy country, the honor of Spain and the delight of thy parents. Although
• 2:32:52
  Sancho declines to go with me, there are plenty of others who will be
• 2:32:56
  glad to serve as my squire. At these words, Sancho burst into tears
• 2:33:01
  and cried out, oh, I'll go, I'll go with you, sir.
• 2:33:03
  I have not a heart of flint, and if I spoke about wages,
• 2:33:07
  it was only to please my wife. So the two embraced and were
• 2:33:11
  as good friends as before, and with the advice of Samson Carrasco, it
• 2:33:16
  was agreed that on the third day they would set out on their new trial
• 2:33:20
  of adventures. The niece and the housekeeper made a woeful outcry. They tore
• 2:33:26
  their hair, they scratched their faces, they scolded, they pleaded, they
• 2:33:28
  wept bitter tears, but nothing could change the designs of the velorous night.
• 2:33:35
  The curate and the barber, as well as the women, blamed Samson Carrasco
• 2:33:39
  for the whole business, but he understood the case better than they. It
• 2:33:43
  is wiser not to restrain him. He said, he will find the cure
• 2:33:46
  for his malady, not here, but on the road, so let us
• 2:33:50
  humor him. End of Chapter seventeen. Chapter eighteen, in search of Dulcinea.
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  Towards evening on the appointed date, the start was made. Don Quixote
• 2:34:01
  mounted on his Rosinante, and Sancho threw himself astride of his faithful dapple.
• 2:34:07
  The knight carried a new lance and wore a new helmet of brass, which
• 2:34:09
  his friend Sampson had given him, and the squire carried a wallet well filled
• 2:34:13
  with provisions, and the purse stuffed with money to the fray expenses. The
• 2:34:18
  niece and the housekeeper, having become reconciled to the journey, soothed the door,
• 2:34:22
  raving their good byes, and Sancho's wife, watching from her window,
• 2:34:26
  wept her farewells as they passed. Sampson Carrasco walked with them to the edge
• 2:34:31
  of the village, and there bade them God's speed on their journey. And
• 2:34:35
  so Knight and Squire rode forth with solemn faces and high resolves, ready to
• 2:34:41
  encounter whatever fate was in store for them. Friend Sancho said, Don Quixote,
• 2:34:46
  our first duty is plain. Before undertaking any feat of arms, we
• 2:34:50
  must prepare to the city of Teposso, and there performed those acts of homage
• 2:34:54
  which are due to the peerless lady Dulcinea. It is even as you command,
• 2:34:58
  Sir Knight, answered Sancho. Therefore to Diboso they made their way.
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  It was late in the afternoon of the second day when they came in sight
• 2:35:07
  of that notable and most important place. Since Don Quixote did not know the
• 2:35:11
  house whence Dulcinea lived, he thought it best to tarry outside until after nightfall.
• 2:35:16
  They therefore spent the evening under some oaks a little way from the road,
• 2:35:20
  and did not enter Toboso until about midnight. As they rode along the
• 2:35:24
  grass grown street, the whole world seemed silent. There was no one stirring
• 2:35:28
  in the city. The people were all asleep, and there was no light
• 2:35:33
  save that of the moon. The heart of Don Quixote was filled with forebodings.
• 2:35:37
  My dear Sancho, he whispered, hoarsely, show me the way to
• 2:35:41
  her palace. Palace, He said, what palace do you mean? When
• 2:35:48
  I saw her, she was living in a small cottage. Now, in
• 2:35:50
  truth, he had never seen her at all, but he wished to make
• 2:35:54
  believe that he had done so when his master had sent him with the letter.
• 2:35:58
  They rode slowly along the street till they approached the large building, which
• 2:36:01
  loomed tall and dark in the dim moonlight. Here, it is, said
• 2:36:05
  Don Quixote, here is my Dulcinea's palace, and it is well worthy of
• 2:36:09
  a peerless lady. But when he rode it closer, he discovered that there
• 2:36:13
  was no palace at all, but only the great church of the town.
• 2:36:16
  We have made a mistake, Sancho. He said, this is not her
• 2:36:20
  dwelling place, and we shall have to look farther. They rode onward to
• 2:36:24
  the end of the street. Then they came back and looked through every by
• 2:36:28
  path and alley, but they could not find anything that looked like a palace.
• 2:36:33
  Presently, the knight began to wear away. A faint light appeared in
• 2:36:37
  the east and grew larger and brighter. It overspread the sky. The swallows
• 2:36:41
  that were nesting under the caves began to twitter. Morning was nigh at hand.
• 2:36:46
  Here and there a door was heard to open. The sound of voices
• 2:36:48
  broke the stillness of the town. The people were beginning to stir. As
• 2:36:54
  Knight and Squire paused in the street, uncertain what to do. A young
• 2:36:58
  countryman came along, driving a pair of mules and singing the song of Roland.
• 2:37:03
  Good morning, honest friend, said don Quixote, pray, tell me
• 2:37:07
  where is the palace of the peerless princess, the lady Dulcinea del Toboso.
• 2:37:13
  I've just lately come to Toboso, and I don't know of any palaces,
• 2:37:16
  but the curate of the town lives in this next house. Ask him he
• 2:37:20
  knows all about princesses and palaces. Having said this, he switched his mules
• 2:37:26
  and drove on, singing louder than before. Don Quixote, sitting quietly on
• 2:37:31
  the back of Rosenante, gazed at the curate's house, uncertain what to do.
• 2:37:35
  Curates were not always favorable to chivalry, and this curate might not sympathize
• 2:37:39
  with a wondering night, however valorous he might be. It was now broad
• 2:37:46
  daylight, the sun was almost above the trees. There would soon be other
• 2:37:50
  passers by in the street. Sancho Panza began to feel uneasy. I think,
• 2:37:56
  sir, said he that it will not be very handsome to sit here
• 2:38:00
  and be stared at by everybody in the town. We had better slip out
• 2:38:03
  to some grove not far away. Then, While you lie there hidden,
• 2:38:07
  I will come back and search every hole and corner for the lady Dulcinea.
• 2:38:11
  When I find her, i'll talk to her and tell her that you are
• 2:38:13
  close by waiting for her orders. This, of course, will make her
• 2:38:18
  all the more ready to receive you. Dear Sancho answered don Quixote, you
• 2:38:24
  were always wise. You have said a thousand sentences and a few words,
• 2:38:28
  and I will do exactly as you say without further loss of time. Therefore,
• 2:38:33
  they turned their steeds about and rode out of town to a grove some
• 2:38:37
  two miles away. There, don Quixote concealed himself among the trees, bidding
• 2:38:41
  Sancho Panza return and make haste to discover the whereabouts of the lady Dulcinea.
• 2:38:48
  Cheer up. Master Sancho replied, at leaving, I'll be back in the
• 2:38:52
  trice the hare leaps out of the bush, where release expect her faint heart
• 2:38:56
  never won fair, Lady Sancho said the knight, you have a rare talent
• 2:39:01
  for clothing proverbs. But the squire was already riding briskly away towards the town.
• 2:39:07
  He did not ride far. However, at the foot of a little
• 2:39:11
  hill, he paused and looked back. Seeing that he was out of his
• 2:39:13
  master's sight, he stopped under a tree by the roadside and began to talk
• 2:39:16
  with himself. Friend, Sancho, where are you going? Are you hunting
• 2:39:22
  for a mule? No, not for any mule. What then are you
• 2:39:26
  doing? I am looking for a princess who was the sum of all beauty.
• 2:39:31
  Where do you think you will find her where? Why in the great
• 2:39:35
  city of Toboso. But it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
• 2:39:39
  Why do you undertake such a thing? Why to please my master, of
• 2:39:45
  course, But if he is mad enough to mistake windmills for giants, it
• 2:39:48
  will not be hard to make him believe that any country girl is the lady
• 2:39:52
  Dulcinea. Certainly it will not. Well, that is just what I'll do.
• 2:39:58
  It will be the easiest wail of this stru business. So he alighted
• 2:40:01
  and sat down under the tree, and he remembered the provisions which he had
• 2:40:05
  in his wallet. When he had eaten a hearty breakfast, he lay down
• 2:40:09
  and slept until it was far past midday. At last he awoke, feeling
• 2:40:13
  rested, and contented, this is better than riding through Toboso hunting for Dulcinea's
• 2:40:18
  palace. He said, he had just remounted his donkey when looking down the
• 2:40:24
  road he saw three country girls coming up from the town. They were awkward
• 2:40:28
  and red faced, and were riding slowly along on donkeys. Sancho did not
• 2:40:33
  wait a moment, but turned his steed quickly about and made all haste back
• 2:40:35
  to his master, Well, my good Sancho, what news, asked the
• 2:40:41
  knight. Eagerly? Are we to mark this day with a white stone or
• 2:40:45
  with a black market with red ochre? Sir answered Sancho. The lady Dulcinea,
• 2:40:50
  with her two mates, is coming out to meet you. She is
• 2:40:52
  close at hand, even now some mount rosing on to it quickly and getting
• 2:40:58
  to the road where you can see her for yourself and greet her in a
• 2:41:01
  becoming manner. I can hardly believe such news, Sancho said, Don Quixote,
• 2:41:07
  do not add to my grief by deceiving me. Deceive you, sir,
• 2:41:11
  Why should I wish to play a trick on you? Come Ride out
• 2:41:13
  with me quickly, and you will see the princess coming. She and her
• 2:41:16
  damsels are all one sparkle of gold. All pearls are diamond, all rubies.
• 2:41:22
  There is never so much beauty seen in Spain. Let us hasten,
• 2:41:26
  then, Sancho said Don Quixote, climbing upon Rosinante with uncommon speed. And
• 2:41:31
  I promise to reward you for your good deeds. You shall have the best
• 2:41:35
  spoils of our next adventure, And if that is not enough, I will
• 2:41:39
  give you the three colts I have at home. I shall be very glad
• 2:41:43
  to get the colt's master, And I thank you, said Sancho. But
• 2:41:46
  as for spoils, they are so small that I am not particular. They
• 2:41:50
  would hastily out of the grove and were soon on the high road at the
• 2:41:54
  crest of the hill. Looking down towards the town, they could see no
• 2:41:56
  one but the three donkey lasses, approaching slowly on their donkeys. Don Quixote's
• 2:42:03
  face showed his deep disappointment. He paused and looked backward and forward this way,
• 2:42:09
  and that I don't see her, Sancho, he said, are you
• 2:42:13
  sure that she has left the city? But where are your eyes? Master,
• 2:42:18
  answered the squire, would you see her right there with her two lovely
• 2:42:20
  maidens? I see nothing but three country girls on three very strongy donkeys.
• 2:42:26
  Well, well, is it possible that you mistake the princess for an awkward
• 2:42:31
  country girl? Can't you distinguish a beautiful palfrey from a miserable donkey? To
• 2:42:37
  tell you the truth, Sancho, I see nothing but three donkeys carrying as
• 2:42:41
  many red faced country girls. They are coming towards us, and I see
• 2:42:45
  them quite plainly but where is the princess, Oh, master master, how
• 2:42:48
  blind you are. There is no country girl inside. It is the princess
• 2:42:54
  whom you see, and she is drawing nearer every moment. Let us hasten
• 2:42:58
  and speak to her. So saying, Sancho spurred his donkey onward and hurried
• 2:43:03
  down the hill to meet the girls. He leaped to the ground to the
• 2:43:07
  middle of the road before them, He placed himself in front of the tallest
• 2:43:11
  and most ungainly of the three. He lifted his hat and fell upon his
• 2:43:15
  knees. Queen and Princess of beauty, listen to my prayer, he began.
• 2:43:20
  If it please your Highness and haughtiness grant had taken too your lightning that
• 2:43:26
  yonder knight. Who is your humble captive. I am Sancho Panza, his
• 2:43:30
  famous squire, and he is the wondering weather beaten Don Quixote di la Mancha.
• 2:43:37
  By this time, Don Quixote had also dismounted and was kneeling in the
• 2:43:41
  middle of the road. It was hard for him to believe that this homely
• 2:43:43
  damsel was his queen, the Lady Dulcinea, for she was flat nosed and
• 2:43:48
  blubber cheeked and coarse and firm in manners. Yet he tried to imagine that
• 2:43:52
  some enchanter had changed her into this form. Get out of our way,
• 2:43:56
  screamed the angry girls. We're in a hurry to get home. But Sancho
• 2:44:01
  knelt unmoved in the very pathway of their mules. Oh, universal lady,
• 2:44:05
  he said, does not your heart melt and pity? See there, how
• 2:44:09
  the post and pillar of knight Errantry is offering his homage to you. Hey
• 2:44:15
  day, cried one of the girls. Listen to his gibberish. Get out
• 2:44:20
  of the way, shouted the tall one. Yes, get out of the
• 2:44:22
  way, and let us get along, screamed the third. With that,
• 2:44:26
  they kicked their donkeys in the ribs and crowded past. The next moment,
• 2:44:30
  they were speeding away in the cloud of dust, and were soon at the
• 2:44:33
  top of the hill. Don Quixote rose from the ground and looked after them.
• 2:44:37
  He washed them with sorrowing eyes until a turn in the road hid them
• 2:44:41
  from sight. Then he turned to the squire and said, Sancho, what
• 2:44:46
  do you think of this business? Aren't those enchanters the most evil minded creatures
• 2:44:50
  you ever saw? They were not content with turning my dulcinea into the likeness
• 2:44:54
  of a coarse country girl. They went so far as to take from her
• 2:44:56
  the sweet perfume of flowers. Or didn't you know this? That strong whiff
• 2:45:01
  of raw onions as she passed us. It almost took my breath away.
• 2:45:07
  Oh those enchanters, cried Sancho. They don't stop at any kind of wickedness.
• 2:45:11
  And I wish I could see the most strung on that thread and hung
• 2:45:15
  up to dry like a lot of herrings. Ah well, well, sighed
• 2:45:20
  Don Quixote. I have sat up before, and now I say a thousand
• 2:45:24
  times I am the most unlucky man in the universe. Then he remounted Rosenante
• 2:45:31
  and rode on, very sad and silent. He rode on through the town
• 2:45:37
  and down the long, dusty highway on the other side, not caring whither
• 2:45:41
  he went, and Sancho Panza followed him in of chapter eighteen Chapter nineteen The
• 2:45:50
  Strolling Players. A few days afterward, as Don Quixote was riding onward and
• 2:45:56
  still grieving because of his ill luck, he suddenly met a large car full
• 2:46:00
  of strange people. The driver, who was walking by his horses was dressed
• 2:46:05
  very oddly. His coat and trousers were of scarlet. He had horns on
• 2:46:09
  his head, and he wore a long pointed tail. He looks like some
• 2:46:13
  wicked hobgoblin, whispered Sancho to his master. Seated in the cart. There
• 2:46:18
  was a hideous figure of death. On one side of this figure, an
• 2:46:22
  angel was standing with his great white rings folded. On the other side sat
• 2:46:28
  an emperor with a golden crown on his head. Behind these there was cupid
• 2:46:31
  with a bow and arrows, as cupids always are, and near him was
• 2:46:35
  a knight in white armor, who wore a soft hat instead of a helmet.
• 2:46:39
  Following the cart on foot there came a clown with cap and bells,
• 2:46:43
  and with him were three or four other persons dressed in strange and brightly covered
• 2:46:46
  clothing. Neither knight nor squire had ever seen so strange a company of travelers,
• 2:46:52
  and Don Quixote paused in surprise at meeting them in that lonely place.
• 2:46:56
  As for Sancho, he was frightened beyond measure, for he thought that these
• 2:47:00
  were the enchanters of whom his master was always talking, and no mistake.
• 2:47:05
  Soon, however, Don Quixote's face grew brighter, for a brave thought had
• 2:47:07
  come to him. He spurred Rosenante Ford, saying to Sancho, perhaps this
• 2:47:13
  will be the rarest of all our adventures. He planted himself in the middle
• 2:47:16
  of the road before the approaching company. Then he shouted, you, carter,
• 2:47:22
  coachman, or wherever you be, halt, haunt there and answer my
• 2:47:26
  questions. Who are you, where have you come from, Whither are you
• 2:47:30
  going? What is your business? The driver brought the cart to a standstill
• 2:47:35
  and looked up with surprise at the strangely clad horseman who had thus challenged him.
• 2:47:41
  Sir, he said, we are a party of players. We have
• 2:47:45
  just come from the town on the other side of the mountain where you have
• 2:47:48
  been playing a tragedy called the Dance of Death. This afternoon we are to
• 2:47:50
  play the again in the next town. We are traveling in our acting clothes,
• 2:47:54
  so as to save the trouble of dressing and then dressing ourselves. You
• 2:47:58
  speak like an honest man, said Don Quixote, although you look like something
• 2:48:03
  quite different. Well, I play the part of the devil, answered the
• 2:48:07
  driver, And you know that is the best part of all The young man
• 2:48:11
  in the wagon takes the part of death, and the person by his side
• 2:48:13
  is an angel. And there is the Emperor, and there is the soldier.
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  And behind the wagon you can see all the rest of the company.
• 2:48:20
  I wish you well, good people, said don Quixote, moving aside.
• 2:48:24
  Drive on now and act your play. If I can be of any help
• 2:48:26
  to you, I shall be much pleased, for even in my childhood I
• 2:48:30
  love the player's art. At this moment, the clown came frisking to the
• 2:48:33
  front of the wagon to see what was going on. A number of tinkling
• 2:48:37
  bells were fastened to his coat, and he had a long stake with three
• 2:48:39
  bladders on it, which he flourished back and forth in the air. His
• 2:48:45
  first act was to bounce the bladders right under poor Rosinante's nose. This so
• 2:48:48
  startled the old horse that he sprang forward and quickly had the better of his
• 2:48:52
  rider. He took the bit in his mouth and ran with all the speed
• 2:48:58
  of a plow horse across the open Sancho was in great fear lest don Quxote
• 2:49:03
  should be thrown and hurt. Therefore he leaped from his donkey and gave chase,
• 2:49:07
  hoping to overtake the flying steed, or at the worst, to ease
• 2:49:09
  his master's fall. But before he had gone a hundred yards, Rosanante stumbled,
• 2:49:13
  and horse and rider fell, rolling into the dust. Now, the
• 2:49:18
  clown, when he saw Sancho dismount, ran hastily to the dapple donkey and
• 2:49:22
  leaped upon his back. He rattled the bladders over the poor creature's ears,
• 2:49:26
  and so frightened it was that it went flying down the road towards the town
• 2:49:30
  where the play was to be. Sancho, seeing this, was uncertain what
• 2:49:33
  to do. Should he help his master or should he run after dapple on
• 2:49:37
  the ground. He turned this way, he turned that, he leaped over
• 2:49:41
  the fence, he leaped back, and at last he hurried to the knight
• 2:49:45
  and helped him to rise. Oh, sir, he cried, the evil
• 2:49:48
  one has run away with my dear dapple. What evil one? Asked don
• 2:49:54
  Quixote, Why the one of the bladders, answered Sancho. Oh, well,
• 2:50:00
  don't grieve about that, said don Quixote. I'll force him to give
• 2:50:03
  the animal up. Follow me, Sancho, Oh, master, I'd rather
• 2:50:07
  not, said Sancho. Anyhow, we needn't be in our hurry, for
• 2:50:09
  I see that he has left the donkey and has gone his way. What
• 2:50:13
  he said was true, for the donkey had fallen in the road and thrown
• 2:50:16
  its rider. The clown picked himself up, unhurt, and walked on towards
• 2:50:20
  the town. The donkey also arose, and, after looking around, came
• 2:50:24
  slowly back towards its master. All this is lucky for you, said don
• 2:50:28
  Quixote, but it won't hinder me from teaching these people a lesson. Then,
• 2:50:33
  in spite of all that Sancho could do or say, he galloped after
• 2:50:35
  the cart, saying, hold, hold stop there, my pretty sparks.
• 2:50:41
  I'll teach you to be a little more civil to strangers when you meet them
• 2:50:43
  on the road. The players stopped. They leaped out of the wagon and
• 2:50:46
  arranged themselves by the side of the road. Each had a stone in his
• 2:50:50
  hand ready in case of need to let fly the knight in the squire.
• 2:50:54
  Don Quixote checked his flying steed. He paused for a moment to think of
• 2:50:58
  the best way to attack this fearless company. He raised his lands and was
• 2:51:03
  just going to charge upon his foes when Sancho overtook him. For goodness,
• 2:51:09
  sake, Sir, he cried, are you mad leave those fellows alone?
• 2:51:13
  They are only players, and not a single night among them there there,
• 2:51:16
  answered don Quixote, you have touched me upon the only point that can move
• 2:51:20
  me. For indeed, it would never do for me to engage in combat
• 2:51:24
  with any but true knights. You are the man, Sancho, to fight
• 2:51:28
  with players. It is your business, So get at them. I will
• 2:51:31
  stay here and help you with good advice. Er no, thank you,
• 2:51:35
  sir, said Sancho. I forgive those people. I'd like nothings to will
• 2:51:39
  this peace and quiet. And in fact, the donkey has not been hurt
• 2:51:43
  and all, So why should we make a fuss about it? Oh,
• 2:51:46
  well, answered this master. If that's the way you feel about it,
• 2:51:50
  Friend, Sancho, we had better leave them alone. Come mount your donkey
• 2:51:54
  and let us ride onward in search of more worthy adventures. So saying,
• 2:51:58
  he wheeled his steat about and resumed his journey, and Sancho, well pleased
• 2:52:01
  and very meek, mounted dapple and followed him. End of Chapter nineteen,
• 2:52:09
  Chapter twenty, The Knight of the Mirrors. That night, don Quixote and
• 2:52:13
  Sancho Panza sought shelter under some trees by the roadside. Sancho unsaddled his dapple
• 2:52:20
  and turned the beasts loose to graze among the shrubs and thistles. Din He
• 2:52:24
  threw himself down to the foot of a cork tree, and was soon fast
• 2:52:26
  asleep. But poor Rosinante was doomed to stand saddled all night, for his
• 2:52:31
  master suddenly remembered that it was the custom of knights errant to take off only
• 2:52:35
  the bridles of their steeds when thus resting in the open air. Don Quixote
• 2:52:41
  lay down beneath a spreading oak tree and tried to compose himself to rest.
• 2:52:45
  He lay and watched the stars twinkling in the sky above him, and tried
• 2:52:48
  to remember all the noble knights who had likewise reposed at night under the canopy
• 2:52:52
  of a tree. Suddenly he was aroused by hearing a noise near him.
• 2:52:58
  He sat up and listened. He heard voices in the road. He heard
• 2:53:03
  them approaching the grove of trees. Soon he was aware that two men on
• 2:53:07
  horseback were close at hand. He could see only their shadowy figures in the
• 2:53:11
  midsummer darkness as they came slowly toward his resting place. Then he could distinguish
• 2:53:16
  what they said. This a light here, friend, said one, methinks
• 2:53:20
  this is a pleasant place to rest for the night. Don Quixote, watching
• 2:53:24
  from the shadows of the oak, saw him slide carelessly from his horse and
• 2:53:30
  throwing himself down the tall grass. He heard a rattling like that of armor,
• 2:53:33
  he thought. He saw the dim outlines of a shield, and all
• 2:53:37
  this filled his heart with joy. This stranger is a knight like myself,
• 2:53:41
  he thought. Then, with the greatest caution, he went softly over to
• 2:53:46
  the cork tree and woke up his squire, Sancho. He whispered, wake
• 2:53:50
  up. Here is an adventure for us. Well, I ope, it's
• 2:53:54
  a good one, said Sancho. Where is it? Where only turn your
• 2:54:01
  head, man and look yonder? There is a night errant lying in the
• 2:54:05
  grass. I think he is melancholy, for I heard him sigh as he
• 2:54:09
  slid from his horse. What of that? How do you make the adventure
• 2:54:13
  out of it? Even if he did sigh, I'm not sure it is
• 2:54:18
  an adventure, answered don Quixote. But it looks that way, Hark.
• 2:54:22
  He is sitting up now and tuning his guitar. He's going to sing they
• 2:54:26
  sat and listened. Soon the voice of the strange night was heard, mingling
• 2:54:31
  with the sweet thrumming tones of the guitar. What what, whispered don Quixote,
• 2:54:37
  He is singing up the cruelty of his lady love. Didn't I tell
• 2:54:41
  you he was melancholy. When the knight had finished his song, he began
• 2:54:46
  to sigh most dolefully. He arose, and, leaning against the tree,
• 2:54:50
  cried out in a mournful voice, Oh, thou faire casadilia de Valdalia,
• 2:54:56
  Thou fairest of the fair? Is it not enough to be non the fairest
• 2:55:00
  lady in the world. For all the brave knights of Castile and Leon and
• 2:55:05
  Namachha declare that thou hast no equal beauty in queenly love. It is not
• 2:55:11
  so, said don Quixote, speaking softly to Sancho. I am the only
• 2:55:15
  knight of Lamacha, and I have never said, nor shall I ever say,
• 2:55:18
  that any lady is as beautiful as my own. Dulcinea. It is
• 2:55:22
  plain that this knight is out of his senses. But let us listen.
• 2:55:26
  We shall hear more. Yes, I think we shall hear enough, answered
• 2:55:30
  Sancho, for he seems likely to keep on grumbling for a month. He
• 2:55:35
  spoke so loudly that the strange Knight heard him. Who's there, he called,
• 2:55:39
  coming out from the shadows, friends, answered Sancho. Are you of
• 2:55:43
  the happy or of the miserable? Asked the knight, the miserable? The
• 2:55:48
  miserable, answered Don Quixote. Then I welcome you, said the stranger.
• 2:55:54
  Come over here and sit with me. Than Quillie went over. The knight
• 2:55:58
  shook hands with him, and seemed very glad. I am a knight,
• 2:56:01
  said Don Quixote, And so am I answered the other. Then they sat
• 2:56:05
  down in the grass and talked together, very peaceably and lovingly, and not
• 2:56:09
  at all like two men who were going to break each other's heads. In
• 2:56:13
  the Meanwhile, Sancho went across the road to the spot where the strange Knight's
• 2:56:16
  squire was resting by the side of his seed. Hello, stranger, he
• 2:56:20
  said, Hello to you, My friend, said the other. Sit down
• 2:56:26
  here and let this chat freely to ourselves, just as squires always do.
• 2:56:30
  With all my heart, answered Sancho, I'll talk with you and tell you
• 2:56:33
  who I am and what I am. Then you will know whether I am
• 2:56:35
  fit to be a squire or not. So, the two sat down by
• 2:56:39
  the trunk of a tree, and for some time talked as foolishly as their
• 2:56:43
  masters were talking wisely. The hours wore pleasantly on unto the starry sky.
• 2:56:48
  The two squires soon dropped asleep and lay snoring side by side on the warm
• 2:56:54
  earth. But the two knights were so full of talk that they never thought
• 2:56:56
  of slumber. And many were the tales of Vallet, which each related to
• 2:57:01
  the other. The strange Knight was a great boaster. There was no war
• 2:57:05
  which he had not fought. There is no trial of arms in which he
• 2:57:07
  had not been the victor. I reckon that I have vanquished every one dering
• 2:57:13
  night in the universe, he said. I once justed with the renowned don
• 2:57:16
  Quixote di la Mancha, and overcame him in fair combat. Hold, cried
• 2:57:22
  don Quixote, in wonder and anger. Don't say that you have vanquished all
• 2:57:26
  the knights in Spain save one. But you have never encountered don Quixote.
• 2:57:31
  But I say that I have answered the stranger. Perhaps you have fought with
• 2:57:35
  some one who looks like him, said don Quixote, But had you met
• 2:57:37
  the man himself, you would not now be boasting of your encounter. What
• 2:57:43
  do you mean, cried the stranger, rising to his feet. I tell
• 2:57:46
  you that there was don Quixote himself whom I vanquished. There is no one
• 2:57:50
  who looks like him. He is a tall, slim faced, leather jowled
• 2:57:54
  fellow. His harris grizzled. He is hawk nosed. He has a long
• 2:57:58
  lenk mustache. The name of his squire is Sancho Panza, and the name
• 2:58:01
  of his lady is Dulcinee del to Boso. Now, if you don't believe
• 2:58:05
  me, let me say that I wear a storage and I will make you
• 2:58:07
  believe. Not so fast, sir Knight, answered don Quixote. I am
• 2:58:13
  acquainted with the same volorous Knight of La Mancha. In fact, he is
• 2:58:16
  the best friend I have in the world, and I love him as well
• 2:58:20
  as I love myself. You have described him well, but you have never
• 2:58:24
  fought with him. The enchanters, who are his enemies, have probably made
• 2:58:28
  some other knight look like him. The stranger shook his head. It is
• 2:58:31
  even so, continued dun Quixote. Indeed, it was not many days ago
• 2:58:37
  that they transformed the beautiful Dulcinea del Toboso into the ugly image of a coarse
• 2:58:43
  country girl. But if you still insist that you really overcame don Quixote,
• 2:58:46
  let me tell you something. Here is that renown Knight himself ready to make
• 2:58:52
  good his words, either on foot or on horseback, or in any other
• 2:58:56
  way you choose. As he said this, he jumped up and laid paid
• 2:59:00
  his hand on his sword. But the strange Knight sat still on the ground.
• 2:59:05
  Sir, he said quietly, if I could vanquish Don Quixote when transformed,
• 2:59:09
  why shall I fear him in his true shape? But Knight did not
• 2:59:13
  fight in the dark. Let us wait till morning, so that the sun
• 2:59:16
  may behold our valor. You speak well, answered don Quixote. I am
• 2:59:22
  willing to wait. Having come to an agreement, the two knights went across
• 2:59:26
  the road to look for their squires. They found them stretched on the ground
• 2:59:30
  and snoring. They roused them and bade them get their steeds ready, for
• 2:59:33
  with the rising of the sun the combat was to begin. Sancho Panza was
• 2:59:39
  astounded at this news, but he said not a word. He went at
• 2:59:43
  once with a strange squire to look for the horses. Well, friend,
• 2:59:48
  said the other. Since our masters are going to fight, I guess that
• 2:59:52
  you and I must also have a brush. That is the way they do
• 2:59:54
  it in Hindelusia, where I come from, servants never stand idle where our
• 2:59:58
  masters fighting. And I may follow that custom in Andalusia, answered Sancho.
• 3:00:05
  But I'm sure I won't follow it. I'm no hand at fighting. I
• 3:00:07
  never had a sword in my life. Oh, never mind the swords,
• 3:00:11
  said the strange squire. I have a couple of bags here. You take
• 3:00:15
  one and I'll take one, and we'll let drive each other. That's good,
• 3:00:18
  cried Sancho. We'll dust each other's jackets and not get hurt hardly.
• 3:00:22
  So good as that, said the stranger. We'll put half a dozen stones
• 3:00:26
  in each bag so that we may fight the better. Then I say again
• 3:00:30
  that I don't feel like fighting, said Sancho. Let this live and be
• 3:00:33
  merry while we may. I'm not angry with you, and I can't fight
• 3:00:37
  in cold blood. No, If that's all, said the other, I
• 3:00:41
  can soon warm your blood for you. See, I'll walk up to you
• 3:00:43
  quite gently. I'll give you three four slaps on the head and knock you
• 3:00:46
  down. Your blood will begin to boil, then will it boil or no
• 3:00:52
  boil? I'll meet you at that trick, answered Sancho. I'll break your
• 3:00:56
  head with a stick. Every man for himself. Many come for wool and
• 3:01:00
  go home shorn. A baited cat may prove as fierce as a lion.
• 3:01:03
  Nobody knows what they may do when I am stirred up. By this time
• 3:01:07
  they had found the horses and were grooming them for the combat. Well,
• 3:01:11
  well, may the sun hasten to rise, said the strange squire. I
• 3:01:13
  can hardly wait to begin the fight. And in fact, it was not
• 3:01:18
  long until the day began to break through the great light of the dawn.
• 3:01:22
  Sancho looked at his companion. His heart leaped with surprise, and he began
• 3:01:26
  to tremble, for he saw that the nose of the stranger was the most
• 3:01:28
  wonderful and fearful that could be imagined. It was so big that it overshadowed
• 3:01:33
  the rest of his face. It was crooked in the middle, and as
• 3:01:35
  red as a tomato. I would rather be kicked two hundred times in to
• 3:01:39
  fight with that. In those, said Sancho. It was quite different with
• 3:01:43
  Don Quixote. He stole up boldly and gazed at the Knight with whom he
• 3:01:48
  was about to fight. But the stranger's humet was closed, and he could
• 3:01:50
  not see his face. His armor, however, was of the best fashion,
• 3:01:54
  and over it he wore a coat of cloth of gold. This was
• 3:01:58
  covered with numbers of tiny mirrors, shaped like half moons. The plume in
• 3:02:03
  his helmet was of yellow, green and white feathers. His lance was very
• 3:02:07
  thick and long. The Knight himself was slender, but shapely and quick of
• 3:02:11
  motion. Sir Knight of the Mirrors, said Don Quixote, be pleased to
• 3:02:16
  lift up your helmet a little so that I may see your face. Nay,
• 3:02:20
  answered the Knight, I cannot satisfy your curiosity. Now, after the
• 3:02:24
  combat you will have plenty of time to look at my face. But see
• 3:02:28
  it is broad daylight. Let us begin. I am ready, answered don
• 3:02:31
  Quixote. But while we are getting on horse back, please tell me if
• 3:02:35
  I look like that don Quixote, whom you say you overthrew in a fair
• 3:02:37
  fight. Certainly, said the Knight of the Mirrors. You are as like
• 3:02:41
  him as one egg is like another. Then let us begin the business,
• 3:02:46
  said don Quixote. I'll soon show you that I am not the Quixote whom
• 3:02:48
  you think. So without further words, they mounted. They rode some distance
• 3:02:54
  apart, and then wheeled about with their horses and made ready to charge.
• 3:02:58
  At that moment, however, an Uiote chanced to see the big nose of
• 3:03:01
  the strange squire. He paused and wonder while the Knight of the Mirrors waited
• 3:03:05
  impatiently for him to begin the onset. Sancho Panza, seeing his master's surprise,
• 3:03:11
  ran up and caught hold of his stirrup. Please, dear master,
• 3:03:15
  he said, before you run upon your enemy, help me up into this
• 3:03:18
  cork tree. I wish to sit where I can see your brave battle.
• 3:03:22
  I rather think you wish to be perch out of danger, said Don Quixote.
• 3:03:26
  I shall tell you the truth, Master, I am a little afraid
• 3:03:28
  of that nose, said Sancho. I blame you not, answered Don Quixote.
• 3:03:33
  It is indeed a sight to strike terror into any heart less brave than
• 3:03:37
  my own. So put your foot in the stirrup and then swing lightly up
• 3:03:41
  among the branches. In the meanwhile, the Knight of the Mears had again
• 3:03:46
  wheeled his horse about, and losing all patience, He now charged at full
• 3:03:50
  speed down upon his unready foe. His steed, however, was old and
• 3:03:54
  shabby, in fact more so than Rosanante, and even with much spurring and
• 3:03:58
  urging his swim, if his speed was only a slow trot down the road.
• 3:04:03
  He came lumbering awkwardly and stumbling at every step. That the middle of
• 3:04:07
  the course, his rider pulled suddenly upon the reins and stopped short. At
• 3:04:11
  this moment, don Quixote looked up, seeing his enemy so near, he
• 3:04:15
  put spurs to Rosinante so sharply that the poor beast sprang wildly forward, and
• 3:04:20
  for the first time in his life really galloped. Before the Knye of the
• 3:04:24
  Meares could get his horse to moving again, don Quixote dashed furiously upon him.
• 3:04:30
  The Knight's lance was hurled from his grasp, and he himself was knockular
• 3:04:33
  of his settle and thrown sprawling in the dust. He was so stunned by
• 3:04:37
  the fall that he lay for some time without showing any signs of life.
• 3:04:41
  Sancho had watched the short fray from his perch in the tree. He now
• 3:04:45
  slid down as quickly as he could, and ran to the help of his
• 3:04:48
  master, as for Don Quixote, he checked his steed, threw himself from
• 3:04:52
  his saddle, and hurried to the side of his fallen foe. He unlaced
• 3:04:56
  the Knight's helmet to give him air, and gently lifted it from his head.
• 3:05:01
  Who can relate to his surprise when he saw the face of the unlucky
• 3:05:03
  Knight of the Meares, For there he beheld the very visage, the very
• 3:05:09
  aspect, the very features of his friend and neighbor, Samson Carrasco of La
• 3:05:13
  Mancha. Sit here, Sancho, he cried, See what those enchanters have
• 3:05:18
  been doing. Again Sancho looked and turned pale with fear. Master, take
• 3:05:24
  my advice, he whispered, This is one of those enchanters who are all
• 3:05:28
  the time making trouble for you. He has now taken the form of our
• 3:05:31
  friend Samson Carrasco, in order to injure both him and you. Run your
• 3:05:35
  sword down his throat and so rid the world of at least one of the
• 3:05:39
  vile crew. That's a good thought, Sancho answered Don Quixote. I'll do
• 3:05:43
  as you say, and they will have fewer enemies. With that, he
• 3:05:48
  drew his sword and was about to strike, when the voice at his elbow
• 3:05:50
  cried out, hol don Quixote. He looked around. There stood the strange
• 3:05:54
  squire, but his terrible nose had vanished. Have care, don Quixote,
• 3:06:00
  He said, This fallen knight is your friend Samson Carrasco, and I am
• 3:06:03
  his squire. Where is your nose, asked Sancho. In my pocket,
• 3:06:09
  answered the squire, and he pulled out the great nose of varnish pasteboard.
• 3:06:13
  Why why, why, bless me, cried Sancho. Who is this my
• 3:06:18
  old friend and neighbor, Tomas Cecil. Is it you Tom, the very
• 3:06:24
  same priend Sancho? Was the answer. We have followed you all the way
• 3:06:26
  from La Mancha, and this is a trick we had planned to frighten Don
• 3:06:30
  Quixote, and so persuade him to go back home. And you're not in
• 3:06:35
  the ganter. I am only Tomas Cecil, your friend and neighbor. Look
• 3:06:39
  at me. By this time the Knight of the mirest had come to himself.
• 3:06:45
  He groaned and looked around. Then he sat upon the ground. Don
• 3:06:48
  Quixote set the point of a sword against his face and cried out, now,
• 3:06:52
  confess that Dulcinea del Toboso is the most beautiful lady in the world.
• 3:06:56
  Confess it or die. Ah, I do confess it, answered the knight.
• 3:07:01
  The lady Dulcinea's old shoe is more beautiful than my castle. Dea.
• 3:07:07
  Will you go to the city of Toboso and confest it to my Dulcinea herself.
• 3:07:11
  I will do anything that you command. Do you also confess that you
• 3:07:16
  never vanquished don Quixote in the fight, but only somebody else who looked like
• 3:07:20
  him. All this I do confess, believe, and feel, said the
• 3:07:24
  fallen Knight. Then don Quixote helped him to rise. He grasped his hand
• 3:07:28
  and shook it heartily. You look like my friend Sampson Carrasco, he said,
• 3:07:33
  But I know you are not he. You are some other man whom
• 3:07:37
  the enchanters have made to wear his countenance in order to deceive me. But
• 3:07:41
  I understand their tricks. They do not fool me. Sampson Carrasco as much
• 3:07:46
  put out. His carefully plans came to persuade his old neighbor to return home,
• 3:07:50
  had failed at the very start. Don Quixote would not listen to him,
• 3:07:54
  nor believe that he was at but some stranger in the service of the
• 3:07:56
  enchanters, or some poor knight who have been duped by them. So at
• 3:08:01
  length, with battered body and the sore heart, Sampson remounted his sorry steed.
• 3:08:05
  Then, with his squire beside him, he rode painfully away towards the
• 3:08:09
  nearest town, where he hoped to find plasters and ointments for his bruises.
• 3:08:15
  I believe it is really our friend, Sampson said, Sancho, be not
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  de seized by appearances, Sancho answered his master. Then they mounted their steeds
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  and renewed their journey. End of Chapter twenty Chapter twenty one, The Adventure
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  with the Lions, the sun rose high in the sky, and Don Quixote
• 3:08:39
  he jogged onward, full of joy and pride. He had overthrown the night
• 3:08:43
  of the mirrors, and he was more persuaded than ever that he was the
• 3:08:48
  most valiant hero in the world. Neither enchanter nor enchantments could alarm him.
• 3:08:56
  He was not afraid of anything, whether real or un now come what will
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  come? He cried? Here I am, and I challenged the most powerful
• 3:09:07
  foes to meet me in combat. About the middle of the afternoon, he
• 3:09:13
  was surprised to see in the distance a large wagon coming down the road from
• 3:09:20
  the opposite direction. As it drew nearer, he saw that it was drawn
• 3:09:24
  by two mules, and that several little flags were fluttering above it. See,
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  Sancho, here is an adventure for us, he said joyfully. But
• 3:09:35
  Sancho shook his head doubtfully. Those are the king's flags, he said,
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  and they are to show that the wagon is carrying something through the king.
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  It is best to be careful. The strange vehicle was now close at hand.
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  Only two men were in it, the wagoner who was astride of one
• 3:09:56
  of the mules, and a middle aged man who you sat on top of
• 3:10:00
  the wagon. Don Quixote rode briskly forward to meet them. What wagon is
• 3:10:07
  this, he cried? Who are you? Where are you going? What
• 3:10:11
  do those flags mean? The wagon is mine, answered the man on the
• 3:10:16
  mule. We have two lions in it, which the Governor of Oran is
• 3:10:20
  sending to the king. Are the lions large, asked don Quixote. Very
• 3:10:26
  large, answered the man on the wagon. They are the biggest ever seen
• 3:10:33
  in Spain, and I am their keeper. The he lion is in the
• 3:10:37
  foremost cage, and the she lion is in another cage at the rear of
• 3:10:41
  the wagon. That is right, said don Quixote. I see that you
• 3:10:46
  know how to manage wild beasts. The lions are hungry now, for they
• 3:10:52
  are not confed today, said the keeper. So, my good friend,
• 3:10:56
  please ride out of the way, for we are going to stop under this
• 3:11:01
  tree and give them their dinner. They are apt to be crossed while eating,
• 3:11:05
  what, cried don Quixote, Going up closer, Shall I ride out
• 3:11:11
  of the way for lions, And at this time of day, I'll show
• 3:11:15
  you that I'm not afraid of such puny beasts. Get down, honest fellow,
• 3:11:20
  and open their cages. I'll soon show the creatures who I am,
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  for I am the most valorous of all knights, don Quixote de la Mancha
• 3:11:33
  sancho, and now come up. And when he heard this boastful speech,
• 3:11:37
  he was frightened, almost out of his wits. Oh, my good sir,
• 3:11:41
  he cried to the keeper. For pity's sake, don't let my master
• 3:11:45
  fall upon those lions. We shall all be eaten up. Why, said
• 3:11:50
  the keeper, is your master so mad that he will dare to meddle with
• 3:11:54
  these beasts, Ah, sir, answered Sancho, he is not but rash,
• 3:12:01
  very rash. By this time the wagon had stopped, and don Quixote
• 3:12:07
  was growing impatient. You rascal, he cried, turning again to the keeper.
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  Do you hear me open your cages at once, or I'll pin you
• 3:12:18
  to the wagon with my lance. The wagoner, who had leapt to the
• 3:12:22
  ground was by nature a coward, and he was now almost helpless with fright.
• 3:12:28
  For mercy's sake, he cried, let me take my mules out first.
• 3:12:33
  Let me get them out of the way before you open the cage.
• 3:12:37
  They are all I have in the world, thou man of little faith,
• 3:12:43
  said don Quixote. Unhitch the poor things and take them away as quickly as
• 3:12:48
  possible. You will soon see that I am fully able to take care of
• 3:12:54
  the lions. The wagoner hastened to obey. He loosed his mules from the
• 3:13:01
  wagon, and then drove them with such speed as he could to the top
• 3:13:05
  of a hillock a quarter of a mile away. There, feeling himself safe,
• 3:13:11
  he paused to see what would happen. In the meantime, don Quixote
• 3:13:15
  again addressed the keeper. Obey me instantly he said, or suffer the punishments
• 3:13:22
  you deserve. The keeper felt the point of the lance against his breast.
• 3:13:28
  He was, by no means a brave man, and he turned pale as
• 3:13:31
  he realized the danger he was in. I will do as you bid me,
• 3:13:35
  he said. But know all men that I am forced to turn the
• 3:13:39
  lions loose against my will. Then he went around to the foremost cage and
• 3:13:46
  began to unfasten the door. Shift for yourselves, all of you, he
• 3:13:50
  cried. The lions know me and won't hurt me, but I won't answer
• 3:13:56
  for the harm they may do to others. He again tried to read with
• 3:14:00
  Don Quixote, Sir, you are attempting heaven by putting yourself in such danger,
• 3:14:05
  he said, you rascal, answered the knight. It is for you
• 3:14:11
  to obey and not to advise. Open the cage, I say. Then
• 3:14:18
  Sancho spoke up, good Master. He said, this is no trick of
• 3:14:22
  enchantment. It's the real thing. I've just taken a peep at the cage
• 3:14:28
  and I saw the lion's claw. It's a tremendous big thing. The beast
• 3:14:33
  that owns it must be fully as big as a mountain. Your fears will
• 3:14:39
  make it as big as the world, answered don Quixote. Now, friend
• 3:14:43
  Sancho, retire to a place of safety and leave this business to me.
• 3:14:50
  If I fall in the conflict, you know your duty. Carry the news
• 3:14:54
  to Dulcinea. I say no more, poor Sancho. His eyes were full
• 3:15:00
  of tears, for he felt sure that his master was lost. He put
• 3:15:05
  his spurs to his donkey, and so joined the wagoner on the hillock for
• 3:15:09
  safety. The keeper was now standing with his hand upon the cage door,
• 3:15:15
  and don Quixote paused, uncertain whether he ought to fight on horseback or on
• 3:15:20
  foot. Rosinante is not used to lions and might not behave well. He
• 3:15:26
  said to himself, I think it will be better to fight on foot.
• 3:15:31
  He therefore dismounted and tied his horse to a tree. Then he laid aside
• 3:15:37
  his lance and drew his sword. The keeper advanced and with great caution opened
• 3:15:43
  the cage door, while don Quixote, with wondrous courage, went forward and
• 3:15:48
  stood before it. Come out, thou paltry beast, he cried, Come
• 3:15:54
  out, and I will show thee what the bravest knight in the universe came
• 3:16:00
  do the lion turned himself around in the cage. He stretched out one of
• 3:16:05
  his pies. He gaped and thrust down his tongue, which seemed as long
• 3:16:11
  as a man's arm. The knight stood up very straight and again addressed the
• 3:16:16
  beast. I challenged thee to come out and engage in fair combat with one
• 3:16:22
  who has never yet been vanquished, even with the renowned Don Quixote de la
• 3:16:28
  Mancha. The lion, with his two great eyes that were like live coals,
• 3:16:33
  gazed steadily at him through the dim light in the cage. It was
• 3:16:37
  a sight to strike terror into the heart of any man, But don Quixote
• 3:16:43
  felt no fear. I am ready for thee, he cried. The generous
• 3:16:48
  lion took no notice of his words, but yawned again, and then laid
• 3:16:54
  down, as if to take a nap. Did you see that, said
• 3:16:58
  the keeper. Surely you ought to be satisfied. You have challenged the lion.
• 3:17:03
  The beast is in such all of you that he declines the combat.
• 3:17:07
  That is true, answered don Quixote, Well, then what more can you
• 3:17:13
  wish? You have shown your greatness by your courage. No knight is expected
• 3:17:18
  to do more than challenge his enemy and wait for him on the field.
• 3:17:24
  You are right, sir, a keeper. Shut the door, and then
• 3:17:28
  write a little load for me staking what you have seen me. Do.
• 3:17:31
  Shut the door as I bid you, and I will call those back who
• 3:17:35
  run away for safety. They must hear your account of my exploit. The
• 3:17:41
  keeper gladly obeyed, and don Quixote waved a handkerchief from the points of his
• 3:17:48
  lance. Sancho was the first to see the signal. There there, he
• 3:17:54
  cried to the wagoner, I'll be switched if my master has not overcome those
• 3:17:58
  lions. They waited a few moments, and then, seeing everything quiet about
• 3:18:05
  the wagon, they went cautiously back. Come on, my friend, said
• 3:18:09
  don Quixote to the wagoner, hitch up your mules again and go your way.
• 3:18:16
  And Sancho, open your purse and give to each of these men two
• 3:18:20
  bold pieces to pay them for the time they have lost. I'll do that
• 3:18:24
  with all my heart, answered Sancho. But where are the lions? Are
• 3:18:30
  they dead or alive? Then the keeper gave a flowing account of the combat,
• 3:18:35
  and told how the lion, being overawed at the very sight of Don
• 3:18:39
  Quixote, was utterly unable to stir from his cage. What do you think
• 3:18:46
  of that, Sancho said, The proud knight courage is even greater than in
• 3:18:50
  judgment. So the two gold pieces were paid to the men. The wagoner
• 3:18:56
  hitched his mules to the wagon. The lions were duly fed, and the
• 3:19:01
  caper, well satisfied with the day's adventure, climbed up to his seat on
• 3:19:05
  the front part of the cage. Sir, good bye, he said,
• 3:19:11
  dopping his hat to Don Quixote. I thank you, and I will tell
• 3:19:16
  the King about your wonderful prowess. Do so, my friend, answered our
• 3:19:22
  hero. And if the King should ask who it was that challenged the beasts,
• 3:19:26
  tell him it was the night of the Lions, for that is the
• 3:19:31
  name by which I wish the world to know me. The wagoner cracked his
• 3:19:35
  whip and shouted. The mules strained at their chances. The wagon rumbled slowly
• 3:19:41
  away down the long road, and Don Quixote and Sancho Panza resumed in their
• 3:19:46
  journey and the chapter twenty one Chapter twenty two, the enchanted bark fear and
• 3:19:56
  softly, and step by step did Don Quixote and his squire went their way
• 3:20:01
  through field and wood and village and farmland. Many and strange were their adventures,
• 3:20:07
  so many and strange, indeed, that I shall not try to relate
• 3:20:11
  the half of them at length. On a sunny day, they came to
• 3:20:15
  the banks of the river Abril. As the Knight sat on Rosanante's back and
• 3:20:20
  gazed at the flowing water and at the grass and trees which bordered the banks
• 3:20:24
  with living green, he felt very happy. His squire, however, was
• 3:20:28
  in no pleasant humor, for the last few days had been days of weary
• 3:20:31
  toil. Presently, don Quixote observed a little boat which was lying in the
• 3:20:37
  water near by, being moored by a rope to the trunk of a small
• 3:20:41
  tree. It had neither oars nor sail, and for that reason it seemed
• 3:20:46
  all the more inviting. The Knight dismounted from his steed, calling at the
• 3:20:50
  same time to his squire to do the same. A light Sancho, he
• 3:20:54
  said, let us tie our beasts to the branches of this willow. Sancho
• 3:20:58
  obeyed, as why do we alight here? Master? You are to know,
• 3:21:03
  answered don Quixote, that this boat lies here for us. It invites
• 3:21:07
  me to embark in it and hasten to the relief of some night or other
• 3:21:11
  person of high degree who is in distress. I wonder if that is so,
• 3:21:16
  said Sancho, certainly, answered his master. In all the books that
• 3:21:20
  I have read, enchanters are forever doing such things. If a night happens
• 3:21:24
  to be in danger, there are sometimes only one other night that can rescue
• 3:21:28
  him. So a boat is provided for that other night, and in the
• 3:21:31
  twinkling of an eye, he is whisked away to the scene of trouble,
• 3:21:35
  even though it be two or three thousand leagues. That is wonderful, said
• 3:21:39
  Sancho, most assuredly, answered Don Quixote. And it is for just such
• 3:21:43
  a purpose that this enchanted bark lies here. Therefore, let us leave our
• 3:21:48
  steeds here in the shade and embark in it. Well, well, said
• 3:21:52
  Sancho, since you are the master, I must obey. But I tell
• 3:21:56
  you this is no enchanted bark. It is some fishermen boat. They are
• 3:22:01
  usually fishermen's boats, said Don Quixote. So let us begin our voyage without
• 3:22:05
  delay. He leaped into the little vessel. Sancho followed and untied the rope.
• 3:22:11
  The boat drifted slowly out into the stream. When Sancho saw that they
• 3:22:16
  were out of reach of the shore and had no means of pushing back.
• 3:22:20
  He began to quake with fear. We shall never see our noble steeds again.
• 3:22:24
  He cried, hear how the poor donkey brays and moans because we are
• 3:22:28
  leaving him. See how Rosinante tugs at his bridle. Oh, my poor
• 3:22:35
  dear friends, goodbye. Then he began such a moaning and howling that Don
• 3:22:41
  Quixote lost all patients with him. Coward, he cried, what are you
• 3:22:46
  afraid of? Who is after you? Who hurts you? Why we have
• 3:22:50
  already floated some seven or eight hundred leagues. If I'm not mistaken, we
• 3:22:54
  shall soon pass the equinoctial line, which divides the earth into parts arts.
• 3:23:00
  And when we come to that line, how far have we gone, then,
• 3:23:03
  asked Sancho, A mighty way, answered the Knight. They were now
• 3:23:09
  floating down the river with some speed. Below them were two great water mills
• 3:23:13
  near the middle of the stream. Look, look, my Sancho, cried
• 3:23:18
  Don Quixote. Do you see on city or castle that is where some knight
• 3:23:22
  lies in prison, or some princess is detained against her will? What do
• 3:23:28
  you mean, asked Sancho. Don't you see that those are no castles,
• 3:23:31
  They are only water mills for grinding corn. Peace, Sancho. I know
• 3:23:37
  they look like water mills, but that is a trick of the enchanters.
• 3:23:41
  Why those vile fellows can change and overturn everything from its natural form. You
• 3:23:48
  know how they transformed my dulcinea. The boat was now moving quite rapidly with
• 3:23:52
  the current. The people in the mills saw it and came out with long
• 3:23:56
  poles to keep it clear of the grain water wheels. They were powdered with
• 3:24:01
  flower dust, as millers commonly are, and therefore looked quite uncanny. Hello
• 3:24:07
  there, they cried, Are you mad in that boat? Push off,
• 3:24:11
  or you'll be cut to pieces by the mill wheels. Didn't I tell you,
• 3:24:16
  Sancho, that this is the place where I must show my strength,
• 3:24:18
  said don Quixote. See how those hobgoblins come out against us, But I'll
• 3:24:24
  show them what sort of person I am. Then he stood up in the
• 3:24:26
  boat and began to call the millers all sorts of bad names. You paltry
• 3:24:33
  cowards, he cried, release at once the captive whom you are detaining within
• 3:24:37
  your castle. For I am don Quixote de la Mancha, the Knight of
• 3:24:41
  the Lions, whom Heaven has sent to set your prisoner free. He drew
• 3:24:46
  his sword and began to thrust the air with it, as though fighting with
• 3:24:48
  an invisible enemy. But the millers gave little heat to his actions and stood
• 3:24:54
  ready with their poles to stop the boat. Sancho threw himself on his knees
• 3:24:58
  in the bottom of the boat and began to pray for deliverance. And indeed
• 3:25:03
  it seemed as though their time had come, for they were drifting straight into
• 3:25:07
  the wheel. Quickly the millers bestirred themselves, and thrusting out their poles,
• 3:25:11
  they overturned the boat. Don Quixote and Sancho were, of course, spilled
• 3:25:16
  out into the stream. It was lucky that both could swim. The weight
• 3:25:22
  of the Knight's armor dragged him twice to the bottom, and both he and
• 3:25:26
  his squire would have been drowned had not two of the millers jumped in and
• 3:25:30
  pulled them out by main force. Hardly had our exhausted heroes recovered their senses
• 3:25:35
  when the fishermen who owned the boat came running down to the shore. When
• 3:25:39
  he saw that the little craft had been broken to pieces in the mill wheel.
• 3:25:43
  He fell upon Sancho and began to beat him unmercifully. You shall pay
• 3:25:48
  me for that boat, he cried. I am ready to pay for it,
• 3:25:52
  said Don Quixote, provided these people will fairly and immediately surrender the prisoners
• 3:25:56
  whom they have unjustly detained in their castle. What castle do you mean and
• 3:26:01
  what prisoners? Asked the millers. Explain yourself, sir, we don't know
• 3:26:07
  what you're talking about. I might as well talk to a stump as try
• 3:26:11
  to persuade you to do a good act, answered don Quixote. Now I
• 3:26:15
  see that two rival enchanters have clashed in this adventure. One sent me a
• 3:26:20
  boat, the other overwhelmed it in the river. It is very plain that
• 3:26:24
  I can do nothing where there is such plodding and counter plotting. Then he
• 3:26:28
  turned his face toward the mill and raised his eyes to the window above the
• 3:26:31
  wheel. My friends, he cried at the top of his voice. My
• 3:26:37
  friends, whoever you are, who lie immurred in that prison, hear me,
• 3:26:41
  pardon my ill luck, for I cannot set you free. You must
• 3:26:46
  needs wait for some other night to perform that adventure. Having said this,
• 3:26:50
  he ordered Sancho to pay the fisherman fifty rials for the boat. Sancho obeyed
• 3:26:56
  sullenly, for he was very unwilling to part with the two voyages. Like
• 3:27:01
  that will sink all our stock, he muttered. The fishermen and the millers
• 3:27:05
  stood with their mouths open, wondering what sort of men these were who had
• 3:27:11
  come so strangely into their midst. Then concluding that they were madmen, they
• 3:27:16
  left them, the millers going to their mill, and the fishermen to his
• 3:27:20
  hut. As for Don Quixote and Sancho, they trudged sorrowfully back to their
• 3:27:24
  beasts, and thus ended the adventure of the Enchanted Bark end of Chapter twenty
• 3:27:31
  two. Chapter twenty three, The Duke and the Duchess. One fine day,
• 3:27:37
  just before sunset, our travelers came suddenly into a broad green meadow,
• 3:27:41
  which was bordered on three sides by a wood. In this meadow they saw
• 3:27:46
  a company of men and women, whom Don Quixote guessed to be fine people
• 3:27:50
  out for a hunt. Nor was he at all mistaken. He stopped and
• 3:27:54
  watched them from a distance. The chief person in the company was a lady
• 3:27:58
  dressed in green attire so rich that nothing could be richer. She was riding
• 3:28:03
  on a white horse, apparelled with a silver saddle and trappings of green.
• 3:28:07
  On her left wrist sat a hawk, and by this sign don Quixote knew
• 3:28:13
  her to be the mistress of the company. Presently he called softly to his
• 3:28:18
  squire friend, Sancho. He said, go quickly and tell that lady on
• 3:28:22
  the white palfrey that I the Knight of the Lions. Humbly salute her great
• 3:28:28
  beauty. But be careful what you say, and don't make a show of
• 3:28:31
  yourself by quoting proverbs. Your command shall be obeyed, said Sancho, and
• 3:28:37
  he at once set forward as fast as his donkey would carry him. As
• 3:28:41
  he drew near to the fair huntress, he alighted and fell on his knees
• 3:28:46
  before her, fair lady. He said, yonder knight is called the Knight
• 3:28:50
  of the Lions, and he is my master. I am his squire,
• 3:28:54
  and my name is Sancho Panza. He has sent me to tell you that
• 3:28:58
  he has no mind but to serve your hawking beauty, and and pray rise
• 3:29:05
  good squire, said the lady, I have heard of this Knight of the
• 3:29:09
  Lions, and it is not at all fitting that his squire should remain on
• 3:29:11
  his knees. Rise, sir, Rise, Sancho got up. He was
• 3:29:16
  surprised at the lady's beauty. He was also surprised to learn that she had
• 3:29:20
  heard of his master. He stood before her with wide open mouth, waiting
• 3:29:26
  for her further commands. Tell me, she said, is not your master,
• 3:29:31
  the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha, the very same? May
• 3:29:35
  it please your worship, answered Sancho, And that squire of his is Sancho
• 3:29:39
  Panza, by name my own self. I am very glad to hear all
• 3:29:45
  this, said the lady, and I too, said Sancho. Now go,
• 3:29:48
  friend, Panza, said the lady, and tell your master that I
• 3:29:52
  am glad to welcome him to my estates. Nothing could give me more happiness.
• 3:29:56
  Sancho was overjoyed. He hastened back to his master and repeated every word
• 3:30:01
  that had been said to him. Don Quixote listened quietly. Then he fixed
• 3:30:07
  himself in his saddle and arranged his armor. He roused up Rosinante and set
• 3:30:11
  off at a good round pace to kiss the hand of the fair huntress.
• 3:30:16
  By this time, the lady, who was indeed a duchess, had been
• 3:30:20
  joined by her husband, the Duke, and both stood waiting for his coming,
• 3:30:24
  for they had heard of his many exploits, and they wished to become
• 3:30:28
  acquainted with him. As don Quixote rode up and was about to alight,
• 3:30:31
  Sancho hastened to be ready to hold his stirrup, but as he was sliding
• 3:30:37
  from the donkey's back, his foot was caught in the pack saddle, and
• 3:30:41
  there he hung by the heel, with head on the ground. It was
• 3:30:43
  a funny sight, but everybody was looking at Don Quixote, and Sancho was
• 3:30:48
  left to struggle as he might. Don Quixote, who was used to having
• 3:30:52
  his stirrup held, now made bold to alight without his squire's help. He
• 3:30:58
  came suddenly down into the stirrup with all his weight and Rosanante's saddle girth turning,
• 3:31:05
  he tumbled upon the ground between the poor horse's feet. The Duke's men
• 3:31:09
  ran to help don Quixote to his feet. He was not hurt much.
• 3:31:13
  He brushed the dust from his hands and went limping toward the spot where the
• 3:31:18
  Duke and duchess were waiting. The Duke met him and embraced him. I
• 3:31:22
  am sorry, he said, that such a mischance should happen to you here
• 3:31:26
  on my territories, valorous Prince, said don Quixote. I count it no
• 3:31:31
  mischance, when I may have the happiness of seeing your grace. My squire
• 3:31:35
  is much more apt to let his tongue loose than to tighten my saddle girth.
• 3:31:39
  But whether I be down or up, on horseback or on foot,
• 3:31:45
  I am always at your command. Then he went on to salute the duchess
• 3:31:50
  and to pay many a pretty compliment to her beauty and her wisdom. The
• 3:31:54
  end of the whole matter was that the Duke invited him to stay for a
• 3:31:56
  while at his castle, which was not far away. I entreat you,
• 3:32:01
  most valorous knight of the lions, he said, to favor us. With
• 3:32:03
  your company, you shall have such entertainment as is due to a person so
• 3:32:07
  justly famous. Don Quixote thereupon mounted his rosinante again. The Duke got upon
• 3:32:15
  his own stately steed, and the duchess riding between them, They moved toward
• 3:32:20
  the castle, which was situated among the hills not far away. The Duchess
• 3:32:24
  was delighted with Sancho. He was always so ready with an excuse or a
• 3:32:28
  proverb, that he amused her beyond measure. Why not let your squire ride
• 3:32:33
  with us, she presently asked. Sancho needed no further invitation. He crowded
• 3:32:39
  in between the Duke and the Duchess, and thus made a fourth rider in
• 3:32:41
  the notable procession that was ambling toward the Duke's castle. They were yet some
• 3:32:48
  little distance from the gates when the Duke gave spurs to his steed and galloped
• 3:32:52
  on ahead. He hastened homeward to put things in readiness for his guests,
• 3:32:58
  and to direct his people how to behave themselves towards the valorous knight don Quixote.
• 3:33:03
  When at length the party arrived at the gate of the castle, they
• 3:33:05
  were met by two of the Duke's servants. These servants were dressed in long
• 3:33:11
  vests of crimson satin, cut and shaped like nightgowns. They went directly to
• 3:33:16
  don Quixote. They took him in their arms and lifted him from the saddle
• 3:33:20
  to the ground. Then they said to him, go great and mighty,
• 3:33:24
  sir, and help our lady duchess down. Don Quixote hastened to obey,
• 3:33:28
  but the lady objected. Many pretty compliments were passed back and forth while the
• 3:33:33
  fair duchess sat upon her palfrey. I will not alight, she said,
• 3:33:37
  except in my husband's arms. So the Duke came and took her down,
• 3:33:43
  and don Quixote bowed his apologies and walked by her side through the broad gateway.
• 3:33:48
  As they entered the courtyard, they were met by two beautiful girls who
• 3:33:52
  threw a mantle of fine scarlet over don Quixote's shoulders. Then all the servants
• 3:33:56
  of the Duke, both men and women, shouted welcome, welcome, flower,
• 3:34:01
  and cream of knight errantry. All these things pleased don Quixote amazingly,
• 3:34:07
  for this was the first time he had felt that he was really and truly
• 3:34:11
  a knight. He now found himself treated just like the famous heroes he had
• 3:34:15
  read about, and it did his heart good. They led him up a
• 3:34:18
  stately staircase and into a noble hall, all hung with rich gold brocade.
• 3:34:24
  There his arm was taken off by six young ladies who served him instead of
• 3:34:28
  pages. This is indeed like the glorious days of chivalry, he said to
• 3:34:33
  himself. But what a poor piece of humanity he was when unarmed, raw
• 3:34:39
  boned and meager, tall and lank, lantern jawed and toothless, he was
• 3:34:45
  indeed an odd looking figure. The young ladies who waited on him had much
• 3:34:50
  ado to stifle their laughter. With much dignity, however, he retired to
• 3:34:56
  his own room, where he dressed himself for dinner, put on his belt
• 3:35:00
  and sword, threw a scarlet cloak over his shoulders, and set a jaunty
• 3:35:05
  cap of green velvet upon his head. When he came back into the hole,
• 3:35:09
  you would not have known him. Twelve pages at once came forward to
• 3:35:13
  lead him to the dinner table. Some walked before, some followed behind,
• 3:35:18
  and all waited upon him with the greatest show of respect. The table was
• 3:35:24
  set for four persons only, and there don Quixote was received by the Duke
• 3:35:28
  and the Duchess, and a priest who was with them. Courtly compliments were
• 3:35:33
  passed on all sides, and then they seated themselves, one at each of
• 3:35:37
  the four sides of the table. Now the reason for all the kindness shown
• 3:35:41
  to Don Quixote was this. The Duke and Duchess had nothing to do but
• 3:35:45
  pass away the time, and they had found this to be the very hardest
• 3:35:48
  kind of work. They had become tired of hunting, tired of playing chess,
• 3:35:54
  tired of watching the servants at work, tired of music, tired of
• 3:35:58
  everything. Oh life is so dull and wearisome, they said to each other,
• 3:36:03
  can't something be done to make it more enjoyable? So when Don Quixote
• 3:36:09
  and his squire happened to come to them, they were overjoyed. We shall
• 3:36:13
  have great sport with this rare couple, said the Duke. We shall have
• 3:36:16
  something to laugh at for the rest of our lives. The Duchess agreed to
• 3:36:20
  all his plans, and Don Quixote was therefore invited to make his home in
• 3:36:24
  the castle. He would give them more amusement than any fool at the king's
• 3:36:28
  court, And every day of his stay with them, the Duke and the
• 3:36:33
  Duchess studied how they might invent some new and pleasant joke upon the night or
• 3:36:37
  his squire. Everything was done kindly so as to hurt no one's feelings,
• 3:36:43
  and so many tricks were played that it would take more pages than there are
• 3:36:46
  in this book to tell about them. All I will relate only one or
• 3:36:50
  two. End of Chapter twenty three, Chapter twenty four, the Wooden peg
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  Horse. One evening, the Duke and the Dutch were amusing themselves by listening
• 3:37:01
  to don Quixote's valorous talk. Do you know of any case of injured innocence?
• 3:37:07
  He asked, I will avenge it. I will go to the ends
• 3:37:09
  of the earth to combat error. I am not afraid of giants, nor
• 3:37:13
  even of enchanters. I will fight them one and all in defense of truth.
• 3:37:20
  While he was thus boasting of his valor, there was a sound of
• 3:37:24
  fifes and drums, and twelve elderly women entered, all clad in the dress
• 3:37:28
  of nuns. After them came a noble lady, heavily veiled and wearing a
• 3:37:33
  gown with a long trail divided into three parts. The twelve women ranged themselves
• 3:37:39
  in two rows, and thus made a lane for the strange lady to march
• 3:37:43
  through as she approached the Duke and Duchess. Then her squire, who followed
• 3:37:48
  her, announced that she was the Countess Trefaldin, otherwise known as the Disconsolate
• 3:37:54
  Lady, and that she had come from a distant land to make known her
• 3:37:56
  misfortunes. The duke received her graciously. He took her by the hand and
• 3:38:03
  placed her in a chair by the side of the duchess. Don Quixote and
• 3:38:05
  Sancho stood anxiously near, both wishing very much to see the veiled lady's face.
• 3:38:11
  After the usual compliments had been passed, the lady suddenly asked, is
• 3:38:16
  there in this illustrious company a knight called Don Quixote de la Manchisima, with
• 3:38:22
  his squire Isimo Panza. Panza is here, cried Sancho, before anybody else
• 3:38:28
  could speak, And here is Don Quixotissimo also, so you may tell your
• 3:38:33
  tale, fair lady, for we are all ready to be your ser vittorissimo's.
• 3:38:39
  Then Don Quixote spoke, I am the valorous Don Quixote de la Mancha,
• 3:38:43
  he said, My profession is to succor the distressed, and I therefore
• 3:38:48
  dedicate my service to you. Tell us of your troubles, madam, and
• 3:38:52
  if they do not admit of a cure, we can at least sympathize with
• 3:38:56
  you. The veiled lady, with sighs and sow and many high sounding words,
• 3:39:01
  at length, related her story. She declared that She had come from
• 3:39:05
  the distant kingdom of Kandaia, which she had once ranked among the noblest of
• 3:39:09
  the land. A giant wizard named Malambruno had bewitched her and placed her under
• 3:39:15
  a spell of enchantment. Until that spell could be removed, she was doomed
• 3:39:20
  to wander over the earth in search of a champion who would restore her to
• 3:39:24
  her rightful place and honors. Ah Madam cried Don Quixote, behold in me,
• 3:39:30
  your champion, Point out the way, and I will go to the
• 3:39:33
  ends of the earth to serve you. Then the lady told him that the
• 3:39:37
  kingdom of Kandaia was thousands of leagues away, and that to travel thither by
• 3:39:43
  any ordinary means would require many years. But the wizard Malambruno will send you
• 3:39:50
  a steed, said she. He will send you a magic steed that will
• 3:39:54
  carry you to Kandaia quickly and with the greatest ease, For he has heard
• 3:39:58
  of your prowess, and he anxious to test it by meeting you in mortal
• 3:40:01
  combat. Pray, tell me of what nature is that steed which he will
• 3:40:07
  send from my conveyance, said Don Quixote. It is the steed Clavelegnok,
• 3:40:13
  answered the lady, the same wooden horse, in fact, which the wizard
• 3:40:16
  Merlin lent to his friend Peter of Provence. It is indeed a wondrous steed.
• 3:40:22
  It never eats, nor sleeps, nor needs shoeing. It has no
• 3:40:26
  wings, and yet it goes ambling through the air so smoothly that you may
• 3:40:31
  carry a cup of water in your hand and not spill a drop of it,
• 3:40:35
  if you are bold enough to ride this horse. And bold enough,
• 3:40:39
  interrupted don Quixote, who questions my boldness, Bring the steed to me,
• 3:40:43
  and you shall see that I shrink from nothing. The steed shall be ready
• 3:40:48
  for you in the morning, answered the lady. Early the next day.
• 3:40:52
  Therefore, the Duke, with his household and guests, went into the garden
• 3:40:56
  to see the outcome of this adventure. They were all greatly delighted, for
• 3:41:01
  the whole matter had been arranged on purpose for their amusement. Don Quixote soon
• 3:41:05
  arrived. He was clad in his armor, with his sword dangling from his
• 3:41:09
  side, and he seemed very impatient of delay. Sancho was close at his
• 3:41:13
  heels, but by no means pleased with the undertaking. About the middle of
• 3:41:18
  the forenoon, a trumpet sounded, and four woodsmen came into the garden.
• 3:41:22
  They were dressed in green, with wreaths of ivy about their heads. They
• 3:41:28
  carried between them a misshapen, long legged wooden horse, which they set down
• 3:41:33
  upon the ground. Here is the famous Claveleeno, cried the leader. There
• 3:41:39
  is none like him upon the earth. Now, let the man who is
• 3:41:43
  not afraid, mount him and away at once for Candaya, and let his
• 3:41:48
  squire, if he has one, mount behind him, for the steed flies
• 3:41:52
  best when fully waited. But I see no bridle, said Sancho. How
• 3:41:56
  is the noble beast to be guided simply by turning this wooden peg which you
• 3:42:01
  see in his forehead? Answered the woodsman. It is very easy to direct
• 3:42:05
  him either to the right or to the left. But the knight and his
• 3:42:09
  squire must both be blindfolded, otherwise they become giddy in their flight through the
• 3:42:15
  upper air and tumble headlong to the earth. Don Quixote did not hesitate a
• 3:42:18
  moment. He climbed into the saddle. He pulled a handkerchief from his pocket
• 3:42:24
  and asked one of the ladies to hoodwink him with it. Then he noticed
• 3:42:28
  that Sancho hung back and seemed afraid. What you, rascal, he cried,
• 3:42:33
  are you afraid to sit where many better than you have sat? Come?
• 3:42:37
  Suffer yourself to be blindfolded, and let me not hear a word of
• 3:42:41
  complaint from you. Soon both knight and squire were astride of the steed and
• 3:42:46
  blindfolded. They were ready to begin their perilous flight. The Duke and the
• 3:42:52
  Duchess and all their household came around and bade them good bye. Then don
• 3:42:58
  Quixote leaned forward and began to turn the pin in the horse's head. He
• 3:43:03
  fancied that he was rising in the air, and that he was sailing right
• 3:43:07
  up to the sky. Speed you well, brave Knight, cried all the
• 3:43:09
  people in the garden. May Heaven be your guide, bold squire. Then
• 3:43:15
  they clapped their hands and shouted, how high you are, How like a
• 3:43:20
  blazing star you shoot through the sky. Hold fast, Sancho. Don't loosen
• 3:43:24
  your hold and fall from that giddy height, Sir, said Sancho, clinging
• 3:43:30
  close to his master. How does it happen that we can hear them so
• 3:43:33
  plainly, although we are soaring so high above them, One would think that
• 3:43:37
  they were standing close beside us. It is all very natural, answered Don
• 3:43:41
  Quixote, for in these grand aerial flights you can see and hear things plainly
• 3:43:46
  which are a thousand leagues away. But don't hold me so hard you will
• 3:43:50
  make me tumble off. I wish only to steady you, said Sancho.
• 3:43:54
  Well, I wonder what makes you tremble, So said Don Quixote. As
• 3:43:58
  for myself, I never rode easier in my life. The horse goes as
• 3:44:03
  if he were not moving at all. After a few minutes, he said,
• 3:44:07
  I think that we must now be somewhere in the second region of the
• 3:44:11
  air, where hail and snow are produced. If we keep on at this
• 3:44:15
  rate, we shall soon reach the third region, from which lightnings and the
• 3:44:18
  thunderbolts are hurled upon the earth. I hope that we shall not go too
• 3:44:24
  near the sun, for in that case we shall surely be scorched. At
• 3:44:28
  that moment, one of the Duke's men set fire to some flax at the
• 3:44:31
  end of a pole, and swished it near their faces. Well, well,
• 3:44:35
  cried Sancho, we are in the region of fire already, for the
• 3:44:39
  half of my beard is singed off. I have a great mind to peep
• 3:44:43
  out under the blindfold, and see what sort of country we are coming to.
• 3:44:48
  Don't do it for your life, said don Quixote. The whole issue
• 3:44:52
  of this adventure depends upon obedience. Be brave, be patient, for we
• 3:44:56
  only mount high in order that we may come straight down upon the kingdom of
• 3:45:01
  Kandaya. Shall we be there soon, master, asked Sancho. I know
• 3:45:05
  not, was the answer. But we have certainly already traversed a vast distance.
• 3:45:11
  Well, I should like it better if I had a softer saddle,
• 3:45:13
  said Sancho. The Duke and Duchess were mightily pleased at the success of their
• 3:45:18
  joke. The question now was how they could put a fitting end to the
• 3:45:22
  well contrived adventure. One of the servants ran up and set fire to Clavelaeno's
• 3:45:28
  tail. The horse, being filled with fireworks, burst open with a tremendous
• 3:45:33
  noise. Don Quixote and his squire were, of course thrown to the ground.
• 3:45:37
  They were scorched a little, but not otherwise hurt. They scrambled to
• 3:45:41
  their feet and pulled the bandages from their eyes. They looked around and were
• 3:45:46
  surprised to find themselves still in the Duke's garden, where they had begun their
• 3:45:52
  flight. As they recovered from their confusion, they saw a lance sticking in
• 3:45:56
  the ground near by, and on the lance was scroll of white parchment bound
• 3:46:01
  around with two green ribbons. Don Quixote looked at the scroll, and,
• 3:46:05
  seeing his name upon it, picked it off to read what was written.
• 3:46:09
  The inscription was in golden characters and read as follows. The renowned night Don
• 3:46:16
  Quixote, has achieved this adventure by honestly trying to perform it. Malam Bruno
• 3:46:22
  is fully satisfied. The enchantment is removed from all who have suffered by it.
• 3:46:28
  This is ordered by Merlin, Prince of Enchanters. What wonderful fortune is
• 3:46:33
  ours, cried don Quixote after reading it. Let us have courage, for
• 3:46:39
  the adventure is finished and we have accomplished everything without damage to anybody. And
• 3:46:45
  now the Duke came forward and greeted him as the bravest Knight the world had
• 3:46:48
  ever seen. The Duchess, her face wreathed with smiles, shook hands with
• 3:46:54
  both Knight and squire. How did you fare on your long and perilous journey,
• 3:46:58
  she asked, very pleasantly. Madam answered Sancho, I never had so
• 3:47:03
  wonderful a view of creation in my life. For as we were flying through
• 3:47:07
  the region of fire, I shoved my handkerchief over a little and peeped down.
• 3:47:13
  Ah, it was a sight to gladden the eyes. I spied the
• 3:47:16
  earth far far below us, and it looked no bigger than a mustard seed.
• 3:47:22
  Indeed, it must have been very wonderful, said the Duchess. It
• 3:47:26
  was nothing short of wonderful, said Sancho. Why I could see the men
• 3:47:31
  walking about on the earth, and I declare they looked no bigger than hazel
• 3:47:35
  nuts. The Duchess laughed, men the size of hazel nuts walking on an
• 3:47:39
  earth the size of a mustard seed. She said, It must have been
• 3:47:43
  very, very wonderful. Truly it was, answered Sancho. And at one
• 3:47:48
  time, when I looked between my eyelashes, I saw myself so near to
• 3:47:52
  Heaven that I could almost reach out and touch it. Then we passed the
• 3:47:58
  place where the seven stars are, and I saw seven frisky goats in a
• 3:48:01
  great pasture. What did I do but slip off of Clavileno without telling a
• 3:48:05
  soul, And there I played and leaped with the goats for fully three quarters
• 3:48:11
  of an hour. And what became of your master and the horse while you
• 3:48:13
  were playing, asked the Duchess. Sancho scratched his head and was at a
• 3:48:18
  loss for an answer. W Ah, well, Madam I I, he
• 3:48:24
  stammered. Well I speak out, said the Duke. Say that the noble
• 3:48:28
  steed stirred, not afoot, but waited patiently about till the game was over.
• 3:48:33
  Truly he did that very thing, said Sancho. The Duke and his
• 3:48:37
  servants laughed heartily, but they were not quite sure whether Sancho was in earnest
• 3:48:43
  or otherwise. What if, after all, he had seen through their cunning
• 3:48:46
  little play and was now slyly making game of them, Don Quixote said,
• 3:48:52
  but little, and yet he looked and acted as though he were very proud
• 3:48:56
  and well satisfied with the result of his achievement. And so ended the famous
• 3:49:01
  adventure with the wooden peg Horse end of chapter twenty four. Chapter twenty five
• 3:49:09
  Sancho in his island. The Duke and the Duchess were so well pleased with
• 3:49:16
  the success of their latest jest that they soon formed plans for another, and
• 3:49:22
  this time Sancho Panza was to be the chosen hero. Sancho Panza said the
• 3:49:30
  Duke one day. Is it true that your master has promised to make you
• 3:49:33
  the governor of an island? I so, he has, answered Sancho,
• 3:49:39
  and I am he that deserves it as well as anybody. I have kept
• 3:49:43
  my master company many a month, and if he live and I live,
• 3:49:48
  there will be no lack of islands for me to govern. Well, said
• 3:49:54
  the Duke. I have a few spare islands on my own line around,
• 3:49:58
  and I I will give you one for the sake of my good friend don
• 3:50:01
  Quixote. Down on thy knees, Sancho cried, don Quixote and kiss the
• 3:50:07
  Duke's feet with this favor, and Sancho obeyed. A few days later,
• 3:50:15
  the Duke said to his squire, Sancho, did you remember the island which
• 3:50:20
  I promised you? Most assuredly, sir, I have not forgotten it,
• 3:50:24
  said Sancho. Well you must prepare to take possession of your government tomorrow,
• 3:50:30
  said the Duke. The islanders are longing for you as a farmer longs for
• 3:50:35
  rain in summer. They will not be put off any longer. Sancho bowed
• 3:50:41
  humbly and answered, well, then I will do my best. But since
• 3:50:46
  I looked down from the sky the other day and saw the earth still very
• 3:50:50
  small. I don't care half so much about being a governor. What does
• 3:50:54
  it matter to rule over half a dozen men? No bigger than hazel nuts,
• 3:50:58
  Oh, Sancho, said the duke. When once you have had a
• 3:51:03
  taste of ruling, you will never leave up licking your fingers. You will
• 3:51:07
  find it so sweet to command and so pleasant to be obeyed. Indeed,
• 3:51:11
  it is a dainty thing to command, said Sancho. I know it,
• 3:51:16
  for I once commanded a flock of sheep. Well, I hope you will
• 3:51:20
  be as good a governor as you are a shepherd, said the Duke.
• 3:51:24
  Now get ready to set out for your island tomorrow morning. My servants will
• 3:51:28
  furnish you with dress suitable to your high office. Let them dress me as
• 3:51:35
  they will. I'll be Sancho Panza, still, answered the squire. When
• 3:51:39
  Don Quixote heard that Sancho was to leave for his island in the morning,
• 3:51:43
  he sat down with them and gave him a great deal of good advice.
• 3:51:48
  Among a thousand other things. He said, First of all, fear God,
• 3:51:54
  for the fear of Him is wisdom. Second, make it thy thy
• 3:52:00
  business to know thyself. Pride thyself more on being humble and virtuous than proud
• 3:52:07
  and vicious. Despise not thy poor relations, that the tears of the poor
• 3:52:13
  find more compassion than the testimony of the rich. Revile not with words him
• 3:52:20
  whom thou hast to punish, Indeed, in the trial of a criminal,
• 3:52:26
  remember the temptations of our depraved nature, and show thyself full of pity and
• 3:52:31
  mercy. As to the governments of thy person, my first command is cleanliness.
• 3:52:39
  Pare thy nails, keep thy clothes well fitted about thee defile not thy
• 3:52:45
  breath with onions and garlic. Walk softly, speak with deliberation, to drink
• 3:52:52
  moderately, be careful not to chew on both sides. Sleep with moderation.
• 3:53:00
  For thy dress, wear long hose, in ample coat, and a cloak
• 3:53:05
  a little longer. Lastly, do not overlaw thy discourse with proverbs, as
• 3:53:11
  thou art wont to do. Sancho listened quietly to all this advice, and
• 3:53:18
  promised that he would observe as much of it as he could remember. But
• 3:53:22
  please let me have it all in black and white, he said, for
• 3:53:26
  my memory is poor. True, I can neither write nor read, but
• 3:53:31
  I will give it to the priests of my island and tell him to hammer
• 3:53:35
  it into me as often as I need it. Oh thinner that I am,
• 3:53:39
  cried Don Quixote, How scandalous it is that a governor should not be
• 3:53:45
  able to read or write. I would have thee at least learned to write
• 3:53:50
  thy name. Oh I can write my name, answered Sancho. I used
• 3:53:54
  to scrawl of sort of letters, and they told me it was my name.
• 3:54:00
  Besides, I can pretend that I've hurt my hand and hit somebody else
• 3:54:03
  to sign for me, For there isn't remedy for all things wet death.
• 3:54:09
  Let them that bite me to my face, I will bite back the biters.
• 3:54:13
  Let them come for wool and go home shorn. The rich man's follies
• 3:54:18
  pass for wise sayings. What a man has so much as he work,
• 3:54:22
  said my grandmother. Enough enough, said Don Quixote. We have had enough
• 3:54:30
  of your proverbs. They will make your islanders plot against you and pull you
• 3:54:35
  down. For pity's sake, Master, said Sancho, don't grudge me the
• 3:54:41
  use of my own goods. Proverbs are my stock. Whether the pitcher hit
• 3:54:46
  the stone or the stone hit the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher.
• 3:54:50
  Well, Sancho answered, don Quixote, you have a good disposition and
• 3:54:56
  you mean well, so let us go to dinner. The very next day,
• 3:55:03
  Sancho set out for his island. He was dressed in fine clothes and
• 3:55:07
  rode a tall mule in gaudy trappings. Behind him was led his own donkey,
• 3:55:13
  adorned like the horse of state. He kissed the hands of the Duke
• 3:55:18
  and Duchess and bowed his head to receive his master's blessing. Then he rode
• 3:55:24
  cheerfully away with a great train of servants, every one of whom had been
• 3:55:30
  told how to behave towards him. It was not a long journey. Soon
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  they came to a little town which belonged to the Duke, and Sancho was
• 3:55:39
  told that it was his island. Its name was Barataria. At the gates
• 3:55:45
  of the town, he was met by the chief officers. The bells rang
• 3:55:50
  and the people shouted their joy. Then he was led to the church and
• 3:55:54
  the keys of the town were put in his hands. Hail to our our
• 3:56:00
  noble governor, shouted young and old, and Sancho began to feel very much
• 3:56:05
  elated. He was so short and fat, and he looked so funny in
• 3:56:11
  his fine clothes that all who did not know that it was one of the
• 3:56:15
  Duke's jokes, were puzzled to think what kind of man he was. But
• 3:56:20
  still they shouted hail to our lord, Don Sancho Panza. Sancho turned to
• 3:56:26
  his secretary and asked, whom do they call Don Sancho Panza. Why,
• 3:56:33
  your lordship yourself, answered the secretary. Well, friend, said Sancho,
• 3:56:39
  take notice that Don does not belong to me. Plain Sancho Panza is my
• 3:56:45
  name, my father and my grandfather, and all of us have been playing
• 3:56:50
  panzas without any dons or Donna's added. Now, I guess the dons are
• 3:56:56
  thickest stones on this island. But if my government lest four days all clear
• 3:57:01
  them out like so many flies from the church, Sancho was taken with much
• 3:57:07
  ceremony to the Hall of Justice. There he was set in a great chair,
• 3:57:13
  and all he wished to appeal to him for justice came and made their
• 3:57:16
  wants known. The first who came were two men, one dressed like a
• 3:57:22
  country fellow, the other like a tailor. My Lord Governor, said the
• 3:57:28
  tailor, this farmer, and I have come to you to settle a dispute
• 3:57:33
  between us. Yesterday, the farmer came into my shop with a piece of
• 3:57:37
  cloth. He asked me if there was enough of it to make a cap.
• 3:57:41
  I measured the stuff and answered yes. Then he asked if there was
• 3:57:46
  enough for two caps, and again I said yes. At last I told
• 3:57:52
  him there were enough for five caps. This morning he came for us caps.
• 3:57:56
  They were finished, and I gave them to him. But he would
• 3:58:01
  not pay me. He says, I must give him his cloth again,
• 3:58:03
  or the price of it. Sancho turned to the farmer and said, is
• 3:58:09
  this true, my friend? Yes, answered the men. But let him
• 3:58:15
  show you the five caps he has made with all my heart, said the
• 3:58:20
  tailor, And with that he held up his hand, showing four tiny caps
• 3:58:24
  on his fingers and one on his thumb. There, he said, you
• 3:58:31
  see the five caps he asked for, and I had not a sniff of
• 3:58:35
  cloth left. Everybody in the room laughed to see the number of caps and
• 3:58:39
  their smallness. Sancho put his hand to his chin and thought for a little
• 3:58:45
  while. Then he said, it is the judgment of this court that the
• 3:58:50
  tailor shall lose his making, and the farmer his cloth. The caps shall
• 3:58:54
  be given to the prisoners in jail, and that ends the whole matter.
• 3:59:00
  Who heard this decision were pleased because of its justness. Two old men next
• 3:59:05
  came before the governor. One of them carried a cane, but he used
• 3:59:11
  to help him along. My lord, said the other man. Some time
• 3:59:16
  ago, I lent this good man ten gold crowns. I did it as
• 3:59:20
  an act of kindness, and he was to repay me whenever I asked him.
• 3:59:26
  I did not demand it for a long time, but since he seemed
• 3:59:30
  so careless about it, I at last sent to him that I want him
• 3:59:33
  the money. What do you think He not only refuses to pay me,
• 3:59:39
  but he says I never lent him the money, or if I did,
• 3:59:43
  he returned it. I have no witnesses, but I beg you to put
• 3:59:46
  him on his oaths. If he will swear that he has paid me,
• 3:59:50
  I will forgive him. Old man of the staff, said Sancho, what
• 3:59:56
  say you to this? Sir? Answered the old man, I owe that
• 4:00:01
  he lent me the money, and if he will hold out your rod of
• 4:00:05
  office, I will swear upon it that I have returned it and full Sancho
• 4:00:11
  held out the rod. The old man handed his staff to the other man
• 4:00:16
  to hold while he took the oath. Then he put his hands on the
• 4:00:20
  cross of the governor's rod and swore that it was true that the other had
• 4:00:24
  lent him the money, but that he had returned the same sum into his
• 4:00:28
  hands. Sancho turned to the other man and asked, what do you say
• 4:00:33
  to that, well, said the poor man. My neighbor is a good
• 4:00:39
  Christian, and I don't believe he would swear falsely. Perhaps I have forgotten
• 4:00:45
  when and how he repaid me. Then the owner of the staff took his
• 4:00:50
  stick, and the two men left the court. Sancho leaned his head over
• 4:00:54
  his breast. He put his forefinger on his eyebrows and sat for a time.
• 4:01:01
  Then he suddenly said, where is that man with the staff? Bring
• 4:01:05
  it back to me. Instantly soon both men were again brought before him.
• 4:01:13
  Good man, he said to the one with the staff, let me see
• 4:01:16
  your cane. I have used for it. Certainly, sir, here it
• 4:01:20
  is, answered the man. Sancho took the staff and immediately gave it to
• 4:01:26
  the other man. There he said, go your way in peace, for
• 4:01:31
  now you are paid. How so, my lord, cried the man.
• 4:01:37
  Is this cane worth ten gold crowns? Well, if it is not,
• 4:01:41
  then I am the greatest fool in the world, said Sancho. If you
• 4:01:46
  will but return the cane to me for a moment, you shall see with
• 4:01:50
  your own eyes. He took the staff between his hands and broken in two,
• 4:01:56
  and out fell the ten gold crowns. Everybody in the court was amazed.
• 4:02:01
  They began to think that Sancho was a second Solomon whose wisdom was past
• 4:02:07
  finding out. The truth was, however, that Sancho had once heard of
• 4:02:11
  the same kind of trick being played in a distant town. It was an
• 4:02:16
  old story, but unknown in Barrataria. The end of the matter was that
• 4:02:22
  one old man went away very much ashamed, and the other returned home well
• 4:02:26
  satisfied. Thus, one case after another was brought before the governor, and
• 4:02:33
  he gave such wise judgment that the people wondered how such wisdom could be contained
• 4:02:39
  in a little round head like his. And yet, with all the intention
• 4:02:43
  that was shown him, Sancho was not happy in his island. He was
• 4:02:48
  never allowed to eat a good meal, for the doctor always stood by and
• 4:02:52
  refused to let him touch anything that would hurt his digestion. He could not
• 4:02:56
  even eat roast partridge a while. It was set on the table before him,
• 4:03:01
  and was, of all the things the dish, which he liked best.
• 4:03:07
  He was wearied too, with all the tedious ceremonies at court. His
• 4:03:11
  fine clothes were irksome, his night's sleep was broken into by the cares of
• 4:03:16
  state. And then at last there came a dreadful letter from the Duke.
• 4:03:22
  The letter was full of warnings. Some enemies, it said, were marching
• 4:03:26
  across the island. Four men had gone into the town from the purpose of
• 4:03:31
  killing the governor. The Duke therefore advised Sancho to be careful and not eat
• 4:03:37
  anything that was set before him, lest he should be poisoned. All this
• 4:03:43
  was a part of the Duke's great joke, and it frightened Sancho Panza terribly.
• 4:03:48
  Seven days had passed since he came to Barrataria. He had had no
• 4:03:54
  rest, He was tired and hungry. It was very late when he was
• 4:03:58
  at last to go to bed. He was just dropping off to sleep when
• 4:04:03
  he heard a great noise in the street. He was alarmed and jumped up
• 4:04:07
  to see what was the matter. Bells were ringing, drums were beating,
• 4:04:13
  men were shouting. Sancho trembled with fear. He put on his slippers and
• 4:04:18
  hurried to the door. Several men with torches and drawn swords came running up.
• 4:04:24
  They shouted, arm arm Lord Governor, the enemy had gotten to the
• 4:04:30
  island. Come and lead us against them. We have arms for you.
• 4:04:35
  Why an army? And who had luck to us? All? Said Sancho,
• 4:04:39
  trying to be very brave. They brought two shields and put them over
• 4:04:43
  his shirt, one behind and one before. They fastened these shields together with
• 4:04:48
  cords drawn as tightly as possible. Then they put a spear in his hand
• 4:04:54
  and said, lead on, now, Lord Governor. How can I lead
• 4:04:58
  on when I am trust stuff like this, asked Sancho, And indeed he
• 4:05:03
  looked much like a turtle between two great jels. I cannot so much as
• 4:05:09
  bend my legs, said he. You must carry me. Nonsense, my
• 4:05:13
  Lord Governor, said one of the men. It is fear that keeps you
• 4:05:18
  from moving. Lead on, for the danger is greater every minute. Poor
• 4:05:24
  Sancho tried to walk, but he fell to the floor with such a crash
• 4:05:28
  that he thought himself broken to pieces. He lay there, helpless and praying
• 4:05:33
  for deliverance. Suddenly all the lights went out. He could hear a man
• 4:05:37
  fighting all around. Some tripped on him, some stood on him and shouted.
• 4:05:43
  He was never so frightened in his life. Oh, that this island
• 4:05:48
  were taken, he moaned, or that I were dead and out of this
• 4:05:52
  trouble. Then he heard shouts of victory, victory, Where is our lord?
• 4:05:58
  Governor Sancho could only cry in a weak voice, here I am,
• 4:06:05
  help me up. His shields were taken off, and he was carried into
• 4:06:09
  his chamber. There he fell back on his bed in a dead swoon,
• 4:06:15
  and those who had been playing the stoke upon him became really frightened by and
• 4:06:20
  by however, he began to come to himself. What time is it?
• 4:06:26
  He asked? It is near daybreak, they answered. He spoke not again,
• 4:06:31
  but very quietly began to put on his clothes. When he was dressed,
• 4:06:37
  he went out, slowly and feebly, for he was too much s
• 4:06:41
  bruised to move fast. He went to the stable and found the stall where
• 4:06:45
  his donkey was standing. He flung his arms around the beast's neck and kissed
• 4:06:50
  him. Oh, my dear chappel, he said, while tears fell from
• 4:06:56
  his eyes, my faithful companion, my best friend. When all my cares
• 4:07:01
  were only to feed thy little body, my hours, my days, my
• 4:07:05
  years were happy. But since I've clambered up upon the towers of ambition,
• 4:07:11
  I have a thousand woes, a thousand toils, and four thousand tribulations.
• 4:07:18
  While he was talking, he bridled and saddled the donkey. Then he slowly
• 4:07:22
  got upon him and took hold of the reins. Make way, gentlemen,
• 4:07:26
  he cried to those who were standing around, Let me return to liberty.
• 4:07:33
  I was not born to be a governor or to defend islands. May Heaven
• 4:07:37
  bless you, my good people. Tell my Lord Duke that I had either
• 4:07:41
  won nor lost. For I came into this island without a penny, and
• 4:07:46
  without a penny. I leave it clear the way then, and let me
• 4:07:50
  go, so saying, he tripped to this donkey and rode slowly away to
• 4:07:56
  rejoin his master don Quixote. Everybody he appeared to be astonished. When he
• 4:08:01
  finally arrived at the Duke's castle. He had all welcomed him kindly and heartily,
• 4:08:07
  and listened to his story of what had happened to him. It is
• 4:08:11
  now eight days since I began to govern the island that was given to me,
• 4:08:16
  he said. In all that time I never had enough to eat.
• 4:08:20
  I had no leisure, either to take bribes or to receive what were my
• 4:08:26
  just dos. Enemies trambled over my bones. My life was a burden.
• 4:08:31
  But man proposes, and God disposes. Heaven knows what is best for us.
• 4:08:37
  All. Let no man say I will not drink of this water.
• 4:08:41
  I say no more. Never mind, Sancho, Never mind, said Don
• 4:08:46
  Quixote. If a governor returns rich from his government, they say he has
• 4:08:52
  robbed. If he returns poor, then they call him a doolittle. But
• 4:08:58
  if thy conscience is clear, thou hast nothing to fear, yes, said
• 4:09:03
  Sancho. But this time they will be likelier to call me an idiot than
• 4:09:09
  a robber. End of Chapter twenty five, Chapter twenty six, The Innkeeper
• 4:09:16
  of Saragosa. One morning, towards the end of summer, don Quixote surprised
• 4:09:24
  the Duke by calling for his armor and his steed. My Lord Duke,
• 4:09:28
  I must away to seek new adventures, he said, I cannot tarry here
• 4:09:33
  any longer. But has not your stay with us been agreeable to you?
• 4:09:37
  Asked the Duke, why should you wish to leave us? You have indeed
• 4:09:41
  been kind, and I thank you for it, answered the Knight. But
• 4:09:45
  it is wrong to linger here among the dainties and delights which you have provided,
• 4:09:48
  while there are so many things in the world that need doing. I
• 4:09:52
  shall have to give an account for all these idle days. So, bidding
• 4:09:56
  the Duke and Duchess a kind farewell, he mounted his steed and rode away
• 4:10:01
  towards Saragossa, and Sancho on his dappled donkey, followed him. As before,
• 4:10:05
  time would fail me to tell of the many happenings on the road.
• 4:10:09
  They traveled leisurely along, making no plans, and letting each day an hour
• 4:10:13
  take care of itself. Yet the night was ever on the alert for some
• 4:10:16
  new adventure. One evening they arrived at an inn on the outskirts of the
• 4:10:22
  city, feeling very tired and hungry. The innkeeper met them at the door.
• 4:10:26
  Have you lodgings for two weary travelers and their beasts, asked Sancho.
• 4:10:31
  Yes, answered the innkeeper. There are no better lodgings in Saragosa. So
• 4:10:35
  they alighted. Sancho led the beasts to the stable and gave them their food.
• 4:10:41
  Then he returned to the house to wait on his master. What have
• 4:10:45
  you for supper, my good host, he asked. You may measure your
• 4:10:48
  mouth and ask for anything you like, said the innkeeper. Here you will
• 4:10:52
  find everything in abundance, fowls of the air, birds of the earth,
• 4:10:56
  and fishes of the sea. Well, said san If you will roast a
• 4:11:01
  couple of chickens for us, it will be enough. My master eats but
• 4:11:03
  little, and I am not a glutton. I'm sorry, said the innkeeper,
• 4:11:07
  but I have not a single chicken left. The hawks have carried them
• 4:11:11
  all away. Why then, if that is the case, you may roast
• 4:11:15
  us a duck, said Sancho. A duck, sir, cried the innkeeper.
• 4:11:18
  I sent fifty to the market yesterday, and there is not another one.
• 4:11:22
  But aside from ducks and chickens, ask for anything you like, well,
• 4:11:28
  said Sancho, A little veal or boiled kid would taste quite good.
• 4:11:31
  Next week, my friend, we shall have plenty of both, said the
• 4:11:35
  host. But now we are just out of such meats. Bring on some
• 4:11:37
  fried eggs and bacon. Then, said Sancho. Oh you are a good
• 4:11:41
  one at guessing, cried the host. But I told you that I had
• 4:11:45
  neither chickens nor ducks, So how can I have eggs? Oh? Bother,
• 4:11:48
  said Sancho, losing his patience. Have done with your ramblings, mister
• 4:11:52
  landlord, and tell me just what you have. I will do so,
• 4:11:56
  answered the innkeeper. What I really have is nothing more less than a pair
• 4:12:00
  of cow heels dressed with beans, onions and bacon. And all these are
• 4:12:05
  cooked to a turn, and even now crying eat me, eat me,
• 4:12:09
  I set my mark on them this minute, said Sancho. Let nobody else
• 4:12:11
  touch them. Nobody else will wish to touch them, said the innkeeper,
• 4:12:16
  For all the other guests are of such quality that they take their cook and
• 4:12:20
  their larder with them. As for quality, cried Sancho, my master is
• 4:12:24
  as good as the best, but his profession doesn't allow him to carry a
• 4:12:28
  pantry wherever he goes. Presently, the host brought in the kettle, and
• 4:12:31
  they all sat down to a supper of cows heel and onions. The knight
• 4:12:37
  and his squire were used to rough fare, and they had learned to take
• 4:12:39
  things as they found them. They rested well that night, and in the
• 4:12:43
  morning set forth again upon their travels. But now instead of going to Saragossa,
• 4:12:48
  they took another road and journeyed on to Barcelona. The fame of don
• 4:12:52
  Quixote had gone before him, and at Barcelona there were those who gladly received
• 4:12:56
  him and entertained him. And so they spent some days in that great city,
• 4:13:01
  looking at its wonders, and most of all at the sea, which
• 4:13:05
  neither of them had ever before beheld. End of Chapter twenty six. Chapter
• 4:13:13
  twenty seven, The Night of the White Moon. One morning, don Quixote,
• 4:13:18
  fully armed, rode out to the seashore to take the air. He
• 4:13:22
  felt very brave and was in fine fighting humor. Arms, he said,
• 4:13:28
  are my best attire, and combat is my meat and drink. Suddenly he
• 4:13:33
  saw a strange knight riding towards him. The knight was armed from head to
• 4:13:37
  foot, and on his shield a bright moon was painted. As soon as
• 4:13:41
  he was within hearing, he called out, most illustrious, most valorous,
• 4:13:46
  don Quixote de la Mancha. I am the Knight of the White Moon.
• 4:13:50
  I have come to enter into combat with thee I have come to make THEE
• 4:13:56
  confess that my lady, whoever she may be, is more more beautiful by
• 4:14:01
  far than thy Dulcinea del Toboso. That I will never confess, answered don
• 4:14:07
  Quixote. But I will force THEE to confess the contrary. Thou hast never
• 4:14:11
  seen the illustrious Dulcinea. If thou hadst the sight of her, would have
• 4:14:16
  made THEE know that there is no beauty like unto hers. I challenge you
• 4:14:20
  to prove it in fair combat, cried the Knight of the White Moon.
• 4:14:24
  If I vanquish you, I shall require you to go to your home and
• 4:14:28
  for the space of one year, give up your arms and your knight errantry,
• 4:14:31
  and live there in peace and quiet. But what do you agree to
• 4:14:35
  do if I shall vanquish you, said don Quixote. I agree that my
• 4:14:39
  head shall be at your disposal, answered the Knight. My horse and arms
• 4:14:43
  shall be your spoils, and the fame of my deeds shall be added to
• 4:14:48
  that of your own achievements. I accept your challenge, said don Quixote,
• 4:14:52
  and will faithfully comply with all its conditions. But I am content with the
• 4:14:56
  fame of my own deeds and do not wish to assume yours. Choose whichever
• 4:15:01
  side of the field you prefer, and let us settle this business at once.
• 4:15:05
  The two knights turned their horses and rode apart some distance. Then they
• 4:15:11
  again faced each other. The next moment, without waiting for any signal,
• 4:15:16
  they made the onset. The White Moon's steed was much swifter than Rosinante,
• 4:15:22
  and he thundered down upon don Quixote, ere he had run one third of
• 4:15:26
  the distance. Our knight had no time to use his spear. The stranger
• 4:15:30
  struck him with such force that both he and his steed were hurled helpless to
• 4:15:35
  the ground. Quickly the White Moon dismounted. He held his spear at Don
• 4:15:39
  Quixote's throat and cried, yield, knight, fulfill the conditions of our challenge,
• 4:15:46
  or your life is forfeit. Don Quixote was bruised and stunned, but
• 4:15:50
  he answered, in a faint and feeble voice. I maintain that Dulcinea del
• 4:15:56
  Toboso is the most beautiful lady in the world, and I am the most
• 4:16:03
  unfortunate knight. Press on thy spear and rid me of life. That I
• 4:16:10
  will not do, said he of the White Moon. I will not dispute
• 4:16:14
  the fame of the beautiful Dulcinea. I shall be satisfied if the great don
• 4:16:18
  Quixote will only return to his home for a year, as was agreed to
• 4:16:22
  in our challenge. Very well, answered don Quixote, since you require nothing
• 4:16:29
  that will tarnish the fame of the lady Dulcinea, I will do all the
• 4:16:33
  rest as you desire. They lifted don Quixote from the ground and uncovered his
• 4:16:38
  face. He was very pale and weak. Rosinante still lay in the sand,
• 4:16:44
  unable to rise. As for Sancho Panza, he was so sad and
• 4:16:48
  dismayed that he did not know what to do. The Knight of the White
• 4:16:52
  Moon galloped away toward the city, and some of those who had seen the
• 4:16:56
  combat followed him. They asked him who he was and why he had dealt
• 4:17:02
  so roughly with the famous but harmless Don Quixote. My name is Samson Carrasco,
• 4:17:07
  said the Knight, and I am a friend and near neighbor of Don
• 4:17:11
  Quixote. All that I wished in this combat was not to harm my friend,
• 4:17:15
  but to make him promise to return home. I think that if he
• 4:17:19
  can be induced to rest there quietly for a year. This madness about knight
• 4:17:25
  Errantry will be cured. It was indeed Samson Carrasco, the same who once
• 4:17:30
  before as the Knight of the Mirrors, had tried to cure his friend of
• 4:17:34
  his folly, but had failed. End of Chapter twenty seven, Chapter twenty
• 4:17:41
  eight, the last adventure of all. For six days, don Quixote lay
• 4:17:48
  in bed, sullen and sorrowful because of his overthrow, And all this time
• 4:17:53
  Sancho Panza set beside him and tried to comfort him. My master, he
• 4:18:00
  said, pluck up your head and be of good cheer if you can let
• 4:18:03
  us go home and quit seeking adventures in lands and places we do not know.
• 4:18:10
  And if you will only think I am the one who loses most,
• 4:18:15
  though it is you that are in the worst pickle. The squire's cheerful words
• 4:18:18
  gave fresh hope to the Knight. Gradually his courage came back to him,
• 4:18:23
  and at length the two bade good bye to Barcelona and started for home.
• 4:18:30
  Don Quixote rode on Rosonante. He was unarmed and clad in a traveling coat.
• 4:18:37
  Sancho followed him on foot, leading his donkey, which was laden with
• 4:18:41
  don Quixote's armor. I should not have been defeated had it not been for
• 4:18:47
  Rosonante's weakness, said the Knight. They traveled for many days with their faces
• 4:18:53
  turned steadfastly towards La Mancha, but their steeds made slow progress, and they
• 4:19:00
  stopped often by the way. At length, they got to the top of
• 4:19:03
  a hill from which they could see their own, peaceful little village lying in
• 4:19:10
  the green valley below. At this sight, Sancho fell upon his knees and
• 4:19:15
  cried out, Oh, thou long wished for village, Open thy eyes and
• 4:19:21
  behold thy child, Sancho Panza. He has come back to thee again,
• 4:19:26
  not very rich, yet very well flogged o village, Open thy arms and
• 4:19:33
  receive thy son, don Quixote. While he has been vanquished by others,
• 4:19:38
  he has gained the victory over himself, and that is the best of all
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  victories. Hush your prattle, said Don Quixote, and let us put our
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  best foot foremost to enter our village. So they went down the hill and
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  were soon met by their old friends, the Curate, the barber, and
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  faithful absent Carrasco. Don Quixote delighted and embraced them all quite lovingly. I
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  have returned home for a year, he said, and I have a mind
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  to turn shepherd and enjoy the solitude of the fields. If you have not
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  much to do, I shall be pleased to have you for my companions.
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  They answered humpleasantly, and then, surrounded by a troop of boys, they
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  made their way to Don Quixote's house. The housekeeper and the niece were at
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  the door to welcome the wanderer. My dear niece, he said, I
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  have come home for a little while. I think that I shall soon leave
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  you again to live the simple life of a shepherd. But help me to
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  bed now, for it seems to me that I am not very well.
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  They led him in and made him as comfortable as they could. They cared
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  most lovingly for him day and night, but all the strength seemed to have
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  gone from his poor body. The curates, the barber, and Samson Carrasco
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  came often to see him. His good squire Sancho Panza, sat all the
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  time by his bedside, but in spite of every care, he steadily grew
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  more feeble. On the sixth day, the doctor told him that he was
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  in danger and might not live long, don Quixote asked him to leave him
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  alone a little while, for he thought that he could sleep. They went
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  out of the room. He soon fell into a deep slumber, and lay
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  so still, with such a look of peace upon his face, that they
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  thought he would never wake in this world. At the end of six hours,
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  however, he opened his eyes and cried out, blessed be Almighty God,
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  who has done me so much good. His mercies are without And then
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  they saw that his madness had left, and that his mind and was clear
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  and bright. Send from my good friends, the curate and the barber,
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  and Sampson Carrasco, he said, for I am at the point of death,
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  and I would make my will. But these gentlemen had all the time
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  been waiting at the door, and now they entered the room. Don Quixote
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  was overjoyed to see them. Welcome, my friends, He said, I
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  am no longer don Quixote de la Mancha, but plain Alansa Kihanna, whom
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  are townspeople used to call the good. My mind is clear now, and
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  I see the great folly that I was led into through the reading of foolish
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  books, all those vulgar stories of knights and magicians are hateful to me,
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  and I abhor them. But now send from my lawyer that he may draw
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  up my will, for my hours are numbered. He looked at one another
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  wondering, and Sampson Carrasco went to fetch the lawyer. The sick man roused
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  himself, and his face brightened when the man of law came and sat down
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  by his bedside. The will was drawn up in due form. It was
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  provided that the small sum of money should be paid to Sancho Panza for his
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  good services, and that all the rest of the estate should go to the
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  niece. It was signed by Alonzo Kihanna and witnessed by the curate and the
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  barber. Then the sick man fell back in his bed and lay for three
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  days without knowing anything at all. In the afternoon of the third day,
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  he fell into a gentle sleep, from which he never awoke. So ended
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  the adventures of as good a man and as brave as Spain has ever seen.
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  End of chapter twenty eight