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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at <a href = "http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre> +<p>Title: The Story of Don Quixote</p> +<p>Author: Arvid Paulson, Clayton Edwards, and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</p> +<p>Release Date: July 20, 2009 [eBook #29468]</p> +<p>Language: English</p> +<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> +<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF DON QUIXOTE***</p> +<p> </p> +<h3>E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Jen Haines,<br /> + and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> + (http://www.pgdp.net)</h3> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full" /> +<p> </p> + +<div class="figcenter" > +<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="600" height="667" alt="Book Cover" title="Book Cover" /> +</div> + +<p class="top7"></p> +<p><a name="Frontis" id="Frontis"></a></p> +<div class="figcenter" > +<img src="images/illus.jpg" width="450" height="592" +alt=""DON QUIXOTE INSISTED THAT THE BOAT HAD BEEN SENT BY MAGIC TO +FETCH HIM TO SOME GREAT KNIGHT."—Page 222" +title=""DON QUIXOTE INSISTED THAT THE BOAT HAD BEEN SENT BY MAGIC TO +FETCH HIM TO SOME GREAT KNIGHT."—Page 222" /> +<span class="caption"><br />"DON QUIXOTE INSISTED THAT THE BOAT HAD BEEN SENT BY MAGIC TO +FETCH HIM TO SOME GREAT KNIGHT."—<a href="#front">Page 222</a></span> +</div> + +<h2 class="top5">THE STORY OF</h2> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> + +<h6 class="top5">BY</h6> +<h3>ARVID PAULSON</h3> +<h6>AND</h6> +<h3>CLAYTON EDWARDS</h3> + +<h6 class="top5">WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY</h6> +<h5>FLORENCE CHOATE</h5> +<h6>AND</h6> +<h5>ELIZABETH CURTIS</h5> + +<h3 class="top7">THE HAMPTON PUBLISHING COMPANY</h3> +<h5>NEW YORK</h5> + +<h6 class="top7"><i>Copyright, MCMXXII, by</i></h6> +<h5><span class="smcap">Frederick A. Stokes Company</span></h5> +<hr class="hr2" /> +<h6><i>All rights reserved, including that of translation +into foreign languages</i></h6> + +<h6 class="top5"><i>Printed in the United States of America</i></h6> + +<hr class="hr1" /> + +<h2 class="top3">CONTENTS</h2> + +<hr class="hr2" /> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" summary="Table of Contents Volume 1"> +<tr><td colspan="3"><h2><a href="#VOLUME_I">VOLUME I</a></h2></td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1">CHAPTER</td> + <td class="td3" colspan="2">PAGE</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERI"><b>I</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Character and Pursuits of The Famous Gentleman, + Don Quixote of La Mancha</td> + <td class="td3">1</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERII-III"><b>II-III</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Treats of the First Sally Don Quixote Made from Home</td> + <td class="td3">6</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERIV"><b>IV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Treats of Don Quixote's Further Adventures</td> + <td class="td3">14</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERV"><b>V</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">In Which the Narrative of Our Knight's Mishap is Continued</td> + <td class="td3">20</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERVI"><b>VI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Diverting and Important Scrutiny Which the Curate and the + Barber Made in the Library of Our Ingenious Gentleman</td> + <td class="td3">22</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERVII"><b>VII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Second Sally of Our Worthy Knight, Don Quixote of La Mancha</td> + <td class="td3">24</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERVIII-IX"><b>VIII-IX</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Good Fortune Which the Valiant Don Quixote Had in the Terrible and + Undreamt-of Adventure of the Windmills, with Other Occurrences Worthy to + Be Fitly Recorded, Including the Terrible Battle Between the Gallant Biscayan + and the Valiant Manchegan</td> + <td class="td3">27</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERX"><b>X</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Pleasant Discourse That Passed Between Don Quixote and His Squire Sancho Panza</td> + <td class="td3">33</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXI"><b>XI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of What Befell Don Quixote with Certain Goatherds</td> + <td class="td3">37</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXII"><b>XII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of What a Goatherd Related to Those with Don Quixote</td> + <td class="td3">39</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXIII"><b>XIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">In Which Is Ended the Story of the Shepherdess Marcela with Other Incidents</td> + <td class="td3">41</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXIV"><b>XIV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Are Described the Despairing Verses of the Dead Shepherd</td> + <td class="td3">45</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXV"><b>XV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">In Which Is Related the Unfortunate Adventure That Don Quixote Fell in with When + He Fell out with Certain Heartless Yanguesans</td> + <td class="td3">47</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXVI"><b>XVI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of What Happened to the Ingenious Gentleman in the Inn Which He Took to Be a Castle</td> + <td class="td3">50</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXVII"><b>XVII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">In Which Are Contained the Innumerable Troubles Which the Brave Don Quixote and His + Good Squire Sancho Panza Endured at the Inn, Which, to His Misfortune, He Took to + Be a Castle</td> + <td class="td3">51</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXVIII"><b>XVIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">In Which Is Related the Discourse Sancho Panza Held with His Master, Don Quixote, + Together with Other Adventures Worth Relating</td> + <td class="td3">55</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXIX"><b>XIX</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Shrewd Discourse Which Sancho Held with His Master, and of the Adventure + that Befell Him with a Dead Body, Together with Other Notable Occurrences</td> + <td class="td3">59</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXX"><b>XX</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Unexampled and Unheard-of Adventure Which Was Achieved by the Valiant + Don Quixote of La Mancha with Less Peril than Any Ever Achieved by Any Famous + Knight in the World</td> + <td class="td3">62</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXI"><b>XXI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Exalted Adventure and Rich Prize of Mambrino's Helmet, + Together with Other Things That Happened to Our Invincible Knight</td> + <td class="td3">65</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXII"><b>XXII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Freedom Don Quixote Conferred on Several Unfortunates Who Against Their + Will Were Being Carried Where They Had No Wish to Go</td> + <td class="td3">68</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXIII"><b>XXIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of What Befell Don Quixote in the Sierra Morena, Which Is One of the Rarest + Adventures Related in This Veracious History</td> + <td class="td3">71</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXIV"><b>XXIV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">In Which Is Continued the Adventure of the Sierra Morena</td> + <td class="td3">73</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXV"><b>XXV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Strange Things That Happened to the Stout Knight of + La Mancha in the Sierra Morena</td> + <td class="td3">75</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXVI"><b>XXVI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">In Which Are Continued the Refinements Wherewith Don Quixote Played the + Part of a Lover in the Sierra Morena</td> + <td class="td3">77</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXVII"><b>XXVII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of How the Curate and the Barber Proceeded with Their Scheme, Together + with Other Matters Worthy of Record in This Great History</td> + <td class="td3">80</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXVIII"><b>XXVIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Strange and Delightful Adventure That Befell the + Curate and the Barber In The Same Sierra</td> + <td class="td3">81</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXIX"><b>XXIX</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Droll Device and Method Adopted to Extricate Our + Love-stricken Knight from the Severe Penance He Had Imposed Upon Himself</td> + <td class="td3">83</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXX"><b>XXX</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Address Displayed by the Fair Dorothea, with Other + Matters, Pleasant and Amusing</td> + <td class="td3">88</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXXI"><b>XXXI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Delectable Discussion Between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, His + Squire, Together with Other Incidents</td> + <td class="td3">90</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXXII-XXXIV"><b> XXXII-XXXIV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Treats of What Befell All Don Quixote's Party at the Inn</td> + <td class="td3">91</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXXV"><b>XXXV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Heroic and Prodigious Battle Don Quixote Had with + Certain Skins of Red Wine, and Brings the Novel of the "Ill-advised Curiosity" + to an End</td> + <td class="td3">92</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXXVI"><b>XXXVI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Treats of More Curious Incidents That Occurred at the Inn</td> + <td class="td3">95</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXXVII"><b>XXXVII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">In Which Is Continued the Story of the Famous Princess Micomicona, with Other + Droll Adventures</td> + <td class="td3">98</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXXVIII"><b>XXXVIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Curious Discourse Don Quixote Delivered on Arms and Letters</td> + <td class="td3">102</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXXIX-XLI"><b>XXXIX-XLI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein the Captive Relates His Life and Adventures</td> + <td class="td3">103</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLII"><b>XLII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Treats of What Further Took Place in the Inn, and of Several Other Things + Worth Knowing</td> + <td class="td3">108</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLIII"><b>XLIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Is Related the Pleasant Story of the Muleteer, Together With Other + Strange Things That Came To Pass in the Inn</td> + <td class="td3">112</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLIV"><b>XLIV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">In Which Are Continued the Unheard-of Adventures at the Inn</td> + <td class="td3">117</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLV"><b>XLV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">In Which the Doubtful Question of Mambrino's Helmet and the Pack-saddle Is + Finally Settled, with Other Adventures That Occurred in Truth and Earnest</td> + <td class="td3">123</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLVI"><b>XLVI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the End of the Notable Adventure of the Officers of the Holy Brotherhood; + and of the Great Ferocity of Our Worthy Knight, Don Quixote</td> + <td class="td3">127</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLVII"><b>XLVII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Strange Manner in Which Don Quixote of La Mancha Was Carried Away + Enchanted, Together with Other Remarkable Incidents</td> + <td class="td3">132</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLVIII"><b>XLVIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">In Which the Canon Pursues the Subject of the Books of Chivalry, With Other + Matters Worthy of His Wit</td> + <td class="td3">137</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLIX"><b>XLIX</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Treats of How Our Knight Is Permitted to Descend from His Cage, and + of the Canon's Attempt to Convert Him from His Illusions</td> + <td class="td3">138</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERL-LI"><b>L-LI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Shrewd Controversy Which Don Quixote and the Canon Held, Together + with Other Incidents</td> + <td class="td3">139</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERLII"><b>LII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Quarrel That Don Quixote Had with the Goatherd, Together with the + Rare Adventure of the Penitents, Which with an Expenditure of Sweat He + Brought to a Happy Conclusion</td> + <td class="td3">142</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr class="hr2" /> +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Table of Contents Volume 2"> +<tr><td colspan="3"><h2><a href="#VOLUME_II">VOLUME II</a></h2></td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1">CHAPTER</td> + <td class="td3" colspan="2">PAGE</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERI"><b>I</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Interview the Curate and the Barber Had with Don Quixote About His Malady</td> + <td class="td3">147</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERII"><b>II</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Notable Altercation Which Sancho Panza Had with + Don Quixote's Niece and His Housekeeper, Together with Other Droll Matters</td> + <td class="td3">150</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERIII"><b>III</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Laughable Conversation That Passed Between Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, + and the Bachelor Samson Carrasco</td> + <td class="td3">153</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERIV"><b>IV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">In Which Sancho Panza Gives a Satisfactory Reply to the Doubts and Questions + of the Bachelor Samson Carrasco Together with Other Matters Worth Knowing and + Mentioning</td> + <td class="td3">156</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERV"><b>V</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Shrewd and Droll Conversation That Passed Between Sancho Panza and His + Wife Teresa Panza, and Other Matters Worthy of Being Duly Recorded</td> + <td class="td3">159</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERVI"><b>VI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of What Took Place Between Don Quixote and His Niece and His Housekeeper; One + of the Most Important Chapters in the Whole History</td> + <td class="td3">161</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERVII"><b>VII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of What Passed Between Don Quixote and His Squire, Together With Other Very + Notable Incidents</td> + <td class="td3">163</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERVIII"><b>VIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Is Related What Befell Don Quixote on His Way to See His Lady Dulcinea + Del Toboso</td> + <td class="td3">167</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERIX"><b>IX</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Is Related What Will Be Seen There</td> + <td class="td3">170</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERX"><b>X</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Is Related the Crafty Device Sancho Adopted to Enchant the Lady Dulcinea, + and Other Incidents as Ludicrous as They Are True</td> + <td class="td3">172</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXI"><b>XI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Strange Adventure Which the Valiant Don Quixote Had with the Car or Cart + of "the Cortes Of Death"</td> + <td class="td3">175</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXII"><b>XII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Strange Adventure Which Befell the Valiant Don Quixote with the Bold Knight + of the Grove</td> + <td class="td3">178</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXIII-XIV"><b>XIII-XIV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">In Which Is Continued the Adventure of the Knight of the Grove, Together With + the Sensible and Tranquil Colloquy That Passed Between the Two Squires</td> + <td class="td3">180</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXV"><b>XV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein It Is Made Known How the Knight of the Mirror and His Squire Emerged + from Their Adventure</td> + <td class="td3">186</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXVI"><b>XVI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of What Befell Don Quixote with a Discreet Gentleman of La Mancha</td> + <td class="td3">187</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXVII"><b>XVII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Is Shown the Farthest and Highest Point Which the Unexampled Courage of + Don Quixote Reached or Could Reach; Together with the Happily Achieved Adventure + of the Lions</td> + <td class="td3">190</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXVIII"><b>XVIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of What Happened to Don Quixote in the Castle or House of the Knight of the + Green Coat, Together with Other Matters Out of the Common</td> + <td class="td3">194</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXIX"><b>XIX</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">In Which Is Related the Adventure of the Enamored Shepherd, Together with + Other Truly Droll Incidents</td> + <td class="td3">196</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXX"><b>XX</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein an Account Is Given of the Wedding of Camacho the Rich, Together + with the Incident of Basilio the Poor</td> + <td class="td3">199</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXI"><b>XXI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">In Which Camacho's Wedding Is Continued, with Other Delightful Incidents</td> + <td class="td3">200</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXII"><b>XXII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Is Related the Grand Adventure of the Cave of Montesinos in the + Heart of La Mancha, Which the Valiant Don Quixote Brought To a Happy Termination</td> + <td class="td3">203</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXIII"><b>XXIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Wonderful Things the Incomparable Don Quixote Said He Saw in the + Profound Cave of Montesinos, the Impossibility and Magnitude of Which + Cause This Adventure to Be Apocryphal</td> + <td class="td3">206</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXIV"><b>XXIV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Are Related Some Trifling Matters, as Trivial as They Are Necessary + to the Right Understanding of This Great History</td> + <td class="td3">209</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXV"><b>XXV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Is Set Down the Braying Adventure, and the Droll One of the Puppet-Showman, + Together with the Memorable Divinations of the Divining Ape</td> + <td class="td3">210</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXVI"><b>XXVI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Is Continued the Droll Adventure of the Puppet-Showman, Together with + Other Things in Truth Right Good</td> + <td class="td3">214</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXVII"><b>XXVII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein It Is Shown Who Master Pedro and His Ape Were, Together with the + Mishap Don Quixote Had in the Braying Adventure, Which He Did Not Conclude + as He Would Have Liked or as He Had Expected</td> + <td class="td3">217</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXVIII"><b>XXVIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of Matters That Benengeli Says He Who Reads Them Will Know, If He Reads + Them with Attention</td> + <td class="td3">220</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXIX"><b>XXIX</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Famous Adventure of the Enchanted Bark</td> + <td class="td3">222</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXX"><b>XXX</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of Don Quixote's Adventure with a Fair Huntress</td> + <td class="td3">225</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXXI"><b>XXXI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Treats of Many and Great Matters</td> + <td class="td3">228</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXXII"><b>XXXII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Reply Don Quixote Gave His Censurer, with Other Incidents, Grave and Droll</td> + <td class="td3">232</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXXIII"><b>XXXIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Delectable Discourse Which the Duchess And Her Damsels Held with Sancho Panza, + Well Worth Reading and Noting</td> + <td class="td3">236</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXXIV"><b>XXXIV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Relates How They Learned the Way in Which They Were to Disenchant the + Peerless Dulcinea Del Toboso, Which Is One of the Rarest Adventures in This Book</td> + <td class="td3">238</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXXV"><b>XXXV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Is Continued the Instruction Given to Don Quixote Touching the + Disenchantment of Dulcinea, Together with Other Marvelous Incidents</td> + <td class="td3">242</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXXVI"><b>XXXVI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Is Related the Strange and Undreamed-of Adventure of the Distressed + Duenna, Alias the Countess Trifaldi, Together with a Letter Which Sancho Panza + Wrote to His Wife, Teresa Panza</td> + <td class="td3">244</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXXVII-XXXIX"><b>XXXVII-XXXIX</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Is Continued the Notable Adventure of the Distressed Duenna, + Including Her Marvelous and Memorable Tale of Misfortune</td> + <td class="td3">246</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXL"><b>XL</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of Matters Relating and Belonging to This Adventure and to + This Memorable History</td> + <td class="td3">249</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXLI"><b>XLI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">The End of This Protracted Adventure</td> + <td class="td3">250</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXLII"><b>XLII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Counsels Which Don Quixote Gave Sancho Panza Before He Set + Out to Govern the Island, Together with Other Well-Considered Matters</td> + <td class="td3">254</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXLIII"><b>XLIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Second Set of Counsels Don Quixote Gave Sancho Panza</td> + <td class="td3">255</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXLIV"><b>XLIV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">How Sancho Panza Was Conducted to His Government; and of the Strange + Adventure That Befell Don Quixote in the Castle</td> + <td class="td3">257</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXLV"><b>XLV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of How the Great Sancho Panza Took Possession of His Island; and of + How He Made a Beginning in Governing</td> + <td class="td3">259</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXLVI"><b>XLVI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Terrible Bell and Cat Fright That Don Quixote Got in the + Course of the Enamored Altisidora's Wooing</td> + <td class="td3">260</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXLVII"><b>XLVII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Is Continued the Account of How Sancho Panza Conducted + Himself in His Government</td> + <td class="td3">263</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXLVIII-XLIX"><b>XLVIII-XVIX</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of What Happened to Sancho in Making the Round of His Island</td> + <td class="td3">265</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERL"><b>L</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Is Set Forth How Governor Sancho Panza's Wife Received a + Message and a Gift from the Duchess; and Also What Befell the Page + Who Carried the Letter to Teresa Panza</td> + <td class="td3">267</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLI"><b>LI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Progress of Sancho's Government; and Other Such Entertaining Matters</td> + <td class="td3">271</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLII"><b>LII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Three Delectable Epistles Are Read By the Duchess</td> + <td class="td3">273</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLIII"><b>LIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Troublous End and Termination of Sancho Panza's Government</td> + <td class="td3">275</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLIV-LV"><b>LIV-LV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of What Befell Sancho on the Road; and Other Things That Cannot Be Surpassed</td> + <td class="td3">280</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLVI-LVII"><b>LVI-LVII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Treats of How Don Quixote Again Felt the Calling of Knight-errantry + and How He Took Leave of the Duke, and of What Followed with the Witty and + Impudent Altisidora, One of the Duchess' Damsels</td> + <td class="td3">284</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLVIII"><b>LVIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Tells How Adventures Came Crowding on Don Quixote in Such Numbers + That They Gave One Another No Breathing-Time</td> + <td class="td3">286</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLIX"><b>LIX</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Is Related the Strange Thing, Which May Be Regarded as an Adventure, + That Happened to Don Quixote</td> + <td class="td3">292</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLX"><b>LX</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of What Happened to Don Quixote on His Way to Barcelona</td> + <td class="td3">297</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXI"><b>LXI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of What Happened to Don Quixote on Entering Barcelona, Together with Other + Matters That Partake of the True Rather Than the Ingenious</td> + <td class="td3">303</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXII"><b>LXII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Deals with the Adventure of the Enchanted Head, Together with Other + Trivial Matters Which Cannot Be Left Untold</td> + <td class="td3">305</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXIII"><b>LXIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">The Mishap That Befell Sancho Panza Through the Visit to the Galleys</td> + <td class="td3">310</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXIV"><b>LXIV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Treating of the Adventure Which Gave Don Quixote More Unhappiness Than + All That Had Hitherto Befallen Him</td> + <td class="td3">313</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXV"><b>LXV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Wherein Is Made Known Who the Knight of the White Moon Was; Likewise Other Events</td> + <td class="td3">316</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXVI-LXVII"><b>LXVI-LXVII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Resolution Which Don Quixote Formed to Turn Shepherd and Take to a + Life in the Fields While the Year for Which He Had Given His Word Was + Running Its Course; with Other Events Truly Delectable and Happy</td> + <td class="td3">317</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXVIII"><b>LXVIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Bristly Adventure That Befell Don Quixote</td> + <td class="td3">319</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXIX"><b>LXIX</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Strangest and Most Extraordinary Adventure That Befell Don Quixote + in the Whole Course of This Great History</td> + <td class="td3">323</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXX"><b>LXX</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Which Follows Chapter Sixty-Nine and Deals with Matters Indispensable + for the Clear Comprehension of This History</td> + <td class="td3">328</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXXI"><b>LXXI</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of What Passed Between Don Quixote and His Squire Sancho + on the Way to Their Village</td> + <td class="td3">331</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXXII-LXXIII"><b>LXXII-LXXIII</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of the Omens Don Quixote Had as He Entered His Own Village; and + Other Incidents That Embellish and Give a Color to This Great History</td> + <td class="td3">334</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXXIV"><b>LXXIV</b></a></td> + <td class="td2">Of How Don Quixote Fell Sick, and of the Will He Made, and How He Died</td> + <td class="td3">337</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr class="hr2" /> +<h2 class="top3">LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS</h2> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="List of Illustrations with Hyperlinks"> +<tr><td class="td4">"Don Quixote insisted that the boat had been sent by + magic to fetch him to some great knight"</td> + <td class="td5"><i><a href="#Frontis">Frontispiece</a></i></td></tr> +<tr class="weefont"><td class="td5" colspan="2">FACING PAGE</td></tr> +<tr><td class="td4">"Slashing right and left, dreaming that he had encountered the giant enemy"</td> + <td class="td5"><a href="#Page93pic">94</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="td4">"He prayed that he should not be left to perish in the cage"</td> + <td class="td5"><a href="#Page131pic">132</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="td4">"With each lash he gave out the most heartrending cries"</td> + <td class="td5"><a href="#Page333pic">334</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> +<h2 class="top3"></h2> +<hr class="hr2" /> + +<h2 class="top5">THE STORY OF DON QUIXOTE</h2> +<h2 class="top5"></h2> +<hr class="hr2" /> +<h2 class="top3"><a name="VOLUME_I" id="VOLUME_I"></a>VOLUME I</h2> +<h2 class="top3"></h2> +<hr class="hr2" /> +<h2 class="top3"><a name="v1CHAPTERI" id="v1CHAPTERI"></a>CHAPTER I</h2> + +<h4>Which Treats of the Character and Pursuits of the +Famous Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha</h4> + +<p class="cap">NEARLY four hundred years ago, there lived in the +village of La Mancha in Spain an old gentleman of +few worldly possessions but many books, who was given to +a hardy and adventurous way of life, and who beguiled his +spare time by reading the many tales of chivalry and +knighthood that were in his possession.</p> + +<p>This old gentleman was a tall, gaunt man of about fifty, +with a lantern jaw and straggling gray hair, and eyes that +had a sparkle of madness in them. His surname was +Quixada or Quesada, and though not rich, he was well +known to the country folk and had some reputation in the +community where he lived.</p> + +<p>In his younger days he was a great sportsman and used +to get up before the sun to follow his favorite pursuits of +hunting and hawking, but as he grew older he spent almost +all his time in reading books on chivalry and knighthood +with which his library was stocked; and at last he grew so +fond of these books that he forgot to follow the hounds or +even to look after his property, but spent all his time in +his library, mulling over the famous deeds and love affairs +of knights who conquered dragons and vanquished wicked +enchanters. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> + +<p>At the time when Quesada lived, Spain was saturated +with this sort of literature, and everybody wasted much +time in reading books which had no merit or value of any +kind and which were full of the most ridiculous and impossible +adventures. On the whole they were the most +utter rubbish that it was possible to print. They told +about impossible deeds in the most impossible language, +and were filled with ambitious sentences that meant nothing +under the sun. Seņor Quesada spent hours racking his +brains to puzzle out the meaning of something like this:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The reason of the unreason with which my reason is afflicted +so weakens my reason that with reason I murmur at your beauty."</p></div> + +<p>Or again:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The high heavens that of your divinity divinely fortify you +with the stars, render you deserving of the desert your greatness deserves."</p></div> + +<p>Poor Seņor Quesada could not understand these sentences. +Who could? No man in his right mind certainly, +it would have taken a madman to read any real meaning +into them. And he wasted so much time in puzzling over +them that at last he became quite mad and the words in the +books would appear on the walls of his room, written in +letters of fire, with so bright a light that they prevented him +from sleeping. From trying to read a meaning into things +that had no meaning whatever, Seņor Quesada was mad—as +mad as the books he had been reading.</p> + +<p>Seņor Quesada lived with his niece and his housekeeper, +both sensible women who loved him and who were much +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span> +grieved over the havoc his books of chivalry had worked +with his senses. They believed that to talk about these +books made the old gentleman worse, so they refused to +answer him when he argued about knights and dragons and +whether this fair lady was an enchantress in disguise or +only a mortal woman, and whether that dragon actually +did breathe forth fire from his nostrils, or only sulphur +fumes and smoke. His niece and the housekeeper would +run away when he started upon one of his favorite subjects; +so he turned to the society of the village curate, a +learned man for those times, who knew almost as much +about books of chivalry as Seņor Quesada himself, and to +that of Master Nicholas, the village barber. And these +three friends would sit up until dawn arguing as to who +was the better knight, Sir Lancelot or Amadis of Gaul, and +how these both compared with the Knight of the Burning +Sword, who with one back stroke cut in half two fierce and +monstrous giants.</p> + +<p>After he had become thoroughly mad from reading, and +more so from such arguments and discussions, Seņor Quesada +hit upon the strangest notion that ever entered the +head of a lunatic. He believed that he and no other was +called upon to restore the entire world to the ancient conditions +of chivalry, and bring back the tournaments and the +courteous knights and fair ladies whose like had existed +in the times of the famous King Arthur of Britain. Believing +this, it was an easy step for him to think that +the world was still full of giants and fierce dragons for +him to vanquish, and that as a man of honor and skill at +arms he must leave his comfortable home and do battle +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> +with them. To his disordered senses things took on a +different appearance than was actually the case—inns +seemed castles, and towers and hills appeared as giants +that moved about in the distance; and Seņor Quesada +could hardly wait before he could meet them on horseback +and overthrow them in battle.</p> + +<p>To become a knight and encounter all these strange and +visionary dangers it was necessary for him, however, to +have a war horse, a stout lance and a suit of armor, and +he cast about among his possessions to see what he could +find that would answer the purpose—for he had no money +to buy them, and no shop could have furnished them for +him if he had possessed all the money in Spain. In his +attic he found an old suit of armor that had belonged to his +great-grandfather and had been lying there for ages, rotting +with rust and mildew in company with old chests, bedding +and other family treasures. He brought it out and +scoured it as best he could and at last made it shine with +considerable brightness. But the helmet was only partially +complete, for it lacked a beaver and a visor to protect +his face, so Seņor Quesada constructed these from pasteboard +and painted them to resemble the armor as closely +as possible. He tried their strength with his rusty sword, +and on the first stroke cut them entirely away; so he rebuilt +them and forbore to try them again, hoping they +would be strong enough, but fearing to make a test that +might undo once more all the troublesome work that he had +spent upon them.</p> + +<p>His armor now complete, he looked in his stables for a +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> +horse to carry him, and found there his old hack, whose +every bone was visible and who was more used to carrying +sacks of potatoes and onions to market than to bearing the +weight of a knight or a man at arms. This horse must +have been at least twenty years old into the bargain, but to +Quixada's brain it appeared a mettlesome charger and he +was quite sure that his new steed would prove equal to any +fatigue or danger that might come its way in the course of +his adventures. And remembering that all the horses of +famous warriors had possessed high-sounding names he +called his horse Rocinante and adopted for himself the +title of Don Quixote of La Mancha, under which name he +will be known through the rest of the present history.</p> + +<p>Another thing, however, remained wanting—a lady-love +for whose sake he might do battle and whose affections +might inspire him to endure all sorts of dangers and hardships. +So Don Quixote straightway searched through his +recollection to find one that might answer, and hit at last +upon a peasant girl named Aldonza Lorenzo, with whom it +is supposed he had been in love when he was a young man. +And though Aldonza Lorenzo was more used to winnowing +wheat and caring for the live-stock than to fine phrases and +courtly manners, and though she was no better than any of +the other peasant girls who lived in her locality, Don Quixote +believed that she was a lady of high lineage and +noble birth and christened her in his mind Dulcinea del +Toboso. And he was ready to fight with any man in +Spain who would not acknowledge that she was the loveliest +and most gifted lady in the world. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p> + +<p>A lance was easily made, and now, possessed of war horse, +armor, weapons, and a glorious lady to do battle for, the +poor old man was ready, so he believed, to go forth and +meet the high adventures that he felt sure were awaiting +him.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERII-III" id="v1CHAPTERII-III"></a>CHAPTERS II-III</h2> + +<h4>Which Treats of the First Sally Don Quixote Made +from Home</h4> + +<p class="cap">ALL things being ready, Don Quixote wished for no +delay, and before sunrise on one of the hottest days +of midsummer, he stole from his bed—taking care not to +awaken his niece or his housekeeper—put on his ancient +armor, saddled Rocinante, and with lance in hand and +sword clattering beside him made his way across the fields +in the highest state of content and satisfaction at the ease +with which his purpose had been accomplished. He could +hardly wait for his adventures to begin, or for the chance +to try the strength of his mighty arm upon some wicked +warrior or, better still, some dragon or giant; but scarcely +did he find himself upon the open plain before a terrible +thought came to his mind and one that nearly made him +abandon his adventure before it was well begun. He reflected +that, according to the rules of chivalry, he must be +dubbed a knight before he could undertake any battles or +engagements, and afterward he must wear white armor +without any device upon his shield, until he had proved +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> +by bravery and endurance his right to these privileges of +knighthood. He consoled himself, however, by resolving +to have himself dubbed a knight by the first person who +came along; and as for white armor, he determined to make +his own rival the brightness of the moon by industrious +scouring.</p> + +<p>Comforting himself with thoughts such as these, he pursued +his way, which he allowed his horse to choose for him, +thinking that in so doing he would be guided more surely +and more quickly to the adventures that were awaiting +him. And as he rode along he amused himself by quoting +imaginary passages from the books that he felt sure would +be written about his noble deeds—deeds that he would +soon accomplish and that would astonish the entire world +by their bravery and hardihood. At times he would break +into wild speech, calling his lady Dulcinea by name and +saying: "O Princess Dulcinea, lady of this captive heart, +a grievous wrong hast thou done me to drive me forth with +scorn and banish me from the presence of thy beauty!"</p> + +<p>And so he went along, stringing such absurd phrases together, +while the hot sun rose and grew hotter, until it +would have melted his brains in his helmet, if he had any. +He traveled nearly all day without seeing anything remarkable, +at which he was in despair, for he could hardly +wait, as we have said, for his adventures to begin.</p> + +<p>Toward evening he came in sight of a common wayside +inn, and standing at the door were two peasant girls who +looked with astonishment on the strange figure that was +approaching them. To the disordered imagination of Don +Quixote, this appeared to be a castle with four towers, and +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> +the girls who stood in front of the door seemed ladies of +noble birth and peerless beauty. He seemed to see behind +them a drawbridge and a moat, and waited for some +dwarf to appear upon the castle battlements and by sound +of a trumpet announce that a knight was approaching the +gates.</p> + +<p>At this point a swineherd who was gathering his pigs +did happen to blow a blast on his horn to scare his charges +along the road; and this, appearing to Don Quixote to be +the dwarfs signal that he had expected, he drew near in +high satisfaction, while Rocinante, scenting stables and +hay and water, pricked up his ears and advanced at a brisk +trot until the inn door was reached and Don Quixote addressed +the astonished girls who were waiting there.</p> + +<p>The girls, on seeing an armed man approaching them, +had turned to seek safety indoors, when Don Quixote, +lifting his pasteboard beaver, said to them in the most +courteous manner he could command:</p> + +<p>"Ladies, I beseech you, do not fly or fear any manner +of rudeness, for it is against the rules of the knighthood, +which I profess, to offer harm to high-born ladies such +as you appear to be."</p> + +<p>The girls, hearing themselves addressed in this strange +manner and called ladies, could not refrain from giggling, +at which Don Quixote rebuked them, saying:</p> + +<p>"Modesty becomes the fair, and laughter without cause +is the greatest silliness."</p> + +<p>The strange language and dilapidated appearance of the +speaker only increased the girls' laughter, and that increased +Don Quixote's irritation; and matters might have +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> +gone farther if the landlord had not appeared at this moment +to see what might be the matter. When he beheld +the grotesque figure on horseback whose armor did not +match and whose mount was the sorriest one imaginable, +it was all he could do to refrain from joining the girls in +their hilarity; but being a little in awe of the strange +knight, whose lance was pointed and whose sword appeared +to have both strength and weight, he spoke courteously +to Don Quixote. He told him that if he sought +food or lodging he should have the best that the inn could +afford for man or beast. And the poor old gentleman, +who had been riding in the heat all day without food or +drink, climbed stiffly out of the saddle and suffered Rocinante +to be led away to the stable, cautioning the landlord +to take the utmost care of him, for he was the finest bit +of horseflesh in the world. The host, however, looking +over the bony carcass of the old farm animal, had more +difficulty than before in restraining his laughter.</p> + +<p>The girls now perceived that they had a crazy man before +them and they entered into the spirit of the occasion.</p> + +<p>They helped Don Quixote remove his armor; but the +helmet they could do nothing with, for it was tied tightly +with green ribbons about his neck and on no pretext whatever +would he hear of cutting them.</p> + +<p>They laid a table for him at the door of the inn for the +sake of the air, and the host brought him a piece of badly +soaked and badly cooked fish and a piece of bread as black +and moldy as his own armor. And a laughable sight it +was to see Don Quixote eat—for, having his helmet on, he +could not reach his own mouth, but had to be fed, bit by +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> +bit, by one of the girls; and for drink he would have gone +without altogether if the innkeeper had not brought a hollow +reed and putting one end into the knight's mouth, +poured wine through the other.</p> + +<p>While this was going on Don Quixote heard once more +the swineherd's horn and felt entirely happy and satisfied, +for he was convinced that he was in some famous castle +and that they were regaling him with music; that the fish +was trout, the bread of the whitest, the peasant girls beautiful +ladies, and the landlord the castle steward. But +he still felt distressed because he had not been dubbed a +knight, and resolved to remedy this fault as soon as his +supper was finished.</p> + +<p>As soon as he had eaten his fill, he called the landlord +of the inn, and taking him into the stable, knelt on the +ground before him, declaring that he would not rise until +the landlord should grant his wish and dub him a knight +so that he could continue on his adventures according to +the laws of chivalry. For Don Quixote, as we have said, +looked on the landlord as a person of great authority, with +full power to make him a knight if he chose to do so.</p> + +<p>The landlord was something of a wag, and well aware +that his guest was mad. He therefore decided to fall in +with his wishes for the sport of the thing; so he told Don +Quixote that he would make him a knight and gladly, that +he too had been a knight errant in his time and wandered +all over Spain seeking adventures, where he had proved +the lightness of his feet in running away and the quickness +of his fingers in picking pockets, until he had swindled +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> +and cheated so many people that he had been forced to retire +to this castle of his. Here he lived on his property—and +that of other persons—and he accepted money from +wandering knights errant in return for the kindness and +services he rendered them. And when Don Quixote told +him that he never carried money with him in his travels, +the landlord assured him he was making the greatest mistake +in the world and that he must not suppose that, just +because money and clean shirts were not mentioned in the +books of chivalry of the time, the knights did without +them; that was not the case at all.</p> + +<p>At last it was decided that the landlord should dub Don +Quixote a knight on the following morning, and that the +night should be spent by Don Quixote in watching over +his armor in prayer and fasting, as was the custom with +knights before they received the title of full knighthood +and could go abroad on their adventures with a strong arm +and untroubled spirit.</p> + +<p>It had been arranged between the landlord and Don +Quixote that the watch over the armor should take place +in the courtyard of the inn. Don Quixote placed his +corselet and helmet by the side of a well from which the +carriers drew water, and, grasping his lance, commenced +to march up and down before it like a sentinel on duty; +and as the hours wore by and the march continued, the +landlord called other persons to watch the performance, +explaining that the man was mad, and telling of the ceremony +that was to take place in the morning. The passers-by, +viewing the steadiness with which Don Quixote +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> +paced to and fro in the moonlight and the resolute way in +which he handled his lance, were struck with wonder both +at the peculiarity of the sight and the strange form that +Don Quixote's madness had taken.</p> + +<p>At last, however, it became necessary for one of the +carriers to draw water from the well. He did not observe +the madman and he paid no attention to the armor until +he stumbled across it, when he picked it up and flung it +from him, whereupon Don Quixote raised his lance and +struck him such a blow that he fell senseless on the ground +and lay there stunned. Soon after this another carrier, +who did not know of what had happened to the first one, +approached with the same object; and Don Quixote, thinking +him an enemy, also struck at him and laid his head +open with two cuts from his lance in the form of a cross.</p> + +<p>The people of the inn heard the noise of the second encounter +and came running to the spot. When they beheld +what had happened and saw the battered condition of the +carriers they commenced to throw stones at Don Quixote, +not daring to approach him; and he, shielding himself as +best he could with his buckler, defied them to draw near on +pain of their lives, and returned the abuse and hard names +they showered upon him. And he shouted at them with +such a terrible voice that they became afraid and left him +alone, moved not only by his threats but by the entreaties of +the landlord, who kept calling out to them that the man +was mad and would not be held accountable should he kill +them all.</p> + +<p>The freaks of Don Quixote were not to the landlord's +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> +liking, and he desired to get rid of the strange knight with +as little trouble as possible. He approached the well and +told Don Quixote that the time for the ceremony of knighthood +had now arrived, and that all the requirements had +been met with by the watch that Don Quixote had already +performed. He pulled out an account-book in +which he kept the record of the straw and grain that he sold +and bade Don Quixote kneel down before him. Then he +read out the accounts in a solemn voice as though he were +repeating some devout prayer, and the stable-boy and the +two girls who worked at the inn stood by with a candle, +trying to control their laughter. When the reading was +finished the landlord took Don Quixote's sword and tapped +him sharply on the shoulder, pretending to mutter more +prayers while he was doing it, and one of the girls girded +the sword about Don Quixote's waist, saying, as she did +so:</p> + +<p>"May God make your Worship a very fortunate knight, +and grant you success in battle!"</p> + +<p>Thus the ceremony was ended and Don Quixote was +satisfied. And then it came about as the landlord had +hoped and expected. The new knight was so eager to set +out on his journey that he saddled his horse and rode +forth at once, without paying his bill for his supper; and +the landlord was so glad to see the last of him that he made +no objection to this, thinking himself lucky to have got +rid of the knight so cheaply, and he closed the door behind +him as quickly as possible, thanking his lucky stars that +Don Quixote was gone. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERIV" id="v1CHAPTERIV"></a>CHAPTER IV</h2> + +<h4>Which Treats of Don Quixote's Further Adventures</h4> + +<p class="cap">IT was dawn when Don Quixote quitted the inn. He +decided to return home to provide himself with money, +shirts, and a squire, as the innkeeper had suggested, and so +he turned his horse's head toward his village.</p> + +<p>He had not gone far, however, when he heard a feeble +cry from the depths of a thicket on the roadside, as of +some one in pain. He paused to thank Heaven for having +favored him with this opportunity of fulfilling the obligation +he had undertaken and gathering the fruit of his +ambition; for he was certain that he had been called on +from above to give aid and protection to some one in dire +need. He quickly turned Rocinante in the direction from +which the cries seemed to come; and he had gone but a +few paces into the wood when he saw a youth, stripped +to the waist and tied to a tree, being flogged in a merciless +way by a powerful farmer. All the while the boy +was crying out in his agony: "I won't do it again, master! +I won't do it again! I promise I'll take better care of the +sheep hereafter!"</p> + +<p>When Don Quixote saw what was going on he became +most indignant.</p> + +<p>"Discourteous knight," he commanded in angry tones, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> +"it ill becomes you to assail one who cannot defend himself! +Mount your steed and take your lance! I will +make you know that you are behaving like a coward!"</p> + +<p>The farmer looked up and saw Don Quixote in full +armor, brandishing a lance over his head. He gave himself +up for dead, then, and answered meekly:</p> + +<p>"Sir knight, the youth I am chastising is my servant. I +employ him to watch a flock of sheep, and he is so careless +that he loses one for me every day. And when I +punish him for being careless, he accuses me of being a +miser, saying that I do it that I might escape paying him +the wages I owe him. That, I swear, is a sinful lie!"</p> + +<p>But the farmer's defense only angered Don Quixote +all the more. He threatened to run the man through with +his lance if he did not release the boy at once and pay him +every penny he owed him in wages. Don Quixote then +helped the lad to add up how much nine months' wages at +seven reals a month might be, and found that it would +make sixty-three reals; and the farmer was given his choice +between paying his debt and dying upon the spot. The +farmer replied, trembling with fear, that the sum was not +so great and asked Don Quixote to take into account and +deduct three pairs of shoes he had given the boy and a real +for two blood-lettings when he was sick. But Don Quixote +would not listen to this at all. He declared that the +shoes and the blood-lettings had already been paid for +by the blows the farmer had given the boy without +cause, for, said he, "If he spoiled the leather of the shoes +you paid for, you have damaged that of his body; and if +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> +the barber took blood from him when he was sick, you have +drawn it when he was sound; so on that score he owes you +nothing."</p> + +<p>When the farmer had heard his final judgment pronounced, +he commenced to wail that he had no money about +him, and pleaded with Don Quixote to let Andres, the lad, +come home with him, when he would pay him real by real. +Upon hearing this Andres turned to our knight errant and +warned him that once he had departed his master would +flay him like a Saint Bartholomew; but Don Quixote reassured +him, saying now that his master had sworn to him +by the knighthood that he, Don Quixote, had conferred +upon him, justice would be done, and he himself would +guarantee the payment.</p> + +<p>The youth had his doubts, however, and he dared to +correct Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Consider what you say, Seņor," he said. "This master +of mine is not a knight; he is simply Juan Haldudo the +Rich, of Quintanar."</p> + +<p>To this Don Quixote replied that it mattered little; and +the farmer again swore by all the knighthoods in the world +to pay the lad as he had promised if he only came home.</p> + +<p>"See that you do as you have sworn," said Don Quixote, +"for if you do not, by the same oath I swear to come back +and hunt you out and punish you; and I shall find you +though you should lie closer than a lizard! If you desire +to know who it is lays this command upon you, that you +may be more firmly bound to obey it, know that I am the +valorous Don Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of wrongs +and injustices. And so, God be with you! But keep in +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> +mind what you have promised and sworn on pain of those +penalties that have been already declared to you!"</p> + +<p>With these words he gave his steed the spur and rode +away in a triumphant gallop, and was soon out of sight +and reach. Now, when the farmer had convinced himself +that the undoer of wrongs and injustices had entirely disappeared, +he decided to give payment to the lad, Andres, +then and there, without waiting till he came home; and +so he tied him again to the tree and beat him until he was +nearly dead.</p> + +<p>"Your valiant knight has made me realize an affection +for you hitherto unknown to me. I shall give you added +payment for that. Now go and look for him!" he remarked, +as he gave him a last blow and untied him. And +while the poor boy went off weeping, the lusty farmer +stood there and laughed.</p> + +<p>Thus it was that our noble knight righted <i>that</i> wrong. +Don Quixote, however, was thoroughly satisfied with what +he had done. He thought himself a most heroic figure and +felt that he had made a most auspicious beginning in his +knighthood. And as he was taking the road toward his +village, utterly content with his own behavior, he said +to himself: "Well mayest thou this day call thyself fortunate +above all on earth, O Dulcinea del Toboso, fairest +of the fair! since it has fallen to thy lot to hold subject and +submissive to thy will and pleasure a knight so renowned +as Don Quixote of La Mancha, who, as all the world +knows, yesterday received the order of knighthood, and +hath to-day righted the greatest wrong and grievance that +ever injustice conceived and cruelty perpetrated: who hath +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> +to-day plucked the rod from the hand of yonder ruthless +oppressor so wantonly lashing that tender child."</p> + +<p>As he was meditating and speaking in this fashion, he +suddenly found himself at four crossroads. Of course, he +had to emulate other knights who had gone before him, +and follow tradition; so he paused in the manner that all +knights do in books, and pondered, and, after much deep +concern and consideration, finally decided to leave it to the +instinct of his horse. The noble animal, realizing that his +master had relinquished his will in his favor, made straight +for his own stable, of course.</p> + +<p>After he had ridden a few miles, Don Quixote encountered +six merchants from Toledo, who were on their way +to Murcia to buy silk. They were accompanied by four +mounted servants, and three who were on foot. Scarcely +had he perceived them when his romantic imagination +prompted him to believe that a fresh adventure was intended +for him, and he began to prepare for it with great +gestures. He fixed himself majestically and safely in the +saddle, made ready with his lance, and planted himself +firmly in the middle of the road. Here he awaited the +arrival of the traders, who appeared to him to be real +knights like himself; and as they came close to him, he +halted them with a broad sweep of his lance, exclaiming +boldly:</p> + +<p>"All the world stand, unless all the world confess that in +all the world there is no maiden fairer than the Empress +of La Mancha, the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso!"</p> + +<p>The thirteen men could not help but stand still at the +sound of such words; nor did they hesitate about thinking +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> +that the speaker of them might be lacking in some of his +wits. One of the travelers, however, either was curious +or had a failing for making fun of people, for he asked Don +Quixote to produce the lady before asking him to pay +her his respects. Perhaps he was skeptical of his +country's harboring such a rare beauty unbeknown to +him.</p> + +<p>But Don Quixote was not to be fooled. "If I were to +show her to you," he replied, "what merit would you have +in confessing a truth so manifest? You must believe without +seeing her; otherwise you have to do with me in battle. +Come on, you rabble! I rely on the justice of the cause +I maintain!"</p> + +<p>The merchant with a sense of humor tried to plead for +consideration. He suggested that a portrait of the fair +lady might suffice to bring about a conversion to his conception +of her beauty. But Don Quixote was determined +that they were intolerant blasphemers who simply had to +be thrashed. So he suddenly charged with such vehemence +and fury that, if luck had not interfered and made +his gentle steed stumble, the trader might have been killed. +As Rocinante went down, our gallant hero went over his +head, and after he had struck the ground he rolled for +some distance. But when he tried to rise he could not: +he was so weighted down with armor, helmet, spurs, buckler +and lance. To make matters worse, one of the servants, +having broken his lance in two, proceeded to batter him +with one of the pieces until it seemed as if Don Quixote +would be able to stand no more. Finally the man grew +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> +tired and went to catch up with his party, which had continued +its way. But Don Quixote still lay on the ground, +unable to get up.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERV" id="v1CHAPTERV"></a>CHAPTER V</h2> + +<h4>In Which the Narrative of Our Knight's Mishap is +Continued</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHEN Don Quixote began to realize that he was, +so to speak, anchored to the ground, he turned his +thoughts to his usual remedy, his books on knighthood and +chivalry, which, in fact, had been the cause of his downfall. +He decided that the passage to fit his case was the +one about Baldwin and the Marquis of Mantua when Carloto +left him wounded on the mountainside—for that he +had been wounded by brigands he had no doubt. So he +began to feign severe suffering, rolling to and fro on the +ground, and repeating words that he had read in his books +and ascribed to Baldwin as he lay wounded; until he finally +was discovered by a peasant from his own village, a neighbor +of his, whom he took for Baldwin's uncle, the Marquis +of Mantua. This good neighbor of Don Quixote's was +much concerned over his ravings. He removed the knight's +breastplate, back piece and visor, expecting to see him +badly wounded; but he found no trace of blood or marks +upon him. Then he succeeded in hoisting poor Don Quixote +up on his donkey, which seemed the easiest mount for +him, while he tied the pieces of his arms on Rocinante. +And thus they proceeded toward the village. Because of +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> +his blows and bruises, Don Quixote had a hard task sitting +upright on the ass, and he emphasized the romance of his +situation by constantly heaving sighs to heaven. But +every time the peasant was driven by these sighs to ask +him his trouble, he replied in the language of a different +hero from a different book.</p> + +<p>It was nightfall when they arrived at Don Quixote's +house in the village. His housekeeper, the curate, and +the village barber were all in confusion, for it was now six +days since the old gentleman had disappeared from La +Mancha with his hack and armor. They had just come +to the conclusion that his books were to blame for his dilapidated +mentality, and agreed that they ought to be condemned +to be publicly burned, when the peasant suddenly +arrived with Don Quixote himself. They all ran out to +greet and embrace him while he was still on the donkey—he +had not dismounted because he could not. He insisted +that he was severely wounded—through no fault of +his own, however, but that of his horse—and asked that +they put him to bed and send for the wise Urganda to cure +him.</p> + +<p>The good people carried him to bed, but still they could +find no wounds, although he insisted that he had been +wounded in combat with ten giants, the greatest and most +bloodthirsty in the world. Then he asked for something +to eat; and then fell asleep. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERVI" id="v1CHAPTERVI"></a>CHAPTER VI</h2> + +<h4>Of the Diverting and Important Scrutiny Which the +Curate and the Barber Made in the Library of +Our Ingenious Gentleman</h4> + +<p class="cap">EARLY the next morning the curate and his friend +Master Nicholas, the barber, went to Don Quixote's +house to settle their grievance with the cause of all the mischief—the +books of their demented friend. The curate +asked the niece for the keys to the library, and she was only +too willing to let him have them. They all went in, followed +by the housekeeper, who grew faint-hearted as soon +as she caught sight of all the beautifully bound books in +the room. She ran out as if beset, returning immediately +with a bowl of holy water and a sprinkler, with which she +implored the curate to sprinkle the room, so that none of +the magicians who might come out of the books would be +left to bewitch her.</p> + +<p>She was afraid that their ghosts might survive and +bother her in revenge for having instigated their banishment +from this world.</p> + +<p>The curate was amused by the housekeeper's fear. He +asked the barber to give him the books one by one, as he +was afraid that among the many there must be some innocent +ones which did not deserve the penalty of death. +But both the niece and the housekeeper made emphatic +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> +and vociferous remonstrances against such leniency and insisted +that a bonfire be made in the courtyard for all of +them. Now, the barber had a particular leaning toward +poetry, and he thought that <i>such</i> volumes ought to escape +the stake; but he was promptly overruled by the conclusions +of the niece, who reasoned that enough harm had already +been done by books. "Your worship," she pleaded +with the curate, "had best burn them all; for if my uncle, +having been cured of his craze for chivalry, should take +to reading these pastoral poems, he might take a fancy to +become a shepherd and stroll the woods and pastures, singing +and piping. What would be still worse, however, +would be his turning poet; for that, they say, is both an incurable +and infectious malady."</p> + +<p>Against such logic, strongly supported by the housekeeper, +the arguments of the two men came to nothing; +and the barber saw his favorite form of literature thrust +into the heap that was being prepared in the yard for illumination. +Only a few books were saved from this fate, +and they only through the boldness of the curate and the +barber together against the united efforts of the female +members of the party. There was one volume in particular, +called "The Tears of Angelica," which the curate +fought for valiantly. "I should have shed tears myself," +he said, "had I seen that book burn." +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERVII" id="v1CHAPTERVII"></a>CHAPTER VII</h2> + +<h4>Of the Second Sally of Our Worthy Knight, Don +Quixote of La Mancha</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHILE the curate was praising the merits of "The +Tears of Angelica," there was suddenly a tremendous +outcry and noise from Don Quixote's bedroom. They +hastened to see what was the matter, and when they reached +his room they found him out of bed, sword in hand, cutting +and slashing all around him, raving and shouting, with perspiration +dripping from his body. He imagined that he +was keeping at a distance several bold and daring warriors, +and he kept exclaiming that the envious Don Roland had +battered him with the trunk of an oak-tree because of his +illustrious achievements in chivalry. They finally succeeded +in forcibly putting him to bed, having wiped away +the perspiration—which he insisted was blood. He then +asked for something to eat; and when it was brought he +fell asleep again.</p> + +<p>After the housekeeper had burned up all the books that +were in the house, the curate and the barber thought it +best to safeguard themselves against their friend's fury +when he should find that his treasures had disappeared. +So they decided to wall up and plaster the room where the +books had been. Two days later, when Don Quixote got +up out of bed, he went to look for his library. And it was +nowhere to be found, of course: where the door had been, +there was only a wall. He asked his housekeeper where +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> +his books were, as well as the room they had been kept in; +but she had been well instructed and blamed it all on the +devil. His niece told him that she believed a magician +had taken the room away. She had seen him, she declared, +come on a cloud, riding on a serpent; and when he had disappeared, +the whole house was full of smoke and there was +no trace of either room or books. The niece also declared +that she had heard the magician say plainly that he was the +Sage Munaton.</p> + +<p>The niece's explanation of the magic was heartily approved +of by Don Quixote. The only doubt he expressed +was about the identity of the magician. "He must have +said Friston," he insisted. The housekeeper here came to +the niece's aid and stated that she did not know whether +he had said "Friston" or "Friton" or what he had said; but +one thing she was sure of was that his name ended with +"ton."</p> + +<p>This convinced Don Quixote that it was no other than +the Sage Munaton, a great enemy of his, whose vanity +could not tolerate the prophecies that Don Quixote was +about to conquer in battle a certain knight whom Munaton +had befriended.</p> + +<p>After this our worthy knight stuck to his house and home +for a fortnight. His two gossiping friends, the curate and +the village barber, did everything in their power to divert +his thoughts from his fixed idea of a revival of the days +of knighthood and chivalry. But the fire in Don Quixote's +breast was smouldering: it was an undying flame.</p> + +<p>Near Don Quixote there lived a man by the name of +Sancho Panza. He was a farm-hand—a poor but honest +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> +fellow who had both wife and children. Sancho Panza +was not overburdened with thoughts derived from reading +books of chivalry—the simple facts being that he could +neither read nor write—nor, for that matter, with thoughts +of any other kind on any other subject, for while Don Quixote +had lost his wits, Sancho had never had any.</p> + +<p>To this poor fellow Don Quixote would talk of his adventures +by the hour, trying to persuade Sancho that he +was missing much romance by remaining a farm-hand all +his life and that he ought to become the squire of some +noble knight—for instance, himself. And so, after much +persuasion and many promises, Sancho Panza decided to +adopt his noble neighbor as his master. He was told that +he must provide himself with all the necessaries for such +an important and lofty position; and he assured his master +that he would bring along his very best donkey. The mention +of this ignoble animal somewhat took the knight aback. +He ransacked his memory for any instance in which any +other mount than a horse had been used, but he could recall +none. However, he could not very well have an attendant +on foot, so he decided to take him along, mounted on +his donkey. Of course, there was no doubt in his mind that +an opportunity would present itself ere long to appropriate +the horse of some rebellious knight.</p> + +<p>One night the two sallied forth from the village, unseen. +Sancho Panza sat on his donkey, a picture of grave joviality, +already seeing himself the governor of some conquered +island. Don Quixote was taking the same road he took +on his first campaign, the road that led over the Campo de +Montiel. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERVIII-IX" id="v1CHAPTERVIII-IX"></a>CHAPTERS VIII-IX</h2> + +<h4>Of the Good Fortune Which the Valiant Don Quixote +Had in the Terrible and Undreamt-of Adventure +of the Windmills, with Other Occurrences +Worthy to Be Fitly Recorded, Including +the Terrible Battle Between The +Gallant Biscayan and The +Valiant Manchegan</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHEN they had traveled a few miles they suddenly +saw thirty or forty windmills scattered over a +plain. Don Quixote pulled in his horse, his eyes staring +out of their sockets.</p> + +<p>"Look, friend Sancho Panza!" he exclaimed. "Thirty +or more monstrous giants present themselves! I mean to +engage them all in battle and slay them; for this is righteous +warfare. It is serving God to sweep so evil a breed +from off the face of the earth!"</p> + +<p>"What giants?" asked Sancho curiously.</p> + +<p>"Those with the long arms," replied Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"But, your worship," said Sancho, "those are not giants +but windmills, and what seem to be their arms are the +sails that make the millstones go."</p> + +<p>Hearing his squire make such a foolish remark, Don +Quixote could not quite make up his mind whether it was +through ignorance, inexperience in the pursuit of adventure, +or cowardice, that he spoke like that. So he suggested +Sancho would better stay away and pray while he, +Don Quixote, fought the giants single-handed. The honor +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> +of conquering in such an unequal combat would be so +much greater for him, he thought, if he won victory all by +himself.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote made ready for the attack by commending +himself to his Lady Dulcinea, and then he gave the spur to +Rocinante in spite of the pleas and outcries of Sancho +Panza. Just at this moment a breeze began to blow and +the sails of the windmills commenced to move. The +knight charged at his hack's fullest gallop, drove his spear +with such force into one of the sails that the spear was +shattered to pieces while the poor knight fell over the +pommel of his saddle, head over heels in the air, and +Rocinante fell stunned to the ground. There they rolled +together on the plain, in a battered and bruised condition.</p> + +<p>Sancho hurried to his master's side as fast as his donkey +could carry him. He was worried beyond words, for he +expected to find Don Quixote well nigh dead, and he was +not bent on giving up all hopes of governing an island, +at so early a stage. The misguided knight was unable to +move. Nevertheless Sancho Panza could not resist the +impulse to reprimand his master. "Did I not tell your +worship so!" he admonished. But Don Quixote would +hear nothing, answering in a sportsmanlike fashion:</p> + +<p>"Hush, friend Sancho! The fortunes of war fluctuate, +that's all." And then he added his suspicion that the same +Sage Friston, the magician who had carried off his room of +books, had turned the giants into windmills so that he would +be unable to boast of having conquered them—all out of +sheer envy and thirst for vengeance. What he most bewailed, +however, was the loss of his lance. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p> + +<p>With much difficulty Sancho succeeded in placing Don +Quixote on his horse, and they proceeded on their way, +following the road to Puerto Lapice. All the while Don +Quixote was scanning the woods along the roadside for +the branch of an oak-tree that he would deem a worthy +substitute for his departed spear. It seemed to him as if +he had read somewhere in one of his books that some knight +had done such a thing in an emergency.</p> + +<p>Having reminded Don Quixote that he must sit straight +in the saddle, Sancho was in turn reminded by an inner +feeling that it was time to eat. His master, however, +scorned this idea, and let Sancho indulge by himself, while +he fasted.</p> + +<p>Finally night fell, and they passed it in the woods. +There Don Quixote chose at last the branch of an oak-tree +that was to serve him as a spear, and to one of its ends he +attached the head of his broken lance. All night long he +lay looking up into the sky, visioning his sweet Dulcinea—all +for the purpose of emulating other heroes of the past +age of chivalry who could not sleep for thinking of their +lady loves.</p> + +<p>Sancho Panza, unluckily, was stimulated in no such +blessed way. He was supported by no sweet dreams of +any beloved one of his. As for his wife, he had forgotten +all about her. But as a matter of truth he had no memory +of anything, having absorbed too much fluid out of +his leather wine-bag, or <i>bota</i>, as it is called in Spanish. +On getting up in the morning Sancho Panza was grieved +to find the contents of his <i>bota</i> decidedly diminished.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> +Don Quixote bravely maintained his self-inflicted hunger +and swallowed his appetite by thoughts of his past +valiant deeds. They soon started out, and again took the +road leading to Puerto Lapice, whose outlines they sighted +in the afternoon. Don Quixote thought this an opportune +time for addressing his squire on the etiquette and laws of +knighthood, as they were now approaching a very hotbed +of adventure.</p> + +<p>"Under no pretext," he admonished the faithful one, +"must thou put a hand to thy sword in my defense unless +it be that I am attacked by mere rabble or base folk; in +such case, thou art in duty bound to be my bodyguard. +But if my assailants be knights, thou must in no way interfere +until thou hast been dubbed a knight thyself."</p> + +<p>Sancho promised to obey his master as nearly as his +human nature permitted him. He declared that he liked +peace and hated strife, yet, if he were assailed, he did not +believe in turning the other cheek more than once. Don +Quixote saw a certain amount of reason in this; still, he +asked his squire to do his utmost to restrain himself against +any such rash impulse in the case of members of the knighthood. +And Sancho Panza swore that he would keep this +precept as religiously as Sunday.</p> + +<p>While our noble knight was thus instructing his squire, +there appeared on the road two friars of the order of St. +Benedict. They were riding mules; and behind them +came a coach with an escort numbering nearly half a dozen +men on horseback and two men on foot. In the coach, +traveling in state, was a lady of Biscay, on her way to +Seville.</p> + +<p>What could this be except a plot of scheming magicians +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> +to steal away some princess? The friars, innocently traveling +by themselves, became in Don Quixote's eyes a pair +of evil magicians, and in his thirst for adventure the nearer +one assumed stupendous proportions.</p> + +<p>"This will be worse than the windmills!" sighed Sancho, +who tried in vain to convince his master of the facts in the +case.</p> + +<p>But Don Quixote cut him short. "Thou knowest +nothing of adventures," he said; and that settled it.</p> + +<p>Boldly the knight went forward and took position in +the middle of the road.</p> + +<p>"Devilish and unnatural beings!" he cried in a loud +voice, "release instantly the high-born princess whom you +are carrying off by force in this coach, else prepare to meet +a speedy death as the just punishment of your evil deeds!"</p> + +<p>The mules came to a standstill, their ears erect with +astonishment at such a figure, and the friars gaped in wonder. +At last they recovered sufficiently to declare that +they were traveling quite by themselves, and had no knowledge +of the identity of the travelers following behind +them.</p> + +<p>To their meek reply Don Quixote paid no heed, but bellowed +forth furiously: "No soft words with me! I know +you, you lying rabble!" And with his spurs in Rocinante +and his lance lifted he rode against the two friars like a +whirlwind, so that if one of them had not quickly thrust +himself off his mule, he would certainly have been torn to +shreds. The other one saved his skin by setting off across +the country at a speed rivaling our hero's charge.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> +At this stage Sancho Panza began to realize the full extent +of his position as squire to a successful knight. Over +by the roadside he saw the first friar lying breathless on the +ground as a result of his jumping off his mule in such +amazing hurry. He proceeded to strip off the friar's gown, +using as a moral for doing this his own thoughts on the +subject. He reasoned that if he could not share in the +honors of battle, he at least ought to share in the spoils.</p> + +<p>He was intercepted by some of the men attending the +carriage. Unfortunately, they were serious-minded men, +and they failed to see the joke. Sancho Panza gave them +his views on etiquette pertaining to such matters as these; +but it would have been much better for him had he not, for +the men set upon him with great fury, beating and kicking +him until he was insensible. They left him lying on the +ground and then helped the pale and trembling friar to +mount his mule. As soon as he was in the saddle, he +hastened to join his companion, and the two of them continued +their journey, making more crosses than they would +if the devil had pursued them.</p> + +<p>In the meantime Don Quixote had been trying to persuade +the fair occupant of the coach to return to El Toboso +that she herself might relate to his beloved Dulcinea the +strange adventure from which he had delivered her.</p> + +<p>A Biscayan gentleman, who was one of her attendants +and rode a hired mule, took offense at his insistence to +bother her, and a fight was soon in progress. The Biscayan +had no shield, so he snatched a cushion from the carriage +and used it to defend himself. The engagement +was a most heated one, and Don Quixote lost a piece of +his ear early in the combat. This enraged him beyond +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> +words; he charged his adversary with such tremendous +force and fury that he began to bleed from his mouth, +his nose, and his ears. Had the Biscayan not embraced +the neck of his mount, he would have been spilled on the +ground immediately. It remained for his mule to complete +the damage, and when the animal suddenly set off +across the plain in great fright, the rider plunged headlong +to the ground.</p> + +<p>Seeing this, Don Quixote hastened to the man's side and +bade him surrender, at the penalty of having his head cut +off. Absolutely bewildered, the gentleman from Biscay +could say nothing; and had it not been for the ladies in the +coach who interceded with prayers for his life, the Biscayan +might have been beheaded right then and there. Don +Quixote finally agreed to spare his opponent's life on one +condition: that he present himself before the matchless +Lady Dulcinea in the village of El Toboso, and it would +be for her to determine his punishment. The ladies having +promised that their protector should do anything and +everything that might be asked of him, our hero from La +Mancha said that he would harm the gentleman no more.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERX" id="v1CHAPTERX"></a>CHAPTER X</h2> + +<h4>Of the Pleasant Discourse that Passed between +Don Quixote and His Squire Sancho Panza</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHEN Sancho Panza had regained consciousness, he +saw his master again engaged in battle. He +thought that the best thing he could do was to pray, at a +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> +distance, for victory; and so he did. Soon he saw Don +Quixote emerge from the struggle as victor! Overcome +by emotion and gratitude to God, he ran to his master's side +and fell on his knees before him. He kissed his hand, then +helped him to mount his steed. All the while he did not +forget the island of which Don Quixote had promised him +he should become governor. He expectantly reminded +his master of it now, and Don Quixote said to him that +if things continued to go as they had gone, there would be +even greater honors in store for him; perhaps he would +become a king or an emperor, even.</p> + +<p>Much satisfied with this prospect, Sancho lifted himself +up into the saddle and trotted after his master, who was +galloping ahead at a wild pace. Sancho, seeing him disappear +in a wood nearby, steered his ass in the same direction. +He yelled to him in a loud voice, begging him to +stop.</p> + +<p>At last our knight condescended to hear his tired squire, +and waited until Sancho caught up with him. Sancho +ventured to suggest that they hide in some church, for he +was afraid that by this time the friars had reported the +happening to the Holy Brotherhood; but his master only +laughed at his simplicity and fear; and finally Sancho had +to admit that he never in his life had served so brave and +valiant a knight. However, he begged his master not to +overlook his bleeding ear, and gave him some ointment to +apply to the wound. It was only after a long discourse +on the merits of the strange balsam of Fierabras, which +possessed the enchanted quality of healing bodies cut in +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> +twain—he particularly dwelt upon the necessity of fitting +the two separated halves evenly and exactly—that Don +Quixote deigned to apply Sancho's ointment. In doing so +he lamented the absence of the famous balsam.</p> + +<p>Now, Sancho Panza saw untold possibilities for making +money out of such a remarkable remedy as this balsam. +He was even willing to relinquish his rights to any throne +in its favor. So what interested him more than anything +else was the recipe for making it. But his master told him +that he would teach him even greater secrets when the time +came, and suddenly changed the subject by cursing the Biscayan, +of whom he had just been reminded by a twinge in +his bleeding ear. The sight of his shattered helmet +brought the climax to his anger, and he swore by the creator +and all the four gospels to avenge himself. When +Sancho heard this, he reminded his knight of his solemn +oath to the ladies. Had he not promised them to refer +the Biscayan's punishment to the court of his Dulcinea? +Being thus reminded by his squire, Don Quixote nobly +declared his oath null and void, and commended Sancho +Panza for unknowingly having made him conform with +the customs of chivalry.</p> + +<p>Then he repeated his vows of knighthood and swore to +capture from some other knight a helmet as good as his +own. Sancho, by this time, was beginning to wonder +whether so many oaths might not be injurious to Don +Quixote's salvation. He suggested, for instance, the possibility +of meeting with no one wearing a helmet, and +asked what his master intended to do to keep his oath in +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> +such a case. Don Quixote assured him that they would +soon encounter more men in armor than came to Albraca to +win the fair Angelica.</p> + +<p>Unwittingly Sancho's thoughts went back to his favorite +unconquered island, and again his master admonished him +to feel no uneasiness on that score. He even bettered his +chances, explaining that if the island should disappear or +for some reason be out of the question, there were countless +other realms to be considered. He mentioned the +kingdoms of Denmark and Sobradisa as some of them, and +added that these possessed advantages that no island had. +These were on the mainland and did not have to be reached +by boat or by swimming.</p> + +<p>Now Don Quixote was beginning to feel hungry, and he +asked Sancho Panza to give him some food out of his +<i>alforjas</i>. Sancho made apologies for having nothing but +onions, cheese, and a few crusts of bread to offer such a +valiant knight, but Don Quixote explained that one of the +glories of knighthood was self-denial: many a knight had +been known to go without food for a month at a time. +However, he thought it advisable for Sancho to gather +dry fruits from time to time as a safeguard against overwhelming +hunger. Sancho feared that his appetite might +crave food of a more substantial kind, and added that he +would garnish his meals with some poultry. His master +made no direct remonstrance to this assertion of his squire, +but presumed that not <i>all</i> knights at <i>all</i> times lived on dry +fruit.</p> + +<p>As soon as they had finished their repast, they mounted +and continued their way, anxious to find some inhabited +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> +place before nightfall. When it had grown dark, they +found themselves near the huts of some goatherds, and +Don Quixote decided that they should spend the night +there. Sancho had hoped that they would find some house +where he could have a comfortable bed; but his master +was pleased to sleep once more in the open. Each act of +self-denial made him a more honored and more valuable +member of the knighthood.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXI" id="v1CHAPTERXI"></a>CHAPTER XI</h2> + +<h4>Of What Befell Don Quixote with Certain Goatherds</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE goatherds were cordial in their greeting to our +knight and his squire, and invited them to partake +of their meal, which was just being served on a tablecloth +of sheepskin spread on the ground. Don Quixote was +given a seat of honor on a trough turned upside down. +Sancho remained standing to serve him, but his master insisted +upon his coming down to his level. To this Sancho +objected. He said that he could enjoy his food much better +in a corner by himself, where he could chew it as he +pleased, without having to take into consideration the +formalities inflicted by the presence of one so much above +his own state as his worthy master. He called his master's +attention to the fact that in company like this, a humble +servant like himself would have to suppress all such inclinations +as sneezing, coughing and other natural outbursts, +and, worst of all, drinking to his heart's content. But +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> +Don Quixote would listen to no arguments and seated him +by force at his side.</p> + +<p>All the while the goatherds were marveling at our +knight's bombastic speech and flourishing manners, and +their interest was only enhanced when Don Quixote suddenly +commenced a vast and poetic discourse on the golden +age of the past. Some parched acorns he had just eaten +had served him as a reminder and this in turn as an inspiration.</p> + +<p>Sancho took advantage of his master's long speech by +paying numerous visits to the leather wine-bag, which had +been suspended from a cork-tree in order to keep the wine +cool.</p> + +<p>Hardly had Don Quixote finished his discourse when +the sound of music was heard in the distance, and soon a +good-looking youth of twenty appeared, playing a lute. +At the goatherds' request he sang a ballad of love, which +was much favored by Don Quixote. Sancho Panza, however, +felt the necessity for sleep and slyly suggested +consideration on his master's part for the men, who no +doubt had to rise with the sun and attend to their labors. +This appeal did not fail to move Don Quixote, especially +since his ear again began to trouble him with pain. One +of the goatherds offered his help. He plucked some leaves +of rosemary, put them in his mouth and chewed them well, +then mixed them with a pinch of salt and put them as a +plaster over the wounded ear, safely attaching it with a +bandage. As he had predicted, this proved to be an excellent +treatment. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXII" id="v1CHAPTERXII"></a>CHAPTER XII</h2> + +<h4>Of What a Goatherd Related to Those with Don +Quixote</h4> + +<p class="cap">JUST as Don Quixote was about to retire for the night, +a young man from the village came to the hut and informed +the goatherds of the death of a famous villager +named Crysostom. The youth said there was a rumor that +Crysostom—who had been a student and had turned shepherd—had +died of a broken heart, for love of the daughter +of Guillermo the Rich. In his will he had directed that he +desired to be buried, like a Moor, at the very place where +he first saw her, at the foot of a rock by a spring in the +fields. The clergy of the village had been aroused by this +and other directions in the will, which they considered +smacked of heathenism, and objected to the carrying out +of the will. Ambrosio, the bosom friend of Crysostom—and +a student who had also become a shepherd—started an +opposition to the clergy, and was determined that his dead +friend's will should be done. The young man said that +the whole village was in an uproar, and he was looking +forward to interesting events in the morning, when the +burial was to take place.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was eager to learn something of the +maiden for whose sake Ambrosio's friend had died. One +of the goatherds, named Pedro, related to him all that he +knew. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p> + +<p>The parents of Marcela—for that was the maiden's +name—and of Crysostom were very rich people, although +they were farmers. Marcela's father and mother died +when she was a baby, and she was brought up under the +care of her uncle, a priest in the village. As she grew up, +her beauty was increased with each day that passed, and +her uncle had many offers for her hand in marriage; but +she would hear of none of them. One day, to the consternation +of all in the village, she appeared dressed in the costume +of a shepherdess, and declared her intention of turning +to that kind of life.</p> + +<p>Just about this time the father of Crysostom died, leaving +his great fortune to his son, who had just finished his +studies in astrology and other learned subjects in the University +of Salamanca. Crysostom returned home together +with his friend and companion Ambrosio, and both became +very well liked in the village. There Crysostom saw +Marcela and fell deeply in love with her, and he, like so +many others before him, decided to turn shepherd in order +to be near her constantly. But she was indifferent to all +talk of love; and the sting of her scorn made him take his +life.</p> + +<p>Having ended his story, Pedro advised our knight not +to miss the ceremonies that Crysostom's shepherd friends +were to hold at his grave in the morning. Sancho, who +had been greatly annoyed by the goatherd's talkativeness, +was by this time beginning to think aloud that it might be +time for his master to go to bed; and Pedro begged him to +sleep in his hut, as he was afraid that the cold night air +might hurt his wound. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p> + +<p>So Don Quixote retired for the night to the bed given +him by his hosts, and dreamed all night of his beloved one +in his native village, in imitation of other great lovers. +Sancho rested, as comfortable and unemotional as a barrel +of settled wine, between his master's charger and his +own peaceful donkey.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXIII" id="v1CHAPTERXIII"></a>CHAPTER XIII</h2> + +<h4>In Which Is Ended the Story of the Shepherdess +Marcela with Other Incidents</h4> + +<p class="cap">AS soon as the sun was rising in the east, Don Quixote +was awakened, and a little later they were on their +way to the burial of Crysostom.</p> + +<p>They had gone only a short distance, when they met six +shepherds, all dressed in black sheepskins and with crowns +of bitter oleander and cypress on their heads. In his hand +each shepherd carried a staff of holly. Directly behind +them came two dignified gentlemen on horseback, followed +by three servants on foot. While stopping to exchange +greetings, all had learned that they were going in the same +direction for the same purpose. The two gentlemen had +met the mourning shepherds, and from them had heard the +sad story of the love of Crysostom for Marcela. That had +aroused their curiosity and sorrow, and they wanted now +to do him honor.</p> + +<p>The battle-clad Don Quixote, of course, attracted their +attention, and one of the gentlemen was eager to learn +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span> +why any one should be masquerading in armor so early in +the morning. To which he got the reply that the danger +of his calling made it necessary for him to wear it. The +gentlemen could not help then but realize Don Quixote's +mental condition. But one of them possessed a restless +sense of humor, and when Don Quixote began to discourse +on chivalry and knights errant, he asked to know what +these things were. Our hero then explained their mysteries +at length. He described the deeds of King Arthur, +spoke of the famous Round Table, and told the love-story +of Don Lancelot and Queen Guinevere.</p> + +<p>In the course of these descriptions the jesting gentleman +felt that he had fully diagnosed the madness of our knight, +and thought it only fair play to beguile the journey to the +burial-place by listening to his absurdities. Now and then +he would put in a word or ask a question in order not to +break the thread. For instance, he suggested cunningly +that the calling of a knight errant was as serious as that of +a Carthusian monk; and Don Quixote replied that he +thought it a much more necessary one. And as to its demands, +there was no comparison, he declared, for if ever +one rose to become an emperor it was only after tremendous +sacrifice of blood and sweat.</p> + +<p>The traveling gentleman was agreed with him on that +score; but there was one thing he did not approve of: whenever +a knight went into battle, he commended himself to +his lady, instead of God. This he thought wrong and +unchristianlike. Don Quixote, however, saw no wrong in +it. It was only human, he contended, to think first of his +beloved one at so austere a moment; and, besides, often +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> +the knight errant would say things under his breath that +would not be understood. Then only Heaven could know +whether he had called upon his lady or God.</p> + +<p>The gentleman then soon found another argument. He +expressed a doubt that all knights errant were in love, +saying that some of them commended themselves to ladies +fictitiously. Don Quixote denied this emphatically; but +the traveler thought that he had read somewhere that Don +Galaor, the brother of the valiant Amadis of Gaul, never +commended himself to any particular lady, yet he was a +brave and most illustrious knight errant. All that Don +Quixote replied to this argument was: "Sir, one solitary +swallow does not make summer!" and offered, as if in +confidence, his conviction that this very knight had been +very deeply in love, but secretly.</p> + +<p>At that very moment he heaved a sigh of weariness. The +sigh was misinterpreted by the traveler, however, for he +asked our knight whether he was reticent about telling the +name of <i>his</i> lady.</p> + +<p>"Dulcinea del Toboso, of La Mancha," answered Don +Quixote. And this time he made her a princess, extolling +her virtues and her beauty to the traveler, who found it +amusing to hear the knight tell of her ancestry and lineage. +First of all Don Quixote named to the traveler the families +of Spain that she was <i>not</i> connected with, then informed +him that she was of the house of El Toboso of La Mancha. +And though this was a most modern family, one could +never foretell what position it would hold in the future.</p> + +<p>The traveler in his turn told Don Quixote of his own +family, saying that he of course dared not to compare it +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> +with that of the fair Dulcinea, although he never had +heard of hers ere this—a confession that surprised Don +Quixote exceedingly.</p> + +<p>During this conversation between the knight and the +traveling gentleman—who was named Seņor Vivaldo—they +came in sight of a score of shepherds, all dressed in +black sheepskins and crowned with garlands. Six of them +were carrying a bier on which lay the body of the dead +Crysostom. At his side were scattered some papers and +books. When they had found the resting-place that the +dead man had chosen for himself, Ambrosio, his dearest +friend, spoke some words in his memory. He mentioned +how Crysostom's heart had been rent asunder by the cruel +treatment of one whom his departed friend would have +immortalized to the world in poetry, had Ambrosio not been +commissioned by him to consign the verses to the flames +after having entrusted his body to the earth.</p> + +<p>Seņor Vivaldo thought it would be a great pity to do +away with such beautiful verses, and he pleaded with Ambrosio +against their consignment to oblivion. As he was +speaking, he reached out his hand for some of the papers +that were close to him, and Ambrosio considerately permitted +him to keep them. The remaining ones were +burned.</p> + +<p>Seņor Vivaldo glanced through the papers eagerly and +read the title—"Lay of Despair." When Ambrosio heard +this, he asked him to read the words aloud that all those +assembled might hear the last verses of the dead shepherd. +And while Seņor Vivaldo spoke the despairing lines, some +of the shepherds were digging the grave for their friend. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXIV" id="v1CHAPTERXIV"></a>CHAPTER XIV</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Are Described the Despairing Verses of the +Dead Shepherd</h4> + +<p class="cap">SEŅOR Vivaldo had finished the last verse and was +about to glance through the rest of the papers he had +saved from the fire, when suddenly on the summit of the +rock by the grave he saw a most glorious apparition. It +was no other than Marcela, the shepherdess, and every-one +was aghast at her presence. The moment Ambrosio +saw her, he became indignant beyond words and commanded +her to leave. But she remained and asked them +all to listen to her. She had come there to defend herself, +she said; she knew what people had accused her of: cruelty, +scornfulness, arrogance, ingratitude, deception, and hatred. +But she hated no one, she declared. She had deceived no +one. Crysostom had loved her because of her beauty; but +she had loved neither him nor any other man. She had +chosen solitude, the woods and the fields, because of her +inborn craving for freedom. Should she have forced herself +to give that up because any man chose to say, "I love +you," while she did not love him? Was she to be blamed +for Crysostom's death. For not loving him? Would not +that have been to pawn her modesty and her womanly +honor and virtue? And why should he have wanted to rob +her of them?</p> + +<p>So she spoke; and when she had finished she waited for +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span> +no reply but turned and ran like a deer into the woods. +All stood gazing after her in silent admiration, not only +for her beauty but for her frank speech and good sense also. +Some of the men seemed to be about to run after her, having +been wellnigh enchanted by her gloriously bright eyes; +but they were stopped by Don Quixote, who thundered: +"Let no one, whatever his rank or condition, dare to follow +the beautiful Marcela, under pain of incurring my +fierce indignation! She has shown by clear and satisfactory +arguments that no fault is to be found with her for +the death of Crysostom. Instead of being followed and +persecuted, she should in justice be honored and esteemed +by all the good people of the world, for she shows that she +is the only woman in it that holds to such a virtuous resolution."</p> + +<p>These words Don Quixote uttered in a threatening manner, +his hand on the hilt of his sword. Whether because +of his threats or because the grave had been dug and Crysostom's +remains were about to be lowered into it, they all +stayed until the burial was over. The grave was closed +with a large stone, and then the shepherds strewed flowers, +leaves and branches upon it, and shed many tears.</p> + +<p>The two travelers extended an invitation to Don Quixote +to accompany them to Seville, where they assured him +he would find no end of adventures awaiting him. But +he told them that for the present he had his hands full +ridding these very regions of highwaymen and robbers. +He thanked them, however, and they continued their journey +without our hero.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote now saw his duty clearly. He would +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> +search the woods and wilds for the beautiful Marcela. He +was certain that she would need his services.</p> + +<p>But things did not turn out as he expected.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXV" id="v1CHAPTERXV"></a>CHAPTER XV</h2> + +<h4>In Which Is Related the Unfortunate Adventure +That Don Quixote Fell in with When He Fell +Out with Certain Heartless Yanguesans</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHEN Don Quixote had taken leave of his hosts, +he set off with his squire into the woods where he +had seen Marcela disappear. They wandered about for +some time and found no trace of the shepherdess. Then +they came to a pasture through which a brook was running, +and as they were both thirsty, warm, and tired, they decided +to remain there for their noontide meal. They +feasted on the scraps that remained in the <i>alforjas</i>, while +Rocinante and Sancho's ass were left free to pluck all the +grass they desired.</p> + +<p>Now, Fate would have it that at that very hour a band +of Yanguesans were resting nearby, with their ponies let +loose in the pasture. As soon as the ponies were discovered +by Rocinante, he wanted to exchange friendly greetings +with them, so he set off at a brisk trot in their direction. +But the ponies seemed to have no desire to strike up an +acquaintance with an unknown hack, for they arrogantly +turned their backs on him and commenced to snort and kick +and bite until the saddle fell off Rocinante and he was +left quite naked. By this time the Yanguesans had heard +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> +the commotion and rushed up, armed with sticks, and with +these they thrashed poor Rocinante so soundly that he fell +to the ground in a heap.</p> + +<p>Just at this time Don Quixote and Sancho, having finished +their repast, went to look for their chargers. As soon +as Don Quixote had taken in the situation, he realized that +these were no knights errant and confided this to his squire, +charging him to help him in his battle for Rocinante's +honor. Sancho made vehement pleas for abstaining from +vengeance, seeing the great numbers of the enemy; but +his master's conviction that he alone counted for a hundred +eased his mind.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote attacked at once and cut off a portion of +his opponent's shoulder; Sancho fought bravely too. But +when the men saw that they were fighting such a small +number they set upon them, all at one time, and after a few +thrusts they had unseated our knight and his squire, both +sorely battered. Then, fearing the hand of the law, the +Yanguesans set off in great haste.</p> + +<p>When Sancho came to, he was certain that all his bones +were broken, and he feebly turned to his master saying that +he only wished that he had at hand the marvelous balsam +of Fierabras, of which his master had spoken. Sancho +lamented the lack of it no more than Don Quixote, who +swore that within two days he would have the potion in +his possession. As to his wounds, he took all the blame +upon himself: he felt that it was God's punishment for +having engaged in battle with ordinary rabble like these +carriers, and decided that henceforth he would have Sancho +alone chastise those who had not been dubbed knights. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p> + +<p>To this Sancho took exception, for he maintained that +he had wife and children to support, and was by nature +a peaceful, meek and timid man. He called upon God to +forgive in advance all the insults man or beast might offer +him in the future and for all times; but at this Don Quixote +took him to task and admonished him not to lose his +valor in attacking and defending himself in all sorts of +emergencies.</p> + +<p>Sancho's soft heart now turned to Rocinante, who had +been the cause of all the trouble. The poor horse was in +a sorry plight. So it was considered best that Don Quixote—who +could not sit upright—should be slung across +his servant's donkey. This decision was reached when +Don Quixote remembered that Silenus, the teacher of the +God of Laughter, had entered the city of the hundred gates +mounted on a handsome ass.</p> + +<p>When his master had been secured and Rocinante raised +from the ground, Sancho took the two beasts by the halter +and led them out to the road, and from there they proceeded +on their way. Soon Sancho saw the outlines of an +inn, which Don Quixote insisted must be a castle, and before +they had finished their dispute, they found themselves +at the gate and entered. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXVI" id="v1CHAPTERXVI"></a>CHAPTER XVI</h2> + +<h4>Of What Happened to the Ingenious Gentleman in the +Inn Which He Took to Be a Castle</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHEN the keeper of the inn saw the sorry body of +the knight on the ass, he became anxious to learn +what had happened to him. His wife was a kindly and +good-natured woman, and when Sancho had explained that +his master had fallen from a rock, she and her pretty +daughter offered to care for him. The daughter, +and a one-eyed Asturian servant-girl, with turned-up +nose and high cheek-bones, made a bed for Don +Quixote on four rough boards in a garret, where a carrier +was also quartered. Stretched on this bed Don Quixote +was attended by the innkeeper's wife, who soon covered +him with more plasters than he had quilts. In the meantime +she, her daughter, and the Asturian girl, all curious, +questioned Sancho about his master.</p> + +<p>Sancho told, in as thrilling words as he could command, +of their marvelous adventures; to all of which they listened +with astonishment. The Asturian servant nearly stared +her one eye out of her head. She asked Sancho Panza, +trembling with excitement, what a knight errant was. To +this Sancho replied that a knight was an adventurer, who +one day might be the poorest and meanest of men, and the +next day emperor, with crowns and kingdoms in abundance +to give away to his squire and underlings. Here +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span> +the women expressed surprise that he himself, judging by +appearance, did not possess even so much as a small strip +of land. He then confided to them that he and his master +had been going but a short time; that as yet it was much too +soon; that the adventures they had met with so far were but +a beginning and not worthy of mention.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote, who had been listening to everything his +squire said, now sat up in bed and informed them of the +great honor he had conferred upon them by being in their +house; he told them of his indescribable gratitude to them; +and of his love for his Dulcinea del Toboso of La Mancha.</p> + +<p>The women, not being accustomed to such language, +which seemed to them more difficult to understand than +Greek, stared at him in bewilderment; then, thanking him +for his courtesy, they left him while the Asturian plastered +Sancho, who seemed to be in need of treatment as sadly +as his master.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXVII" id="v1CHAPTERXVII"></a>CHAPTER XVII</h2> + +<h4>In Which Are Contained the Innumerable Troubles +Which the Brave Don Quixote and His +Good Squire Sancho Panza Endured +at the Inn, Which to His +Misfortune He Took to +Be a Castle</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE following morning Sancho, feeling his pains even +more, reminded his master of the famous balsam he +was to make. Don Quixote himself was anxious for it +too, so he sent Sancho to an imagined fortress for some oil, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> +wine, rosemary and salt. He mixed these ingredients in +a pot, and boiled them. Then he poured the mixture +into a tin flask, crossed himself and repeated innumerable +paternosters and ave-marias. When he had nearly exhausted +himself doing that, he swallowed a good portion +of the liquid; and immediately he began to vomit and perspire, +while his face and body contracted in the most horrible +spasms. He asked to be put to bed at once, and they +let him sleep for three hours. When he woke he felt so +relieved that he really thought he had hit upon the remedy +of Fierabras.</p> + +<p>Seeing his master's miraculous recovery, Sancho begged +to be permitted to drink some of the wonderful liquid, and +Don Quixote gave him a dose of it. Unlike his master, +Sancho retained what he had drunk for some time before +letting it all come up again, but in the meantime his agony +was insufferable. He was seized with such gripings and +faintness that he was sure his last hour had come. He +even cursed his master for having given him such terrible +stuff; but Don Quixote said that he had only now come to +realize that the remedy was made solely for those who had +been dubbed knights: whereupon Sancho, writhing in convulsions +cursed him still more. Sancho's agony lasted for +several hours.</p> + +<p>In the meantime Don Quixote himself, being anxious +for new adventures, had saddled Rocinante. He had to +help his squire mount the ass, for Sancho still was in a +sorry condition. All the folk at the inn had gathered to +see them depart, and when Don Quixote's eyes fell on the +beautiful young daughter of the innkeeper, he heaved a +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span> +heavy sigh; but no one there realized the soul or the reason +of it, for they all thought it must be from the pain in his +ribs.</p> + +<p>As he was about to leave, the valiant knight called the +innkeeper and asked him with profound gravity whether +he had any enemies that remained unpunished; if so, he, +Don Quixote, would chastise them for him. The innkeeper +answered shortly that he could take care of his own +grudges; all he asked of our knight was payment for lodging +and for what he and the beasts and the squire had consumed.</p> + +<p>"Then this is an inn?" cried Don Quixote, who could +hardly believe his ears. He ransacked his memory for any +incident when knight had ever paid for food and lodging, +and, unable to remember one, raised his lance, turned Rocinante, +and set off at a quick gallop, leaving Sancho behind.</p> + +<p>The innkeeper immediately took steps to attach the +squire for the unpaid debt; but Sancho's stolid indifference +to his representations only tended to prove the truth of the +old proverb: like master, like servant. He argued that it +was not for him to tear down traditions of noble knighthood.</p> + +<p>Unfortunately for Sancho, he was overheard by a good +many guests at the inn, rollicking fellows, who were on the +alert for amusement. These men seized a blanket, dismounted +the squire unceremoniously, placed him in the +middle of the blanket, and proceeded to hoist him, not +gently, high in the air. This movement no doubt caused a +return of Sancho's stomach-ache, for he commenced to groan +and scream helplessly. His screams were heard far off by +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span> +his master, who, believing that some new and glorious adventure +was at hand, spurred his hack into a playful gallop +and returned to the inn.</p> + +<p>The gates were closed, but over the wall the knight +could see the tricks that his faithful follower was made to +perform in the air and on the blanket, and he boiled with +rage, unable to come to the rescue, for he could not dismount +because of stiffness. Finally, when the men had +been sufficiently amused, they stopped their sport, then +mounted Sancho with no little kindness on his ass and bade +him godspeed on his journey. The one-eyed Asturian compassionately +offered the poor fellow some water to drink; +but seeing this, Don Quixote commenced to gesticulate +wildly, waving a tin flask in the air, and crying: "Sancho, +my son, drink not water, for it will kill thee! See, here I +have the blessed balsam: two drops of it will restore thee!"</p> + +<p>His master's advice did not appeal to the squire, and he +replied rather cuttingly that Don Quixote ought to remember +that he was not a knight. Saying this he put the cup +the lass had offered him to his lips. But he found that it +was not wine but water. He begged her to exchange it, +which she did with Christian spirit, paying for it herself. +The squire, having drunk the wine, spurred his ass toward +the gate, and the innkeeper let him depart without further +payment, having, unbeknown to Sancho, appropriated his +<i>alforjas</i>. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXVIII" id="v1CHAPTERXVIII"></a>CHAPTER XVIII</h2> + +<h4>In Which Is Related the Discourse Sancho Panza +Held with His Master, Don Quixote, Together +with Other Adventures Worth Relating</h4> + +<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE told his squire he was certain that +the inn was an enchanted castle, and blamed his +transgressions of the laws of chivalry for all their mishaps; +for he imagined that, had he abstained from laying hands +on the rabble and base folk, these would not have occurred. +His being unable to get out of the saddle and climb over +the wall, he ascribed to enchantment as well. Sancho +thought this might be the moment for reforming his master. +He suggested that it was harvest time at home; and reminded +the knight of the fact that of all his battles he had +come out victorious but once, when he fought with the Biscayan, +and then with half of his ear lost, not to speak of +all the damage done to his armor.</p> + +<p>But Don Quixote was in no mood to contemplate past +disasters, for in the distance he suddenly perceived rising +clouds of dust, and what could it be but two opposing +armies making ready for battle; since the clouds were seen +on either side of the road! He made Sancho believe they +were the great armies of the mighty emperor Alifanfaron +and his enemy, the king of the Garamantas, Pentapolin of +the Bare Arm, explaining—on seeing a bare-armed shepherd—that +this lord always went into battle in this manner. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span></p> + +<p>Sancho Panza asked what they should do. His master +replied that their duty was clear: they should, of course, +help the weak and needy. Then he went on to explain +that the reason for the feud was the pagan Alifanfaron's +wish to marry the beautiful and Christian daughter of Pentapolin, +and her father's refusal to sanction the marriage unless +the emperor became a convert. Immediately Sancho's +instinct for righteousness made him declare himself for +Pentapolin, and he wanted to fight for him. This spirit +pleased Don Quixote tremendously, for, he said, it was not +required of dubbed knights to engage in feuds of this sort; +thus Sancho would have a chance to distinguish himself +all alone.</p> + +<p>Scratching his head, Sancho now began to worry about +his faithful donkey, for he believed it was not good taste +to go into battle mounted on an ass, and if he dismounted, +he was afraid his Dapple would be lost in the ensuing tumult. +Don Quixote, however, calmed his fears. There +would be hundreds of riderless horses after the battle, from +which both of them might choose; and he asked Sancho to +follow him to a hill nearby that he might point out to his +valiant squire the great and illustrious knights of the two +armies. He cried out name after name, the last one always +more illustrious than the previous one. But Sancho could +see nothing but the two flocks of sheep and the shepherds, +and he said so.</p> + +<p>"How can you say that!" cried Don Quixote. "Do you +not hear the neighing of the steeds, the braying of the trumpets, +the roll of the drums?"</p> + +<p>Sancho answered in despair that he could hear nothing +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> +but the bleating of ewes and sheep. To this his master +explained that often fear deranged the senses and made +things appear different from what they were. Therefore, +being certain that Sancho had suddenly become possessed +of fear, he put the spurs in Rocinante and charged down the +hill like a flash of lightning, determined to down the pagan +emperor.</p> + +<p>Lifting his lance, he galloped into the midst of the sheep, +and commenced spearing right and left. The shepherds, +panic-stricken, used their slings. Stones hit his head and +body, but it was not until a large one struck him in the ribs +that he imagined himself really wounded. He stopped in +the midst of the furious battle, and suddenly remembering +his flask of balsam, drew it out, put it to +his mouth, and was about to swallow a quantity of +it when there came a stone that took the flask out of his +hand, and another one that smashed out three or four +of his teeth. Don Quixote was so astonished and the force +of the blow was so sudden that he lost his reins and fell +backwards off his horse. When the shepherds came up and +saw what they had done to him, they quickly gathered their +flocks and hastened away, taking with them the seven sheep +that Don Quixote killed with his spear.</p> + +<p>During this rampage, Sancho Panza was nearly beside +himself where he stood on the hill. He was tearing his +hair and beard, wishing he had never laid eyes on his +master, and berating himself for ever having joined in his +mad adventures. When the shepherds had disappeared, +he ran to his master's side.</p> + +<p>"Did I not tell your worship," he reproached the prostrate +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> +knight, "that they were not armies, but droves of sheep!"</p> + +<p>But again our hero blamed his misfortune on his arch-enemy, +that cursed Sage Friston, who had falsified the +armies in such a way that they looked like meek and harmless +sheep. Then he begged his squire to pursue the enemy +by stealth that he might ascertain for himself that what he +had said was true; for he was sure that ere they had gone +very far they would resume their original shape.</p> + +<p>However, before Sancho Panza had time to make up his +mind whether to go or not, his master's sip of the balsam +during the battle suddenly began to take effect, and Sancho's +presence became for the moment a necessity. Having +gone through this ordeal, Don Quixote rose and asked +his squire for a remedy for hunger. It was then they discovered +that the <i>alforjas</i> had disappeared, with all its precious +contents. Both were dejected. Don Quixote tried +to impart, out of the abundance of his optimism for the future, +new hope to the discouraged Sancho. It was a difficult +task, and he might have failed, had not the loss of his +teeth and the sorry plight he was in made Sancho sway from +his intentions of home-going. When, at his master's request, +the squire put his finger in Don Quixote's mouth in +order to learn the extent of the damage done in that region +of his body, his heart was touched by the terrible devastation +there. He could not, of course, leave his master to +shift for himself on the highways in such a condition. So +he consented to remain, and they proceeded along the road, +hoping that they would soon come to a place where they +could find shelter for the night, as well as something with +which to still their hunger. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXIX" id="v1CHAPTERXIX"></a>CHAPTER XIX</h2> + +<h4>Of the Shrewd Discourse Which Sancho Held with His +Master, and of the Adventure That Befell Him +with a Dead Body, Together with Other +Notable Occurrences</h4> + +<p class="cap">NIGHT had fallen, yet they had discovered no place +of refuge. Suddenly, in the darkness, they saw a +number of lights that came closer and closer without their +being able to make out what it was. Sancho commenced +to shake like a leaf, and even Don Quixote was frightened +and muttered a paternoster between his teeth while his +hair stood on end. They withdrew to the roadside, from +where they soon distinguished twenty bodies on horseback, +all dressed in white shirts, and carrying lighted torches in +their hands. With chattering teeth Sancho stared at this +awe-inspiring procession, which was not yet at an end, for +behind the mounted bodies there came others, these in black +and on mule—back, and surrounding a bier, covered with a +large black cloth. All the while a quiet, solemn mumbling +came from the moving figures, and Sancho Panza was now +so stricken with fear that he was almost paralyzed.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote's courage—which likewise had been rather +shaky at this passing of ghostlike beings, at such a time of +the night—suddenly revived and mounted to such heights +that he decided he would ask where they were carrying the +wounded king on the bier. This he did without delay. +But such a question seemed silly and out of place to one +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span> +of the guardians of the corpse, and he commanded the +knight to move on. This angered Don Quixote beyond +measure. He seized the man's mule by the bridle; but this, +in turn, annoyed the mule, which rose on its hind legs and +flung its rider to the ground. Another man came up to +Don Quixote and tried to talk reason to him, but to no +avail, and in the disturbance that followed the procession +was soon scattered over the fields and plains, with torches +glimmering from all points like so many eyes in the black +night.</p> + +<p>While our knight errant was lunging with his spear in +all directions, the meek followers of the dead body became +ensnared in their skirts and gowns and long white shirts, +and fell head over heels wherever they happened to be, in +ditch or field. Moans, groans, and prayers were intermingled, +and they all were convinced that the procession +had been interrupted by the devil himself, come to +carry away the body of the dead man.</p> + +<p>When the battle had ceased, Don Quixote approached +the man who was flung by his mule, to make him his prisoner. +The poor man declared that Don Quixote had made +a grave mistake; that the dead man was not a king and had +not fallen in battle, but a gentleman who had died from +fever; and he himself was a poor servant of the Holy +Church who could harm no one. On hearing this confession +Don Quixote made a slight apology for having mistaken +him in the dark for something evil, if not for the very +devil, explaining that since it was his sworn duty to +right all wrongs, he had only set out to do so. But the +worthy ecclesiastic was not easily appeased, and before +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span> +making his departure, he unceremoniously excommunicated +his attacker in flowing and flourishing Latin.</p> + +<p>Sancho, moved by a desire to alleviate the sting of the +outburst, called out after him: "If the gentleman should +wish to know who was the hero who served them thus, +your worship may tell them he is the famous Don Quixote +of La Mancha, otherwise called the Knight of the Rueful +Countenance."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote asked his squire why he called him thus; +and Sancho replied that the loss of his teeth had given +his master a face so sorry looking that he could find no +milder name to describe its ugliness. Don Quixote +laughed at the compliment; nevertheless he decided to +adopt Sancho's meaning name, and also to have his own +rueful face commemorated on his shield at the first opportunity.</p> + +<p>After this conversation Sancho persuaded his master +to continue their journey; although Don Quixote was eager +to view the bones of the deceased man, and Sancho had +some difficulty in preventing him from doing so.</p> + +<p>Sancho had made his coat into a sack and filled it with +the provisions of the clergy; and so, when they arrived in +a valley where they found an abundance of grass, they ate +all the meals they had been missing. Their repast would +have been complete had they had some wine; but they did +not have even water. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXX" id="v1CHAPTERXX"></a>CHAPTER XX</h2> + +<h4>Of the Unexampled and Unheard-of Adventure Which +Was Achieved by the Valiant Don Quixote of +La Mancha with Less Peril Than Any +Ever Achieved by Any Famous Knight +in the World</h4> + +<p class="cap">SANCHO'S thirst drove him to use his instincts in +search for drink. He judged by the rank grass that +there must be water nearby. So, leading their mounts, +Don Quixote and Sancho came in the darkness to a +meadow, and they had gone only a short distance when they +heard the welcome sound of falling water. Then suddenly +a most tremendous, ear-splitting noise came out of the +darkness, a din like the beating of gigantic hammers, and +added to this a shifting wind. All these furious sounds, +the mystery of them, and the blackness of the night, might +have intimidated any heart, however stout; but it only +made Don Quixote leap like a flash upon his horse. Turning +to Sancho, he cried: "I am he who is to revive +the Knights of the Round Table, the Twelve of France, +and the Nine Worthies; he who is to consign to oblivion +the whole herd of famous knights errant of days gone by; he +for whom all great perils and mighty deeds are reserved. +Therefore, tighten Rocinante's girth a little, and God be +with thee! Wait for me three days and no more. If in +that time I come not back, thou canst return to our village, +and thence thou wilt go to El Toboso, where thou shalt +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span> +say to my incomparable Lady Dulcinea that her captive +knight hath died in attempting things that might make +him worthy of being called her own."</p> + +<p>These words made Sancho weep copious tears, and he +begged his master not to undertake so dreadful an adventure. +He even offered to sacrifice himself to such an extent +as to go without water for three days, if his master +would only return. When Don Quixote was firm in his +resolve, Sancho decided that this was a case where the ends +justified the means; therefore while tightening Rocinante's +girth, he tied the horse's forelegs, so that when Don Quixote +was going to ride off, his charger could move only by fits +and starts. The more his rider spurred him, the more impossible +it became for Rocinante to stir. Sancho had no +great difficulty in persuading his master that this was a +sign from above that he ought not to pursue any phantom +adventure at that hour of the night, but wait until daybreak. +Don Quixote resigned himself to do so, although +it nearly made him weep, while Sancho tried to soothe his +outraged feelings by telling amusing stories in a laborious +way.</p> + +<p>At daybreak Sancho stole over to Rocinante and untied +his legs. The horse immediately became spirited, and +when Don Quixote saw this, he believed it a sign from +heaven. Again he took a touching leave of his squire—who +began to cry, as he had done before—and gave the +spur to his steed. Sancho was resolved to follow his +master to the end, so he took his donkey by the halter, +as was his custom, and led him on foot in pursuit of his +knight errant. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span></p> + +<p>They passed through a meadow that was fringed with +trees, then came upon some huge rocks with cascades of +water pouring over them. Below stood a row of dilapidated +houses. It was from these houses that the din and +noise emanated. As Rocinante came close to the racket, +he began to make hysterical movements, pirouetting backward +and forward, and Don Quixote crossed himself, commending +himself to God and his Lady Dulcinea.</p> + +<p>Coming up cautiously from behind the houses, Don +Quixote peered around the corner, and there beheld the +cause of the awe-inspiring din—six hammers of the kind +that were used in mills.</p> + +<p>Sancho could not help himself. He burst into uncontrollable +laughter, shaking from head to foot. Don Quixote +was mortified with shame and astonishment. And +when he heard Sancho's laughter behind him, he broke into +a rage, during which he repeated almost every word he had +spoken the night before, when he was about to ride away +to adventure on a three-legged horse. But Sancho was +helpless. Four distinct times he broke into a fit of mirth, +and finally his master struck him a blow on the body with +his spear. Then he calmed down, and Don Quixote +scolded him for his hilarity, saying that no such familiarity +would be tolerated in the future. He quoted various +chapters from books of chivalry, and cited Gandalin, squire +to Amadis of Gaul. There, he said, was a model squire, +for he would always address his lord with cap in hand, +his head bowed down and his body bent double. And +there were many others to look to. He mentioned a few, +the most shining examples. Then he decreed that from that +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span> +day on respect must be the barrier between squire and +knight in all their intercourse. He spoke also about his +squire's wages and the treasures and islands that were to +be his in time to come. He told Sancho not to worry, for +if he should not pay him his wages, he had at any rate +mentioned him in his will. From the first he had considered +everything; he knew the world, and what a hazardous +task he had set before himself.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXI" id="v1CHAPTERXXI"></a>CHAPTER XXI</h2> + +<h4>Which Treats of the Exalted Adventure and Rich +Prize of Mambrino's Helmet, Together with Other +Things That Happened to Our Invincible +Knight</h4> + +<p class="cap">IT started to rain, and Sancho suggested the fulling-mills +as a place of refuge; but Don Quixote had taken +such an aversion to them that he would not listen to it, +and they continued riding, taking the roadway.</p> + +<p>Suddenly they saw a man on horseback, who had on his +head something that shone like gold, and at once Don +Quixote exclaimed: "There comes towards us one who +wears on his head the helmet of Mambrino, concerning +which I took the oath thou rememberest."</p> + +<p>Sancho's only reply to this was that he did not want anything +more to do with any fulling-mills; and his master +entirely failed to fathom the connection. Sancho then +said he could plainly see that the man's horse was an ass +and that the man had something on his head that shone. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span></p> + +<p>The truth of the matter was that in the neighborhood +were two villages so small that the apothecary and barbershop +in one of them had to serve for both. The village +barber had just been summoned to shave and bleed a +patient in the adjoining community, so he mounted his +ass, armed with a brass basin for the bleeding, and set off. +He had got about half-way, when it commenced to rain. +Having a new hat, he covered it with the clean basin, +that glittered like gold.</p> + +<p>But Don Quixote had more sense than his squire, of +course, and pursued the unknown knight with the helmet +at Rocinante's wildest gallop. When the fear-stricken +barber realized that Don Quixote's uplifted spear was +aimed at him, he promptly threw himself from his ass and +ran all the way home without stopping, leaving his brass +basin behind as a trophy for our hero, who could not +understand why this helmet had no visor.</p> + +<p>"That pagan must have had a very large head," remarked +Don Quixote, turning the basin round and round, +trying to fit it to his own head, now this way, now that.</p> + +<p>"It looks exactly like a barber's basin," said Sancho +Panza, who had all he could do to keep from bursting into +laughter.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote treated this blasphemous thought with +scorn, and said he would stop at the next smithy to have +its shape changed. His next concern was his stomach; +and when they found that the barber's ass carried ample +supplies, they soon satisfied their appetites. Sancho now +turned the conversation to the rest of the spoils of war; +but Don Quixote was unable to make up his mind that +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span> +it was chivalrous to exchange a bad ass for a good one, as +was his squire's wish; so Sancho had to satisfy himself with +the barber's trappings.</p> + +<p>Then they set out again. Soon Sancho felt the need of +unburdening something he had had on his heart for some +time. He suggested that instead of roaming about seeking +adventures which no one ever witnessed and which +therefore remained unsung and unheralded, they go and +serve some great emperor engaged in war, so that their +achievements and valor might go down to posterity. +This struck a resonant chord in his master's heart. In +fact, he went into raptures over it, and commenced to rant +about all the great honors the future had in store for the +Knight of the Rueful Countenance. He cunningly surmised +that their first task would be to find a king who had +an uncommonly beautiful daughter, for of course he had to +marry a princess first of all. The plan excited him to such +an extent that for a moment he forgot about the existence +of his Dulcinea. The only thing that worried him was +his royal lineage; he could not think of any emperor or +king whose second cousin he might be. Yet he decided +not to trouble too much about that; for were there not two +kinds of lineages in the world? And Love always worked +wonders: it had since the beginning of time. What would +the princess care, if he <i>were</i> a water-carrier's son? And +if his future father-in-law should object, all he would have +to do would be to carry her off by force.</p> + +<p>As Don Quixote went on picturing himself in the most +romantic rôles in the history of this as yet unknown kingdom, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span> +Sancho began to think it was time for him to be considered +as well, when it came to bestowals of honor. Once +he had been beadle of a brotherhood, and he had looked so +well in a beadle's gown, he said, that he was afraid his +wife would burst with pride when she saw him in a duke's +robe, with gold and lace and precious stones. Don Quixote +thought so, too, but admonished him that he would +have to shave his beard oftener, as it was most unkempt. +Sancho replied that would be an easy matter, for he would +have a barber of his own, as well as an equerry; he knew +that all men of fame kept such a man, for once in Madrid +he had seen a gentleman followed by a man on horseback as +if he had been his tail. He inquired why the gentleman +was being followed in that manner and learned it was his +equerry. Don Quixote thought Sancho's idea to have a +barber was an excellent one, and Sancho urged his master +to make haste and find him his island, that he might roll in +his glory as a count or a duke.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXII" id="v1CHAPTERXXII"></a>CHAPTER XXII</h2> + +<h4>Of the Freedom Don Quixote Conferred on Several +Unfortunates Who Against Their Will +Were Being Carried Where They +Had No Wish to Go</h4> + +<p class="cap">HARDLY had they finished their conversation, when +a gang of convicts came along on the road, guarded +by two men on horseback and two on foot.</p> + +<p>"Galley-slaves," remarked Sancho Panza laconically.</p> + +<p>"If they are going against their own free will, it is a case +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span> +for the exercise of my office," answered Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>He approached their custodians and asked to know what +crimes these men had committed against his majesty the +King. They answered it was not his business.</p> + +<p>"Nevertheless, I should like to know," insisted Don +Quixote, and he used such choice and magic language +that one of the guards was induced to give him permission +to ask each one of the men about his crime and sentence.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote had questioned every one but the twelfth, +and when he came to him he found that he was chained in +a way different from the rest. This prisoner was a man of +thirty, and crossed-eyed. His body was weighted down +by very large irons and especially heavy chains, his hands +were padlocked and so secured he could not raise them. +Don Quixote asked why he was thus overburdened, and +got the reply that he had committed more crimes than all +the rest together. The guard then told the knight that +the man had written a story of his unfinished life, and +that he was no other than the famous Gines de Pasamonte. +The culprit strongly objected to hearing his identity mentioned, +and there ensued a furious battle of words between +him and the guard. The latter lost his temper and was +about to strike the slave a blow, when Don Quixote interfered, +and pleaded for more kindly treatment. It seemed +only fair to him that they, with their hands tied, might be +permitted a free tongue. He grew fiery in his defense of +them, reminded the guard that there was a God in heaven +who would punish all sinners. He ended by requesting +their immediate release. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span></p> + +<p>This demand seemed worse than absurd to the guard, +who wished him godspeed on his journey, advised him to +put the basin straight on his head, and told him not to go +looking for trouble. This was too much for our knight. +He set upon his jesting adversary with such speed and suddenness +that the musket fell out of the guard's hand. And +the other guards were so taken aback at what was going on, +and there was such confusion, that they did not notice +Sancho untying the arch-criminal Gines. They suddenly +saw him free, and with him the rest of the slaves, who had +broken the chain; whereupon the guards fled in all directions +as fast as their legs could carry them.</p> + +<p>When the fray was over, Don Quixote asked the galley-slaves +to gather around him, and to show him reverence +for the deed he had done. He further demanded that +they, armed with their chains, proceed in a body, to El +Toboso to pay their respects to the fair Dulcinea. Gines +attempted to explain the necessity of each one hiding himself, +separately, in order to escape the pursuers, and offered +to send up prayers for her instead; but Don Quixote would +not listen to any argument. At last Gines decided he +was quite mad, and when Don Quixote started to abuse +him, he lost his temper, and they all attacked the knight +with a rain of stones, until Rocinante and he both fell to +the ground. There they belabored him savagely. Sancho +had taken refuge behind his donkey, but the convicts +found him, stripped him of his jacket, and left him shivering +in the cold.</p> + +<p>While Don Quixote lay there, fearing the vengeance +of the law and the Holy Brotherhood for what he had +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span> +done, he was also reviewing in rage the ingratitude of mankind +and the perversity of the iron age.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXIII" id="v1CHAPTERXXIII"></a>CHAPTER XXIII</h2> + +<h4>Of What Befell Don Quixote in the Sierra Morena, +Which Is One of the Rarest Adventures +Related in This Veracious History</h4> + +<p class="cap">SANCHO at last convinced his master that they had +best hide in the Sierra Morena mountains for a few +days, in case a search should be made for them; and Don +Quixote was pleased to find that the provisions carried by +Sancho's ass had not disappeared. When night fell they +took refuge under some cork-trees between two rocks. +Fate would have it that to this very place should come +that night the convict Gines. While Sancho was slumbering +peacefully, Gines stole his ass; and by daybreak the +thief was already far away. Don Quixote, awakened by +sorrowful wailing, in order to console his squire, promised +him three of his ass-colts at home in exchange. Then +Sancho's tears stopped. But he now had to travel on foot +behind his master, and he tried to keep up his humor by +munching the provisions it had become his lot to carry.</p> + +<p>Suddenly he observed that his master had halted, and +was poking with his lance into some object lying on the +road. He quickly ran up to him and found an old saddle-pad +with a torn knapsack tied to it. Sancho opened it +covetously and came upon four shirts of excellent material, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span> +articles of linen, nearly a hundred gold crowns in a handkerchief, +and a richly bound little memorandum book. +The little volume was all that Don Quixote kept for himself. +Brimful of curiosity, he read it through and learned +that it contained the bemoanings of a rejected lover.</p> + +<p>Meantime Sancho Panza's great discovery of the gold +coins had entirely banished from his memory all the suffering +and pain and humiliation he had had to go through +since he had became a squire. But Don Quixote was anxious +to find out something about the owner of the knapsack, +for he was convinced there was some very strange +adventure connected with his disappearance. And as he +was planning what to do, he perceived on the summit of a +great height, a man, half-naked, jumping with remarkable +swiftness and agility from rock to rock.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote saw no way of getting there, so he stood +for some time pondering what to do. Then he saw above +him on the mountainside a flock of goats, tended by an +elderly goatherd. Calling to him, the knight asked him to +come down, and the old man descended, amazed at seeing +human beings there. Don Quixote immediately began to +ask about the strange half-naked man he had seen, and the +goatherd told what he knew of him and the mystery of the +knapsack.</p> + +<p>The stranger, he said, was a youth of good looks and no +doubt of high birth, who had lost his wits because of the +faithlessness of a friend. His behavior was such that they +had never seen the like of it. In fits of madness he would +approach people, snatch away food offered him out of their +hands, and then run away with the speed of a deer. Then +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span> +again he would come begging for food, the tears flowing +down his cheeks.</p> + +<p>Now, while they were standing there discussing the +young man, chance would have it that he came along, and +greeted them courteously. Don Quixote returned his +greeting with grand gestures, descended from Rocinante's +tired back, and advanced to the youth with open arms. +He held him in his embrace for some time, as if he had +known him forever. Finally the youth tore away and, +placing his hands on the shoulders of the Knight of the +Rueful Countenance, the youth, who might be called the +Ragged One of the Sorry Countenance, looked into his +eyes and spoke to him.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXIV" id="v1CHAPTERXXIV"></a>CHAPTER XXIV</h2> + +<h4>In Which Is Continued the Adventure of the Sierra +Morena</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE Ragged One thanked Don Quixote for being so +kind and courteous; and Don Quixote replied that +his duty to the world consisted in giving succor to those in +despair and need. He implored the youth to tell him the +name of the one who had caused his misfortune, that he +might revenge him. The Ragged One stared at him +strangely and said: "If you will give me to eat, I will tell +you my story."</p> + +<p>Sancho and the goatherd gave the youth something to +appease his hunger; and he ate it ravenously. When he +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span> +had finished, he motioned to them to follow him, and they +came to a spot where green grass grew and all stretched +themselves on the ground in silence. Before he began +his story, the youth warned them not to interrupt him, for +then it would come to an end. Don Quixote promised +solemnly for all of them.</p> + +<p>The youth told of his love for one Luscinda, and how +his best friend, Don Fernando, son of a grandee of Spain, +had stolen her love away from him; but suddenly he was +interrupted by Don Quixote, and refused to continue. +Whereupon Don Quixote nearly lost his senses—for his +curiosity was aroused beyond words—and called the +Ragged One a villain.</p> + +<p>The Ragged One broke into a violent fit when he heard +himself called names and picked up a stone which he hurled +against the knight errant's breast with such force that it +placed him flat on his back. Seeing this, Sancho Panza +flew at the madman; but the youth seemed to possess supernatural +strength, for he felled Sancho to the ground with +one single blow, and then jumped on his chest and buckled +his ribs. Having also beaten the old goatherd, he went +into the woods again.</p> + +<p>When Sancho had seen the last of him, he turned loose +his rage on the poor old goatherd, whom he cursed for not +having warned them that the youth might be taken with +fits. Words led to blows; the two grabbed each other by +their beards, and had it not been for Don Quixote, their fray +might have had a sad ending. He calmed his squire by +absolving the old man of all blame. Then he asked him—for +he was still aching with curiosity to learn the end of +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> +the story—whether he knew where he might find Cardenio +(that being the youth's name). The goatherd answered +that if he remained in the neighborhood long enough he +could not help meeting him; but as to his mood, he could not +answer for that.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXV" id="v1CHAPTERXXV"></a>CHAPTER XXV</h2> + +<h4>Which Treats of the Strange Things That Happened +to the Stout Knight of La Mancha in the +Sierra Morena</h4> + +<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE and Sancho Panza now made their +way into unknown regions of the mountains, Sancho +trailing behind his master, on foot, silent, and in bad +humor. Finally he requested his master's permission to +say what was in his heart, and Don Quixote removed the +ban under which his squire was suffering. Sancho asked +for the knight's blessing and begged leave to return to his +wife and home; but his master could not make up his mind +until he hit upon a great inspiration, the carrying out of +which made necessary his using Sancho as a messenger to +his incomparable Dulcinea.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote, in short, had decided to go mad, in emulation +of other bold knights, such as Roland and Amadis—a +decision that extracted from Sancho Panza some muttered +words to the effect that any one who could mistake +a barber's basin for a gold helmet could not go much madder. +And then Don Quixote explained to what sufferings, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span> +sorrow, penance, and folly he would subject himself; and +quite unintentionally he revealed to Sancho the real identity +of his famous Lady Dulcinea, whom Sancho had always +thought a princess. Now the good squire learned to his +dismay that the famous Dulcinea was no other than Lorenzo +Corchuelo's daughter, Aldonza Lorenzo, a lady with manners +like a man, and a man's ability to handle a crowbar +easily.</p> + +<p>When Don Quixote had determined upon his penance in +the wilderness, all for the sake of Dulcinea, he thought +it would be a good idea to make known to her the sacrifices +and sufferings he was about to undergo for her sake. +Therefore he granted his squire the requested permission +to return to his family, and bade him speed homeward on +Rocinante, so that he himself, horseless, might undergo an +even greater penance. He sent a letter by Sancho to his +fair one, relating to her the pain of his wounded heart; a +pain enhanced by self-inflicted absence and to be ended +only by death, to satisfy her cruelty.</p> + +<p>Sancho's covetousness did not permit his master to forget +the three promised ass-colts; so Don Quixote wrote an +order to his niece in the notebook of the ill-starred Cardenio.</p> + +<p>Before they parted, Don Quixote asked Sancho to stay +and see some of the insanities he meant to perform in his +absence. He then stripped to the skin and went through +some remarkable capers before his squire. This exhibition +nearly brought tears to Sancho's eyes, and he besought +him to stop. And when he expressed a fear that he would +not be able to find his way back, Don Quixote assured him +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span> +that he would remain in that very spot, or thereabouts, +until the squire returned from El Toboso; and he told him +also to cut some branches and strew them in his path. Furthermore +he said he would be on the lookout for him from +the peak of the highest cliff.</p> + +<p>When Sancho finally took leave of his master, he felt that +he could swear with unprotesting conscience that his beloved +master was quite mad.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXVI" id="v1CHAPTERXXVI"></a>CHAPTER XXVI</h2> + +<h4>In Which Are Continued the Refinements Wherewith +Don Quixote Played the Part of a Lover +in the Sierra Morena</h4> + +<p class="cap">SOON after Sancho had gone, Don Quixote came to the +conclusion that the exercises he was putting himself +through were much too hard and troublesome. So he decided +to change them, and instead of imitating Roland and +his fury, he turned to the more melancholy Amadis, whose +madness was of a much milder form and needed a less +strenuous outlet. But to imitate Amadis, he had to have +a rosary, and he had none. For a moment he was in a +quandary; but a miracle gave him the inspiration to use +the tail of his shirt—which was too long anyhow—and tearing +off a long piece, on which he made eleven knots, he repeated +quantities of credos and ave-marias on it, there in +the wilderness. His love would at times drive him to +write verses to his cruel and beloved one on the bark of +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span> +the trees, all the while he would make moaning sounds +of lovesickness. Again he would go about sighing, singing, +calling to the nymphs and fauns and satyrs, and, of +course, looking for herbs to nourish himself with.</p> + +<p>But while Don Quixote exiled himself in the wilds, his +servant Sancho Panza was making for El Toboso. On the +second day he found himself at the inn at which the incident +of his blanket journey had taken place. The smell of food +reminded him that it was dinner time; yet he hesitated +about entering. As he was standing there, along came two +men; and one of them was heard to say: "Is not that Sancho +Panza?" "So it is," said the other one; and it turned out +to be the curate and the barber of Don Quixote's own village.</p> + +<p>At once they approached him. They asked him about +his master, but it was not until they had threatened to believe +that he had robbed and murdered Don Quixote—for +was he not mounted on Rocinante?—that he divulged the +secret of his master's hiding-place. He told them of everything; +even about his master's strange and unbounded love +for the daughter of Lorenzo Corchuelo and the letter he +had written to her. When the curate asked to see it, Sancho +could not find it; and then he suddenly remembered +that Don Quixote had given him neither the letter nor the +order for the ass-colts. He turned pale and green, and +beat his chest frantically, but it produced no miracle. The +curate and the barber told him that the only thing to do +was to find Don Quixote and get him to write them anew; +and the thought of losing the ass-colts made Sancho only too +anxious to return. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span></p> + +<p>When the squire had been comforted somewhat, he +tried to recite Don Quixote's epistle of love; and his recital +amused the two friends to such a degree that he had to +repeat it thrice, each time adding new absurdities. Finally +they invited him to come into the inn and eat, while they +talked over the journey to their friend's wilderness paradise +of penitence. Sancho was quick to refuse; but he gave +no reason for so doing. He said he preferred to eat outside +and asked that they bring him the food, and also some +barley for Rocinante.</p> + +<p>While the barber was serving Sancho and Rocinante, the +curate was developing a plan of strategy which was unanimously +adopted by all concerned. It was arranged that +the curate should invade the region of knightly penitence, +dressed as an innocent-looking maiden with a masked +countenance; while his friend the barber should appear on +the scene behaving like a squire. The bogus maiden +should be in great distress and ask for protection, when +Don Quixote, valiant knight that he was, would be sure to +give it. She would then beg him to shield her on her journey, +and, as a favor, to ask her no questions regarding her +identity, until she was safely at home. Once they had +him there, they would try to find a cure for his strange +madness. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXVII" id="v1CHAPTERXXVII"></a>CHAPTER XXVII</h2> + +<h4>Of How the Curate and the Barber Proceeded with +Their Scheme; Together with Matters Worthy +of Record in This Great History</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE curate proceeded to borrow the needed dress +from the landlady, whose curiosity he satisfied by +explaining Don Quixote's madness and their mission in +the mountains. The landlady recognized Don Quixote +by the description the curate gave, and willingly furnished +the clothes, and an ox-tail out of which the barber made +himself a beard. As security for these things the curate +left behind a brand-new cassock.</p> + +<p>When the curate's transfiguration was completed, however, +his conscience began to trouble him; so it was agreed +that he and the barber were to change rôles. The curate +shed his female attire, and the barber decided not to don +it until they approached the mountainside. Meanwhile +Sancho was instructed as to how to act and what to say, +when he saw his master.</p> + +<p>The day after they set out, they came to the place where +Sancho's branches were strewn. The curate thought it +best that they send Sancho ahead to take to his master +Lady Dulcinea's reply; this was agreed to, and Sancho left.</p> + +<p>While the two conspirators were resting in the shade of +some trees they were suddenly startled by hearing a man +singing in the distance. It was clearly a voice trained in +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span> +the art of singing, and the verses he sang were not of rustic +origin. Soon they perceived the singer, and it was no +other than Cardenio, the Ragged One. Now he was untouched +by madness, for he spoke quite sanely, telling them +of his woeful misfortune, the memory of which, he said, +would sometimes overpower and strangle his senses. The +curate and the barber were both eager to know the story +of the comely youth's life, and he then told them of the +faithlessness of his friend. This time he was not interrupted, +and he finished his story, which was one of a great +love as much as one of misfortune. He had just reached +the end, when from no great distance came the sound of +a lamenting voice.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXVIII" id="v1CHAPTERXXVIII"></a>CHAPTER XXVIII</h2> + +<h4>Which Treats of the Strange and Delightful Adventures +That Befell the Curate and the Barber +in the Same Sierra</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHEN Cardenio and the curate and the barber looked +about they discovered a youth with exquisite, delicate +features bathing his feet in the brook below them. +His garb was that of a peasant lad; on his head he had a +<i>montera</i>. Having finished bathing, he took from under +the <i>montera</i> a cloth with which he dried his feet. In removing +the cap there fell from under it a mass of auburn +hair, and all were amazed to find that instead of a youth, +it was a most lovely maiden. In their astonishment either +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span> +the curate or the barber uttered a cry; and frightened at +the sight of them, the girl took to flight, but soon stumbled +and fell.</p> + +<p>The curate was the first one to reach her. He spoke +some kind words and told her that they were there to help +her, to fulfill any wish she might express. And he begged +her to cast away any pretence, for he was certain that she +was there because of some misery that had befallen her.</p> + +<p>At first the maiden seemed bewildered, but after a while +she showed that the curate had gained her confidence, and +she spoke to him in a beautiful, melancholy voice. She +seated herself on a stone, while the three gathered around +her, and confided to them with tears in her eyes the reasons +for her being there. She told them of a certain grandee +of Spain, living in Andalusia, of whom her father, lowly in +birth but rich in fortune, was a vassal. This grandee had +two sons. She had been betrothed to the younger one of +these, Don Fernando, and he had jilted her in favor of a +lady of noble birth, whose name was Luscinda.</p> + +<p>When Cardenio heard his own lady's name, he bit his +lips and tears came to his eyes. Dorothea—for that was +the maiden's name—wondered at such interest and such +emotion, but she continued her story. She told of how, +upon Don Fernando's marriage to lady Luscinda, she had +fled in despair from house and home. A herdsman in the +heart of the Sierra had given her employment as a servant; +but when he had discovered that she was a woman, she was +forced to leave. While she was bemoaning her evil fate, +and praying to God in the woods, she had cut her feet on +the stones; and she was bathing them in the brook when she +encountered the present gathering. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXIX" id="v1CHAPTERXXIX"></a>CHAPTER XXIX</h2> + +<h4>Which Treats of the Droll Device and Method Adopted +to Extricate Our Love-Stricken Knight +from the Severe Penance He Had +Imposed Upon Himself</h4> + +<p class="cap">DOROTHEA had told her story with great simplicity. +When she had ended it, the curate arose to console +her; but Cardenio was already at her side.</p> + +<p>"Are you not the daughter of the rich Clenardo?" he +asked of her eagerly.</p> + +<p>She gazed at him in wonder, for she had not spoken her +father's name. She asked the youth who he might be, and +he told her that he was the Cardenio who had been wronged +by Don Fernando, the faithless friend and faithless lover; +and he swore then and there a holy oath that he should +see her married to Don Fernando or the latter would perish +by his, Cardenio's, sword. Dorothea was moved to tears by +the youth's words and thanked him profusely. The curate +then made the suggestion that both of them return with +him and the barber to their village where they could make +further plans as to what to do to set things aright. And +Dorothea and Cardenio accepted this kind offer gratefully.</p> + +<p>Sancho was now seen arriving, and the curate told the +youth and the maiden the reason for his being there. He +explained to them the curious nature of Don Quixote's +madness, and Cardenio mentioned to the curate his meeting +with the knight. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span></p> + +<p>Sancho had found Don Quixote nearly dead with hunger, +crying aloud for his Dulcinea; and when his squire entreated +him in her name to return to El Toboso, he refused, +declaring that his penitence was not yet complete; that he +was not yet worthy of her favor. Sancho was quite +worried lest he should lose his island and his titles and all +the other honors he had expected, and the curate did his +best to calm his fears. The good man then explained to +Cardenio and Dorothea how they had planned to take Don +Quixote back to his home by persuading him to go there +on an adventure in aid of a distressed damsel.</p> + +<p>Dorothea at once offered to play the part of the damsel. +Having read a good many books of chivalry, herself, she +thought she could qualify in asking favors of our knight. +She had brought with her a complete woman's dress, with +lace and rich embroidery, and when Sancho Panza saw her +in her new array, he asked, in astonishment, what great +lady she might be. The curate replied that she was the +ruler of the great kingdom of Micomicon, and after having +been dethroned by an evil giant had come all the way from +Guinea to seek the aid of Don Quixote. Immediately +Sancho's hope for his titles and possessions was revived, +for the thought of his master's fame having spread to such +distant parts seemed most encouraging.</p> + +<p>While Sancho Panza was entertaining these visions, +Dorothea mounted the curate's mule, and the barber decorated +himself with the ox-tail for a beard. Sancho was +told to lead the way, and the curate explained to him that +the success of their mission depended on him. He was +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span> +warned that he must not give away the identity of the curate +and the barber; if he did, the empire would be lost. +And then they started out, leaving the curate and Cardenio +behind, as that was thought best.</p> + +<p>They had gone almost a league when they saw Don +Quixote on a rock, clothed, but wearing no armor. Dorothea +was helped from her horse. She walked over to Don +Quixote and knelt before him; and she told him the errand +that had brought her there, saying that she would not rise +until he had granted her the boon she was asking. While +she was kneeling before him, Sancho Panza was anxiously +whispering to Don Quixote bits of information about her +and her kingdom, afraid that his master might refuse her; +but, demented though he was, rank and riches mattered +little to Don Quixote, for he drew his sword, he said, in +defense of anything that was righteous, and the meek +and downtrodden always found in him a ready and courteous +defendant. When he learned from the Princess that +a big giant had invaded her kingdom, he at once granted +her the promise of his services. Dorothea wanted to kiss +his hand as a proof of her gratitude; but Don Quixote +would not permit her to do this, being ever a respectful +and courteous knight. He commanded his squire to saddle +his horse immediately, while he put on his armor, mounted, +and was ready for the crusade.</p> + +<p>They set out, Sancho on foot, cheerfully grinning to himself +at the covetous thought of all the possessions that +would be his in a short time. Soon they passed the place +where Cardenio and the curate were hiding. The curate +had by this time conceived the idea of shearing Cardenio +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span> +of his beard that Don Quixote would be unable to recognize +him; and he had furnished him with his own grey jerkin +and a black cloak, so that he himself appeared in +breeches and doublet only. Having effected the change, +they took a short-cut through the woods and came out on +the open road ahead of Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>As he approached them, the curate feigned astonishment +beyond words at seeing his old friend; and Don Quixote +was so surprised that he hardly recognized the curate. +He courteously offered Rocinante to him, but the curate +remonstrated and finally accepted the long-bearded squire's +mule, inviting the squire to sit behind him. This arrangement +did not please the mule, however, for he commenced +to kick with his hind legs. Luckily the beast did not damage +the barber, but the demonstration frightened him so +that he turned a somersault in a ditch. In so doing, his +beard came off, but he had enough presence of mind to cover +his face at the same moment, crying that his teeth were +knocked out. When Don Quixote saw the beard on the +ground without any sign of flesh or blood, he was struck +with amazement, and thought that the barber had been +shaved by a miracle.</p> + +<p>The curate hastened breathlessly to the barber's side, +and began to mumble incomprehensible words, while the +barber was groaning on the ground in an uncomfortable +position. When the barber finally rose, Don Quixote's +eyes nearly fell out of their sockets, for he beheld the barber +bearded again. He begged the curate to teach him the +charm that could produce such a miracle, and the curate +promised he would. Then they proceeded on the journey.</p> + +<p>The curate now began to wonder about the road (all this +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span> +was pre-arranged) and said that in order to go to the kingdom +of Micomicon, they had to take the road to Cartagena, +where they would embark on a ship. That, he said, would +take them through his own village, and from there it was +a journey of nine years to Micomicon. Here the Princess +corrected him, saying that it had taken her only two years +to make the journey here, in quest of the noble and famous +knight who had now sworn to restore her kingdom to +her.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote at this moment happened to observe the +light attire of the curate, and was curious to know the reason +for it. Whereupon the curate (having learned of the +incident through Sancho) related how he and Master Nicholas, +on their way to Seville, had been held up by a gang +of liberated galley-slaves. These criminals, it was said, +had been set free by a man on horseback, as brave as he was +bold, for he had fought off all the guards, single-handed. +The curate criticized this man heartlessly, called him a +knave and a criminal for having set himself against law +and order and his king, and expressed a belief that he could +not have been in his right mind. The Holy Brotherhood, +he said further, was searching for him now, and he himself +was afraid that the man's soul would be lost. He finished +his story by calling upon the Lord to pardon this unregenerate +being who had taken away the galley-slaves from the +punishment that had been meted out to them by justice.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote seemed to take the curate's sermon to heart, +and bent his head humbly, not daring to admit that he was +the culprit, and not knowing that the curate knew it. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXX" id="v1CHAPTERXXX"></a>CHAPTER XXX</h2> + +<h4>Which Treats of the Address Displayed by the Fair +Dorothea, with Other Matters, Pleasant +and Amusing</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHEN Sancho heard the harsh sermon of the curate, +he, being a good Christian, became afraid that his +own soul might be lost too; for was he not an accomplice? +So he confessed then and there his own and his master's +guilt, much to the shame and anger of Don Quixote. The +Princess was quick to sense the danger, and she calmed +our hero before his anger had risen to any great height, +by reminding him of his promise, and how he had sworn +to engage in no conflict of any kind until her kingdom had +been saved. He answered her with infinite courtesy and +expressed his regrets for having let his anger get the better +of him; he would stand by his word. Then he asked her +to tell him all that she could about herself and her kingdom. +She would willingly do that, she said, and began +her story.</p> + +<p>But she came very near ending it then and there, for +she could not remember the name she had assumed. +Luckily the curate—who had invented her long and difficult +name—was there to prompt her, and the situation was +saved. Having told Don Quixote that her name was +Princess Micomicona, she continued her story, relating +how she was left an orphan, how a certain giant and lord +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span> +of an island near her kingdom had asked for her hand in +marriage and she had refused, how his forces had overrun +her country and she had fled to Spain, where it had been +predicted by a magician she would find a certain great +knight errant by the name of Don Quixote, otherwise +called the Knight of the Rueful Countenance, who would +be recognized by a gray mole with hairs like bristles under +the left shoulder.</p> + +<p>Immediately upon hearing this, Don Quixote wanted to +strip, but Sancho assured them that he did have just such a +mark. Dorothea said she was quite sure he must, for +in other respects the description that the magician had +given fitted him; and she hastened to relate to him how she +had first heard of him on her landing at Osuna. But +evidently the pretended Princess had not been as careful +a student of geography as Don Quixote, who was quick +to ask her: "But how did you land at Osuna, seņorita, +when it is not a seaport?" Again the curate displayed +proof of rare presence of mind, for he broke in: "The +Princess meant to say that after having landed at Malaga, +the first place where she heard of your worship was Osuna." +And Dorothea immediately corroborated the curate's explanation +with great self-assurance.</p> + +<p>However, she thought it best to end her story here, for +fear of complications, and only added how happy she was +to have found him so soon. She also pointed out, demurely +enough, that it had been predicted if after having cut off +the giant's head the knight should ask her to marry him, +she would accept. But Don Quixote said he would be +true to his Dulcinea; and this made Sancho exclaim with +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span> +dismay that he was out of his head, for Dulcinea could +never come up to this fair princess.</p> + +<p>Sancho's remark angered his master so intensely that he +knocked him to the ground with his spear; and if the Princess +had not interfered the unfortunate squire might never +again have been able to say his ave-marias or credos or, +more to the point, have eaten another square meal. He +was quick to cry out that he had meant no ill by what he +said, and acting upon the suggestion of the Princess, he +kissed his master's hand.</p> + +<p>At this moment a man, mounted on an ass, was seen on +the road, and Sancho, no doubt feeling instinctively the +proximity of his beloved animal, recognized in the man +Gines de Pasamonte. Wildly shouting, he set out after +the galley-slave, who threw himself off the ass at Sancho's +first shout. Sancho, crying with joy, was so glad to have +his faithful donkey returned to him that he did not pursue +the thief. And Don Quixote himself was so pleased that +he entirely forgot about his quarrel with Sancho. He +called him to his side, and asked him to repeat everything +his Dulcinea had told him, over and over again.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXXI" id="v1CHAPTERXXXI"></a>CHAPTER XXXI</h2> + +<h4>Of the Delectable Discussion Between Don Quixote +and Sancho Panza, His Squire, Together +with Other Incidents</h4> + +<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE was anxious to know what jewel his +fair one had bestowed on Sancho before the leave-taking. +Sancho replied that the only jewel Dulcinea had +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span> +given him was some bread and cheese; whereupon Don +Quixote remarked that no doubt she had had no jewels at +hand. He expressed wonder at the speedy trip Sancho had +made, to which Sancho replied that Rocinante had gone +like lightning; and Don Quixote then was sure some +friendly enchanter had carried him through the air.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXXII-XXXIV" id="v1CHAPTERXXXII-XXXIV"></a>CHAPTERS XXXII-XXXIV</h2> + +<h4>Which Treats of What Befell All Don Quixote's +Party at the Inn</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE following day they reached the inn. The +landlady at once wanted her ox-tail back, so it was +decided that the barber should hereafter appear in his +own true character, having supposedly arrived at the inn +after the galley-slaves' hold-up.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was tired, and was given a bed in the +garret where he had slept once before. While the others +were having dinner, the landlady was confidentially telling +all who would listen of Don Quixote's absurdities +during his previous visit, and also of Sancho Panza's being +juggled in the blanket. And while the curate was discussing +Don Quixote's madness, the innkeeper confided to +him that he himself had a weakness for reading about +deeds of the past, particularly stories of chivalry. Often, +he said, he would read aloud from these books to his family +and servants. He had just read a novel entitled "Ill-Advised +Curiosity," which he had found very interesting. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span> +He showed the manuscript of it to the curate, who seemed +to think it might make very good reading and expressed +a desire to copy it. Whereupon the innkeeper asked him +whether he would not read it aloud to them; and as they +were all eager to hear it, the curate commenced the reading +of the manuscript.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXXV" id="v1CHAPTERXXXV"></a>CHAPTER XXXV</h2> + +<h4>Which Treats of the Heroic and Prodigious Battle +Don Quixote Had with Certain Skins of +Red Wine, and Brings the Novel of The +"Ill-Advised Curiosity" to an End</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE curate had almost finished the reading of the +novel, (which consumed all of the two chapters +which are omitted here) when Sancho Panza burst into the +room, excitedly shouting that his master was having the +wildest battle he had ever seen, up in the garret. He +pleaded for reinforcements, and wanted them all to join +in conquering the enemy who, he declared, was no other +than the fierce giant that had invaded the kingdom of +Micomicon. He said he had left just as his master had +cut the giant's head clean off with his sword, leaving the +beast to bleed like a stuffed pig.</p> + +<p>While Sancho was relating his blood-curdling story, a +tremendous noise and loud exclamations poured forth from +the garret, and the innkeeper, suddenly remembering all +the many wine-skins he had hung up there on the previous +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span> +night sprang out of his chair and toward the scene of +action, followed by the rest.</p> + +<p>The worst that the innkeeper might have feared was +true; for there, on the garret floor, was a sea of red wine, +with hosts of empty skins floating about upon it. In the +middle of the sea stood Don Quixote, sword in hand, +slashing right and left, dressed in nothing but his shirt. +But the strangest thing of all was not his attire, but the +fact that he was fast asleep, his eyes shut tightly,<a name="Page93Ill" id="Page93Ill"></a> dreaming +that he had already arrived in the distant realm of the +Princess Micomicona and had encountered the giant enemy.</p> + +<p>Seeing all his precious wine floating away, the innkeeper +became enraged and set upon Don Quixote with his bare +fists; but the beating had no effect on the knight except, +perhaps, that it made him sleep more soundly. It was +not until the barber had drenched him in cold water that +he came to his senses.</p> + +<p>The Princess Micomicona, who had been listening to +the saving of her kingdom outside the door, became eager, +after she had heard the tempest subside, to enter and see +the conquered giant; but she retired hastily and with a +slight exclamation of horrified modesty on seeing the +abbreviated length of her defender's night-shirt, the tail +of which had been sacrificed to his prayers in the wilderness.</p> + +<p>The landlord, cursing his luck, swore that this time the +knight errant and his squire should not escape without paying. +But Don Quixote, whose hand the curate was holding +in an endeavor to calm him, merely fell on his knees +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span> +before the curate, exclaiming: "Exalted and beautiful +Princess! Your Highness may now live in peace; for +I have slain the giant!" He imagined that he was at the +feet of Micomicona. Soon after having spoken thus, he +showed signs of great weariness, and the curate, the barber +and Cardenio carried him to his bed, where he fell asleep.</p> + +<p>Next they had to console Sancho, who was grief-stricken +because he had been unable to find the giant's head. He +swore he had seen it falling when his master cut it off, and +imagined that if it could not be produced there would be no +reward for either him or his master; but Dorothea, in her +rôle of Princess, calmed and comforted him.</p> + +<p>All this time the innkeeper's wife was crying about the +ox-tail, which, she said, had lost its usefulness after having +served as beard, and the innkeeper was demanding that he +be paid for the spilt wine and other losses. The curate +assured them that he himself would see to it that they +were reimbursed for everything; and when the excitement +in the inn had simmered down, and everybody had gathered +again in the room where they had heard the curate read +from "Ill-Advised Curiosity," he was asked to resume the +reading. This he did; and they all thought it a very +entertaining story and listened intensely to what the curate +was reading.</p> + +<p><a name="Page93pic" id="Page93pic"></a></p> +<div class="figcenter" > +<img src="images/illus2.jpg" width="450" height="614" +alt=""SLASHING RIGHT AND LEFT, DREAMING THAT HE HAD +ENCOUNTERED THE GIANT ENEMY."—Page 93" +title=""SLASHING RIGHT AND LEFT, DREAMING THAT HE HAD +ENCOUNTERED THE GIANT ENEMY."—Page 93" /> +<span class="caption"><br />"SLASHING RIGHT AND LEFT, DREAMING THAT HE HAD +ENCOUNTERED THE GIANT ENEMY."—<a href="#Page93Ill">Page 93</a></span> +</div> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXXVI" id="v1CHAPTERXXXVI"></a>CHAPTER XXXVI</h2> + +<h4>Which Treats of More Curious Incidents That Occurred +at the Inn</h4> + +<p class="cap">AT this moment there was a sound of people approaching +on horseback, and the innkeeper rushed to the +gate to receive the guests. There were four men, with +lances and bucklers, and black veils for their faces; a +woman, dressed in white and also veiled, and two attendants +on foot. One of the four, a gentleman of distinction, +helped the lady to dismount, and they entered the inn.</p> + +<p>As they came into the room where the curate had just +finished reading the novel of "Ill-Advised Curiosity," +Dorothea covered her face, and Cardenio left and went to +the garret. As the gentleman seated the lady in a chair, +she heaved a deep sigh. Her arms fell limply by her side. +The curate was curious to know who these people were, +so he asked one of the servants that accompanied them. +But none of them knew, for they had met the travelers on +the road, they said, and had been offered employment at +good pay. They added that they feared the lady was being +taken somewhere against her will, as she had done nothing +but sigh all through the journey, and had exchanged no +words whatever with her escort.</p> + +<p>Dorothea, hearing the lady sigh repeatedly, felt compassion +for her, and asked her whether there was anything +that she could do for her. But although she asked her +the question several times, she got no reply. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span></p> + +<p>When the gentleman with the distinguished bearing observed +that Dorothea was interested in this lady, he told +her it was useless to bother with her, for her answers were +all lies and anything done for her would be rewarded with +ingratitude. This remark was speedily answered by the +lady, who retorted. "I have never told a lie. On the +contrary, it is because I am truthful and cannot lie that I +am now in this miserable condition. And you are the lying +one!"</p> + +<p>Cardenio was in the adjoining room, just returning from +the garret, and when he heard these words he exclaimed: +"Good God! What is this I hear! It is her voice!"</p> + +<p>The lady heard the exclamation, and seeing no one, she +became agitated and rose, but was held back by the gentleman. +Her veil suddenly fell off, and every one could see +her face, which was one of alabaster-like whiteness and +great beauty. And while the gentleman was struggling to +keep her from leaving the room, his own veil became unfastened +and Dorothea saw that he was no other than her +own lover, Don Fernando. The moment she recognized +him she fainted, and the barber caught her, or she would +have fallen to the floor. The curate was quick to throw +some water on her face, and she soon came to. As soon as +Cardenio heard the commotion, he rushed in from the other +room, imagining that the worst had happened to his Luscinda—for +it was no other than she—and it was a curious +thing to see the four suddenly finding themselves face +to face.</p> + +<p>Luscinda was the first one to speak, and she implored +Don Fernando to take her life, so that her beloved Cardenio +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span> +might believe that she had been true and loyal and faithful +to him until the very last.</p> + +<p>When Dorothea heard Luscinda speak thus, she fell on +her knees before Don Fernando and implored him to reconsider +everything that he had done that was base and +wrong and sinful. She pleaded with tears in her eyes, +begging him to give up Luscinda to her faithful Cardenio, +told him how much she still loved him in spite of his wrong-doing, +and said she would forgive him everything if he +would only let his real and better nature come into its own. +And her tears and sincerity moved Don Fernando so that +he himself wept, and he promised to abide by the ending +which Fate itself seemed to have provided for by bringing +them all together in this strange way.</p> + +<p>He told Luscinda that when he had found the paper in +which she declared she could never be the wife of any other +man than Cardenio, he was tempted to kill her, but was +prevented by chance. He had left the house in a rage, +and had not returned home till the following day, when he +found that she had disappeared. Some months later he +learned that she had taken refuge in a convent. He +gathered the companions they had seen at the inn, and +with their help he carried her from the convent. Now he +repented of what he had done, prayed he might be permitted +forever to live with his Dorothea, and asked them +all for forgiveness. Then he gave his blessing to the +overjoyed Cardenio and Luscinda, who were both so +affected at their reunion that they shed tears. Even Sancho +was weeping, although for quite another reason. He +was grieved to find his Princess Micomicona suddenly lose +her royal identity and turn out to be a mere lady. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXXVII" id="v1CHAPTERXXXVII"></a>CHAPTER XXXVII</h2> + +<h4>In Which Is Continued the Story of the Famous +Princess Micomicona, with Other Droll +Adventures</h4> + +<p class="cap">SANCHO thought it his solemn duty to go to his master +at once and inform him of the catastrophe. Dejected, +he approached Don Quixote, who had just awakened, +and said: "Sir Rueful Countenance, your Worship +may as well sleep on, without troubling yourself about +killing or restoring her kingdom to the Princess; for that +is all over and settled now."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote agreed with his squire enthusiastically, +and then told him of the tremendous battle he had just +had with the giant, dwelling particularly upon the great +amount of blood that flowed when the giant's head was +cut off.</p> + +<p>"Red wine, your Worship means," said Sancho, "and no +less than twenty-four gallons, all of which has to be paid +for! The Princess your Worship will find turned into a +private lady named Dorothea; and there is much more that +will astonish your Worship."</p> + +<p>Whereupon there ensued a rich and varied conversation +between master and servant. When Don Quixote +heard his squire confound blood with wine, he called him +a fool. And when he heard that his Princess had turned +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span> +into a simple Dorothea, the fears he had entertained during +his past visit to the inn, began to return, and he decided +that the place was enchanted. But of that his +squire could not be convinced, for the episode of the blanketing +still remained a most vivid reality to him. Had it +not been for that, he repeated, he could have believed it +readily.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile the curate had been telling Don Fernando +and the others of Don Quixote's strange malady; he +described how they had succeeded in taking him away from +the wilderness and his self-inflicted penance, and told +them all the strange adventures he had heard Sancho relate. +They were greatly amused and thought it the most remarkable +craze they had ever heard of. Don Fernando +was eager that Dorothea should continue playing her part, +and they all decided to come along on the journey to the +village in La Mancha.</p> + +<p>At this moment Don Quixote entered in his regalia, the +barber's basin on his head, spear in hand, and with the +buckler on his arm. Don Fernando was struck with astonishment +and laughter at the sight of the mixed armament +and the peculiar long yellow face of the knight. After +a silence, Don Quixote turned to Dorothea and repeated +his vow to regain her kingdom for her. He said he approved +heartily of the magic interference of the spirit of +the king, her father, who had devised this new state of +hers, that of a private maiden, in which guise she would no +doubt be more secure from evil influence on her journey +to her home.</p> + +<p>His ignorant squire broke in when his master related +of his battle in the garret, and inferred irreverently and +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span> +rather loudly that he had attacked wine-skins instead of +giants, but Don Fernando quickly made him be quiet. +Dorothea rose and thanked our rueful knight at the end +of his speech for the renewed offer of his sword.</p> + +<p>Having listened to her lovely voice, Don Quixote turned +angrily to his squire and reprimanded him for being a disbeliever, +saying that he could now judge for himself what +a fool he had made of himself. Sancho replied that he +hoped he had made a mistake about the Princess not being +a princess, but that as to the wine-skins, there could be no +doubt, for the punctured skins he had seen himself at the +head of Don Quixote's bed—and had not the garret floor +been turned into a lake of wine? Whereupon his master +swore at his stupidity, until Don Fernando interrupted +and proposed that they spend the evening in pleasant conversation +at the inn instead of continuing their journey +that night.</p> + +<p>While that was being agreed upon, two travelers, a +man and a woman, dressed in Moorish fashion, came to the +inn. They asked for rooms overnight, but were told there +were none to be had. Dorothea felt sorry for the strange +lady—whose face was covered with a veil—and told her +that she and Luscinda would gladly share their room with +her. The lady rose from her chair, bowed her head and +made a sign with her hands as if to thank them; and they +concluded, because of her silence, that she could not speak +their language. At this moment her companion returned +to her and, seeing her surrounded by the guests at the inn, +he confirmed what they had thought, for he made the remark +that it was useless to address any questions to her as +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span> +she could speak no other tongue than her own. They explained +that they had asked no questions, but had only +offered her quarters for the night. When the stranger +learned this, it seemed to please him very much, and he +thanked them profusely.</p> + +<p>As they were all curious to know who the lady was, they +asked the stranger whether or not she was a Christian. He +replied that while she was not, she wished to become one; +and he informed them that she was a lady of high rank +from Algiers. This excited a desire to see her face as +well as to know whom she might be, and Dorothea could +not resist the temptation of asking her to remove her veil. +When her companion had told her Dorothea's desire, and +the Moorish lady had removed her veil, they all stood in +awe, for they beheld a face that seemed to them lovelier +than any they had ever beheld before. Don Fernando +asked her name, and the stranger replied it was Lela Zoraida; +but when the fair lady heard him speak this name, +she exclaimed emphatically that she was called Maria and +not Zoraida. Luscinda embraced her in a loving way and +said they would call her by that name.</p> + +<p>The supper was now ready and all placed themselves at +a long table, at the head of which Don Quixote was asked +to seat himself. At his request Dorothea—as the Princess +Micomicona in disguise—sat on his right. All were merry +and content and many pleasantries were passed. But +suddenly Don Quixote stopped eating, rose, and with inspiration +in his eyes and voice, began a long discourse on +knight-errantry, reviewing the great good it had done for +mankind. The language he used was so perfect, his +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span> +manners so free and easy, and his delivery possessed of such +charm, that his listeners could hardly make themselves +believe they were in the presence of one who was demented.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXXVIII" id="v1CHAPTERXXXVIII"></a>CHAPTER XXXVIII</h2> + +<h4>Which Treats of the Curious Discourse Don Quixote +Delivered on Arms and Letters</h4> + +<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE told them in his discourse of that +age in which victory in battle depended on personal +courage and good swordsmanship, before the use +of such devilish contrivances as lead and powder. These +things almost made him despair of success for his revival +of chivalry in this age, he said; for while guns and artillery +could instill no fear in his breast, they did make him +feel uneasy, as one never knew when a bullet, intended for +some one else, might cut off one's life. The very worst of +such a death, he maintained, was that the bullet might +have been discharged by a fleeing coward. And so he +pledged himself again, in spite of all the things he had to +struggle against, not to give up what he had undertaken +to do: to set the world aright in accordance with the principles +of knight-errantry.</p> + +<p>All the while that Don Quixote was discoursing, Sancho +was much concerned because he neglected his food. He +broke in whenever he had an opportunity, and admonished +his master that he would have much time for talking after +he had eaten. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</a></span></p> + +<p>When they had finished their supper, the landlord informed +them that he had re-arranged their quarters in +order to accommodate all, and that the three women might +sleep in the garret, as Don Quixote gallantly had given +up his quarters to them. Their interest then turned again +to the stranger. Don Fernando asked him some questions +about his life, and he replied that while his life-story +would be interesting, it might not afford them much +enjoyment. However, he said, he would tell it if they +so wished. The curate begged that he do so; and, seeing +the interest of all, the stranger mentioned by way of introduction +that while his was a true story, many a story of +fiction would seem tame and less strange in comparison. +And while all of the company expectantly turned their +eyes toward the strange traveler in Moorish garb, he began +the following tale.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXXIX-XLI" id="v1CHAPTERXXXIX-XLI"></a>CHAPTERS XXXIX-XLI</h2> + +<h4>Wherein the Captive Relates His Life and Adventures</h4> + +<p class="cap">AS a young man, the stranger said, he had left Spain, +bent on adventure and on becoming a soldier. He +had served with the Duke of Alva in Flanders, and in the +wars of the Christians against the Turks, the Moors, and +the Arabs. In one of these wars he was taken prisoner by +King El Uchali of Algiers; he had previously advanced +to the rank of captain. He was held a captive for a long +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</a></span> +time, first at Constantinople, then at Tunis, then at Algiers. +At Constantinople he encountered a good many +other Christian prisoners. Particularly he remembered +one Don Pedro de Augilar, a brave soldier and a native +of Andalusia, who, he said, had written some very excellent +poetry. He especially spoke of two sonnets which he had +liked so well that he had learned them by heart. One +day Don Pedro succeeded in making his escape, but what +had become of him he had never heard.</p> + +<p>As soon as the captive had spoken Don Pedro's name, +the ladies and Don Fernando exchanged glances and +smiled, and Don Fernando could not refrain from informing +the narrator that Don Pedro was his brother. Furthermore, +he said, he was safe in Andalusia, where he was +happily married, in the best of health, and had three robust +children. Then he touched on his brother's gift for +composing poetry, and said that the very two sonnets the +captive had mentioned, he himself knew by heart. Whereupon +every one asked him to recite them, and so he did +with fine feeling and intelligence. Then the captive resumed +his story.</p> + +<p>At Algiers, he said, there lived, overlooking the prison, +a great alcaide named Hadji Morato, a very rich man, who +had but one child, a daughter of great beauty. She had +learned the Christian prayer from a slave of her father's, +when she was a child; the things that this Christian woman +had taught her had made her long to know more about the +religion and to become a Christian herself. This beautiful +Algerian maiden had seen the captive from her window, +and she liked him, and one day she managed to get a message +to him, begging him to escape and to take her with +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span> +him. From time to time she would throw to him gold +coins wrapped in cloth, and these he would hide until +finally he had enough to buy not only himself but some +other prisoners free from their slavery.</p> + +<p>However, in order to effect the escape of the maiden, +the captive was obliged to take into his confidence an old +Algerian renegade who turned out to be a believer in +Christ. With this man the captive sent messages to Zoraida. +Now, this renegade was a sly fellow, and he bought +a small vessel with which he began to ply to and fro between +the city and some islands nearby, bringing back +fruit each time, in order to alleviate all suspicions of his +having acquired the vessel for any other purpose than +trading. Finally it was decided the time had come for the +escape, and the captive had himself ransomed.</p> + +<p>That night the renegade had the ship anchored opposite +the prison and Zoraida's garden, and, with the help of +a number of Christians whom they had gathered as rowers, +and who were eager to return to Spain, they secured the +ship and put the Moorish crew in irons and chains.</p> + +<p>Zoraida witnessed the proceedings from her window, and +when she saw her captive and the renegade return in the +skiff of the vessel, she hastened below into the garden. +She was bedecked with a fortune in pearls and precious +stones. She asked the renegade to follow her into the +house, and when they returned, they brought with them a +chest laden with gold. Just then her father was awakened +and he began to shout in Arabic as loudly as he could +that he was being robbed by Christians. Had it not been +for the quick action of the renegade all might have been +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span> +lost. He bound and gagged the father and carried him +downstairs, where Zoraida had fainted in the captive's +arms. Then they hastened back to the ship and set sail for +Majorca.</p> + +<p>It was some time before the old alcaide realized that +his daughter had gone with the captive of her own free +will, and when he learned it, he flung himself into the sea, +but was rescued by one of the rowers. When he found +himself then on board the ship, he began to curse his +daughter, calling her a Christian dog and other vile names. +Finally it was deemed best to set him and the other Moors +ashore; and when the old man saw the ship sail away with +his daughter, he began to sob and cry aloud in the most +heartrending way, threatening to kill himself if she did +not return to him. The last words that she heard were, +"I forgive you all!" and they made her weep so bitterly +that it seemed as if her tears would never cease flowing.</p> + +<p>They were then less than a day's voyage from the coast +of Spain. As they were breezing along with all sails set, +over a moonlit sea, they saw a large ship appear in the distance. +It turned out to be a French corsair from Rochelle +out for plunder, for when it came closer it suddenly fired +two guns that took terrible effect and wrecked their vessel. +As the ship began to sink, they begged to be taken +aboard the corsair, to which the captain was not averse. +Once aboard they were told that if they had been courteous +enough to reply to the question shouted from the corsair +as to what port they were bound for, their own vessel +would still have been intact. The covetous crew stripped +them of all their valuable belongings, the pearls and +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span> +jewels, money and adornments of Zoraida. The chest of +gold, however, the renegade stealthily lowered into the sea +without any one seeing it.</p> + +<p>The next day when the Spanish coast was sighted the captain +put them all in a skiff, gave them some bread and +water for their voyage, and set out to sea. Before letting +them depart, moved by some strange impulse, he gave +Zoraida forty crowns; and he had not robbed her of her +beautiful gown. They steered their skiff towards the +shore, where they landed soon after midnight. Immediately +they left the shore, eager to know where they were. +They climbed the mountain—for the shore was a rocky one—and +there they rested until dawn, then went on into the country.</p> + +<p>Soon they met a young shepherd; but when he saw their +strange garbs, he ran away from them like a frightened +lamb, crying that the Moors had invaded the country. +And not so long after that they encountered fifty mounted +men of the coast guard, but as soon as these saw their +Moorish costumes and had heard the captive's explanation, +they realized that the boy's vivid imagination had disturbed +them needlessly. And when one of the Christian +captives recognized in one of the guards an uncle of his, +these men could not do enough for the returned slaves. +They gave them their horses, some of them went to rescue +the skiff for them, and when they arrived at the nearby +city they were welcomed by all the inhabitants.</p> + +<p>At once they went to the church to return thanks to the +Lord for their marvelous escape, and Zoraida was impressed +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span> +beyond expression with the hosts of praying worshippers. +She, the renegade, and the captive stayed at the +house of the returned Christian, and the rest were quartered +throughout the town. After six days the renegade +departed for Granada to restore himself to the Church +through the means of the Holy Inquisition. One by one +the other captives left for their own homes, and finally +only Zoraida and he himself remained. He then decided +to go in search of his father, whom he had not seen for so +many years, and he did not know whether he was alive +or not. His journey had brought him to this inn, and it +was here that his story came to an end.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXLII" id="v1CHAPTERXLII"></a>CHAPTER XLII</h2> + +<h4>Which Treats of What Further Took Place in the Inn, +and of Several Other Things Worth +Knowing</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE captive having finished his strange and interesting +story, Don Fernando rose and thanked him, +and all were eager for an opportunity to show him their +goodwill. Don Fernando begged the stranger to allow +him to provide for his comfort, and offered to take him to +his brother, the Marquis, who, he said, would be most +eager to act as Zoraida's godfather at her baptism. But +the stranger declined graciously all the offers that were +made.</p> + +<p>Night was now setting in, and each one was contemplating +going to his room, when suddenly a coach with +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span> +attendants on horseback arrived at the inn. The landlady told +the one demanding lodging that there was none to be +had at any price. Whereupon the man replied that +room <i>must</i> be found for his lordship, the Judge, his master. +As soon as the landlady learned she was dealing with the +law, she nearly fainted from exertion to please, and offered +to give up their own room and bed to his lordship. By +this time the Judge, attired in a long robe with ruffled +sleeves, had stepped out of the coach, accompanied by a +beautiful girl of about sixteen years of age. There were +exclamations from all when they saw the young lady, for +she possessed beauty and grace that were really rare.</p> + +<p>The first one to greet the strangers was no other than +Don Quixote, who, with a grave air and the most exalted +and flowery language, bade them welcome to the castle. +He finished his speech by saying: "Enter, your worship, +into this paradise, for here you will find stars and suns to +accompany the heaven your Worship brings with you. +Here you will find arms in their supreme excellence, and +beauty in its highest perfection."</p> + +<p>The Judge looked for a moment as if he hesitated about +entering with his daughter after such an unusual reception; +he seemed to wonder whether he was at an inn or an asylum. +He scrutinized Don Quixote's curious armor, then +turned his attention to the rest of the company, which evidently +made him feel more at ease.</p> + +<p>It was arranged that the young lady should sleep with +the other ladies; which pleased her greatly, for it was evident +that she was very much taken with them and their +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span> +beauty. The Judge was as much pleased with the presence +of so many people of quality as he was puzzled by +Don Quixote and his strange appearance and behavior.</p> + +<p>The moment the former captive and captain had laid +eyes on the Judge, he was stirred by the conviction that here +was his own younger brother. He asked the Judge's name +of one of the servants, and was told he was called the Licentiate +Juan Perez de Viedma, lately appointed Judge of +the Supreme Court of Mexico, to which country he was +now on his way. The Captain inquired whether the servant +knew from which part of Spain the Judge came, and +got the reply that he had heard it rumored he was a native +of a little village in the mountains of Leon. The Captain +was then certain it was his brother, and he hastened to +tell the curate, Don Fernando, and Cardenio, saying he +felt diffident about making himself known too abruptly +for fear his brother might refuse to acknowledge him because +of his poverty and ill-fortune.</p> + +<p>The curate understood the Captain's way of thinking, +and asked that he trust him to manage it in a discreet way. +So when the Judge invited them all to keep him company +while he supped, the curate told the story of the captive +at the table. In telling it he pretended to have been a +captive in the hands of the Turks and the Algerians and a +comrade-in-arms of the Captain. When he had finished +the story, tears rolled down the Judge's cheeks, and he +begged the curate to help him to find his beloved brother, +for whom their aged father was ever praying, ever asking, +hoping that he might see him once more before he closed +his eyes in death. It was then that the Captain, himself +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span> +in tears, stepped forward and, the Judge having recognized him, +embraced his brother. Then the Judge embraced +Zoraida, offering her all the worldly goods he possessed. +His daughter, the lovely young girl, now joined +them, and all the others were moved to tears by the +brothers' happiness in finding each other after so many +years of separation.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote stood gazing in silence at what passed before +his eyes, ascribing the two brothers' luck to magic.</p> + +<p>When the first emotion of the unexpected meeting had +subsided, the Judge asked his brother and Zoraida to return +with him to Seville, from where he would send a messenger +to the father, telling him of the good news and begging +him to come to the joint marriage and baptismal ceremony. +As the Judge was obliged to leave for New Spain +within a month, it was agreed that a speedy return to Seville +was necessary.</p> + +<p>It was now early morning, though still dark, and all +were tired, so it was decided that every one should go to +bed. But Don Quixote, sacrificing himself in spite of his +fatigue, appointed himself to keep guard for the remainder +of the night, fearing attack of some evil giant or beast +upon all the beauty that was slumbering within. They, +who were aware of his peculiar weakness, returned thanks +in their most gracious manner; and when they were alone +with the Judge they hastened to explain the knight's mental +state. The Judge was much amused by the accounts +of his adventures and his attempts to revive knight errantry +in Spain.</p> + +<p>There was only one unhappy being in the inn that night: +that was Sancho Panza. He was not at all pleased with +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span> +his master's staying up at such a late hour. But there +seemed nothing he could do about it, so he retired and +spread himself comfortably on the trappings of his donkey.</p> + +<p>While Don Quixote was guarding the castle, and dawn +was approaching, Dorothea, who had lain awake, was suddenly +stirred by the sound of a man's voice, a voice so beautiful +that it seemed to her there could be none sweeter in the +world. Then Cardenio was awakened by it, and he felt +that he ought to share the joy of hearing it with the ladies, +so he went to the garret to call their attention to it. When +he knocked on the door and told them, Dorothea called out +that they were already listening. The only one not awake +at that time was Doņa Clara, the Judge's fair daughter.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXLIII" id="v1CHAPTERXLIII"></a>CHAPTER XLIII</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Is Related the Pleasant Story of the Muleteer, +Together with Other Strange Things +That Came to Pass in the Inn</h4> + +<p class="cap">DOROTHEA and the other ladies were in a quandary +as to whether to awake Doņa Clara or not. Finally +they decided that she would be sorry if she had to learn +what she had missed and would regret that they had not awakened +her; so they shook her until she opened her eyes +and then asked her to sit up in bed and listen. But +scarcely had she heard one note, before she began to sob +hysterically. She threw her arms around Dorothea and +cried: "Why, oh, why did you wake me, dear lady? The +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span> +greatest kindness fortune could do me now would be to +close my eyes and ears so that I could neither see nor hear +that unhappy musician!"</p> + +<p>Dorothea was at a loss to know what had happened to the +child. All the while she was trying to soothe her, the tears +were streaming down the young girl's face, and she was +trembling like a leaf. Finally she quieted her feelings +sufficiently to be able to confide to Dorothea in a whispering +voice the story of her romance with the singer, who, she +said, was not a muleteer as his garb would indicate, but +the only son and heir of a rich noble of Aragon. This +gentleman's house in Madrid was situated directly opposite +her father's, and having once seen Doņa Clara the +youth proceeded to declare his love for her. She, being +motherless and having no one to whom she could confide her +love secrets, had to leave Madrid with her father, when +he was given his appointment to New Spain, without an +opportunity to see her lover. But as soon as the youth, +who was not much older than herself, learned of their departure, +he dressed himself up as a muleteer and set out +on foot to pursue her. At every inn where they had +stopped overnight she had found him awaiting their departure +in the morning, and she was always in dread, she +said, lest her father learn of their love for each other.</p> + +<p>With her arms tight around Dorothea, she confessed to +her how great her love was for the youth, saying that she +could never live without him. Dorothea kissed the girl, +and promised her that with God's help all would end well, +telling her to put her trust in Him; and before another day +had passed she hoped to have good news for Doņa Clara. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span> +Dorothea's assurances calmed and put new faith in the +young girl's heart; and soon they all were fast asleep again.</p> + +<p>Now, all this time the one-eyed Asturian maid, and the +landlady's daughter, both bent on deviltry, were keeping +their eyes open. It was impossible for them to forget Don +Quixote, and they were determined to play a joke on him +before the night was over. They posted themselves in +the hayloft, where there was a hole in the wall; and when +Don Quixote passed on Rocinante, he heard some one calling: +"Pst! Come here, seņor!"</p> + +<p>As Don Quixote turned to see who it might be, he discovered +the hole in the wall and it seemed very much like +a marvelously decorated window, in keeping with the beautiful +castle he had made out of the inn. He beheld at +this window the two maidens, and immediately they became +to him the daughter of the lord of the castle and her +attendant. Wistfully he gazed at them, certain, however, +that they had designed to destroy his faithful and stubborn +allegiance to Dulcinea, to whom he had just been +sending up prayers and salutations under the influence of +the moon. Then he spoke to them, regretting that they +should let themselves be so overcome by love for him that +they could no longer master their feelings. He told them +of that great and only mistress of his soul, the incomparable +one of El Toboso of La Mancha, to whom he had sworn +eternal love and undying admiration. And at last he admonished +the innkeeper's daughter to retire to her beauteous +apartment, lest he should be forced to prove himself ungrateful. +If, he said, she would demand any other thing +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span> +than love, he would willingly grant her the favor, even unto +a lock of Medusa's hair.</p> + +<p>The wench immediately realized that her opportunity +had come, so she quickly said that she cared for no lock +of Medusa's or any other, but would be satisfied to feel the +touch of his hand.</p> + +<p>Before sanctioning this demand, Don Quixote asserted +his virtuousness again by stipulating that she must not +kiss it, only touch it. He understood, of course, that any +woman would be likely to ask such a favor of him at any +time (for who would not be proud to have touched the +sinewy hand of so remarkable and famous a knight errant +as himself?) but he insisted on being discreet at all times. +So he climbed up and stood on the saddle of his hack, +reaching his lean arm through the hole in the wall.</p> + +<p>By this time the Asturian maid had procured from the +stable the halter of Sancho's donkey, on which her young +mistress quickly made a running knot and passed it over +Don Quixote's wrist. As soon as she had proceeded thus +far in her deviltry, she jumped down from the hole and +made fast the other end of the halter to the bolt of the +door. Then she and her maid swiftly made off, bursting +with laughter, leaving the knight to complain of the roughness +of her touch.</p> + +<p>But after a while Don Quixote began to realize that no +one was there to listen to his complaints, and also that he +was not standing too securely on his Rocinante's back; +for should Rocinante move without being urged—a most +unusual event—he would be left to hang in the air by one +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span> +arm. It suddenly came to him that he was a victim of enchantment, +and he called on all the saints, and Dulcinea, +and Sancho Panza, on all kind magicians and sages, +and every one else he could think of, to come to his +aid.</p> + +<p>But no one came, until the morning brought four travelers +on horseback. They found the gate still shut, so they +called to Don Quixote, who by this time was almost exhausted. +But although wearied, his spirit had not left +him. He reprimanded the strangers for their insolence; +asked whether they were so stupid they failed to realize +that as yet the castle gates were not open, that all were +asleep. He commanded them to withdraw to a distance +and to approach the fortress after daylight; then he could +better tell whether they should be permitted to enter or +not.</p> + +<p>One of the travelers mistook Don Quixote for the innkeeper, +and was immediately reprimanded for this. The +offended knight then began to talk about knight errantry +and its revival in the world, until finally the men tired +of his discourse. Again they knocked at the gate, this +time with such force and fury that the innkeeper woke up +and came out and admitted them in a hurry. They entered +violently on their horses, enraged because of their long +waiting at the gate, and dismounted, leaving their horses +free. The moment the horses saw Rocinante and the +curious position of his master, they went to investigate +him, and the unsuspecting Rocinante leaped from under +Don Quixote with such suddenness that the poor knight's +arm was nearly wrenched from his body. There he was +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span> +left to dangle, while the shouts that forced their way from +his throat rent the air fiercely.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXLIV" id="v1CHAPTERXLIV"></a>CHAPTER XLIV</h2> + +<h4>In Which Are Continued the Unheard-of Adventures +at the Inn</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHEN the landlord heard the terrible outcries of +Don Quixote, he ran, greatly excited, to see who +could be giving vent to such agony. The travelers joined +him; and the Asturian maid was stirred to quick action by +a bad conscience, as well as by the excited state of her +master. She untied the halter, and Don Quixote fell so +suddenly that his meager body landed like a dead weight +on the ground.</p> + +<p>The landlord and the travelers found him there, and +asked him impatiently why he was making such a tremendous +noise. He ignored their question entirely, pulled +the rope off his wrist, and mounted his charger with as +much nonchalance and elegance as his stiff limbs would +permit. Then he haughtily raised his head, after having +adjusted all his knightly paraphernalia, and circled down +the field, returning in a canter. Having halted Rocinante, +he bellowed out to those assembled "Whoever shall +say that I have been enchanted with just cause, provided +my lady the Princess Micomicona grants me permission to +do so, I give him the lie, challenge him and defy him to +single combat." +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span></p> + +<p>The landlord saw at once the effect these words of the +poor demented knight had on his newly arrived guests, +so he hastened to explain Don Quixote's condition to them. +They then asked whether the innkeeper had seen a youth +dressed like a muleteer. He replied that he had not; but +just then one of the men exclaimed that the youth must be +there, since the Judge's coach—which he had suddenly observed—was +there. They then decided to dissemble, +each one going to a different entrance of the inn, so there +would be no chance for the youth to escape.</p> + +<p>The landlord was curious to know what it was all about, +but could arrive at no conclusion. The truth was that +these men were servants of the young muleteer's father. +And it was not long ere they had discovered him, lying +asleep, never thinking that he would himself be pursued. +The servant who roused him made a few caustic remarks to +the young Don Luis—for this was his name—about his bed +and the luxury of his surroundings, as particularly befitting +a youth of his rank and breeding.</p> + +<p>Don Luis could not at first believe that he was really +awake. He rubbed his eyes in astonishment, and failed +to find a reply to the servant's remarks. The man then +continued, advising his young master to return to his home +at once, saying that his father, as a result of his disappearance, +was dangerously ill. The youth was curious to learn +how his father had found out what road he had taken and +that he had disguised himself as a muleteer. The servant +answered that a student to whom Don Luis had confided +his love for Doņa Clara, had told his master everything, +when he saw how he suffered. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span></p> + +<p>Now, it chanced that another muleteer, who had been +sleeping with Don Luis, could not keep what he was hearing +to himself; besides, he deemed it best to disappear +from the scene. He informed some of the guests of what +had occurred, and thus it happened that Don Fernando and +Cardenio learned of the plight of the young singer, whose +voice they had so admired a short time before; and when +the muleteer told them that his comrade was a young nobleman +in disguise, they decided to go and help him in his +quandary.</p> + +<p>They found the four men entreating Don Luis to return +to his father; and the youth emphatically refusing to do so, +saying that they might take him dead, but never alive.</p> + +<p>At this moment Dorothea saw Cardenio from her window, +and she called him and told him the story of the lad and +Doņa Clara. He in turn related to her how the servants +of the youth's father had come to take him back to his home. +In telling Dorothea this news Cardenio was overheard by +Doņa Clara who would have swooned had not Dorothea +supported her.</p> + +<p>By this time the servants had brought Don Luis into the +inn, threatening to take him back by force should he not go +willingly. Again he protested, and at last the argument +attracted all the guests, including Don Quixote, who had +ceased his duties as guard for the present. The Judge was +there too, and when one of the servants recognized in him +their neighbor in Madrid, he pleaded with him to do all +he could to make the young man return to his ill father.</p> + +<p>The Judge turned to the young muleteer, and saw that +it was his neighbor's son; whereupon he embraced him +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span> +and asked in a fatherly way what had brought him there +dressed in such a manner. With his arm around the youth's +neck, the Judge withdrew with the lad to discuss the reasons +for his disguise and for his leaving his father.</p> + +<p>While the kindly Judge was thus occupied with Don +Luis, a tumult suddenly arose at the gate of the inn. It +was the landlord, trying to hold back two guests who had +attempted to get away without paying. The innkeeper +was stubbornly clinging to the garb of one of the adventurers, +and in return was being pummeled mercilessly, until +his face was a study in dark and fast colors, except his +nose, which was tinted a running red. As soon as the +landlady perceived her mate's distress, the thought struck +her that this would be a most worthy opportunity for our +valiant knight errant to show his skill as a swordsman +and a wielder of the lance. So she dispatched her +daughter, the fair young lady of the castle, to bring the +knight her message of distress.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote received the young lady calmly and +courteously, but said that he was in honor bound to engage +in no combat except by the express permission of her Royal +Highness the Princess Micomicona; she having granted +it, there could be no doubt as to the outcome of any battle +in which he chose to draw his sword. Seeing this, in her +opinion, ill-timed hesitancy, the one-eyed Asturian muttered +that by the time the Princess was found, her master +would have passed the heavenly border. The Princess, +however, was quickly summoned, and Don Quixote knelt +on his stiff knees before her; but ere he had finished his +long harangue of request, she—having been advised of the +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span> +urgency of the situation—had already given him permission +and wished him godspeed.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote arose and drew his sword, paced toward +the gate, and then suddenly stopped short. All wondered +what had happened to cause his hesitating thus, and the +Asturian maid expressed her wonder aloud. Don Quixote +was not long about the answer. He replied at once that +this was no business for him; they had best call his squire. +It was for Sancho, he said, that he reserved the task and +joy of fighting such lowly people as the ones he saw before +him here and now.</p> + +<p>Now, while all of this was taking place, Don Luis, with +tears in his eyes, was confessing to Doņa Clara's father his +great and indomitable love for her. This placed the Judge +in a curious predicament, for he found himself forced to +sit in judgment on the welfare of his own child. He was +so taken with the charm and intelligence of the youth that +he was anxious to have him for a son-in-law, particularly +as his family was one of distinction, and extremely rich. +Yet his better judgment told him that it would be wise to +wait another day before giving his consent. He would +have preferred to have Don Luis' father approve of the +marriage, although he thought it almost certain that this +gentleman would like to see his son married to a titled +lady.</p> + +<p>And while the fate of the young lovers was being weighed +by the Judge, peace had been declared between the innkeeper +and the two travelers who, persuaded by the chivalrous +words of Don Quixote, and the summoning of Sancho, +had been made to see the light and pay the bill. By this +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span> +time everything was settled amicably, the landlord having +demanded no special indemnity for his battered, many-colored +face.</p> + +<p>But who should loom up on the scene, now that everything +was peaceful again, but the owner of Mambrino's +golden helmet! This particular barber was now leading +his donkey to the stable, when he suddenly discovered Sancho +Panza hard at work repairing the barber's own trappings, +which our Sancho had taken as booty at the time +his master fell heir to the helmet. The barber left his +donkey at no slow speed and ran towards Sancho, to whom +he exclaimed threateningly "There, you thief, I have caught +you! Give me my basin and my pack-saddle, and everything +you robbed me of!"</p> + +<p>But Sancho was not willing to give up so easily things +that he had gained as spoils in righteous warfare. He refuted +with his fists, as well as by argument, the barber's +coarse suggestion that he was a common highwayman; and +his master, coming up at this instant, was proud and pleased +to hear his faithful squire talk like that, and also to see +the barber's teeth gone, which the force of Sancho's blow +evidently had carried away. As a matter of fact, Sancho's +demonstration of physical strength made such a profound +impression on Don Quixote, that he decided his squire was +not far from being eligible to knighthood.</p> + +<p>As soon as the barber was able to make himself heard +again, he began to arraign both master and squire. He +was not to be subdued. He told all that quickly +gathered round them that they could assure themselves of +the truth of what he said by fitting Sancho's saddle to his +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span> +own steed; furthermore, he said, they had plundered him +of a basin.</p> + +<p>When Don Quixote heard this ridiculous accusation, his +lips twisted into a scornful smile. He dispatched Sancho +to fetch the helmet—which seemed to Sancho a dangerous +move—and when Sancho returned with the basin, Don +Quixote held it up with great self-assurance before everybody.</p> + +<p>"Your worships," said he, "may see with what face this +squire can assert that this is a basin and not the helmet I +told you of; and I swear by the order of chivalry I profess, +that this helmet is the identical one I took from him, without +anything added to or removed."</p> + +<p>This statement was corroborated in detail by Sancho, +who added: "Since that battle my master has fought in +the helmet only once. That was when he let loose the unfortunate +ones in chains. And if it had not been for this +basin-helmet he might have been killed in that engagement, +for there were plenty of stones raining down on him +at that time."</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXLV" id="v1CHAPTERXLV"></a>CHAPTER XLV</h2> + +<h4>In Which the Doubtful Question of Mambrino's Helmet +and the Pack-Saddle Is Finally Settled, +with Other Adventures That Occurred +in Truth and Earnest</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE barber appealed to those present and asked them +what they thought about Don Quixote's nonsense; +and it was then that it occurred to Don Quixote's friend, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span> +the barber of his village to play a joke on his fellow barber. +He solemnly asked the other barber whether he was out of +his head, for of course anybody could see that it was a +helmet, although, he admitted, not a complete one.</p> + +<p>The poor barber was so taken aback, so perplexed that +a learned barber, and a seemingly sane one otherwise, could +not tell the difference between a basin and a helmet that +he nearly toppled over. But when the worthy curate, Cardenio, +Don Fernando, and all—for they realized at once +the barber's joke—insisted that he was wrong, and that it +was not a basin, the perspiration began to trickle down his +face, and he exclaimed: "God bless me! Is it possible that +such an honorable company can say that this is not a basin +but a helmet? Why, this is a thing that would astonish +a whole university, however wise it might be! And if +this basin is a helmet, then the pack-saddle must be a horse's +caparison!"</p> + +<p>Some one present was quick to assert that it most certainly +was a caparison and not a pack-saddle at all; that no +one but a fool could take it for a pack-saddle. And when +a gentleman of quality like Don Fernando offered to take +the votes of those present and they turned out to be in favor +of the pack-saddle's remaining a caparison, the barber +thought he had gone completely mad.</p> + +<p>By this time the group of spectators had been increased +by the arrival of the four servants of Don Luis, Don Luis +himself, and three new guests—officers of the Holy Brotherhood, +to whom the proceedings and the amusement of those +present seemed utter foolishness. One of these uninitiated +newcomers, one of the officers of the Brotherhood, dared to +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span> +say that any one who maintained that it was a helmet instead +of a basin must be drunk. But he should not have +said it, for our knight lifted his lance and let it fly out of +his hand with such ferocity and such sure aim that if the +officer had not been lucky enough to be able to dodge it, it +would have pierced his body.</p> + +<p>The tumult that followed was indescribable. The landlord +came to the rescue of his Brotherhood comrades. His +wife fell into hysterics for fear he would be beheaded by +Don Quixote's vicious sword. The women were all +screaming, wailing, weeping and fainting. Then this +tremendous din and noise was suddenly rent by the voice +of Don Quixote; and like a flash there was peace, when the +knight errant began to appeal in soft lucid tones for a +cessation of hostilities. It was a curious thing to observe +how willingly the demented man's appeal to reason was +listened to by all. The confusion had struck most of them +with terror and they were glad to heed in such a moment +even the will of unreason.</p> + +<p>But as soon as there was quiet again, the grudge against +Don Quixote that had established itself in the heart of one +of the Brotherhood, began to assert itself. It suddenly +came to his mind that among his warrants he had one for +a man of Don Quixote's description who was accused of +having set free a chain of galley-slaves. As soon as he +had convinced himself that there could be no mistake about +the identity, he strode forth and seized Don Quixote so +abruptly by the collar that the knight nearly choked.</p> + +<p>"Help for the Holy Brotherhood!" the officer yelled aloud. +"And that you may see that I demand it in earnest, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span> +read this warrant which says this highwayman is to be +arrested!"</p> + +<p>Hardly did Don Quixote feel himself handled in so undignified +a manner, when he clutched the villain's throat, +foaming at the mouth like a wild beast. Luckily they were +separated in time by Don Fernando and the rest, or they +would have torn each other to pieces. Yet the officer was +not willing to give up his claim on Don Quixote's person: +a claim that our knight errant laughed at, for who had ever +heard of members of the knighthood being dependent on +jurisdiction? Did he, this base knave, this ill-born scoundrel, +not know that the law of knights was in their swords, +their charter in their prowess, and their edicts in their +will? And then he calmly rambled on, his speech of denunciation +culminating in this last crushing remark: +"What knight errant has there been, is there, or will there +ever be in the world, not bold enough to give, single-handed, +four hundred cudgellings to four hundred officers +of the Holy Brotherhood if they come in his way?"</p> + +<p>While his master was thus discoursing in his usual vein, +Sancho was reviewing past events at the inn, and he could +not help but make this sad exclamation: "By the Lord, it is +quite true what my master says about the enchantments of +this castle, for it is impossible to live an hour in peace in +it!" +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXLVI" id="v1CHAPTERXLVI"></a>CHAPTER XLVI</h2> + +<h4>Of the End of the Notable Adventure of the Officers +of the Holy Brotherhood; and of the Great +Ferocity of Our Worthy Knight, Don +Quixote</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE curate had to argue for some time with the officers +of the Brotherhood before he could finally persuade +them that it would serve no purpose to arrest Don +Quixote, for, being out of his senses, he would in the end +be released as a madman. Furthermore, he warned them, +Don Quixote would never submit to force.</p> + +<p>Sancho Panza and the barber were still quarreling over +the pack-saddle and the other booty, and at last the officers +agreed to act as mediators, and the differences were adjusted +by arbitration. The curate settled for the basin by +paying eight reals, and received a receipt for payment in +full from the barber.</p> + +<p>Don Fernando, in the meantime, extracted a promise +from three of the servants of Don Luis to return to Madrid, +while the other one agreed to remain and accompany his +young master to where Don Fernando wanted him to go. +Doņa Clara was sparkling with happiness; and Zoraida +seemed to feel at home with the Christians, in spite of the +noise and tumult she had had to live through during her +short stay at the inn.</p> + +<p>The landlord did not forget the reckoning for the wine-skins +and all the other things whose loss he could attribute +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span> +to Don Quixote, for he had witnessed the curate's paying +off the debt for the barber's helmet. Don Fernando paid +all the innkeeper's demands generously, after the curate +had decided the claims were just.</p> + +<p>But when Don Quixote felt no discord in the air, he betook +himself to the presence of Dorothea, knelt before her, +and told her how willing and anxious he was to serve her +and conquer her giant. And he requested that they make +ready to leave. Her reply was simple and direct, for she +told him that his will was hers. So Don Quixote ordered +his squire to saddle Rocinante and his own donkey; but +Sancho only shook his head in sorry fashion.</p> + +<p>"Master," he said, "there is more mischief in the village +than one hears of." And as his master begged him to +speak freely, he burst out: "This lady, who calls herself +ruler of the great kingdom of Micomicon, is no more so +than my mother; for, if she was what she says, she would +not go rubbing noses with one that is here every instant +and behind every door."</p> + +<p>Though it was merely with her husband, Don Fernando, +that she had, as Sancho said, rubbed noses, the crimson in +her royal blood came to the surface, and her face turned +as red as a beet. Sancho, fearing that the Princess was a +courtesan, wanted to save his master the two years' journey +to Micomicon, if at the end of it it should turn out that +another one than Don Quixote or himself should reap the +fruits of their labor.</p> + +<p>It is impossible to describe the terrible wrath of the +knight when he heard the Princess thus slandered. His +indignation and fury knew no bounds. He began to stammer +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</a></span> +and stutter, inarticulate with rage, until Sancho was +scared out of his wits, afraid of being cut open by his raving +master's sword. He was just about to turn his back on +his master and disappear till the storm had passed, when +Dorothea came to his rescue. She suggested that Sancho's +strange behavior could only be ascribed to one thing: enchantment. +How else could he have seen such diabolical +things as he described, how could he have been made to +bear false witness against her, and how could he have +spoken words so offensive to her modesty? Knowing the +heart of Sancho, Don Quixote at once thought her explanation +a most ingenious one, for what else could have put +into Sancho's head such disrespect for a royal personage? +Don Fernando, too, pleaded in Sancho's behalf; and Sancho +meekly stumbled to his knees before his master, and kissed +his hand frantically, begging him for forgiveness. Whereupon +our knight errant with many gestures pardoned and +blessed him.</p> + +<p>"Now, Sancho, my son," he said, "thou wilt be convinced +of the truth of what I have many a time told thee, +that everything in this castle is done by means of enchantment."</p> + +<p>To which Sancho Panza replied meekly but firmly: "So it +is, I believe, except the affair of the blanket, which came to +pass in reality by ordinary means."</p> + +<p>But Don Quixote as usual was not in a mood to listen +to nonsense, and he replied that if such were the case he +would have avenged him, but seeing no one to avenge himself +upon, how could it have been anything else but enchantment? +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</a></span></p> + +<p>Those who were there were eager to know what had happened +to Sancho, and the landlord was most obliging in +giving a graphic description of all that had occurred. +They all seemed to enjoy the account enormously, for they +laughed hilariously. Had Don Quixote not again assured +Sancho that it most certainly had happened by enchantment, +there is no doubt that he would have interrupted +their hilarity.</p> + +<p>It was now two days since they had arrived at the inn, +and Don Fernando and Dorothea were becoming anxious +to depart. In order that they might not have to go out +of their way, it was arranged that they should go by themselves; +meanwhile a scheme was devised whereby the curate +and the barber could restore Don Quixote to his native +village.</p> + +<p>An ox-cart passed that day, and the curate, hearing it +was going in the direction of El Toboso, made arrangements +with the owner to make the journey with him. +Then he ordered some of the servants to make a cage, large +enough to hold Don Quixote, and provided it with bars. +He then asked Don Fernando and his companions, the +officers of the Holy Brotherhood, the servants of Don Luis, +and the innkeeper to cover their faces and change their +appearance so that Don Quixote would think they were +quite different people.</p> + +<p>When this had been done they tiptoed to the valiant +knight errant's room, where they found him fast asleep, +bound him, without waking him, hand and foot; then they +stood about the room silently. When the knight awoke, +he was startled to find that he could not move, and seeing +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[Pg 131]</a></span> +all these strangely conjured-up figures before him, it struck +him they must be phantoms of the enchanted castle. He +was absolutely helpless, and the men had no difficulty in +stuffing him into the cage. The bars were nailed on securely, +and the cage was then carried out of the inn and +placed in the ox-cart.</p> + +<p>While the procession slowly proceeded from the inn to +the ox-cart, the men supporting the cage on their shoulders, +the barber chanted strange words in a weird and hollow +voice. The barber took it upon himself to become the prophet +of the occasion, and he proclaimed to the Knight of +the Rueful Countenance that he ought not to consider his +present imprisonment an affliction. It was in a way a +sort of penance, he said, through which he would be humbled +to be in readiness for a still greater, sweeter imprisonment, +the bond of matrimony. This prediction would +come true, he avowed, when the fierce Manchegan lion and +the tender Tobosan dove met again. They would be +joined in one, and the offspring of this union would be of +such stuff as to set the world aflame.</p> + +<p>When Don Quixote heard these words, he was stirred +into an exalted emotion. Had he not been well bound it +would have been expressed by kneeling. He raised his +eyes toward Heaven and thanked the Lord for having sent +this prophet to him in this needy moment.<a name="Page131Ill" id="Page131Ill"></a> He prayed +that he should not be left to perish in the cage, and also +implored of the prophet not to let his faithful Sancho Panza +abandon him, saying that if by chance the promise of the +island should not come true, he had made provision for him +in his will. Sancho was much moved by what his encaged +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</a></span> +and enchanted master had said, and he bent down and +kissed his hands—he had to kiss both since they were tied +together. By that time the procession had arrived at the +ox-cart, and all was ready for the departure.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXLVII" id="v1CHAPTERXLVII"></a>CHAPTER XLVII</h2> + +<h4>Of the Strange Manner in Which Don Quixote of La +Mancha Was Carried Away Enchanted, Together +with Other Remarkable Incidents</h4> + +<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE was greatly perplexed and, indeed, +somewhat impatient with the slow speed of the cart +carrying away this enchanted knight. The cart had rolled +only a few paces and then stopped; there was nothing exciting +or heroic in being carried off in such a way! Never +had he read anywhere of so ridiculously slow and tame a +proceeding. And on an ox-cart! However, times had +changed, and he realized that until he had established the +new era of knight-errantry, the most plebeian ways of being +captured by enchantment would have to serve. Yet, +he did not consider it beneath his dignity to ask Sancho +what he thought on the subject.</p> + +<p>"I don't know what to think," answered Sancho, "not +being as well read as your Worship in errant writings; but +for all that, I venture to say and swear that these apparitions +that are about us are not quite Catholic."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote could not refrain from laughing aloud at +his squire's simplicity. How could they be Catholics +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[Pg 133]</a></span> +when they were devils, made of no substance whatever, +nothing but air?</p> + +<p><a name="Page131pic" id="Page131pic"></a></p> +<div class="figcenter" > +<img src="images/illus3.jpg" width="450" height="597" +alt=""HE PRAYED THAT HE SHOULD NOT BE LEFT TO PERISH IN THE CAGE."—Page 131" +title=""HE PRAYED THAT HE SHOULD NOT BE LEFT TO PERISH IN THE CAGE."—Page 131" /> +<span class="caption"><br />"HE PRAYED THAT HE SHOULD NOT BE LEFT TO PERISH IN THE CAGE."— +<a href="#Page131Ill">Page 131</a></span> +</div> + +<p>"By the Lord, Master," interrupted Sancho excitedly, +"I have touched them already, and one of the devils, I +swear, has firm flesh. Furthermore, I have always heard it +said that all devils smelled of sulphur and brimstone, but +this one smells of amber half a league off."</p> + +<p>Here Sancho was referring to Don Fernando, who, like +most nobles, used a perfume; but Don Quixote explained +to his squire that this particular devil was so besprinkled +in order to give people the impression he was not a devil.</p> + +<p>While Don Quixote and his squire were thus exchanging +thoughts on the subject of devils and their religion +and what stuff they were made of, the curate and the barber +were saying farewell to Don Fernando, his bride, Dorothea, +Cardenio, Luscinda, the Judge and Doņa Clara, as +well as to the Captain and the Captain's bride, Zoraida. +All of them promised to write to the curate, so that he in +return might let them know how his and Don Quixote's +journey had ended.</p> + +<p>After many embraces, the curate and the barber were +ready to make their departure when the landlord came +running out with some papers which he handed to the curate +as a gift. The landlord said it was the manuscript of +the novel, "Rinconete and Cortadillo," a part of the contents +of the valise in which he had found the story of "Ill-Advised +Curiosity," which the curate had read aloud at +the inn.</p> + +<p>The curate thanked the innkeeper, saying that he hoped +it was as good as the other novel. Then he and the barber +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[Pg 134]</a></span> +covered their faces that they might not be recognized by +Don Quixote, and took their places behind the cart, +mounted on their mules. The three officers of the Brotherhood +had been brought by the curate to escort them to El +Toboso, armed with muskets. And then Sancho Panza, +mounted on his donkey, led Rocinante by the reins. As +the procession started, the landlady came out to weep make-believe +tears for Don Quixote, who begged her to shed +none, for in the end, he said, virtue would triumph.</p> + +<p>At the head of the procession came the ox-cart, the officers +of the Brotherhood marching beside it, then followed +Sancho Panza on his ass, leading Rocinante by the bridle, +and in the rear trailed the curate and the barber on their +mules. The slow pace of the oxen had to be imitated by the +rest, so the whole procession took on a solemn and mysterious +aspect, which was enhanced by the encaged Don Quixote's +stiff and stone-like form leaning against the wooden +bars.</p> + +<p>They had traveled several leagues, when the curate +heard the sound of riders approaching from behind. Turning +in his saddle he perceived six or seven men, mounted +on mules, and riding at a quick pace. They had soon overtaken +the procession, and exchanged greetings with the +curate and the barber. One of the travelers was a canon +of Toledo, and on observing the fettered Don Quixote, +with the armed officers of the Brotherhood as an escort, he +took it for granted that the knight was some dangerous +highwayman. Yet, scrutinizing the strange parade, he +could not help asking questions. So when he inquired of +one of the officers why Don Quixote was being transported +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[Pg 135]</a></span> +in that way, the officer did not know what to say but referred +him for an explanation to Don Quixote himself.</p> + +<p>The knight errant had heard the canon's question, and +he offered to give him the information if he knew anything +about errantry. As the canon said he had read a good deal +about knights errant and their deeds, Don Quixote was +quick to tell of his misfortune—how he had been encaged +and made helpless by enchantment. At this moment the +curate, seeing that the canon was talking to Don Quixote, +and fearing a mishap in the carrying out of their plan, +came up and joined in the conversation. He corroborated +what the knight errant had just said, and added that it +was not for his sins that he was enchanted, but because of +his enemies' hatred of virtuous deeds, of which this famous +Knight of the Rueful Countenance was the strongest +champion in their age.</p> + +<p>When the good canon heard the two of them talk like +that, he was at a loss for words and felt he had to cross +himself, in which action his attendants joined him. But +as luck would have it, Sancho Panza had been listening, +and seeing the curate disguised by a mask, the suspicion +crept into his head that he was trying to play a joke on his +master. So he burst into the conversation with a grudge +against them all.</p> + +<p>"Well, sirs, you may like it or not," he declared, "but +my master is as much enchanted as my mother! He is in +his full senses; he can eat, and sleep, and drink. Then +why do they want me to believe that he is enchanted? I +have heard it said that when you are enchanted you cannot +do any of these things, nor talk. And my master will +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[Pg 136]</a></span> +talk more than thirty lawyers would if you do not stop +him." Then turning to the curate, he exclaimed: "And, +seņor curate, seņor curate! Do you think I do not know +you? Well, I can tell you I do, for all your face is +covered; and I can tell you I am up to you, however you +may hide your tricks. If it had not been for your Worship, +my master would be married to the Princess Micomicona +this minute, and I should be a Count at least—for +no less was to be expected."</p> + +<p>And then the faithful Sancho went on to say that he +had told all this that the curate might weigh in his conscience +the pranks he had played on Don Quixote, and for +which he would have to pay in heaven (if he ever should +come there) unless he did penance now. Here the barber +thought it best to put an end to Sancho's communications, +and offered him a place in the cage beside his master, but +Sancho was quick to retort: "Mind how you talk, master +barber, for shaving is not everything; and as to the enchantment +of my master, God knows the truth!"</p> + +<p>Soon after Sancho had commenced his tirade, the curate +thought it best, having listened to his own denunciation, to +explain everything concerning the knight errant and his +squire to the canon. Therefore he asked him to ride on +ahead with him. When the canon had heard the whole +story, he remarked that he thought that books of chivalry +were really harmful, for not one of them was truthful. +He was amused when the curate related how he and the +barber had burned nearly all of Don Quixote's treasures +in literature of this sort.</p> + +<p>"But what mind," asked the canon, "that is not wholly +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</a></span> +barbarous and uncultured can find pleasure in reading of +how a great tower full of knights sails away across the +sea like a ship with a fair wind, and will be to-night in +Lombardy and to-morrow morning in the land of Prester +John of the Indies?"</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXLVIII" id="v1CHAPTERXLVIII"></a>CHAPTER XLVIII</h2> + +<h4>In Which the Canon Pursues the Subject of the Books +of Chivalry, With Other Matters Worthy of +His Wit</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE curate and the canon had become very much +interested in their subject, and the canon after a +while confided to the curate that he himself had once +started to write a book on chivalry, with the intention of +making each incident in it a plausible one. It was his +view that fiction was all the better the more it resembled +the truth. Furthermore, he believed in adhering to good +taste and to the rules of art; these things, it seemed to him, +had been ignored in the writing of these books. From +fiction the conversation drifted to playwriting, and here +again the curate and the canon were of the same mind. +The actors of their age chose plays that appealed to people +of nonsense and with bad taste. Instead of trying to +improve the national taste, they produced tawdry plays. +The canon cited three excellent plays, however, that he +had seen at Madrid, which had earned great profits for +their producers; this proved to the canon that the great +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</a></span> +mass of the public did appreciate a really good play if it +was only produced.</p> + +<p>While the two clergymen were thus whiling away the +time, the barber approached and told the curate they had +reached a place which to him seemed a good pasture for +the oxen. It was now noon, and the canon decided to +join them in their rest. He offered them food out of the +provisions that he had brought along on a pack-mule. +The rest of the canon's mules were sent to an inn, which +was seen nearby, to be fed there.</p> + +<p>Seeing his master unguarded, Sancho decided the time +had come when he could speak undisturbedly to him, so he +hastened to tell him of the plot that the curate and the +barber had hit upon. He told his master he was certain it +was out of envy and malice, for his having surpassed them +in fame and brave deeds. Don Quixote, however, calmly +told his squire that if he saw two shapes that resembled the +barber and the curate there, they could be nothing but +devils having taken on the appearance of his friends in +order to be able to do their black deeds so much the more +safely and cruelly.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXLIX" id="v1CHAPTERXLIX"></a>CHAPTER XLIX</h2> + +<h4>Which Treats of How Our Knight Is Permitted to +Descend from His Cage, and of the Canon's Attempt +to Convert Him from His Illusions</h4> + +<p class="cap">DURING his conversation with Sancho, Don Quixote +suddenly felt it an absolute necessity to leave the +cage, and to stretch himself in the open. So Sancho went +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span> +to the curate to ask his permission, which he received upon +promising to answer for his master's not disappearing. +The curate and the canon went to the cage, and Don Quixote +swore as a knight that he would not run away, whereupon +they untied his hands and feet.</p> + +<p>The first thing Don Quixote did was to go to his Rocinante; +and then the canon thought he would try to talk +sense into him, to see whether he could not persuade him to +give up his crazy notions and ideas. Don Quixote listened +courteously and attentively, but when the canon had finished, +he turned to him and said he rather thought it was +the canon and not he who was afflicted and out of his wits, +since he had the audacity to blaspheme the order of knighthood. +And then he went on, describing the deeds of all +the famous knights he had read of; and the canon was +really amazed at the great ease and clearness of mind with +which he related these tales of adventure. He thought it +a pity that so much knowledge of a wrong kind should be +heaped into one brain.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERL-LI" id="v1CHAPTERL-LI"></a>CHAPTERS L-LI</h2> + +<h4>Of the Shrewd Controversy Which Don Quixote and +the Canon Held, Together with Other +Incidents</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHAT the canon had tried on the knight, Don Quixote +now decided to try on him. Was that not the +great mission he had undertaken in the world—to revive +the spirit of chivalry? So he told the canon of the many +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span> +fine qualities he had developed since he was dubbed a +knight, such as courtesy, generosity, valor, good breeding, +patience, and many others that he mentioned; how he had +learned to bear hardships of all kinds, and now, of late, +enchantment. He ended his long discourse by expressing +a desire that he might soon be an emperor, for, he said, he +wished to do good to some of his faithful friends, especially +his squire Sancho Panza.</p> + +<p>Sancho heard his master's last words, and reminded him +again of the island that he was to govern. On hearing +this, the canon broke in with a few remarks about administration +and government, and their difficulties, and Sancho +interrupted the canon to say it would be very easy to +find some one to do all that for him. In reply to this the +canon came forward with a good many arguments phrased +in philosophical language which the squire could make +neither head nor tail of. So he took up the thread of his +own mind, and replied: "I have as much soul as another, +and as much body as any one, and I shall be as much king +of my realm as any other of his; so let the country come, +and God be with you, and let us see one another, as one +blind man said to the other."</p> + +<p>All the canon could do when he realized how badly both +master and servant were in the clutch of their beliefs and +superstitions, was to wonder at it. But by the time Sancho +had finished his words, the repast was being served on the +grass.</p> + +<p>As they were about to seat themselves, a goat came running +from between the trees, pursued by a man whose clear +voice could be heard distinctly from the distance. Soon +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</a></span> +he came up, and he caught the goat by the horns and began +to talk to her, calling her daughter, as if she had been a +child. The goat seemed to understand everything, and +the canon was so impressed with the scene that he asked +the goatherd not to be in a hurry, but to sit down and eat +with them.</p> + +<p>The goatherd accepted the invitation; and when they +had finished the repast, they had found that he was by no +means a fool. When he asked them if they would like to +hear a true story, they were all anxious to have him tell it +to them. Only Sancho Panza withdrew, that he might get +a chance to load himself brimful of food; for he had heard +his master once say that a knight errant's squire should eat +until he could hold no more. The goatherd began his +story, after having told the goat to lie down beside him. +She did so, and while the goatherd was telling the story of +his unfortunate love for Leandra, a rich farmer's daughter, +who had jilted both him and his rival Anselmo for the +good looks of a braggard by the name of Vicente de la +Roca, the goat was looking up into his face with an expression +as it seemed of understanding and sympathy. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERLII" id="v1CHAPTERLII"></a>CHAPTER LII</h2> + +<h4>Of the Quarrel That Don Quixote Had with the Goatherd, +Together with the Rare Adventure of the +Penitents, Which with an Expenditure of +Sweat He Brought to a Happy +Conclusion</h4> + +<p class="cap">ALL had enjoyed the goatherd's story, and they +thanked him for it. Don Quixote offered him the +aid of his sword for the future, and said that if he had not +been enchanted at this moment he would at once set out +to free his Leandra. When the goatherd perceived Don +Quixote's strange behavior and appearance and heard his +remarkable language, he was struck with amazement, and +asked the barber what madness was his, who talked like +the knights he had read about in the books of knight-errantry. +Scarcely had Don Quixote heard that he was being +taken for a madman by the goatherd than he flew at him in +a raging fit. The most fierce battle ensued, during which +the faces of both men were scratched until they could hardly +be recognized. They fought in the midst of the setting +for the meal, and plates and glasses were smashed and upset. +Both were urged on like dogs by the rest of the +company, and soon blood began to flow. Finally Don +Quixote stumbled, and the goatherd managed to get him +on his back, while Sancho was held off by one of the canon's +servants, moaning all the while because he could not go +to his master's rescue.</p> + +<p>Just then a trumpet blew a solemn note, and all listened +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span> +in surprise. Don Quixote was all eagerness: there was no +doubt in his mind but that he was being summoned by one +in distress, so he asked for and received an hour's truce +from the goatherd. As soon as he was on his feet, he ran +to Rocinante, whom he bridled in great haste, and set off, +armed with lance, buckler, sword and helmet, in the direction +of the sound.</p> + +<p>What Don Quixote saw when he had ridden a short distance +at his charger's usual comfortable canter was a procession +of penitents, clad in white, some of whom were +carrying an image, draped in black. The procession had +been called for by the priests who desired to bring relief +to the country, which had been suffering that year from +a terrific heat and a lack of rain. They were now marching +to a nearby hermitage, where they wanted to do penance, +praying in silence to God that he might have pity on +them.</p> + +<p>But what could such a procession have suggested to an +imaginative mind like Don Quixote's but one of the many +incidents that he had read of in his books of chivalry, where +some great and worthy lady was being carried away by +evil forces? To the knight the covered image easily became +the worthy lady. Violently kicking Rocinante in +the sides, for he had not had time to put on his spurs, he +tried to increase his steed's canter to a gallop that he might +attack in real knight errant fashion.</p> + +<p>The faithful squire, the curate, the canon and the barber +all did their best to stop the knight by their yells. Sancho +was frantic, and cried after him: "Where are you going, +Seņor Don Quixote? What devils have possessed you +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</a></span> +to set you against our Catholic faith? Plague take me! +It is a procession of penitents!" And then he asked him, +filled with horror and almost choking with tears, whether +he knew what he was doing. Why, he was charging the +blessed image of the immaculate and holy Virgin Mary! +Sancho, seeing his master's lifted lance, could not know +that his master wanted to release her.</p> + +<p>When Don Quixote had reached the penitents, he abruptly +halted his horse and demanded in no uncertain, +though flowery, language that the fair lady—whom, he +said, he could plainly see they were carrying away against +her will—be released at once.</p> + +<p>One of four priests, who had just begun to chant the +Litany, stopped on a high note and answered the knight +that he must not hold up the singing or the procession, for +the marchers were doing penitence by whipping themselves +and could not stop once they had commenced the +ceremony. Again Don Quixote put forth his demand, this +time in language that seemed much more ludicrous to the +penitents so that some of them could not resist bursting +into laughter. This sign of disrespect was too much for our +errant, who started his attack but was prevented from finishing +it by the blow of a stick carried by one of the penitents. +With one thwack of it he was felled to the ground.</p> + +<p>Sancho had now come up, and when he saw his master +stretched out, with no sign of life, his eyes filled with tears, +and he thrust himself over his master's body, crying and +wailing like a little child. It was pitiful to see the sorrow +and the devotion of the poor, simple-minded fellow, bewailing +his master's fall from the blow of a mere stick. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</a></span> +And he ended his tribute by thanking him for the great +generosity he had always shown; for Don Quixote, for but +eight months of service, had given him the best island that +was afloat in the sea.</p> + +<p>Sancho was suddenly called from his grief by the weak +voice of the knight, who implored his squire to mount him +on the ox-cart, as his shoulder was in a dilapidated condition. +Then he commended himself to his Lady Dulcinea, +while Sancho recommended that they return with their +friends to their village, where they could prepare for another +sally at a more favorable time. The knight seemed +inclined to take his squire's advice, for he remarked that it +was not a bad idea: that in the meantime the prevailing +evil influence of the stars might disappear.</p> + +<p>By this time the curate, the canon and the officers of the +Brotherhood had arrived at the spot, and the curate found +that he knew one of the priests in the procession. This +simplified matters considerably, for he found it easy to +explain to his friend the malady and peculiarities of Don +Quixote, which had been the cause of so much disturbance +in so short a time. After the curate had taken leave of the +canon, the goatherd and those in the procession, he paid +off the officers, who considered it unwise to accompany the +party any further. The canon begged the curate to keep +him informed of any change in Don Quixote's behavior, +as he was most interested in his case. Then Don Quixote +was heaved into the cart where a stack of hay served as a +softer resting-place this time; and after six days of travel, +the oxen and the cart and the whole procession entered the +La Mancha village. When they passed the square, it +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[Pg 146]</a></span> +being Sunday, the people crowded around them, and all +were amazed at what they saw.</p> + +<p>Soon Don Quixote's niece and his housekeeper got word +of his homecoming. When they saw him, and observed +his pallor and leanness, they began to weep and beat their +breasts, and curse all books of chivalry.</p> + +<p>Then Sancho Panza's wife learned the news, and as soon +as she saw her husband the first thing she asked him was +whether the donkey was well. To this greeting he replied +that the donkey was better than he himself. And then she +pestered him with questions as to what he had brought back +with him for her and the children; to which he impatiently +remarked that she would have to wait until he got his island +or empire, when she would be called Her Ladyship. +Of course, it was not to be expected that Teresa Panza +should understand this; and she did not. Sancho attempted +to give her an insight into the intricacies of +knight-errantry by telling her of some of his remarkable +experiences, such as the blanketing, which stood out in his +mind's eye as the culmination of suffering in his career as +a squire.</p> + +<p>While this was going on in the Panza household, Don +Quixote had been undressed and put to bed by his niece +and the housekeeper. The curate had told them what +troubles and tribulations he had been forced to undergo in +order to restore him to his community and his loved ones. +So they decided, with fear in their hearts, to be ever watchful, +lest he escape and depart on another rampage. And +again and again they would curse the books that they had +burned too late. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="VOLUME_II" id="VOLUME_II"></a>VOLUME II</h2> + +<hr class="hr2" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERI" id="v2CHAPTERI"></a>CHAPTER I</h2> + +<h4>Of the Interview the Curate and the Barber Had with +Don Quixote About His Malady</h4> + +<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE had been at home almost a month. +During that time neither the curate nor the barber +had been to see him for fear that the sight of them would +remind him of his days of knight-errantry and make him +long for another campaign. They did visit the niece and +housekeeper, however, and advised them from time to +time what to do; and at last the women began to think that +there was hope for our knight's being restored to his right +mind, for his conversation never touched upon deeds of +chivalry, and when he spoke on other subjects he always +talked most sanely.</p> + +<p>Finally the curate and the barber decided to pay their +friend a visit, firmly resolved not to let the subject of conversation +turn to knight-errantry. They found him in bed, +with a red Toledo cap on his head. His face had changed +greatly; it was so withered and yellow that it resembled +parchment rather than human flesh. He greeted them +cordially, however, and soon they engaged in an animated +conversation, which finally turned to such an intricate subject +as government. So unusually sane and clear was +Don Quixote's reasoning that his friends were amazed at +the change that had taken place, and they felt quite certain +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[Pg 148]</a></span> +that he was cured. Then they began to discuss the news +from the capital, and the curate mentioned that the Turk +was expected to attack. Nobody knew when, he said, but +in order to safeguard the island of Malta and the coasts +of Naples and Sicily, His Majesty had already made provisions +for the defense of these provinces.</p> + +<p>Here Don Quixote interrupted and said that His Majesty +could easily settle the whole thing if he would only +follow his advice. Both the curate and the barber began +to wonder and worry about what his plan might be, but before +divulging it Don Quixote insisted upon absolute secrecy, +which of course they promised. And then he began +in the old, familiar strain, citing the examples of the innumerable +heroes of his condemned books of chivalry, +heroes who, single-handed, had conquered armies of millions. +He finished with a tirade about God's providing +such a knight errant to-day to save the nation and Christianity +against the onslaught of the heathen Turk, with an +inference in his last words that he was to be the chosen +savior.</p> + +<p>When the two women heard Don Quixote again rave in +this manner, they burst into tears, and the curate and the +barber were as sorry and concerned as the women. The +curate turned in bewilderment to his poor friend and asked +him whether he truly believed that the heroes of these tales +of chivalry were men of flesh and blood. He himself, he +said, was convinced that these stories were nothing but +fables and falsehoods, and that none of the personages in +them ever lived. Whereupon Don Quixote began to ridicule +the curate, and went on to describe his heroes, saying +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[Pg 149]</a></span> +that his faith was so strong that he could almost swear he +had seen Amadis of Gaul and some of the others he worshiped. +Then he embarked on a description of these +knights, giving the color of their eyes, of their beards and +hair, their height, complexion, all according to his own +crazy imagination. Much of what he said seemed so amusing +to his two friends that they nearly went into hysterics +from laughter. His mind's image of Roland was particularly +laughable, for he saw him as a bow-legged, swarthy-complexioned +gentleman with a hairy body, courteous and +well-bred.</p> + +<p>On hearing Roland so pictured, the curate remarked it +was no wonder that he was jilted by the fair lady Angelica. +To this Don Quixote retorted that lady Angelica +was a giddy and frivolous damsel with desires that smacked +of wantonness. He only regretted that Roland had not +been a poet that he might have libeled her in poetry for all +eternity.</p> + +<p>Here the knight was interrupted by the sound of loud +talking in the courtyard, intermingled with screams, and +when he and the curate came running they saw the two +women struggling to keep a man from entering the house. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[Pg 150]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERII" id="v2CHAPTERII"></a>CHAPTER II</h2> + +<h4>Which Treats of the Notable Altercation Which +Sancho Panza Had with Don Quixote's Niece +and His Housekeeper, Together with Other +Droll Matters</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE man turned out to be no other than Sancho, who +wanted to see his master. But the housekeeper and +the niece were bent on not admitting him, for they considered +Sancho the arch enticer and felt that he was to +blame for Don Quixote's expeditions into the country. +When Sancho heard himself thus accused, he defended +himself with accusations against Don Quixote, who, he +said, had been the one to hypnotize him; and then he added +that he had come to find out about his island.</p> + +<p>As soon as Don Quixote recognized his squire, he quickly +took him inside, being afraid that he would tell the women +all the little details of the knight's adventures, such as +the galley-slave episode and others not tending to reflect +honor on his shield. Whereupon the barber and the curate +left, both of them in despair of their friend's ever being +cured. The curate remarked that it would not surprise +him to learn before many moons that Don Quixote and +Sancho had set off again on another sally. They were curious +to know what the master and the servant might be +discussing at that very moment. However, the curate was +of the firm belief that they could rely upon the two women +to keep their ears to the door. They would learn from +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[Pg 151]</a></span> +them what had been the topic, and what had been +said.</p> + +<p>When Don Quixote was alone with his squire, he expressed +dismay over his having told the housekeeper the +knight had taken him from house and home, when he knew +perfectly well that he had gone of his own free will. +They had shared everything, he said; everything except +blows, where he had had a distinct advantage over his +squire, having taken ninety-nine out of a hundred beatings. +This dividing of fortune, Sancho thought, was quite as it +should be, for of course knights errant ought to share the +greater benefits of the battle. Here Don Quixote interrupted +with a Latin quotation, which had an evil effect on +Sancho, for it made him retaliate with the blanket episode +which to him still seemed the height of all his suffering in +the world. But this attempt to belittle the fairness of his +master's division of honors in battle was speedily parried +by Don Quixote, who maintained that his squire's bodily +suffering in the blanket was as nothing compared with the +painful agony of his own heart and soul when he had seen +his squire in such a predicament. And then he proceeded +to question Sancho as to public opinion of his deeds and +valor.</p> + +<p>Sancho was inclined to be reticent; but urged by Don +Quixote—and having been forgiven in advance for any +vexation he might cause him by telling the truth—he told +of the variety of opinions that existed in the village. +This his master thought only natural; for when had the +world ever given full recognition to a genius or a great +hero until after he was dead? He pointed to all the great +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[Pg 152]</a></span> +names he could recollect in history that had been persecuted.</p> + +<p>But Sancho had not come to the worst; and at last he +found sufficient courage to tell his master of a book entitled +"The Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La +Mancha," which had already, he said, been spread abroad. +In this book not only Don Quixote, but he himself—under +his own name!—and the Lady Dulcinea del Toboso figured; +and he was so stupefied that he had to cross himself, +for he could not imagine how everything that had been +told in the book—the most intimate happenings between +Don Quixote and himself—had come to be known to the +author. Don Quixote thought it was very plain that the +adventures must have been reported by some sage and enchanter; +but Sancho told him that the author was one Cid +Hamet Berengena (meaning eggplant). It was no other +than the son of Bartholomew Carrasco, who had been a +student at Salamanca, who had told him all this, he said. +He asked his master whether he should like to see the +young bachelor, and Don Quixote begged him to run and +fetch him at once, for, he said, he would be unable to digest +a thing until he had had a talk with him.</p> + +<p>"Cid Hamet Berengena," repeated Don Quixote to himself. +"That is a Moorish name."</p> + +<p>"Yes, I have heard the Moors like eggplant," added +Sancho.</p> + +<p>And then his lord and master asked: "Didst thou not +mistake the surname of this 'Cid,' which means in Arabic +'lord,' Sancho?" +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[Pg 153]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Perhaps," said Sancho; "but the bachelor can tell you +that."</p> + +<p>And he ran to fetch him.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERIII" id="v2CHAPTERIII"></a>CHAPTER III</h2> + +<h4>Of the Laughable Conversation That Passed Between +Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, and the +Bachelor Samson Carrasco</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHILE Sancho was gone, Don Quixote sat and +worried about what the book might be like; for +what justice could be expected from the pen of a Moor +writing history? But perhaps it was not true that such a +chronicle had been written. It seemed almost an impossibility, +for it was only a short time since he returned from +his achievements. What worried him most was the thought +that this Cid Hamet Berengena might have made public in +some odious way that great love and sacred passion of his +for the beautiful and virtuous Lady Dulcinea del Toboso.</p> + +<p>As he was thus meditating Sancho returned, bringing +with him the younger Carrasco, who went by the strong +name of Samson, in defiance of his unpretentious size. +But what he lacked in this respect, he made up for in wit +and humor. He was about twenty-four years of age, had +a round jovial face, a large mouth and a flat nose. What +more need one know to be inclined to think he might be +mischievous? He gave proof of it as soon as he entered, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[Pg 154]</a></span> +for he fell on his knees and kissed the hero's hand respectfully, +pronouncing him the first and foremost warrior and +knight of the age. Then he called down a blessing on the +name of Cid Hamet Benengeli, his noble biographer, and +on the worthy, learned man who had translated the work +from the difficult Arabic into their pure Castilian for the +edification of all the Spanish people who knew how to read +their own language.</p> + +<p>"So then there <i>is</i> a history of me—and written by a Moor +and a sage?" asked Don Quixote, as he bade Samson rise.</p> + +<p>The bachelor assented and went on to tell how the world +was clamoring for this remarkable chronicle of heroism and +sacrifices. Don Quixote remarked here what a great source +of joy and inspiration it should prove to a man with +achievements to his credit to see himself in print before +being dead. The bachelor's opinion on the subject coincided +with his own; and Samson took the opportunity to +pay homage to the marvelous courage, intrepidity, gallantry, +gentleness and patience of Don Quixote, as the +author had described it in the book. He also spoke feelingly +of the beautiful, platonic courtship of our knight +errant; and the mention of this caused Don Quixote to ask +which of his many acts of chivalry were most appealing to +the reader. The bachelor replied that that depended +greatly upon the reader's taste: some liked the adventure +of the windmills that were enchanted giants; others preferred +reading about the two armies that suddenly turned +into droves of sheep; then again there were those who +seemed to think the victorious assault on the Biscayan made +a thrilling chapter; while many would swear they had never +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[Pg 155]</a></span> +read anything that excited them quite as much as the account +of the liberation of the galley slaves.</p> + +<p>Sancho interrupted him here, asking what was said of +their experience with the Yanguesans, when the good Rocinante +went looking for adventure and was bitten by the +ponies. Samson replied that the sage had forgotten nothing; +not even the capers that Sancho himself had cut in the +blanket. Whereupon Sancho said: "I cut no capers in +the blanket. In the air I did, and more of them than I +liked!" But Don Quixote interposed here, saying that +history must of necessity be more than one-sided. It must +take into its pages adversities as well as good fortune.</p> + +<p>Some people, the bachelor held forth, had expressed a +desire that the author might have eliminated some of the +cruel thrashings he had given the hero; but Sancho differed +with these people and supported the author unqualifiedly, +saying, with a glance at Don Quixote, "That is where the +truth of the history comes in!"</p> + +<p>Of course Don Quixote saw it in a different light, for he +thought that the thrashings tended to bring the hero of +the book into contempt. The author should have passed +them over in silence, he said. Sancho muttered something +to himself, and Don Quixote admonished him to be quiet +so that the bachelor might tell him more of what was said +of him in the book.</p> + +<p>"And about me!" broke in Sancho, "for they say that I +am one of the principal presonages in it."</p> + +<p>"Personages," corrected Samson, adding that Sancho was +the second person in the chronicle, although many thought +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[Pg 156]</a></span> +he was even first. He also remarked that the author had +been criticized for having inserted a story called "Ill-Advised +Curiosity," which had nothing to do with Don Quixote +whatever. This Don Quixote thought was an infringement +on the hero's rights, and corroborated the justification +of the criticism.</p> + +<p>Thus Don Quixote learned from the bachelor all about +his own deeds and exploits, as they had been given to the +world by the great Moorish sage Cid Hamet Benengeli. +And when he had asked about himself again and again, +and had been satisfied by the replies of Samson, he found +it was nearly dinner time. Sancho took a hurried leave, +fearing the wrath of his wife if he were late for his meal, +and Don Quixote asked the bachelor to stay and keep him +company.</p> + +<p>All the while they were eating, Don Quixote entertained +his guest with tales of chivalry. When they finished their +repast, they took a nap, and when they awoke, Sancho was +there waiting for them to return to their conversation concerning +the famous chronicle.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERIV" id="v2CHAPTERIV"></a>CHAPTER IV</h2> + +<h4>In Which Sancho Panza gives a Satisfactory Reply to +the Doubts and Questions of the Bachelor Samson Carrasco +Together with Other Matters Worth Knowing +And Mentioning</h4> + +<p class="cap">SAMSON was anxious to learn what Sancho had done +with the hundred crowns he had found in the knapsack. +Sancho replied that he had spent them for the benefit +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[Pg 157]</a></span> +of himself, his wife and children; adding that, had he +come back to his wife without riches of any sort, he would +have had a doubtful reward waiting for him. Now, he +said, if anybody wanted to know anything about him, he +was ready to answer the King himself.</p> + +<p>"It is no one's business," said he, "whether I took the +money, or did not; whether I spent it or did not spend it, +for if every beating I have received in my master's service +were to be valued at no more than four maravedis, another +hundred crowns would not pay me for half of them. Let +each look to himself and not try to make out white, black; +and black, white; for each of us is as God made us—aye, +and often worse."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was curious to know whether there was to +be a second part to the book; and Samson replied that the +author was diligently looking for one, but had as yet found +none; so it remained only a possibility. Yet, inspired by +the profits he had made out of the first book, he was anxious +to find a second part, he said.</p> + +<p>"The author looks for money and profit, does he?" +asked Sancho. "Well, let Master Moor, or whoever he is, +pay attention to what he is doing, and I and my master +will give him adventures and accidents of all sorts, enough +to make up not only a second part but a hundred. The +good man fancies, no doubt, we are asleep in the straw here, +but let him hold up our feet to be shod and he will see +which foot it is we go lame on. All I say is, that if my +master would take my advice, we would now be afield, redressing +outrages and righting wrongs, as is the use and +custom of good knights errant." +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[Pg 158]</a></span></p> + +<p>Scarcely had Sancho spoken these words, when Rocinante +commenced to neigh; and how could this be interpreted +to be anything else than a good omen? In an instant +Don Quixote had resolved to sally forth again in a +few days. The bachelor warned him this time to expose +himself to no such tremendous risks as on his previous +sallies, and begged him to remember always, his life was no +longer his own, but was dedicated to those in need and in +despair.</p> + +<p>"There is what I abominate, Seņor Samson," Sancho sustained +him. "My master will attack a hundred men as a +greedy boy would half a dozen melons. Body of the +world, Seņor bachelor, there is a time to attack and a time +to retreat!"</p> + +<p>And here it was that Sancho felt it a solemn duty to himself +and his wife and offspring to come to a definite understanding +with his master regarding his position in battle. +He wanted it stipulated that his master was to do all the +fighting. He would willingly look after his master's and +Rocinante's comfort, and keep them clean, but when it +came to drawing sword, he would leave that honor to Don +Quixote, he declared. He would do his duty so well that +it would be worth a kingdom as well as an island, both of +which he would gladly accept.</p> + +<p>The bachelor, having recommended Saragossa and the +kingdom of Aragon as hotbeds of adventure, Don Quixote +thanked him and asked him whether he was a poet; to which +the bachelor replied that he was not one of the famous ones. +Don Quixote explained that he wanted a most original +idea of his carried out in poetry. Could Samson write a +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[Pg 159]</a></span> +poem of love in such a manner as to have the first letters +of each line, reading downward, form the name of his beloved +one, the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso? Samson +promised he would try, but Don Quixote replied: "It must +be done by some means or other, for unless the name stands +there plain and manifest, no woman would believe the +verses were made for her." And so the bachelor promised +to do it, and to have them ready before the day of the departure, +which would be on the third day.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote extracted a promise from Samson to keep +his intentions a secret; and he and Sancho took leave of +him, Don Quixote promising he would not fail to send him +word of his conquests. Sancho in the meantime went home +and began preparations for their second quest of adventure.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERV" id="v2CHAPTERV"></a>CHAPTER V</h2> + +<h4>Of the Shrewd and Droll Conversation That Passed +Between Sancho Panza and His Wife, +Teresa Panza, and Other Matters +Worthy of Being Duly Recorded</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHEN Sancho came home that evening, his wife +noticed at once by his mood that something out of +the ordinary had happened to him. After much persuasion, +he finally told her that he had made up his mind to +go out in the world again with his master, looking for +strange adventures, during which, he said, he hoped to +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[Pg 160]</a></span> +come across another hundred crowns that he would bring +home to her. Then Sancho proceeded to tell his wife of +his great plans for the future, when he became ruler of his +island. Their daughter, Maria, he was going to marry +off to some great count; his wife would be Doņa Teresa +Panza, and he pictured her already, dressed according to +richest fashion, sitting in her pew in church, surrounded by +cushions and pillows, and walking on a red plush carpet. +And as to his son, he should, of course, as was the custom, +follow his father's trade; so what was he to do but be a +ruler?</p> + +<p>But everything that her illustrious husband proposed, +Teresa Panza only sneered at; and this angered Sancho, +who thought she might be more appreciative. Certainly +not every husband in their village offered to do as much +for his wife and family. And so they began to quarrel +with each other, Sancho using—as he invariably did with +his master—all the proverbs he had ever heard, to defeat +the arguments his wife put forward, enforced in the same +manner. But when her good Sancho finally lost his patience +with her entirely, she gave in and promised to go so +far as to send their young son to him—that his father might +train him in the business of government—as soon as Sancho, +as the governor of the island, should send his wife the +necessary money. Sancho charged her particularly with +the task of seeing that the son on his departure should be +dressed as a prince of the blood.</p> + +<p>And all the while poor Teresa Panza was receiving her +husband's instructions as to herself and her two children, +she was bemoaning and struggling against their fate in her +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[Pg 161]</a></span> +heart; and at last she burst into bitter tears. Seeing her in +such agony because he had predestined that their daughter +Maria was to marry a mighty count instead of a poor peasant +boy, Sancho tried to soothe her feelings by telling her +that he would try to put off the day of the wedding as +long as possible; and this promise seemed to cheer Teresa +Panza to some extent, for she dried her tears.</p> + +<p>Having accomplished so much, Sancho then went back +to his master's house to talk over some things of importance +with him.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERVI" id="v2CHAPTERVI"></a>CHAPTER VI</h2> + +<h4>Of What Took Place Between Don Quixote and His +Niece and His Housekeeper; One of the Most +Important Chapters in the Whole +History</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHILE Sancho and his wife were flinging proverbs +at each other at home, there was another scene of +unrest at Don Quixote's house. The housekeeper had +had a premonition of her master's impending expedition, +and soon perceived by his actions that she had not been +alarmed in vain. She and the niece employed all possible +means to restrain him from faring forth; but to all their +admonitions and advice and prayers he made the same reply: +that there must be knights errant in the world to defend +the weak and virtuous and to punish arrogance and +sin, and that he was the one to set the world aright on that +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[Pg 162]</a></span> +score. And when his niece began to bewail his stubbornness +and called down the wrath of heaven upon all tales of +chivalry, he threatened to chastise her for uttering such +blasphemies. Then he burst into a tirade on things and +usages pertaining to chivalry, a discourse so saturated with +knowledge that it called forth a cry of astonishment, a +wail of disappointment, and a sigh of pity from the niece, +to whom it suddenly seemed that her uncle had missed his +vocation in life when he did not become a preacher.</p> + +<p>This drove Don Quixote to discourse on almost everything +under the sun, and he finished up by reciting poetry, +at which the niece became terror-stricken from superstition, +and exclaimed that her uncle knew everything in the world. +She even dared to suppose he knew something about masonry +and could build a house. This daring thought of +hers he immediately corroborated by saying that if he were +not so occupied with dealing out justice to the world, there +would be nothing he could not do, from building cages to +making toothpicks.</p> + +<p>Just then there was a knock at the door. It was Sancho +Panza. As soon as the housekeeper learned it was he, she +fled from the room, for she had grown to detest him like +sin itself. The niece opened the door for him, and he hastened +to his master's room, where he was welcomed by Don +Quixote. And soon they were in the midst of a conversation, +which took place behind locked doors. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[Pg 163]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERVII" id="v2CHAPTERVII"></a>CHAPTER VII</h2> + +<h4>Of What Passed Between Don Quixote and His Squire, +Together with Other Very Notable Incidents</h4> + +<p class="cap">AS soon as the housekeeper heard Don Quixote turn the +key in the door, she realized the urgency of the situation, +put on her shawl, and ran to the house of the bachelor +Samson Carrasco. She knew that her master had +taken a fancy to this learned young man and thought he +might be able to persuade him to give up the crazy idea. +She fell on her knees before Samson and told him in excited +language that her master had broken out again.</p> + +<p>"Where is he breaking out?" asked the roguish bachelor.</p> + +<p>"He is breaking out at the door of his madness," replied +the bewildered housekeeper. "I mean he is going to break +out again, for the third time, to hunt all over the world for +what he calls adventures."</p> + +<p>And then she went on to say that his first sally ended in +his being brought back home, slung across the back of a +donkey. The second time he made his entry into the village +in an ox-cart, shut up in a cage, and looking so worn +and emaciated that his own mother would not have known +him. The last escapade had been an extremely expensive +one, for it had taken no less than six hundred eggs to cover +up his bones again.</p> + +<p>The bachelor quieted the housekeeper, and promised her +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</a></span> +to do all he could for her master. Then he advised her to +return home and prepare something hot for breakfast, and +on her way home to repeat the prayer of Santa Appolonia. +He himself would be there in time for breakfast, he said. +The housekeeper remonstrated with the bachelor for prescribing +the prayer of Santa Appolonia, which, she declared, +was for toothache and not for brains; but Samson +told her to do as he bade her, reminding her that he was a +learned bachelor of Salamanca and knew what he was talking +about. The housekeeper then left, saying her prayer, +and the bachelor went to look for the curate that they +might decide what to do.</p> + +<p>In the meantime Don Quixote and Sancho were discussing +what the future was holding for them, and Sancho +gave the glad news to his master that he had induced his +wife to sanction his departure and his becoming governor. +Sancho was very much annoyed by his master's continual +interruptions and corrections. Whenever Sancho would +misuse or abuse a word, as he did in almost every sentence, +Don Quixote would stop and ask him what he meant, until +poor Sancho was so confused that he did not know what he +had meant. Finally Don Quixote asked him to tell him +all that his wife had said, and as soon as Sancho had a +chance to use proverbs again, he felt more at home. "Teresa +says," he repeated, "that I should make sure with your +Worship, and let papers speak and beards be still. One +<i>take</i> is better than two <i>I'll give thee's</i>."</p> + +<p>"And so say I," said Don Quixote. "Continue, Sancho +my friend. Go on; thou talkest pearls to-day."</p> + +<p>"The fact is," continued Sancho, "that, as your Worship +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[Pg 165]</a></span> +knows better than I do, we are all of us liable to death, +and to-day we are, and to-morrow we are not. The lamb +goes as soon as the sheep, and nobody can promise himself +more hours of life in this world than God may be pleased +to give him; for death is deaf, and when it comes to knock +at our life's door, it is always insistent, and neither +prayers, nor struggles, nor scepters, nor miters, can keep it +back, as they tell us from the pulpits every day."</p> + +<p>Here Don Quixote felt he ought to ask a question. +"Sancho," said he, "all that is true; but what art thou driving +at?"</p> + +<p>And then came the reason for all these long-winded preliminaries. +Sancho wanted his master to make definite +arrangements with him for compensation. But here was +the drawback. Don Quixote could recall no incident in +any of the many books he had read, when a knight errant +had given his squire fixed wages. How could he possibly +establish a precedent now? And so it became his +sad and solemn duty to refuse his squire's miserly request, +and inform him that his services were no longer wanted. +Not only that, but our valiant hero was cruel enough to +remark that there would be any number of people who +would be only too eager to serve him; and, what was more, +he was convinced that no one could be less careful and +diligent, or more thick-headed and talkative than Sancho.</p> + +<p>Poor Sancho stood thunderstruck. He had expected his +master would address him in a much more gracious manner; +and had taken for granted that his own person was +indispensable to his master. As he stood there gaping in +amazement, the bachelor, Samson, suddenly entered, followed +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[Pg 166]</a></span> +by the niece and the housekeeper. Samson threw +himself on his knees before the knight, passionately declaiming:</p> + +<p>"O flower of knight-errantry! O shining light of arms! +O honor and mirror of the Spanish nation! May God +Almighty grant that any person or persons who would impede +or hinder thy third sally, may find no way out of +the labyrinth of their schemes, nor ever accomplish what +they most desire!"</p> + +<p>Then he rose and turned to the housekeeper, who was +distressed and astonished beyond words, telling her it was +no use gainsaying her master; that he had made up his +mind, and no Santa Appolonia or any other prayer would +cause him to change it. Whereupon he addressed Don +Quixote again in the same lofty way, and slyly asked him +whether he would deign to accept him as his squire or as +his meanest servant.</p> + +<p>Sancho's eyes nearly bulged out of his head at this, and +filled with tears. Fearing that he might lose both his +master and his island, he embraced Don Quixote's knees +and kissed his hand, begging Don Quixote not to give him +up. Then he began to plead with him to leave the village +at once. Don Quixote, having taken the squire into his +fold again, embraced him, and then conferred with the +bachelor and decided that they would set out three days +hence. Samson promised to obtain a helmet for Don +Quixote before the departure.</p> + +<p>In the meantime the bachelor had daily conferences with +the curate and the barber. The niece and the housekeeper +were cursing the evil and learned bachelor of Salamanca, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[Pg 167]</a></span> +and hardly slept at night for fear that Don Quixote would +steal away in the darkness.</p> + +<p>Finally the night of the third day arrived, and Don +Quixote and Sancho, accompanied by Samson, quietly and +secretly stole out of the village, in the direction of El +Toboso. When they had ridden half a league, Samson +wished the knight errant godspeed, embraced him tenderly, +begged him to let him hear of his good fortune, and then he +returned to the village.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERVIII" id="v2CHAPTERVIII"></a>CHAPTER VIII</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Is Related What Befell Don Quixote on His +Way to See His Lady Dulcinea Del Toboso</h4> + +<p class="cap">SCARCELY had Samson departed before Rocinante +began to neigh, and Dapple, Sancho's donkey, to bray; +and these animal expressions, considering the time, and the +road they were taking, were interpreted by their respective +masters to be omens of good luck. But it so happened +that Dapple kept up his braying. As a matter of fact he +brayed so much louder than the emaciated Rocinante +could neigh that the superstitious Sancho took it for a +sign that his own good fortune would be ever so much +greater than that of his master, though he was considerate +enough to say nothing about it to him.</p> + +<p>Night soon began to fall, and the conversation between +master and squire turned to Don Quixote's incomparable +love, whom he had never seen in the flesh, and to whose +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[Pg 168]</a></span> +abode he was now making this pilgrimage in the dark, +that he might be blessed by her before going into new +battles.</p> + +<p>Sancho was beginning to worry that his imagination, +with which he was not overburdened, would give out; for +with every new question of his master's he had to give +a fresh answer, and he was in a deadly fear that Don +Quixote might discover that he had never been at El Toboso +with the letter to his Lady Dulcinea. Again Don +Quixote asked his squire to repeat how he had been received +when he had brought her the message of his master's +penance in the wilderness, but it infuriated him that +Sancho should insist on her having been sifting wheat instead +of pearls on that occasion. The courtyard wall +mentioned by his squire must, of course, have been a portico, +or corridor, or gallery of some rich and royal palace, +only Sancho's language was so limited he could not express +himself or describe things properly. Or perhaps that infernal +enchanter had been busy again, and made things +appear in different shapes before his squire's eyes.</p> + +<p>What his master said made Sancho's thought suddenly +turn to the book which the bachelor Samson had spoken of, +and he began to worry that some enchanter might have +misrepresented his true character in its pages. He felt it +his place and duty to defend himself aloud against any +such evil; and having his master as audience, he proceeded +to carry out this thought, which, however, he abandoned +towards the end in favor of a careless independence: +"But let them say what they like; naked was I born, naked +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[Pg 169]</a></span> +I find myself. I neither lose nor gain. When I see myself +put into a book and passed on from hand to hand all +over the world, I don't care a fig. Let them say what they +like of me!"</p> + +<p>Perhaps what Sancho had just said made Don Quixote's +thoughts drift out into the world, which was now being +stirred by the accounts of his greatness, for he fell into contemplation +on all the tombs and monuments to the great +men of past ages. He touched upon the tombs of some +who had become saints, when suddenly Sancho shot this +question to him out of a clear sky: "Tell me, which is the +greater work, to bring a dead man to life or to kill a +giant?"</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was dumfounded by his squire's suddenness, +but replied: "The answer is easy. It is a greater +work to bring to life a dead man."</p> + +<p>"Now I have got you!" Sancho exclaimed. Then he +divulged his longing, which he wanted his master to share, +to become a saint; viewing a saint's life from all sides, +he had come to the conclusion that it was a much more +peaceful life than that of a roving knight errant, who had +to be up at all hours and out in all sorts of weather.</p> + +<p>But his master answered laconically: "We cannot all +be friars." And then he went on to say that the number of +knights errant in the world, deserving that name, was a +very small one; that, as a matter of truth, knight-errantry, +was a religion. But Sancho, stubborn as usual, insisted +that there were more friars in heaven than knights errant. +In this way they passed that night and the following day, +without any trace of excitement or adventure.</p> + +<p>Finally, at daybreak on the second day, they approached +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[Pg 170]</a></span> +the great city of El Toboso; and Sancho's worries increased +as they came closer to the place where the heart of the +peerless Dulcinea was beating—for what was he going to +say or do when his master wanted to meet his beloved one? +Don Quixote decided to await dusk before entering the +city, and they spent the day resting in the shade of some +oak-trees outside the town.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERIX" id="v2CHAPTERIX"></a>CHAPTER IX</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Is Related What Will Be Seen There</h4> + +<p class="cap">IT was midnight when they rode into El Toboso. It +was a very dark night, so Sancho could not be +blamed for not finding the house in the darkness. They +were greeted by a multitude of noises: barking dogs, braying +asses, mewing cats, and grunting pigs; noises that +seemed like an ill omen to Don Quixote. He suddenly +turned to Sancho and said: "Sancho, my son, lead on to +the place of Dulcinea. It may be that we shall find her +awake."</p> + +<p>"Body of the sun! What palace am I to lead to, when +what I saw Her Highness in was only a very little house?" +exclaimed the squire.</p> + +<p>"Most likely she had then withdrawn into some small +apartment of her palace," said Don Quixote, "to amuse +herself with her damsels, as great ladies and princesses are +accustomed to do."</p> + +<p>Here Sancho told his master to have it his own way, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[Pg 171]</a></span> +but asked him whether he thought it in conformity with +the behavior of a gentleman to go around in the middle of +the night knocking at people's doors. Don Quixote dispensed +with the discussion of this particular point; all he +wanted to do, he said, was to find the house. Then they +could discuss how to proceed. So they roamed about the +city, Don Quixote insisting that first one house and then +another was the palace of his love, until they finally hit +upon the great tower of the church. At last he had found +it, he declared. Here was where she dwelt, he was quite +sure.</p> + +<p>But Sancho, hearing this and seeing it was a church, began +to feel ill at ease, for his superstitious soul did not +like the idea of walking across a graveyard at such an hour +of the night. He quickly told his master, he was now certain +that the Lady Dulcinea lived in an alley, a kind +thought which was rewarded by a fierce outburst from Don +Quixote.</p> + +<p>"The curse of God on thee for a blockhead!" he exclaimed. +"Where hast thou ever heard of castles and +royal palaces being built in alleys?"</p> + +<p>"I wish I saw the dogs eating it for leading us such a +dance," was all that Sancho said in reply.</p> + +<p>But evidently this was not a pleasing answer to Don +Quixote, for he admonished his squire: "Speak respectfully +of what belongs to my lady; let us keep the feast in +peace, and not throw the rope after the bucket!"</p> + +<p>Sancho muttered something about how he could be expected +to find, in the dark of night, a house he had only +seen once in his lifetime, when his master, who must have +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[Pg 172]</a></span> +seen it hundreds of times, could not recognize it. To +this his master retorted wearily that he had told him a +thousand times that he was enamored only by hearsay, and +had never visited Dulcinea in her palace.</p> + +<p>At this moment a laborer on his way to his work came +along on the road, singing a dreary song. It was only +another omen to Don Quixote that his efforts to approach +his lady would not be crowned with success that night. He +asked the man to direct him to the palace of his princess, +but the laborer turned out to be a stranger, having only +just come to the city.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was grieved that he could not find Dulcinea, +and when Sancho suggested that they withdraw +from the city and develop a plan for seeing her, he was +ready to accept it. So they left El Toboso and hid in a +forest nearby. There it was decided that Sancho should +return to the city as the messenger of love for his master.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERX" id="v2CHAPTERX"></a>CHAPTER X</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Is Related the Crafty Device Sancho Adopted +to Enchant the Lady Dulcinea, and Other Incidents +as Ludicrous as They Are True</h4> + +<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE instructed Sancho to ask his lady +for an audience for him, and he begged his squire +to observe every little change in her expression and demeanor, +that he might tell him about it afterward. Sancho +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[Pg 173]</a></span> +then set off on Dapple; but as soon as he was out of +sight, he dismounted, seated himself on the ground, and +took measure of the situation aloud. In a meditative +soliloquy he discussed with himself the problem that was +his, and he finally reasoned that there was a remedy for +everything except death. If his master could take windmills +for giants, and a flock of sheep for an army, why +could he not take black for white, and any country lass +that came along, for his princess? Having reached this +satisfactory conclusion, he decided to remain where he was +till in the afternoon, in which time he could reasonably +have gone to El Toboso and returned.</p> + +<p>As the afternoon arrived, three country girls came along +on their donkeys, on the road from the city. The moment +Sancho saw them, he mounted his ass and returned to find +his master, who nearly went out of his head with joy, and +promised Sancho the three next foals from his three mares, +when his squire told him that the Lady Dulcinea was coming +to see him, accompanied by two of her ladies-in-waiting. +And then the lying Sancho went on to describe them: +how they were robed in richest brocade, and weighted +down with jewels—precious stones and pearls. But when +Don Quixote saw the three peasant girls approach, he said +he could see nothing but three jackasses and three girls. +Any princess, or any one like one, he failed to see. Finally +Sancho persuaded him to believe that those he saw were +really three ladies, one of them being the Peerless One, who +had come to bestow her blessing upon him. And so Don +Quixote fell on his knees in the dust of the road before the +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[Pg 174]</a></span> +girls, giving vent to his immeasurable gratitude to her, his +queen, who had come all this distance to give him her +blessing.</p> + +<p>When the ugly peasant girl heard herself called a queen +and Dulcinea, she thought that Don Quixote was trying +to play a joke on her, so she got angry, and yelled to him: +"Get out of the way, bad luck to you, and let us pass, for +we are in a hurry!" and left the astonished knight crawling +in the dust.</p> + +<p>Sancho had also fallen to his knees, to help his master +in his plea for blessing, and he called out after the peasant +girls: "Oh, princess and universal lady of El Toboso, +is not your heart softened by seeing the pillar and prop +of knight-errantry on his knees before your sublimated +presence?"</p> + +<p>When the wenches were out of sight, Don Quixote +turned to his squire and bemoaned, cast-down, his evil +fate, and the length his sage enemy would go to gain his +ends. The very worst thing of all, he said, was that the +evil enchanter had turned his Dulcinea into an ugly peasant, +who smelled of garlic. And while Don Quixote was +thus complaining, Sancho struggled to hide his laughter, +happy to have saved himself and to have played such a +joke on his master.</p> + +<p>At last Don Quixote was ready to mount his hack, and +they steered their beasts in the direction of Saragossa. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[Pg 175]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXI" id="v2CHAPTERXI"></a>CHAPTER XI</h2> + +<h4>Of the Strange Adventure Which the Valiant Don +Quixote Had with the Car or Cart of "The +Cortes of Death"</h4> + +<p class="cap">SANCHO did his best to imbue his master with a new +inspiration; for Don Quixote was a sorry sight as he +was riding along on his hack. The enchantment of his +Dulcinea had been a great blow to him. He fell into a +sort of meditative slumber, from which he would rouse +himself only now and then. Suddenly, however, he was +fully awake, for on the road he saw before his very eyes a +cart with Death on the front seat, and drawn by mules +that were being led by the Devil himself.</p> + +<p>As soon as the knight could gather his senses, he distinguished +the rest of the strange company that occupied +the cart. Next to Death sat an ugly angel with wings, +and on the other side Don Quixote observed an emperor +with a crown of gold on his head. Then he discovered +Cupid—who was a god—and a knight with plumes in his +hat. There were a number of other figures, all weird and +awe-inspiring, in strange costumes and with curious faces, +and when Sancho saw them he turned as pale as Death himself, +and his teeth began to chatter from fright. Even +Don Quixote was more than startled, but his heroism soon +asserted itself, and he was quickly himself again, glad to +sense another adventure. He gave Rocinante the spur, +the lean hack sprang forward to the cart at a sickly gallop, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[Pg 176]</a></span> +and Don Quixote exclaimed: "Carter or coachman, or +devil or whatever thou art, tell me at once who thou art, +whither thou art going, and who these folk are thou carriest +in thy wagon, which looks more like Charon's boat +than an ordinary cart!"</p> + +<p>To this challenge the devil responded on behalf of himself +and his fellow-travelers, explaining that they were +harmless players of Angulo el Malo's company; that they +had been acting the play of "The Cortes of Death" in the +village from which they had just come; and since they had +to act the same play in a village nearby in the afternoon, +they wished to save themselves the trouble of making up +twice, by remaining in their costumes. The devil was extremely +polite and offered to give Don Quixote any information +he could, adding that, being the devil, he was +up to everything; besides he played the leading parts, he +said. Don Quixote told them how disappointed he was +that this had not turned out to be another adventure; then +he wished them a happy journey, saying that ever since he +was a child he had been an admirer of the actor and fond +of his art.</p> + +<p>As they were about to take leave, one of the mummers, +with three blown ox-bladders at the end of a stick, came +up and banged them against the ground under Rocinante's +nose; and the frightened animal set off across the plain as +if he had been shot out of a cannon, taking the bit in his +teeth. Sancho was so certain his master would be thrown +that he left his donkey and ran as fast as he could after +Rocinante. But when he reached Don Quixote, the knight +was already on the ground and with him Rocinante, whose +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[Pg 177]</a></span> +legs always seemed to give away after a sudden strain.</p> + +<p>Now, as soon as Sancho had run away from Dapple, the +crazy devil with the bladders was on his back tickling his +ears with them, and the donkey flew across the fields +toward the village as if beset.</p> + +<p>Seeing his faithful one running away, Sancho was in +mortal agony, as well as in a quandary, for he did not +know whether to attend to the donkey or his master first. +Finally he found his love for human beings was the greater, +and rushed to his master's side. When he had helped him +to mount, he told him that the devil had run away with +Dapple. Immediately Don Quixote was ready to pursue +the enemy; but just then the squire saw his Dapple come +running back, and cautioned his master to be meek.</p> + +<p>But Don Quixote was eager to give the mummer a lesson +in courtesy, even, as he said, if he had to visit his sin +upon the rest of the company, not barring the Emperor +himself. Sancho did his best to warn his master that +there was great danger in meddling with actors, as they +were a favored class; but had the King himself interfered +in their behalf, it would not have stayed the hand of the +errant revenger.</p> + +<p>So Don Quixote drew forth, and caught up with the cart +as it was close to the village. He commanded the players +to halt, saying he wanted to teach them how to be courteous +to donkeys and animals that served squires and knights +errant for steeds. The merrymakers could tell by his +stentorian tone that he was not jesting, so they all quickly +jumped out of the cart and armed themselves with stones.</p> + +<p>By this time Sancho had reached the scene of action, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[Pg 178]</a></span> +and as soon as he saw the threatening attitude of the +strollers, he begged his master not to fight against either +Death or the angels, particularly since neither one of them +was a knight errant; nor was there any one in the whole +company who was. This point Don Quixote thought was +wisely taken, and he ordered his squire to fight the battle +himself. But Sancho said he preferred to show a Christian +spirit and forgive, and promised his master he would +come to an agreement with his donkey to leave his end of +the grievance to the squire's goodwill.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote let Sancho have his way; and when they +had seen the caravan of mountebanks disappear, Sancho +was happy in the thought that he had averted a great calamity +for himself and his master.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXII" id="v2CHAPTERXII"></a>CHAPTER XII</h2> + +<h4>Of the Strange Adventure Which Befell the Valiant +Don Quixote with the Bold Knight of the Grove</h4> + +<p class="cap">THEY passed that night under some cork-trees, and +while they were eating their supper, Sancho as usual +became talkative and again gave proof of his chronic weakness +for proverbs. Every phrase abounded with them. +As ever, he would use them to fit the wrong case, or twist +them so as to fit what he wanted them to fit. Don Quixote +had to laugh at his squire's simplicity, and at the way he +tried to imitate his master's manner of speaking. His +words and expressions were indeed a strange mixture. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[Pg 179]</a></span> +One moment he would use the most abominable grammar +and the next he would borrow the language of Don Quixote, +repeating in stilted fashion the polite phrases he had +heard Don Quixote use in his flowery discourses on knighthood +and chivalry.</p> + +<p>Soon after they had fallen asleep, Don Quixote was +awakened by the sound of men's voices. He quickly rose, +curious and anxious to learn who the disturbers were, and +was amazed to behold a real knight, clad in full armor, +dismount from his horse, while speaking words that indicated +he was lovesick and in despair. Don Quixote +hastened to call Sancho, who awoke to the tune of a love +sonnet sung by the strange knight, and was as startled +as his master had been, though, perhaps, not greatly thrilled +at this promise of a new adventure in the middle of the +night.</p> + +<p>But if Don Quixote was surprised when he was awakened, +what was his amazement when he suddenly heard +such words as these: "O fairest and most ungrateful +woman on earth! Can it be possible, most serene Casildea +de Vandalia, that thou wilt suffer this thy captive knight +to waste away and perish in ceaseless wanderings and rude +and arduous toils? Is it not enough that I have compelled +all the knights of Navarre, the Leonese, the Tartesians, +and the Castilians, and finally all the knights of La Mancha +to confess thee the most beautiful in the world?"</p> + +<p>Don Quixote took exception to this last statement in +silence, knowing that his chance to correct it was at no +great distance. But Sancho soon gave himself and his +master away to the Knight of the Grove by becoming too +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[Pg 180]</a></span> +talkative, and they were hailed by the knight, who greeted +them in the most courteous manner, when he learned who +they were.</p> + +<p>The two knights errant soon were engaged in a friendly +conversation, which Sancho could not restrain himself from +breaking into; but the Knight of the Grove was quick +to reprimand him, saying he never permitted his squire to +open his mouth. Whereupon Sancho persuaded himself +and the squire of the Grove to remove to a spot where they +could talk between themselves without being overheard +by their superiors, and where they might be undisturbed by +any yoke of knighthood etiquette.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXIII-XIV" id="v2CHAPTERXIII-XIV"></a>CHAPTERS XIII-XIV</h2> + +<h4>In Which Is Continued the Adventure of the Knight +of the Grove, Together with the Sensible and +Tranquil Colloquy That Passed Between the +Two Squires</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE two squires drank and talked most of the night, +bemoaning the fate of squires in general. Before +they finally fell asleep, the squire of the Grove suggested +that, since they both were tired of knight-errantry, they +give up the life. To this Sancho replied that he would +remain in his master's service until he arrived at Saragossa, +when he might decide to leave him.</p> + +<p>In the meantime the two knights also were exchanging +confidences; and the Knight of the Grove told Don Quixote +of all the great and famous errants he had conquered +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[Pg 181]</a></span> +in single combat. Don Quixote was all ear, but nearly +gasped for breath when he heard the knight say that he +had vanquished the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, +and had made him confess that his own Casildea was more +beautiful by far than the La Mancha knight's Dulcinea. +Don Quixote suppressed a scornful smile that threatened +to betray him, and controlled the feelings that the boasting +errant's words provoked, while wondering at the braggart's +audacity. He slyly expressed a doubt, however, +that the valiant knight Don Quixote of La Mancha had +let himself be vanquished by any living being. The +Knight of the Grove then gave a description of Don Quixote +which in every detail fitted him.</p> + +<p>That drew Don Quixote out of his originally assumed indifference. +He told the knight that he himself was no +other than that famed and illustrious errant, and declared +that any other one that had appeared as Don Quixote, +must have been some enchanter who had disguised himself +to resemble him, in order to defraud him of the honor +that was rightly due to him. Then he proceeded to tell +the knight how his enemy had transformed the Lady Dulcinea, +and challenged the Knight of the Grove to single +combat if he dared to question what Don Quixote maintained +to be the truth.</p> + +<p>To this challenge the Knight of the Grove retorted that +since he had once vanquished the semblance of Don Quixote, +he would now welcome the opportunity of meeting +him in combat in his own proper shape. Being a cautious +and cold-blooded knight, however, he suggested to Don +Quixote that they should rest until the morning, when the +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[Pg 182]</a></span> +mighty struggle could ensue in the light of day. It was +further agreed that the vanquished knight should place +himself at the command of the victor, to fulfill any desire +of his within the bounds of chivalry.</p> + +<p>Each one was eager to inform his own squire of what the +morning was to behold, so they awoke Sancho and the squire +of the Grove and told them. Sancho was scared that his +master might not be the gainer, for the squire of the Grove +had been feeding him with stories of his master's conquests +all that night until they had fallen asleep, drunk with wine.</p> + +<p>The squires went to get the horses ready, and on the +way Sancho was aghast to learn that he would have to +fight the friendly squire of the Grove in cold blood, this +squire maintaining that such was a rule among knights +errant. Sancho said he would rather give two pounds of +wax to the church than fight with him; furthermore, he +said, he could not, for he had no sword, and never had had +one. Whereupon the friendly squire told him that did not +matter, and proceeded to make ready two linen bags, both +of the same size, saying they could fight their duel in this +fashion. This was most pleasing to Sancho, until he perceived +the other squire filling the bags with pebbles, when +he remonstrated, saying he thought their masters could +settle the whole affair without their interference. But +his friend the squire insisted that they fight, even if it +should be only for half an hour, and offered—if he should +have any difficulty in rousing himself to the occasion—to +give Sancho a few cudgels and whacks to act as an inspiration.</p> + +<p>By this time it was beginning to dawn, and Sancho was +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[Pg 183]</a></span> +watching the sunrise. As he looked around, the first object +that he saw the sunrays strike was the nose of the squire +of the Grove, protruding out of the opened visor of his +helmet. It was an object so fearful to look at that Sancho +Panza was paralyzed with fright. The nose was so large +it seemed uncanny. It was covered with warts and was +bent at a tremendous angle, and it hung down way beneath +his chin, while its color was that of an eggplant. +It was a face so horrible and ugly to look at that Sancho's +eyes nearly rolled out of his head. He acted as if he were +about to have convulsions, for he began to tremble from +head to foot. When Don Quixote beheld the squire's +countenance, even he began to show signs of feebleness, +but his bravery overcame his fears. He shrugged his +shoulders as if shaking off an evil spirit, and was ready for +the combat with his adversary.</p> + +<p>Before the battle began, Sancho pleaded with his master +to help him up into a tree; so afraid was he of this monstrous +squire with the awful nose. But while Don Quixote +was hoisting his faithful one up into a cork-tree, he +suddenly heard the knight approach on his steed behind +him, and not knowing whether it was squire or master, +and being subconsciously afraid of the nose, one blow of +which might have felled him, it seemed, he turned around +and made straight for the knight.</p> + +<p>The facts were that this gentleman was trying to limber +up the joints of his charger—a hack of the same caliber as +Rocinante—and was just taking his horse on a tour of exercise, +making him skip hither and thither, wherever his +master's agonized spurring would carry him. Each time +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[Pg 184]</a></span> +he would land heavily on his stiff legs, and it was when +Don Quixote suddenly heard the sound of such a landing +behind him that he turned. But by the time Rocinante +had completed the turn, which was a movement of much +contemplation and hesitation on his part, the back of the +Knight of the Grove shone in the distance. Charging by +sound and instinct rather than by sight, not seeing whether +the knight was coming or going, Don Quixote set upon him +with such blind fury that with one thrust of his lance he +sent the bespangled gentleman flying out of his saddle, so +that he fell flat on the ground, seemingly dead.</p> + +<p>Now, when Sancho saw what an auspicious beginning +and ending the adventure had had for his master, he +heaved a sigh of relief and contentment and climbed down +from his tree, approaching the lifeless monster with caution +and superstitious awe. But he had taken only one +look into his face, when he began to cross himself with so +many motions and contortions that Don Quixote thought +his squire had gone insane. Turning to his master, who +had been contemplating his victory with pride from the +back of Rocinante, Sancho begged him to thrust his sword +into the mouth of his vanquished foe. Scarcely had +he made this suggestion before Don Quixote drew his sword +and advanced to carry it out, when the squire of the Grove, +now minus the drooping nose, ran forward, wildly exclaiming: +"Mind what you are about to do, Seņor Don Quixote! +That is your friend the bachelor, Samson Carrasco, +you have at your feet, and I am his squire!"</p> + +<p>"And the nose?" Sancho broke in, unable to restrain his +amazed senses. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[Pg 185]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I have it here in my pocket," answered the squire of the +Grove, as he pulled out and showed him a false nose of +immense proportions.</p> + +<p>Whereupon Sancho eyed the squire more carefully, and +suddenly cried out: "Holy Mary be good to me! Isn't +it Tom Cecial, my neighbor and gossip!"</p> + +<p>And Tom was only too glad to confess that he was.</p> + +<p>At this very moment the bachelor returned from the +dead, and when Don Quixote saw him open his eyes, he +pointed his sword at his face and swore that the Knight of +the Mirrors—thus he called the Knight of the Grove because +of his shining regalia—would be a dead man if he +did not pronounce the Lady Dulcinea del Toboso the most +beautiful woman in the world. Furthermore, he demanded +that he swear to present himself before the Peerless +One in the city of El Toboso, that she might deal out +judgment upon him. Having been dealt with by her, +the Knight of the Grove was to return to inform him of the +punishment, giving a full account of what had passed between +them.</p> + +<p>The fallen Samson gladly confessed to everything, including +his belief in the true identity of his conqueror. +He felt an urgent need for medicine and plaster, and he +and his squire departed quickly to seek such aid in the +nearest village, while Don Quixote and Sancho took the +road which lead to Saragossa. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[Pg 186]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXV" id="v2CHAPTERXV"></a>CHAPTER XV</h2> + +<h4>Wherein It is Made Known How the Knight of the Mirror +and His Squire Emerged from Their Adventure</h4> + +<p class="cap">AS Don Quixote was bumping along on his lean Rocinante, +he was dreaming of the return of the Knight +of the Mirrors, who would bring him word about his beloved +one. He was anxious to know whether she was still +enchanted. Then he thought of the great victory he had +won over this bold knight, and it was perhaps only pardonable +if it aroused some conceit in his breast.</p> + +<p>But while Don Quixote was contemplating thus, the +bachelor-knight kept bemoaning the fate he had brought +upon himself. He had dubbed himself Knight at his own +instigation, for the kindly and unselfish purpose of unseating +and vanquishing Don Quixote in battle, thinking, +of course, that that would be an easy matter to accomplish. +It was for good reasons he had proposed that the vanquished +one should place himself at the disposal of the victor. +The bachelor, the curate, and the barber had conferred +after Don Quixote's departure as to what to do, and when +the bachelor Samson offered to go crusading and to bring +back Don Quixote, the two gossips were pleased beyond +words. A neighbor of Sancho's, Tom Cecial by name, was +induced to become the squire of the knight Samson.</p> + +<p>Both knight and squire were now contemplating in a +sorry mood the disastrous outcome of their encounter with +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[Pg 187]</a></span> +the Knight of the Rueful Countenance. As they were +staggering along on their decrepit mounts, the squire +summed up the thoughts of his master Samson in this question: +"I'd like to know now which is the madder, he who +is so because he can not help it, or he who is so of his own +choice?"</p> + +<p>While the learned bachelor was thoroughly in accord with +the good reason for asking such a question, he could not +at the same time help acknowledging the fact that the +thrashing he had received was paining him. The desire +he had had when he started out looking for Don Quixote—to +bring him back to his home and his wits—was now +changed into a wild inner cry for revenge.</p> + +<p>At last some of the physical agony of the Knight of the +Mirrors was stilled by a quack, whom they found in a town +along the road. Tom Cecial, the squire for a day and a +night, had been cured of knight-errantry and returned to +his less venturesome occupation in his La Mancha village; +but the thoughts of evilness would not leave his master, +who stayed behind, bent on having his revenge.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXVI" id="v2CHAPTERXVI"></a>CHAPTER XVI</h2> + +<h4>Of What Befell Don Quixote with a Discreet Gentleman +of La Mancha</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHILE Don Quixote was contemplating his own +greatness as a reviver of knight-errantry, the monstrous +nose of the squire kept coming before Sancho in his +fancies. When he told his master, Don Quixote asked +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[Pg 188]</a></span> +him whether he ever for a moment doubted that the knight +of the Mirrors and his squire were anything but enchanted +and made to appear like the two village friends of theirs. +The idea that Samson, who was such a devoted friend of his, +should be envious of his deeds in battle and have wanted +to steal away honors from him as a knight, was too absurd; +and with this he dismissed the subject.</p> + +<p>While they were discussing these matters and the enchantment +of the Lady Dulcinea, they were passed by a +gentleman on horseback, and Don Quixote called to him +and asked him politely whether he would not join company +with them. The traveler accepted the knight's invitation, +and both were soon scrutinizing each other. The gentleman, +a man about fifty years of age, with handsome features, +wondered at the strange appearance of Don Quixote; +and when our knight saw his wonder, he told him why +he was so attired and what he had set out to accomplish in +the world. This confession drew forth still more astonishment +on the gentleman's countenance, but he finally +found words to ask whether he could really believe his own +ears, for he had thought knight-errantry extinct. It was +not long, however, before he realized that he was talking +to a madman; and then Sancho Panza came under his observation, +and he was deemed a simpleton.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote had asked the newcomer's name, and +learned it was Don Diego de Miranda; and then the knight +was curious to know what he did with his life. Whereupon +Don Diego proceeded to tell his fellow-travelers of +his tame and godly life in the country with his wife and +children; and he pronounced in the course of his description +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[Pg 189]</a></span> +some very beautiful thoughts and principles, which +so took Sancho's fancy that he jumped off Dapple, embraced +the gentleman's leg, and began to kiss his feet in +the most passionate and ardent way.</p> + +<p>Astonished, the good gentleman inquired what all this +display meant; and Sancho begged of him between his +transports: "Let me kiss, for I think your Worship is the +first saint in the saddle I ever saw!"</p> + +<p>Of course, the gentleman confessed his sinfulness to +Sancho, who refused to change his opinion, in spite of his +master's honest laughter. Then the gentleman told Don +Quixote about his great pride, his son, who was eighteen +years old, had been a student at Salamanca, and wrote divine +poems. This immediately inspired Don Quixote to +a discourse on poetry, in which he dwelt on the dishonor of +commercializing this great gift of the gods. He finished +his speech with the advice to Don Diego that he bring up +his son to write discourses in which all vice was flayed and +all sin chided and rebuked. Above all, he said, a poet must +never let envy or personal grudge and hatred guide his +pen. When the traveler heard Don Quixote speak in so +wise and discerning manner, he was aghast; and he was +entirely at a loss to know how to judge him. He was inclined +to think that what he had taken for madness in him +was nothing but eccentricity.</p> + +<p>But while Don Quixote was discoursing on poetry, Sancho, +on seeing some shepherds, had fled to beg some ewe +milk of them. When his master had finished his discourse, +and the gentleman was silently considering his madness, +Sancho suddenly heard himself called to battle. Having +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[Pg 190]</a></span> +in his possession his master's helmet, he spurred his donkey +to further increase his efforts toward speed, and when he +reached the valiant knight, he discovered the reason for +the call: a cart bedecked with royal flags approaching on +the road.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXVII" id="v2CHAPTERXVII"></a>CHAPTER XVII</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Is Shown the Farthest and Highest Point +Which the Unexampled Courage of Don Quixote +Reached or Could Reach; Together with the +Happily Achieved Adventure of the Lions</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHEN Sancho was summoned by his master, he had +just bought some curds from the goatherd, and not +knowing what to do with them at such a moment, he hastily +deposited them in his master's helmet. The first thing +Don Quixote did when Sancho had caught up with him, +was to snatch the helmet from him, exclaiming that he had +to make ready for what promised to be an exciting adventure; +while all Sancho could see was the cart with the royal +flags, probably carrying some treasure of the kings. As +Sancho stood watching the cart, Don Quixote resolutely +put on the helmet, which he proceeded to press down on his +head in order to make it sit fast; but as he did so, the curds +were squeezed, and the whey began to run down over his +face, so that Don Quixote imagined that he had been taken +with softening of the brain.</p> + +<p>Sancho said nothing but gave his master something to +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[Pg 191]</a></span> +wipe his face with, and Don Quixote muttered that if this +was sweat he was certain it was going to be a horrible adventure. +As he was drying his face, he took off his helmet, +and when he smelled the curds he turned to Sancho in +great perturbation and accused him of having put them +there, calling him a traitor and a scoundrel, and threatening +to thrash him. But Sancho eyed his master innocently, +and blamed it all on the devil or some enchanter, saying +that his master might know that if he had had curds, he +would have put them in his stomach and not in his master's +helmet.</p> + +<p>This was a convincing argument to the knight, who +now busied himself with the cart, which had nearly reached +them. He called out to the driver and a man on mule—back, +who were the only attendants: "Whither are you +going, brothers? What cart is this? What have you got +in it? What flags are those?"</p> + +<p>The man on the mule answered that the cart was his, +that he was transporting a pair of enormous lions as a present +from the Governor of Oran to His Majesty the King; +that the flags were those of the King, and that therefore +the property was royal property. He added that the lions +were hungry, since they had not eaten anything that day, +and that he was in great haste to reach a place where he +could feed them.</p> + +<p>Here Don Quixote smiled a scornful, superior smile, and +calmly told the keeper of the lions to open the cages and +let out the beasts that they might learn who the courageous +Don Quixote of La Mancha might be. When Sancho +heard how mad his master was, he turned in sickly fear to +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[Pg 192]</a></span> +the traveling gentleman and begged him for God's sake to +keep his master from having a combat with the lions. The +gentleman asked Sancho whether he thought his master +would really be so foolish as to do such a thing; and Sancho's +firm and emphatic reply made the gentleman hasten +to the knight's side in an attempt to reason with him. He +was promptly reprimanded by Don Quixote, however, +who told him sharply to mind his own business, and then +threatened to pin the keeper to the cart with his lance if +he did not open the cages and chase out the lions at once.</p> + +<p>There was an indescribable consternation and confusion. +The driver pleaded with Don Quixote on his knees, and +when they all saw that he was determined to meet with the +lions in combat, they began to pick up their belongings +and run away into safety. Sancho and the gentleman +made still another attempt to bring him to his senses, but +all their pleas were in vain. Sancho left his master with +the tears falling down his cheeks, and Don Quixote ordered +the gentleman to speed away on his flea-bitten mare +as fast as he could, if he was afraid to be bitten by the lions.</p> + +<p>Then Don Quixote decided it might be better to fight +on foot, as he was afraid that his Rocinante might be +frightened on seeing the beasts; so, sword in hand, he +bravely advanced towards the cage. The keeper timidly +opened the doors of the first cage, and a male lion of tremendous +size, stretching himself leisurely, put his claws +through the opening; then he yawned sleepily, and after +some deliberation began to lick his eyes and face with his +long, fierce tongue. Having thus washed his dirty face, +he put his head out of the cage and stood gazing into space +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</a></span> +with a ferocious look in his eyes, which resembled glowing +coals. Not even seeming surprised at the sight of the valiant +knight, he then had the audacity to turn his back on +our hero, and calmly and proudly lay down, with his hindquarters +under Don Quixote's very nose.</p> + +<p>Such unheard-of scorn angered the knight, who commanded +the keeper to take a stick and poke the beast out +of the cage; but here he met with unyielding obstinacy, +for this the man refused to do under any circumstances, +saying that the first one to be chewed to pieces, if he did +that, would be himself. Then he began to praise and flatter +Don Quixote's courage which, he said, by this feat had +been unequaled in the world. His adversary the lion, he +said, had proven by his very action that he considered Don +Quixote a superior foe; and when the keeper promised to +give Don Quixote a certificate to the effect that the lion +had been challenged in true knight errant fashion and refused +to give battle, Don Quixote was soothed, and bade +the keeper shut the doors to the cage and recall the fugitives +that they might hear from the keeper's lips the true +account of his remarkable achievement.</p> + +<p>The first thing Don Quixote did when Sancho had +joined him was to order him to give two gold crowns to the +driver and the keeper for lost time; but before Sancho +carried out his master's command he was anxious to know +whether the lions were dead or alive. Whereupon the +keeper related how the valiant knight had single handed +dared the lions to come out of their cage, and how they +meekly and cowardly had refused at the sight of so bold +a warrior; and he embellished his story with numerous +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[Pg 194]</a></span> +little details—in anticipation of the gold crown—and +added that when he returned to Madrid he would not fail +to inform the King of his marvelous exploit.</p> + +<p>When Don Quixote heard this, his heart beat faster, and +he told the keeper that if the King should happen to ask +who performed this great deed, to say it was the Knight +of the Lions, since he had decided to adopt this name hereafter.</p> + +<p>So the cart proceeded toward the capital, and Don Quixote, +Sancho, and the traveling gentleman went their way. +Don Diego bade them make haste that they might reach +his village before nightfall, and he asked Don Quixote to +spend the night at his house and rest after his exertions—an +invitation that the knight accepted with profuse thanks.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXVIII" id="v2CHAPTERXVIII"></a>CHAPTER XVIII</h2> + +<h4>Of What Happened to Don Quixote in the Castle or +House of the Knight of the Green Coat, Together +with Other Matters out of the Common</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE Knight of the Green Coat—which was the name +Don Quixote had conferred on his host—reached +his house in the afternoon, and he was welcomed home by +his wife and son, who could not help staring in amazement +at the strange figure Don Quixote presented. The +latter advanced to the wife and kissed her virtuously on +the hand, after having first asked her permission; and she +received him courteously, as did the son also. Then he +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[Pg 195]</a></span> +was escorted into the house, and Sancho helped him to remove +his armor and to wash him clean of the curds, which +had run down his face and his neck. This being done, +Don Quixote joined father and son in another room.</p> + +<p>It was not long before Don Lorenzo, the young son, was +perplexed by the knight's behavior and conversation, and +at his first opportunity he confided this perplexity to his +father. Don Diego told him that he himself was at his +wit's end, for he had heard him speak as sensibly as he ever +heard any man speak; then again, he said, he had seen him +perform the most unbelievable acts of madness. Don +Lorenzo again engaged in conversation with Don Quixote, +who told the young man that he had already learned from +his father of his great talents as a poet. The youth modestly +disclaimed being entitled to be called a great poet; +and the absence of conceit in one of this calling pleased +the knight greatly. And he went on, discoursing on matters +pertaining to education, on universities, and degrees, and +his opinions seemed to Don Lorenzo so authoritative and +advanced that he was at a loss to know what to conclude, +until Don Quixote suddenly began to talk about the +science of knight-errantry, which he maintained surpassed +all other sciences.</p> + +<p>Don Lorenzo interrupted, of course, saying that he had +never heard of any such science; he had read books of chivalry +but had never believed that any knights had existed, +he said. When Don Quixote heard the youth speak such +blasphemy, he prayed that heaven should deliver him from +his false illusions as to the existence of knight-errantry! +Just then dinner was served. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[Pg 196]</a></span></p> + +<p>While they were eating, Don Quixote asked Don Lorenzo +to repeat some of his verses to him, and the youth read +some of his glosses and sonnets. Don Quixote was extremely +impressed with them, and he praised the youth's +rare gift in eloquent language. This praise—although he +knew it to come from a madman—so pleased Don Lorenzo's +father that he begged Don Quixote to remain; and for four +days the knight was entertained by Don Diego.</p> + +<p>Then Don Quixote felt it his duty to break away from +luxury and idleness in order to live up to the laws of knight-errantry, +Sancho left with a sigh, and a tear in his eye, +for never in his life had he lived so well. However, he +saw to it that he was well provisioned before they departed. +Don Quixote was anxious to see the poet turn knight-errant, +he said, but since his parents no doubt would not permit +him to give up his chosen work he thought it best not +to attempt to sway them in their convictions. And so he +and his squire took leave with many courtesies, while Don +Diego and his family were pitying the poor demented +knight in their hearts and still were wondering at his nonsense.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXIX" id="v2CHAPTERXIX"></a>CHAPTER XIX</h2> + +<h4>In Which Is Related the Adventure of the Enamored +Shepherd, Together with Other Truly Droll +Incidents</h4> + +<p class="cap">THEY had traveled but a short time when they met +some students and peasants on mule—back, and since +they were going in the same direction Don Quixote offered +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[Pg 197]</a></span> +them his protection if they would only make the pace of +their young mules conform with that of his steed and +Dapple. They agreed to do so, and it was not long ere the +Knight of the Lions had introduced himself to his companions, +and told them of his revival. The students were +quick to perceive that he was demented; but not so the +peasants, who could make neither head nor tail of what he +said, and ascribed this to their own ignorance.</p> + +<p>The students invited the knight to come with them to +a wedding-feast, and immediately he asked which prince +was to be married without his knowing it. The students +informed him that it was not any prince's wedding, but +that of a rich farmer by the name of Camacho, who was +marrying the fair Quiteria, daughter of a rich man in their +neighborhood. Quiteria, they said, was in love with one +Basilio, a poor young shepherd, whom her father had sent +away in anger from his house, forbidding him ever to +see his daughter again. As a result of this banishment +and his being separated from his love, he had now gone +mad.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote, having listened attentively to the students' +story, began a discourse on love and marriage. +Now and then Sancho interrupted him with strings of +proverbs; this would infuriate his master by making him +deviate from his subject. Finally Don Quixote retaliated +by attacking and criticising Sancho's language, which +he said was atrocious.</p> + +<p>Soon their arguments were taken up by the students. +One of them stood by Sancho; the other one took Don +Quixote's point of view. Having once been involved, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[Pg 198]</a></span> +they argued first on one subject, then on another, until at +last foils and the art of fencing became the subject. It so +happened that one of them was carrying his foils with him, +and he suggested that they settle their argument then and +there. They did so under Don Quixote's chivalrous supervision, +and when the engagement had come to an end, the +one who had challenged was so worn and torn that Sancho +felt sorry for him and went over to console him; at the +same time he felt it his duty to advise him never again to +fence, although he did not advise him against wrestling +or throwing the bar, for he was strong enough for that, he +thought. Whereupon the challenger rose and embraced +his adversary, and after that they were better friends than +ever.</p> + +<p>They pursued their journey, and before long it grew +dark. Soon afterwards they heard the musicians at the +wedding, and saw the preparations that were being made +for it. Here Don Quixote took leave of the students and +the peasants, saying that being a knight-errant, he was +obliged to give up the comfort of a bed, and would go to +sleep in the woods or some lonely field. They did their +best to persuade him to accept their hospitality—aided and +abetted by the comfort-loving Sancho—but all remonstrances +were in vain, much to Sancho's regret. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[Pg 199]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXX" id="v2CHAPTERXX"></a>CHAPTER XX</h2> + +<h4>Wherein an Account Is Given of the Wedding of Camacho +the Rich, Together with the Incident +of Basilio the Poor</h4> + +<p class="cap">SANCHO was still snoring when his master was up +and awake the next morning. After having soliloquized +at length before the sleeping squire, he awoke him +by ticking him with his lance. Sancho smelled the preparations +for the wedding-feast, and at once was wide awake. +His master asked him to hasten and come along, and they +set off on their mounts and soon arrived at the place where +the wedding was to be celebrated. They found there an +arcade erected and through this they entered. There was +being cooked and prepared enough food to feed every one +in town, and when Sancho saw all the good things, his +mouth began to water, and he could hardly control himself. +As a matter of fact, he soon succumbed to his temptations +and he did not have to beg twice, for the cooks told him +that this was a day on which no one was to go hungry, that +being the wish of the rich Camacho, and they even told him +to keep the spoon. So Sancho skimmed all the pots to his +heart's content.</p> + +<p>Soon the musicians and dancers arrived, and these performed +an allegorical dance and play, but nothing interested +Sancho as much as the skimmings, to which he returned +after having finished an argument with his master +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[Pg 200]</a></span> +about the relative qualities of Camacho the Rich and the +poor Basilio; Camacho being the better provider, Sancho +was decidedly in favor of him.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXI" id="v2CHAPTERXXI"></a>CHAPTER XXI</h2> + +<h4>In Which Camacho's Wedding Is Continued, with +Other Delightful Incidents</h4> + +<p class="cap">SANCHO was still eating when suddenly loud exclamations +and shouts were heard; and when he and Don +Quixote looked to see what was the matter, they found that +the bride and the bridegroom, accompanied by the priest +and their relatives, were entering the arcade. They proceeded +to a platform, on which they took places, and all +noticed that the bride looked very pale. Scarcely had the +bridal party seated themselves, when a voice was heard +from behind them, calling out: "Wait a little, ye, as inconsiderate +as ye are hasty!"</p> + +<p>All turned and perceived Basilio, poorly clad, with a +crown of cypress on his head, and carrying a staff in his +hand. The staff had a sharp end, and this he buried deep +in the ground; then, pale and trembling, he turned to the +fair Quiteria and accused her of marrying Camacho because +of his wealth, though she knew she loved no one but +himself, Basilio, who was poor, and, therefore, helpless. +As he nevertheless wished them happiness, he would now +remove the last obstacle to this end.</p> + +<p>So saying, Basilio pulled from the staff he carried and +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[Pg 201]</a></span> +which served as a sheath, a rapier, upon which in another +instant he had thrown himself. There he lay on the +ground, bleeding profusely, the point of the blade appearing +through his back, when his many friends came running +to give him aid. Don Quixote lifted up his head, and they +found that he was still breathing. Some one suggested +that they pull out the blade, but the priest warned them +not to do that before the poor man had been given the +sacrament, as the moment the rapier was removed, death +would follow.</p> + +<p>Just then Basilio was heard to say in a weak voice that +if he could only be joined to his beloved one, he would die +happy. The priest cautioned him to think of his soul +rather than of his body in these last moments of his, but +Basilio interrupted him stubbornly and said he would not +confess until this had been done. When Don Quixote +heard the dying man implore the priest to carry out his +wish, he, too, besought him, and added that under the +circumstances Seņor Camacho could have nothing against +marrying a widow of a man who had died so gallantly and +honorably as Basilio. Camacho heard all this, and when +Basilio's friends at the same time entreated him to think +of the poor man's soul, he consented; and as Quiteria, too, +was compassionate, the priest united them as man and wife, +gave them his blessing with tears in his eyes, and hoped +that Heaven would receive the soul of the wedded +man.</p> + +<p>But the instant the ceremony was at an end, the suicide +jumped to his feet as lightly as a deer. Some began to +shout that a miracle had been performed. But Basilio was +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[Pg 202]</a></span> +honest and confessed that he had played a trick; and, indeed, +it seemed as if the whole thing had been planned by +the two lovers, for Quiteria said that if the marriage was +not valid, she would now confirm it anew. Some of Camacho's +friends became violent and threatened the life of +Basilio, but the valiant Don Quixote did not abandon +his new-found friend; he kept them all at a distance with +his lance and his sword.</p> + +<p>In the meantime Sancho was guarding a spot that to his +mind was the most important one there, namely where the +wine-jars were standing.</p> + +<p>When Don Quixote had made himself respected by the +followers of the rich Camacho, he addressed them on the +subject of love and war, and held forth to them that all +means to an end in these two games were justifiable, as +long as no disgrace was brought on the object of one's love. +Then he threatened to thrash any one who attempted to +separate whom God now had joined; and they were all +awed by his resolute language, not knowing who he was. +Camacho showed that he was of good mettle, however, for +he invited all to remain and have a merry time, and let the +feast go on as if nothing had happened.</p> + +<p>But Basilio was proud, and so were his friends, and they +preferred to withdraw to Basilio's village. They were accompanied +by Don Quixote, whom they had invited as a +special guest of honor because of his stout defense of Basilio; +and Sancho, of course, had to trail along, much to his +disgust, for he had looked forward to stilling his hunger +for days to come on the remnants of the rich man's wedding-feast. +As he was rocking to and fro in his seat on his +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[Pg 203]</a></span> +faithful Dapple, he was contemplating with a surly and +melancholy countenance a glorious, but now past day.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXII" id="v2CHAPTERXXII"></a>CHAPTER XXII</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Is Related the Grand Adventure of the Cave +of Montesinos in the Heart of La Mancha, Which +the Valiant Don Quixote Brought to a Happy +Termination</h4> + +<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE and Sancho remained at the home +of the newly married couple for three days. Before +the knight took leave of Basilio and Quiteria, he discoursed +at length on love and matrimony: a discourse that +Sancho seemed to take more to heart than they did, for when +his master had finished he was heard muttering that he +wished he had had such advice before marrying his wife.</p> + +<p>"Is thy Teresa so bad then, Sancho?" asked Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"She is not very bad," replied the downtrodden squire, +"but she is not very good; at least she is not as good as I +could wish."</p> + +<p>"Thou dost wrong, Sancho, to speak ill of thy wife," admonished +his master; "for after all she is the mother of thy +children."</p> + +<p>And to this the squire answered: "We are quits, for +she speaks ill of me whenever she takes it into her head, +especially when she is jealous; and Satan himself could +not put up with her then."</p> + +<p>Having exchanged these thoughts with his squire, Don +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[Pg 204]</a></span> +Quixote decided it was time to take to the open again, +and he begged one of the students who had invited him to +the wedding to find him a guide to take him to the cave of +Montesinos. The student provided him with a cousin of +his own, a young scholar who was very much interested in +tales of chivalry; and, followed by the earnest prayers of +those they left behind, the three set out for the famous cave.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote wanted the scholar to tell him all about +himself, and when he learned, he had had books printed +which were inscribed to princes, he wanted to know what +kind of books they were. When he mentioned that he was +writing one now that was to deal with the invention of +customs and things, Sancho became interested and thrust +this question at him, which he answered himself: "Tell +me, Seņor—and God give you luck in printing your books!—who +was the first man that scratched his head? For to +my thinking it must have been our father Adam."</p> + +<p>Glad to have had his supposition corroborated by so +great an authority as an author of books, Sancho was encouraged +to ask numerous other questions of the same caliber; +and this helped to make the time seem short. When +night fell they had reached a little village, from where it +was only a very short distance to the cave.</p> + +<p>As Don Quixote was intent on discovering the cave's inmost +secrets, he provided himself with a hundred fathoms +of rope, and the following afternoon he was at the cavern, +ready for the hazardous undertaking. Don Quixote was +tied to the end of the rope, and all the while Sancho was admonishing +him not to bury himself alive in the bottomless +pit, telling him that he had no business being an explorer +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[Pg 205]</a></span> +anyway. Before being lowered into the depths, Don +Quixote commended himself to his Lady Dulcinea and sent +up a prayer to Heaven on bended knees.</p> + +<p>In order to enter the cave, he had to cut his way through +the brush, and as he commenced to swing his sword, a +whole city of crows and bats flew against him and knocked +him to the ground. Sancho crossed himself and kept up +his vigilance over his master to the last. Finally he saw +him disappear in the coal-black depths, and then he called +on all the saints he knew by name to protect the flower and +cream of knight-errantry, the dare-devil of the earth, the +heart of steel and the arm of brass.</p> + +<p>At last Sancho and the scholar had given Don Quixote +all the hundred fathoms of the rope, and then they got no +more replies to their calls. They waited for half an hour, +and then they were afraid that the knight was dead and +decided to haul him up, Sancho weeping bitterly all the +while. But when Sancho saw his master coming up, he +could not restrain himself from being hopeful of a miracle, +and he called out gleefully: "Welcome back, Seņor, for +we had begun to think you were going to stop there to +found a family."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote did not move, however, and they laid him +on the ground and found he was fast asleep. When he +came to, he was in an exalted state. He raised his eyes +toward Heaven, and asked God to forgive them for having +taken him away from such a glorious and spectacular +pleasure. But Sancho was curious to know what he had +seen down there in Hell, and he interrupted and asked the +question. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[Pg 206]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Hell!" cried Don Quixote. "Call it by no such name, +for it does not deserve it."</p> + +<p>Then he asked for something to eat, and Sancho put before +him an abundance of food, since he said he was very +hungry. When he had eaten, he asked them to sit still +and listen to his story.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXIII" id="v2CHAPTERXXIII"></a>CHAPTER XXIII</h2> + +<h4>Of the Wonderful Things the Incomparable Don Quixote +Said He Saw in the Profound Cave of Montesinos, the +Impossibility and Magnitude of Which +Cause This Adventure to Be +Apocryphal</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHEN he was being hoisted down, Don Quixote +said, he had suddenly landed on a precipice which +led to a cave within the cave, large enough to hold a team +of mules and a cart. There, he claimed, he fell asleep, +only to wake and find himself in a beautiful field, from +where he had gone on a regular sightseeing trip, visiting the +most wonderful castles and palaces, and meeting with the +most exalted personages. Among these was no other than +the enchanted Montesinos himself. He had taken Don +Quixote into his own palace, built of crystal and alabaster, +and shown him the tomb of his friend Durandarte, who lay +there in his enchantment, with his hairy hand over his heart. +Don Quixote had asked whether it were indeed true that +he, Montesinos, had cut out the heart of his dead friend, as +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[Pg 207]</a></span> +the story had told, and brought it to his Lady Belerma, and +Montesinos had nodded in affirmation.</p> + +<p>Suddenly they had heard the poor dead knight moan in +the most heartrending way, and he had asked Montesinos +again and again whether he had done as he had bade him +and carried his heart to his Lady Belerma in France. Montesinos +had fallen on his knees and had assured his cousin +with tearful eyes that as soon as he had died he had cut +out his heart with a poniard, dried it with a lace handkerchief +as well as he could, and then departed to see his Lady. +At the first village he had come to in France, he had stopped +to sprinkle some salt on it to keep it fresh, and had given it +to the Lady Belerma, who was now also enchanted in this +cave.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote continued his tale. The enchanter, the +sage Merlin, so Montesinos had said, had prophesied that +he, Don Quixote, reviver of knight-errantry, was to be the +one to disenchant them all. He and Montesinos had almost +come to blows, however, when the latter had inferred +that during her enchantment the Lady Belerma had developed +large circles under her eyes, and that if it had not been +for these her beauty would have surpassed even that of +the famous Lady Dulcinea of El Toboso. But Montesinos +was courteous enough to apologize and acknowledge +the truth of the proverb which says that comparisons are +odious.</p> + +<p>Sancho and the young author of books had some difficulty +in persuading themselves that all these things had +happened in so short a time, for Don Quixote had only +been gone about an hour; but Don Quixote, hearing this, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[Pg 208]</a></span> +insisted that he had been absent three days and three +nights. Then he proceeded to tell how he had felt no +hunger whatever, that none down there ever ate, and that +the enchanted never slept; he admitted, however, that their +nails, hair, and beards grew.</p> + +<p>When Sancho heard all this he asked to be forgiven by +God for saying he thought his master was lying, but the +next moment he had retracted it, and when his master +asked what he really meant, he said he did not know.</p> + +<p>There was one thing that had happened to our knight in +the cave, which caused him infinite pain; he had met one of +the enchanted ladies-in-waiting to his Lady Dulcinea, and +she had told him in confidence that his beloved one wanted +to borrow six reals on a petticoat which she had bought. +He gave her all that he had, which amounted to only four +reals, and she gave him in exchange her lady's blessing, +saying that with it went many kisses. As she left him, he +said, she had cut a caper and had sprung fully two yards +into the air.</p> + +<p>"O blessed God," cried Sancho, "is it possible +that enchantments can have such power as to have +changed my master's right senses into a craze so full of +absurdity? O Seņor, Seņor, consider yourself! Have a +care for your honor, and give no credit to this silly stuff +that has left you scant and short of wits."</p> + +<p>"Thou talkest in this way because thou lovest me, Sancho," +said Don Quixote; and he ascribed his squire's incredulity +to a lack of knowledge of the world and assured +him that when the time came he would tell him even more +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[Pg 209]</a></span> +that took place in the cave, which would make him believe +what he now doubted.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXIV" id="v2CHAPTERXXIV"></a>CHAPTER XXIV</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Are Related Some Trifling Matters, as Trivial as +They Are Necessary to the Right Understanding +of This Great History</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE scholar was surprised that Don Quixote permitted +his servant to talk to him in this way, but +ascribed his lenience to the good mood he was in. After +having whiled away still another hour talking pleasantly, +they proceeded to find a place where they might spend the +night. The scholar knew of a hermitage not very far off; +and on their way there they encountered a man with a mule +that was loaded with halberds and lances. Don Quixote +was curious to know where he was taking the weapons, but +the man answered that he was in great haste to reach the +inn beyond the hermitage. He would spend the night at +this inn, he said, and if they happened to be there too, he +would tell them some things that were both interesting +and curious. Don Quixote was so inquisitive that he decided +to pass by the hermitage and go to the inn instead.</p> + +<p>Just before coming to the inn, they met a happy looking +lad of eighteen or nineteen, who carried a sword over his +shoulder and a bundle on his back. Don Quixote stopped +him and asked where he was going; and the lad replied that +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[Pg 210]</a></span> +he was going to war for his king. He told the knight how +he had been in the service of office-seekers and adventurers +in Madrid until he had tired of such a life; and this +pleased Don Quixote so much that he invited him to sit behind +him on Rocinante and ride with him to the inn to +sup with him. But the page, seeing the leanness of the +knight's steed, said he preferred to walk, though he was +glad to accept the invitation for supper.</p> + +<p>As soon as they had arrived at the inn, Don Quixote +asked the landlord for the man with the lances and halberds; +and Sancho was happy to know that his master took +this inn for an inn and not for an enchanted castle.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXV" id="v2CHAPTERXXV"></a>CHAPTER XXV</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Is Set Down the Braying Adventure, and the +Droll One of the Puppet-Showmen, Together with +the Memorable Divinations of the +Divining Ape</h4> + +<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE found the man with the arms feeding +his mule in the stable, and he asked the knight to +accompany him to a quiet nook when he had finished this +duty to his beast. But Don Quixote's curiosity knew no +bounds, and he offered to help him sift the barley so that +he might begin his story at once. Being a good-natured +fellow, the man acquiesced. He related how a magistrate +in his village, which was four leagues and a half +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[Pg 211]</a></span> +away, had lost a donkey through the carelessness of a servant. +Some weeks later another magistrate of the same +village was hunting in the woods, and when he returned +he brought word to his fellow officer that he had come +across the lost beast but that he was now so wild that no +one could approach him. He suggested, however, that +they go together in search for him; and they developed a +plan whereby they thought they should surely be able to +capture the animal. Both of them were expert in braying, +and they decided to place themselves at different ends of +the forest, each one braying at intervals. In this way they +thought they should be able to round up the donkey, for +they were certain that he would answer their calls.</p> + +<p>But it so happened that both of them brayed at the same +time, and when they ran to look, convinced that the donkey +had turned up, they found not the ass but only each other, +so naturally had they brayed. They tried the same scheme +again and again, but every time with the same result; and +at last they came in this way to a place in the woods where +they found the dead donkey devoured by wolves.</p> + +<p>The story of the two magistrates going about in the +forest braying to each other like asses soon spread to the +villages in the county; and in one village in particular the +habit of braying whenever they observed any one from the +village of the braying magistrates took such root that it +was decided to teach them a lesson by taking arms against +them. The arms he carried with him now, he said, were +to be used against these scoffers, that they might never +again behave like asses.</p> + +<p>He had just finished his story when some one entered +and cried out that the show of <i>The Release of Melisendra</i> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[Pg 212]</a></span> +and the divining ape were coming to the inn, and a minute +later Master Pedro himself came into the yard, where he +was greeted by the landlord and all the guests. Master +Pedro's one eye was covered by a piece of green silk; Don +Quixote judged by this that something had befallen him +by accident. He asked the landlord to tell him all he +knew of Master Pedro, and he learned that he traveled +with his puppet-show from town to town, and was greatly +renowned throughout the provinces as a showman. And +the ape, the innkeeper said, was like a human being, so +clever was he, and wise.</p> + +<p>Soon the show was in readiness inside, and every one +gathered around Master Pedro and his divining ape. Don +Quixote and Sancho were eager to have their fortunes told, +and both offered their reals at the same time; but Master +Pedro refused to take any money until the ape had rendered +satisfactory service.</p> + +<p>The ape jumped up on his master's shoulder, and began +to chatter his teeth as if he were saying something, all the +while keeping his mouth close to Master Pedro's ear. +When he had been chattering long enough to please himself, +he jumped down just as quickly as he had jumped up. +The next instant Don Quixote and Sancho were both frightened +and awed by the showman's suddenly throwing himself +before Don Quixote's feet and embracing his legs, +while he exclaimed: "These legs do I embrace as I would +embrace the two pillars of Hercules, O illustrious reviver +of knight-errantry, O prop of the tottering, so long consigned +to oblivion!" But not only were the knight and +the squire aghast; the landlord and the guests were as +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">[Pg 213]</a></span> +startled as they were, for they had never seen Master Pedro +act like that before.</p> + +<p>But the showman had not finished, for in the next moment +he lay at the feet of Sancho, to whom the divining +ape brought cheer from his Teresa, saying that she was just +soothing her feelings by indulging in wine from a pitcher +which she was holding in her left hand and that had a +broken spout.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was not very well pleased with this exhibition, +for he thought it decidedly out of place that an +ape should know more than he or any other human being; +and he confided to Sancho that the ape was possessed by the +devil. He brought Sancho to a dark corner in the stable +where he was sure no one could overhear them, and told +him there that he was convinced Master Pedro had made +a bargain with the devil to get rich through the ape, and +then sell him his soul, and he said it surprised him beyond +words that the Holy Office had not already interfered with +this dastardly scheme.</p> + +<p>At this point Master Pedro came in search of Don +Quixote, as the show was about to begin. Before entering +the inn, however, Sancho entreated his master to ask the +ape whether what he saw in the cave of Montesinos was +true. Don Quixote did so, and the ape answered that +some of it was true, some of it was not; and immediately +Sancho scornfully broke in and said that he had told him +so already. The ape intimated that by next Friday he +should be able to tell more about the adventure; his mind +was tired now.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[Pg 214]</a></span> +They entered and found the stage set for the performance; +the tapers of wax were lit, it was a bright and beautiful +scene. Master Pedro disappeared and took his place +behind the scenes, for he was the one who created the life +in the puppets. A lad who acted as interpreter, calling out +the scenes and describing the action of the play, placed himself +outside the theater. Don Quixote, Sancho, the page, +and the scholar seated themselves in the front row; and the +show began.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXVI" id="v2CHAPTERXXVI"></a>CHAPTER XXVI</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Is Continued the Droll Adventure of the +Puppet-Showman, Together with Other +Things in Truth Right Good</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE play, which depicted how Melisendra was released +by her husband, Seņor Don Gaiferos, from +the hands of the Moors in the city of Sansueņa, now called +Saragossa, had only proceeded a short way when Don +Quixote became impatient with the young man who was +making the explanations to the audience. The knight +thought he drifted into unnecessary and superfluous language, +and was quick to reprimand him. The show was +continued, and again Don Quixote broke in, criticising +some of the stage effects: bells were never used by the +Moors, only kettledrums, he said. But here Master Pedro +begged him not to be so particular, pleading that the show +was given for the sake of amusement.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote acceded, and the show began again. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[Pg 215]</a></span></p> + +<p>But it was not long before a number of horsemen were +galloping across the stage in pursuit of the two lovers. +Their escape was accompanied by such blowing of horns +and trumpets and beating of drums, that the noise and +din of it all were too much for the poor knight's imagination +which was now stirred to such a pitch that he believed +himself in the midst of a real battle. He drew his sword +and plunged against the Moorish horseman with such +vehemence and force, cutting and slashing in all directions, +that every one in the room was aghast at his madness, and +ran to hide in safety. Master Pedro came within an inch +of having his ear, not to say his whole head, cut off, and +Don Quixote's fury was not at an end until he had decapitated +all the Moorish pasteboard figures. Lucky it +was that no blood could flow from them, or there would +have been a plentiful stream of it. The ape took refuge on +the roof, frightened out of his poor wits, and even Sancho +Panza was more than ordinarily shaken with fear, for he +admitted that he had never seen his master so wrought +up.</p> + +<p>When Don Quixote was certain of complete victory—in +other words, destruction—he turned and addressed those +who had dared to return after the storm: "I wish I had +here before me now all those who do not or will not believe +how useful knights errant are in the world. Just think, if +I had not been here present, what would have become of +the brave Don Gaiferos and the fair Melisendra!"</p> + +<p>But Master Pedro was lamenting the loss of all his +emperors and kings and knights and horses, and Sancho +was so touched by what he said it would cost him to buy +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[Pg 216]</a></span> +a new show, that he pleaded with his master to make restitution; +and, although Don Quixote could not see that he +had done any wrong, he generously ordered his squire to +pay Master Pedro the sum of forty reals and three quarters, +the landlord having duly functioned as arbiter and agreed +that that was a fair price for the damage done to the figures. +Besides this amount, Master Pedro was allotted +two reals for his trouble in catching the ape.</p> + +<p>While they were summing up, Don Quixote, however, +had only one thought in his mind. He was wondering +whether Melisendra and her husband had reached safety +by this time: so possessed was he of his infernal imagination. +Master Pedro promised him that as soon as he had +caught his ape, he would put the question to him; and the +showman began to worry about his African companion, +hoping that he would soon be hungry, for then he would +know whether he was still alive.</p> + +<p>The rest of the evening was passed in peace, and drinking +at Don Quixote's expense, and soon it was morning, and +the man with the halberds took his departure. The +scholar and the page left, too, and Don Quixote generously +gave the page twelve reals. But the first one to depart +was the showman: he was afraid that the knight might +have another outbreak, and he had no desire to experience +it twice, and perhaps lose his ape, which he had now +caught.</p> + +<p>The landlord was extremely pleased with Don Quixote's +generosity, and was sorry to see him depart; but his madness +he could make neither head nor tail of, for he had +never seen any one thus afflicted. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[Pg 217]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXVII" id="v2CHAPTERXXVII"></a>CHAPTER XXVII</h2> + +<h4>Wherein It Is Shown Who Master Pedro and His Ape +Were, Together with the Mishap Don Quixote +Had in the Braying Adventure, Which +He Did Not Conclude as He +Would Have Liked or as +He Had Expected</h4> + +<p class="cap">IT was no doubt a good thing for Master Pedro of the +puppet-show that neither Sancho nor Don Quixote +recognized in him the thief who stole the squire's donkey, +when he was asleep; for he it was. None other than the +galley-slave Gines de Pasamonte, or Don Ginesillo de +Paropilla, as Don Quixote would have it. It was in the +guise of a showman, with only one eye and a part of his +face visible, that he found it an easy matter to evade being +caught by the servants of the law, who had been hunting +for him ever since he was liberated through the generosity +and bravery of Don Quixote. The ape he had bought +from some captives who had returned from Barbary; and +he had soon taught him the tricks which made people think +he was really divining things. Before entering a village +the clever galley-slave would learn all he could about its +inhabitants; and being blessed with a remarkable memory, +he seldom had any difficulty in making the ape's feat seem +impressive to the masses.</p> + +<p>Now, when Don Quixote left the inn, it suddenly +occurred to him that he ought to visit the banks of the Ebro +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[Pg 218]</a></span> +before steering towards Saragossa. So he kept on the road +for two days, and on the third day as he was mounting a +hill he was suddenly aroused by hearing a tremendous din +of drums, mixed with the sound of trumpets and musket-shots. +In as few instants as it took to make his charger +ascend to the top of the hill, he was there; and he saw several +hundred men, armed with weapons of every imaginable +sort. There were flags, of various descriptions, and +among them one in particular attracted his attention: it +was a large standard in white, on which was painted a +donkey, and also an inscription, reading thus:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<p class="center"> +They did not bray in vain,<br /> +Our alcaldes twain.<br /> +</p></div> + +<p>This made Don Quixote believe the warriors must +be from the braying town, and he remarked to Sancho that +the man to whom they had talked at the inn must have +been misinformed, for evidently the two had not been magistrates +but alcaldes, according to the sign. To this Sancho +replied that having once been a magistrate should not exclude +any one from becoming an alcalde; besides, somebody +must have brayed, and whether it was an alcalde or +a magistrate mattered little, he thought. Don Quixote, +however, was in a quandary as to what to do that he +might best live up to the laws of knight-errantry.</p> + +<p>He finally went to the braying ones, and, having begged +their leave to address them, he began a stirring discourse +on war and peace that lasted a considerable time. He +flayed those who would go into battle for trifling matters; +but just when he seemed to be about to win the braying +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">[Pg 219]</a></span> +ones over to his way of thinking, he had to pause for breath.</p> + +<p>Sancho thought it his duty to interrupt the silence and +take up the broken thread here, so he continued in his own +way, keeping more or less to the same subject. He started +in by praising his master—the Knight of the Lions!—his +bravery, his generosity, his knowledge of Latin (which +Sancho unfortunately did not understand), and all his +other virtues, and suddenly he bellowed out that they were +fools to take offense at hearing some one bray. Then he +became reminiscent and related how he as a boy used to +like to go about braying, and told how envious every one in +his village was because of his great gift in that direction. +"Wait a bit and listen!" said he. "I'll show you!" And +before his master had a chance to stop him, he had pinched +his nose and brayed—had brayed such a bray that all the +valleys and dales gave echo.</p> + +<p>When some of the men heard the braying they thought +he had come there to mock them, and they set upon him +with such fury and force that Don Quixote, though he did +his best to defend him, had to spur Rocinante into retreat, +in order to save his own life. But Sancho was both stoned +and pummeled into insensibility, and then he was put on +his donkey and tied there; and when he came to, he had to +put his trust in Dapple, who was forced to smell his way +back to Rocinante.</p> + +<p>The braying troops remained in the field until evening, +but since no opposing army appeared, they returned to +their village after dark. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[Pg 220]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXVIII" id="v2CHAPTERXXVIII"></a>CHAPTER XXVIII</h2> + +<h4>Of Matters That Benengeli Says He Who Reads Them +Will Know, If He Reads Them with Attention</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHEN Dapple reached his faithful playmate, Rocinante, +Sancho fell from his back and rolled at his +master's feet. There he lay; but Don Quixote was angry +and showed no compassion.</p> + +<p>"In an evil hour didst thou take to braying, Sancho! +Where hast thou learned that it is well done to mention +the rope in the house of the man that has been hanged? +To the music of brays what harmonies couldst thou expect +to get but cudgels?"</p> + +<p>Having thus reprimanded his squire, the good knight +looked to his wounds, which Sancho complained of, but +found him only discolored.</p> + +<p>"I feel as if I was speaking through my shoulders," +wailed Sancho; and then he begged his master to hasten +away from such evil premises. Of course, he also had to +say something scornful about Don Quixote's having abandoned +him in the heat of battle; but the knight begged him +to consider that there was a difference between flying and +retiring.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote succeeded in making Sancho mount and remain +on the donkey's back, and then they set off toward a +grove which they sighted in the distance. Sancho's back +pained him fearfully, but he was much relieved when he +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[Pg 221]</a></span> +learned from his master—who had seen the accident—that +it was caused by his having been smitten by a man armed +with a staff. The cause being removed as it were, Sancho +was jubilant, although his heart and courage fell as soon +as he, in the course of his usual chattering, touched upon +the subject of knight-errantry. While bewailing his fate, +he forgot his pain; therefore Don Quixote was generous and +Christian enough to beg him to keep on talking to himself. +Sancho suddenly was reminded of his island, and in turn +reminded his master of his promise concerning it.</p> + +<p>This impertinence was rewarded by the knight's demanding +of him: "Well, how long is it, Sancho, since +I promised thee an island?"</p> + +<p>And Sancho retorted innocently: "If I remember rightly, +it must be over twenty years, three days more or less."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote then had to laugh, for it would have been +ridiculous not to do so. His wrath was aroused, however, +when Sancho again showed his covetousness—his one +really great failing, Don Quixote thought—and he told +him to keep all the money he had, and betake himself back +to his Teresa.</p> + +<p>Sancho was moved to tears by his master's wrath, and he +confessed in a broken voice that if he had only had a tail +he would have been a complete ass himself. But, he said, +if his master should care to attach one to him, he would +willingly wear one, and serve him all his life as an ass. +Then he asked on bended knees to be forgiven, saying that +if he talked much it was less from malice than from ignorance, +and finished up his harangue with a proverb that had +nothing whatever to do with the rest of his discourse. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[Pg 222]</a></span></p> + +<p>So Don Quixote forgave his squire, and by that time they +had reached the grove, and they spent the night there under +the trees: Don Quixote in soliloquies and meditation, +Sancho in pain and restlessness. In the morning they continued +on their way to find the river Ebro.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXIX" id="v2CHAPTERXXIX"></a>CHAPTER XXIX</h2> + +<h4>Of the Famous Adventure of the Enchanted Bark</h4> + +<p class="cap">IT took them two days to reach the river. The very first +thing that struck the knight's eye when he got there, +was a boat without oars, tied to a tree. Immediately Don +Quixote insisted that the boat had been sent by magic to +<a name="front" id="front"></a>fetch him to some great knight or other person in need of +his help; and all Sancho's contradictions were fruitless.</p> + +<p>Finally the proverb, "Do as thy master bids thee, and sit +down to table with him," had its effect on Sancho, and, +although certain he was about to give up his life, he tied +the beasts to a tree on the bank, and seated himself in the +boat, trembling like a leaf. Then the knight cut the rope, +and they started to drift out into the stream, while Dapple +was braying and Rocinante was trying to break away and +plunge in after them. Seeing this, Sancho began to weep +convulsively, but his master had no patience with him, +and told him to control himself.</p> + +<p>Soon they had reached midstream, and Don Quixote, +much to Sancho's perplexity, began to talk about cosmography, +the three hundred and sixty degrees of the globe, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[Pg 223]</a></span> +and the equinoctial line, which, the knight said, they were +just then passing. A sure sign by which all seafaring +Spaniards determined the passing of this latitude, Don +Quixote went on, was that all lice died on everybody on +board ship. So, in accordance with this custom, he asked +his squire to take the test. Sancho let his hand creep +stealthily into the hollow of his left knee, and he promptly +told his master that either was the test not to be relied +upon, or they had not passed the line that had just been +mentioned by name.</p> + +<p>"Why, how so?" asked Don Quixote; "hast thou come +upon aught?"</p> + +<p>"Ay, and aughts," replied Sancho, and in replying he let +the stream wash his fingers.</p> + +<p>Just then they came in view of some large floating mills, +moored in midstream. At once Don Quixote became excited, +crying to Sancho that there must be some fair princess +or high-born lady in captivity in this castle.</p> + +<p>Sancho did his best to make his master believe they were +not castles but only mills that ground corn; but to no +avail. Don Quixote insisted that either his squire or the +mills were enchanted. They came closer and closer to +them, and soon shouts were heard from some of the millers, +who realized the danger of the boat's being upset by the +suction of the water, and dragged into the mill wheels.</p> + +<p>The men quickly got hold of some sticks and poles, and +tried to stave off the boat, and when Don Quixote saw +their white, flour-covered faces he turned to Sancho and +begged him to take a good look at the monsters that had +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[Pg 224]</a></span> +been sent to oppose him. The men were all the time crying +out, unable to fathom such dare-deviltry or folly: +"Devils of men, where are you going to? Are you mad? +Do you want to drown yourselves, or dash yourselves to +pieces among these wheels?"</p> + +<p>In reply to these well-meant exclamations, Don Quixote +stood up in the boat and began to swing his sword in +a ferocious manner, calling them evil rabble, and demanding +that they set free the princess who was imprisoned in +the fortress; while Sancho said all the prayers he could +think of, crawling on the bottom of the swaying boat, which +was now close to the rushing water.</p> + +<p>At last the millers caught the boat with their hooks, but +in so doing Don Quixote and his squire both fell into the +river. Don Quixote in his heavy armor made two trips to +the bottom, but both he and Sancho were rescued, thanks +to the devils in white. As soon as they had come ashore, +Sancho sank upon his knees and thanked the Lord for having +been saved from such a death as that from drinking too +much water, and prayed that he should be delivered from +all future temptations to risk his life in any more foolish +causes.</p> + +<p>As this moment the fishermen who owned the boat +came running up, claiming damages for the wrecked craft, +and after having failed to strike a bargain with this rabble +for the delivery of the enchanted fair maiden in the castle, +Don Quixote, wearied by their stupidity, paid them fifty +reals for the boat, exclaiming: "God help us, this world +is all machinations and schemes at cross purposes one with +the other! I can do no more." Then, turning toward +the water mills, he burst out into lamentations, confessing +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[Pg 225]</a></span> +to the imagined captive princess his inability to set her +free at this time; while the fishermen stood by, wondering +what it was all about.</p> + +<p>Having ceased his lamentations, Don Quixote and Sancho +joined their faithful beasts, and set out to find new adventures.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXX" id="v2CHAPTERXXX"></a>CHAPTER XXX</h2> + +<h4>Of Don Quixote's Adventure with a Fair Huntress</h4> + +<p class="cap">SANCHO left the river Ebro with no regrets, except for +the fifty reals just paid to the fishermen. He was +seriously considering in his own mind the foolishness of +remaining a squire to such a mad master as his. But late +the following afternoon they approached a field, and suddenly +Don Quixote discovered in the distance a number +of people, and as they came closer they found it was a +hawking party.</p> + +<p>Seeing in the party a lady with a hawk on her left hand, +and dressed so richly that Sancho said he had never seen +anything so fine in his life, Don Quixote decided that she +must be some lady of great distinction. Therefore he dispatched +his squire with a message to her, asking her for +permission to kiss her hand in person. He instructed +Sancho to be particularly careful not to dispense any of +his proverbs to the lady; but Sancho said he could do without +this warning, for had he not carried messages before +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[Pg 226]</a></span> +to the exalted Dulcinea, the highest lady of them all?</p> + +<p>Soon Don Quixote saw his squire kneeling before the +lady. Having given her his life's history and told her +his name, Sancho proceeded with the message of his master, +the valiant Knight of the Lions, formerly the Knight of +the Rueful Countenance, explicitly explaining his master's +modest desire. The lady, who was no other than a duchess, +at once was interested, as she had read and laughed +over the first volume of "The Ingenious Gentleman, Don +Quixote of La Mancha"; and she immediately asked Sancho +to return to his master and say that she would be delighted +beyond words to have the worthy knight and his +squire come and be her and the Duke's guests at a country +place they had there.</p> + +<p>Sancho was so flattered that the Duchess had recognized +him from having read the book, and so pleased with +the reception she had given him, as well as so taken by her +great charm and beauty that he could not get back to his +master quickly enough to tell him the good news. With +his best manner and bearing Don Quixote, attended by his +faithful one, rode into the presence of the august lady, +and kissed her hand.</p> + +<p>But while Sancho was on his way to his master with the +Duchess' message, she had sent for the Duke, and they had +arranged, both being gifted with a remarkable sense of +humor, to receive and entertain the hero in true knight-errant +fashion. Having read all the tales of chivalry, +they knew exactly what to do.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was about to dismount, when he had kissed +the Duchess' hand; and Sancho, as was his custom, wanted +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[Pg 227]</a></span> +to get off Dapple in a hurry and hold his stirrup, as soon +as he perceived his master's intention. But luck would +have it that one of his legs caught in the trappings, and he +fell head first towards the ground. There the poor squire +hung, unable to get up or down, caught by the foot. +Now, when Don Quixote, his eyes fixedly and courteously +on the Duchess, thought that his squire was there with the +stirrup, he pressed downward with all his weight, and +knight and saddle both flew high in the air off Rocinante. +When Don Quixote had reached earth, he lay there, writhing +in pain and cursing and swearing at his stupid squire, +who was still hanging by his foot.</p> + +<p>The Duke and the Duchess, unable to constrain themselves +at the amusing scene, finally were able through their +laughter to order their huntsmen to their help; and, limping, +the knight advanced to do homage to the Duke and his +consort on his damaged knees. The Duke, however, nobly +refused such honor, and instead, embraced the knight. He +then regretted in a few well chosen words the knight's accident; +but Don Quixote replied with an exalted speech, +saying that if he had fallen to the depths of the bottomless +pit, the glory of having seen such a noble and worthy pair +would have lifted him up. Then, of course, he said something +uncomplimentary about his squire, who did not know +how to tighten the girths of a saddle, although he could +not help giving him credit for having a loose tongue.</p> + +<p>But when the knight began to praise the beauty of the +Duchess, the Duke asked him courteously whether there +were not others to praise, as, for instance, his own Lady +Dulcinea. At this Don Quixote offered the Duchess his +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[Pg 228]</a></span> +services for a few days, together with those of his squire, +Sancho Panza, whom he now took pity on and praised as +being the drollest squire in the world. Whereupon the +Duchess flattered Sancho, saying that if he were droll, she +was sure he was shrewd as well; but Don Quixote broke +in and added that he was talkative. When the knight, +having heard himself addressed as the Knight of the Rueful +Countenance, begged to correct it to the Knight of the +Lions, the Duke asked him to relate the episode that thus +changed his title. And then he invited all to come to the +castle to be present at a reception that he would give to +their great and distinguished guest.</p> + +<p>With the Duchess in the middle, flanked by Don Quixote +and the Duke, the whole company headed for the castle; +but it was not long before the Duchess found her desire +for conversation with the droll and amusing Sancho irresistible. +As soon as the Duchess' wish was made known +to him, the squire eagerly wedged his way between the +horses and chattered his way into the lady's good graces.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXXI" id="v2CHAPTERXXXI"></a>CHAPTER XXXI</h2> + +<h4>Which Treats of Many and Great Matters</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE reception tendered Don Quixote was arranged +in true knight-errant fashion by the Duke, who had +ridden ahead and given full instructions to the servants. +So when Don Quixote arrived, he received a welcome that +surpassed anything he had ever read or dreamt of. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[Pg 229]</a></span></p> + +<p>The staircases and the galleries of the court were lined +with servants, who greeted him with the exclamation: +"Welcome, flower and cream of knight-errantry!" At +the same time they cast pellets with scented water over +him.</p> + +<p>Sancho was taken aback at the sight of all this glory. +He had followed the Duchess, but once in the castle, the +absence of his Dapple made him feel worried. So he +turned to one of the duennas, a dignified woman, named +Doņa Rodriguez de Grijalba, and asked her whether she +would not favor him by going outside and seeing that his +poor little Dapple was well taken care of. Doņa Rodriguez +was greatly incensed at his ordering a duenna of the +ducal household to do things of that sort, and called him a +garlic-stuffed scoundrel. Don Quixote, overhearing their +conversation, reprimanded his misbehaving servant, and +Sancho blamed it all on his love for his donkey.</p> + +<p>After this, Don Quixote was escorted into a hall the +walls of which were covered with cloth of gold and rich +tapestries, and here he was stripped of his armor by six +fair damsels. These maidens could scarcely control their +laughter when they saw him stand there, thin, emaciated, +tall and bony, dressed in his chamois doublet and tight-fitting +breeches. They begged him to permit them to put +a clean shirt on him, but that he refused with many assurances +of his modesty, asking them instead to give it to +Sancho. The two were taken to a room, where Don Quixote, +alone with his squire, undressed and put on the shirt, +while he gave Sancho admonitions galore, as to how to +behave, begging him never again to have any quarrels with +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[Pg 230]</a></span> +any duennas, for that only tended to lessen the respect for +the master, who was always judged by his squire's behavior +and actions.</p> + +<p>Then Don Quixote returned to the hall, where he was +attired in a rich baldric and a scarlet mantle, with a sword +and a gorgeous montera of green satin. As he passed +through the halls and chambers on his way to the state +dining room, he was escorted by the seneschal and twelve +pages; and the sides of each room, as well as the aisles, +were lined with servants in pompous liveries.</p> + +<p>Only four covers were laid. Besides Don Quixote and +his noble hosts the confessor of the ducal household, a cold +and austere churchman, occupied a seat at the heavily +laden table, to which our knight was ushered ceremoniously +by the Duke himself. But the dinner had not even +begun when Sancho unloosened his tongue and began with +his proverbs, much to the distress and mortification of his +master, although to the great enjoyment of the Duchess. +Sancho had been standing by Don Quixote, staring wide-eyed +and open-mouthed at everything that was taking +place, for he had never in his life seen anything so sumptuous +and ceremonious. The exchange of courtesies between +the Duke and our Knight, when the latter finally +was induced to accept the seat of honor at the head of the +table, impressed the squire considerably; and it was then +he thought the time ripe for the introduction of a story +about this matter of seats. The Duchess told him by all +means to let them hear it, and he began, telling it in the +most roundabout way, with twists and curves, and expeditions +here and there to places and matters that had as +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[Pg 231]</a></span> +much to do with the story as had the proverbs that he +stuffed it with.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was beside himself, and the confessor interrupted +the poor squire impatiently again and again; but +on he went. All the while the Duchess was laughing so +heartily that she could scarcely sit up straight in the chair. +And while the Duke engaged himself with Don Quixote, +she carried on a confidential conversation with Sancho, +who told her how he had tricked his master into believing +that his Lady Dulcinea was enchanted, saying she was as +much enchanted as his father.</p> + +<p>When the confessor heard the sacrilegious conversation +the Duchess was having with Sancho, discussing +giants and enchantments, he severely reprimanded her and +warned her that she would have to answer to God for whatever +this man did and said. Then, addressing the Duke, +whom he had forbidden to read the book about Don Quixote's +adventures, he said: "This Don Simpleton, or whatever +his name is, cannot be such a blockhead as your Excellency +would have him, holding out encouragement to +him to go on with his vagaries and follies." And then +he turned to Don Quixote and told him to be on his way, +and go home and bring up his children, if he had any; and +he called him a numbskull, and other names, and a fool +for believing that there were knights-errant in the world +and Dulcineas and other such silly things.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote sat still and never moved a muscle while +the churchman was speaking, but as soon as he had said +all he had to say, he sprang up from his seat, trembling +in his whole body, his face contorted with rage. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[Pg 232]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXXII" id="v2CHAPTERXXXII"></a>CHAPTER XXXII</h2> + +<h4>Of the Reply Don Quixote Gave His Censurer, with +Other Incidents, Grave and Droll</h4> + +<p class="cap">HAD Don Quixote not been where he was and had +the man who thus assailed him not been of the +church, it is safe to say that Don Quixote would have made +his defamer retract his words at the point of his sword. +But instead he calmed himself, and began a long discourse +on the virtues of knight-errantry, finishing it with an +avowal of his intentions which, he swore, were to do good +to all and evil to none. As for his deserving to be called +a fool, he would leave that to the judgment of the Duke +and the Duchess. But their worships never got a chance +to utter a word before Sancho broke in with the most stupendous +praise of his master's speech.</p> + +<p>The churchman wanted to know whether he was the +Sancho Panza of the book he had seen in print, to which +Sancho replied that he most certainly was, and corroborated +it with a string of proverbs, ending his long-winded +reply to the confessor's question with a wish for long life +for his master and himself, saying that neither one of them +would be in any want of empires or islands to rule. +Whereupon the Duke at once said he conferred upon Sancho +this very moment the government of one of his islands; +and hearing this Don Quixote whispered to Sancho—who +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[Pg 233]</a></span> +could not believe his own ears—to go down on his knees +and thank the Duke for his kindness.</p> + +<p>The ecclesiastic could stand this impudence no longer, +and he rose from his seat and left the room in disgust and +ill-temper. The Duke wanted to call him back, but he +was in such hysterics from hearing Sancho's proverbial nonsense +that he could not speak. After the churchman's departure +Don Quixote again took to discoursing, and delivered +a tirade on the subject of giving and taking offense, +comparing the confessor's rebuke to the offense of a woman, +whose only weapon was her tongue and who therefore +could not be punished by the sword. They marveled at +his knowledge and at the quality of his language, however +amusing he himself appeared; but it was Sancho who particularly +took their fancy, for the ducal pair thought they +had never met any one quite so amusing and droll in all +their life. And when Don Quixote had ended his discourse, +Sancho himself burst out regarding the priest: "By +my faith, I am certain if Reinaldos of Montalvan had heard +the little man's words, he would have given him such a +spank on the mouth that he would not have spoken for the +next three years."</p> + +<p>The dinner was now over, and four maidens entered: +one carrying a silver basin, another one a jug, also of silver, +a third one towels, while the fourth had her sleeves rolled +up, and, approaching Don Quixote, began to soap his face +and beard. Don Quixote thought this must be a custom +after all ducal meals, so he submitted in amazement and +stretched out his legs comfortably, that he should not appear +out of place in such surroundings. When his face +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[Pg 234]</a></span> +was all lathered, the barber maiden pretended there was no +more water in the jug; and by this time the lather had +worked its way into the knight's eyes, and he sat there +making the most fierce and ludicrous faces until the water +finally arrived. Then the Duke, in order that Don Quixote +should have no suspicions, ordered the maiden to wash +his face and beard as well. But the one who really was +crying for and needing such a washing was Sancho. He +at last got up sufficient courage to ask the Duchess that he +might share in the ceremony, and she promised him that if +necessary the maidens would even put him in the bathtub. +This kind offer Sancho declined—with many thanks, +however—saying he would be just as grateful for having +only his beard washed.</p> + +<p>While Sancho went with the seneschal to have this attended +to, Don Quixote lingered at the table with the +Duke and the Duchess. The latter was anxious to have +the hero tell her something about his Lady Dulcinea; and +Don Quixote became reminiscent and began to sigh, telling +her in exalted and flowery language of his great platonic +love for this lady, who was now enchanted by some evil +sage. When the Duchess asked Don Quixote if it were +true that she was only an imaginary figure, he replied +meekly that there was a good deal to be said on that point; +still, he thought, one must not go to extreme lengths in +asking for proof. They discussed many other things, not +forgetting Sancho, whom his master praised for his drollery +and criticised for being a booby.</p> + +<p>Suddenly a great noise was heard and the next moment +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[Pg 235]</a></span> +Sancho burst into the room trembling with rage. He was +followed by some of the servants in the kitchen. Round +his neck was a straining cloth, and dirty lather was splashed +in various places over his person. He presented an appearance +that at once made the Duchess scream with +laughter. He proceeded to tell how he had been set upon +by the kitchen-boy, who had been appointed barber by the +rest, and how the lad had attempted to lather his face +with kitchen soap and dishwater, applied with a scrubbing-brush. +Don Quixote thought it best here to make the servants +understand that he would tolerate no such jokes on his +squire, so he addressed them in severe fashion and then +ordered them back to the kitchen, with the Duchess' kind +consent.</p> + +<p>When the servants had left Sancho thought it a duty +to himself and his master—in order to uphold their mutual +dignity and for the sake of freeing himself from any untoward +suspicion—to speak on his own behalf: "Let +them bring a comb here and curry this beard of mine, and if +they get anything out of it that offends against cleanliness, +let them clip me to the skin." And when the Duchess had +acknowledged her faith in Sancho and his virtues, the poor +squire's happiness knew no bounds. He offered to serve +her for the rest of his life. He wished that he might soon +be dubbed a knight that he might carry out his desire on +that point. She thanked him for expressing such a friendly +feeling for her, and told him that she could plainly judge +by his courteous offer to her that he had been reared in no +other school than that of the great knight Don Quixote of +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[Pg 236]</a></span> +La Mancha. And she assured him that the Duke would +not forget the island he had promised him: she would +see to that.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was now feeling the necessity for his mid-day +nap, and begged to be permitted to retire. Sancho +wanted to do the same, and remarked to the Duchess that +he usually slept about four or five hours in the middle of a +warm summer day; but upon her earnest request he promised +her to try to wake up after an hour and come and +visit with her and her duennas.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXXIII" id="v2CHAPTERXXXIII"></a>CHAPTER XXXIII</h2> + +<h4>Of the Delectable Discourse Which the Duchess and +Her Damsels Held with Sancho Panza, Well +Worth Reading and Noting</h4> + +<p class="cap">AS soon as Sancho had eaten his dinner, he decided to +have no sleep that afternoon, but to hasten to the +Duchess' chambers that he might talk to her the whole +afternoon. The Duchess asked him innumerable questions +about his master and the Lady Dulcinea, and about +Teresa Panza and every one concerned in the book about +Don Quixote; and Sancho managed to keep the Duchess +and her duennas in an uncommonly good humor for the rest +of the day. They soon drifted to Sancho's government, +and the squire expressed the belief that perhaps after a +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[Pg 237]</a></span> +fortnight he would be as well versed in the affairs of government +as he was in the farm labor he had been doing +all his life.</p> + +<p>"Let them only put me into this government and they +will see wonders," he said; "for one who has been a good +squire will be a good governor."</p> + +<p>And then he took leave of the high lady, who suggested +that he go home and sleep for the rest of the afternoon. +He promised that he would, and entreated her to see to it +that good care was taken of his Dapple. When he had +explained to the Duchess that Dapple was his faithful +donkey, and told her of the incident with Doņa Rodriguez, +she assured him that Dapple would want for nothing in her +stable. She suggested that when he had his government +in hand, he ought to pension Dapple off and let him quit +working; and Sancho thought that was by no means a bad +idea, for, he said, he would not be the first ass to be so +pensioned.</p> + +<p>The Duchess, when he had left, hastened to tell the +Duke of her amusing conversation with Sancho; and again +they put their heads together, trying to invent new ways +and plots whereby they might derive amusement from the +presence of Don Quixote and his squire. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[Pg 238]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXXIV" id="v2CHAPTERXXXIV"></a>CHAPTER XXXIV</h2> + +<h4>Which Relates How They Learned the Way in Which +They Were to Disenchant the Peerless Dulcinea +Del Toboso, Which Is One of the Rarest +Adventures in This Book</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHEN the Duke and the Duchess had hit upon a +plan they proceeded to make preparations for its +being carried out, and on the sixth day they invited Don +Quixote to go hunting with them. There was an array +of huntsmen and beaters, as great a retinue as the Duke +could possibly get together. Both Don Quixote and his +squire had been presented with splendid hunting suits; but +Don Quixote did not accept his, saying that he would soon +have to return to the hard pursuits of his calling, and that +it would only be a burden to carry it along.</p> + +<p>Sancho did not know that his beautiful suit was destined +to be torn that very day. A wild boar came along, and +Sancho deserted his Dapple and climbed quickly up into +the tallest tree he could find; but fate would have it that +the branch gave way, and Sancho fell onto a branch below, +where he hung suspended by a great rent in his breeches, +screaming with all his might that he would be devoured +by the boar; but the boar fell in the next moment, pierced +by many spears, and Sancho was helped to the ground by +his master.</p> + +<p>The boar was taken to some tents nearby, where dinner +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[Pg 239]</a></span> +soon was ready and being served for the hunters. Sancho +could not refrain then from showing the Duchess what had +befallen him in the tree-top, expressing to her his opinion +of hunts of that kind, involving so much risk. Much +better, he thought, it would be to hunt hares and other +little animals. And then he went on at a tremendous +speed, repeating proverb after proverb, one minute telling +the Duchess how he would govern his island, and the +next minute talking about something in his home village.</p> + +<p>Night fell as they were talking. It was a very dark +night, which helped to make the Duke's plan seem more +likely of success. They had all left the tents and gone into +the wood, when suddenly it seemed as if the whole space +was afire in one blazing red mass of flames; then there came +the sound of trumpets, numberless ones it seemed, and of +hoofs, as if hordes of horses had passed through the wood, +and of drums, and of battle-cries in Moorish. It was one +long, tremendous, indescribable confusion. The Duke +and the Duchess were seemingly taken aback; Don Quixote +did not know what to think or do; and Sancho was absolutely +panic-stricken. It was a din so overwhelming +that even those who had arranged it were aghast and afraid.</p> + +<p>Then there came a sudden lull, and a messenger—dressed +like a demon and blowing a horn that sounded a weird and +sickly note—appeared before their eyes, apparently in +great haste. The Duke called to him and asked him where +he was going; and he replied in a coarse voice that he was +the Devil and was looking for Don Quixote of La Mancha. +He pointed to the on-riding troops, and said that +they were enchanters who were bringing the famous Lady +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[Pg 240]</a></span> +Dulcinea del Toboso and the great Frenchman Montesinos +on a triumphal car to seek their disenchantment through +the only one who could accomplish it, the Knight of the +Lions.</p> + +<p>On hearing this, Don Quixote said: "If you are the +Devil, you ought to know that I am Don Quixote!"</p> + +<p>Whereupon the Devil exclaimed in surprise that he had +not noticed the knight at all because he was so preoccupied +with so many other things that he had almost forgotten +what he was there for. Judging the Devil by his remark +Sancho decided he was a very honest fellow and a good +Christian; otherwise he would not have sworn—as Sancho +did—by God and his conscience. After that the squire +concluded that even hell had its quota of souls.</p> + +<p>The Devil asked Don Quixote to communicate with +Montesinos that he might receive instructions as to how +to carry out the disenchantment of Lady Dulcinea; and +then he turned around his horse and was gone. The whole +thing had happened so suddenly that even Don Quixote +was perplexed and seemed as if he did not know whether +to believe what he had seen and heard. Sancho was dumbfounded +and frightened out of his wits.</p> + +<p>As Don Quixote made no move to follow the Devil's +advice, the Duke turned to him and asked whether he intended +to remain where he was. He answered that he +would even if all the devils from hell should attack him. +Scarcely had he vowed this when he had to gather all his +courage in order not to give way to fear, for again there +broke out a noise and din that surpassed anything that he +had ever heard: shots of cannon and muskets, shouts and +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[Pg 241]</a></span> +screams from all sides, and the terrific sound of all the +trumpets, horns, drums, bugles and clarions; and then came +the heavy creaking noise of carts, coming through the wood +and all brightly lighted with rows of tapers.</p> + +<p>It was too much for poor Sancho. He fell fainting on +the Duchess' skirt. She ordered her servants to fan him +and to throw water in his face, and he regained consciousness +just as one of the carts was passing. It was drawn +by four oxen, completely covered with black cloth, and +attached to each horn was a lighted wax taper. Leading +the oxen were two demons with such horrible, frightful +faces that Sancho shut his eyes tightly after having got +one glance of them. An old, worthy-looking man with a +long, snow-white beard sat on a raised seat on the cart; +and when he passed Don Quixote he said in a deep voice: +"I am the sage Lirgandeo." And the cart continued. +Then followed other carts, with other sages, and Sancho's +face suddenly lighted up, for he heard sweet music in the +distance, and he said to the Duchess: "Seņora, where +there is music, there can be no mischief."</p> + +<p>But Don Quixote would not commit himself, for all he +remarked was: "That remains to be seen." +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[Pg 242]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXXV" id="v2CHAPTERXXXV"></a>CHAPTER XXXV</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Is Continued the Instruction Given to Don +Quixote Touching the Disenchantment of +Dulcinea, Together with Other +Marvelous Incidents</h4> + +<p class="cap">AS the sound of the music came closer, they distinguished +a triumphal car, several times larger than the +other ones, and on it were seated two figures, surrounded by +a great many penitents, robed in white, and with lighted +wax tapers in their hands. One of the figures was a young +maiden in the costume of a nymph. She was very beautiful. +The other one was dressed in a robe of state and had +her head covered with a black veil.</p> + +<p>As the car reached the spot where the Duke and Duchess +and Don Quixote were standing, the music suddenly +ceased, and the figure in the long robe rose and removed +both the robe and the veil. All were astonished to find +themselves face to face with Death. Sancho was frightened; +Don Quixote felt ill at ease; and even the Duke and +the Duchess seemed uncomfortable.</p> + +<p>Then Death began to declaim a long poem which ended +with the announcement that the Lady Dulcinea was enchanted +by himself, the sage Merlin, here in the guise of +Death, and that she could be redeemed in but one way: +by three thousand three hundred lashes administered on +Don Quixote's squire Sancho.</p> + +<p>When Sancho heard this he exclaimed that he would +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[Pg 243]</a></span> +rather stab himself than take the lashes, for he failed to see +what he had to do with the enchantment of the Lady Dulcinea. +This talk infuriated Don Quixote, who threatened +to tie him to a tree and lay on the lashes himself, if his +faithful squire had so little respect for his beloved one +that he would not sacrifice himself to such an extent. But +Merlin said that would have no effect, for the worthy Sancho +must do the sacrifice of his own free will, or the disenchantment +could not be accomplished.</p> + +<p>Sancho, however, was as stubborn as a mule, and it was +not until the Duke himself took a hand in the matter and +threatened him with the loss of his governorship that he +gave in; and then a compromise was made whereby Sancho +promised to inflict the three thousand three hundred lashes +upon himself. Merlin assured him, however, that if he +should make any mistake in counting them, it would soon +be known; for the moment all the lashes had been dealt, +the Lady Dulcinea would be released—neither one lash +before, nor one lash after—and she would at once come to +thank and reward him for his sacrifice.</p> + +<p>As soon as Sancho had testified his willingness to serve +his master and his master's lady, Don Quixote fell on his +squire's neck and kissed him. The Duke and the Duchess +praised him for his unselfishness. And the music played +again. Then the car moved on, Lady Dulcinea bowed +to Sancho and the ducal pair, and dawn appeared with its +glowing smile. The muskets were again heard; and all +was calm.</p> + +<p>The Duke was pleased beyond measure with his idea, +which had been so effectively carried out. The hunt was +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[Pg 244]</a></span> +at an end, and all returned happy and content—all except +Sancho, who could not help thinking of the pain he was +to give himself. But the Duke was bent on hitting upon +new schemes whereby he should be able to continue the +gaiety that Sancho and his master caused.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXXVI" id="v2CHAPTERXXXVI"></a>CHAPTER XXXVI</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Is Related the Strange and Undreamed-of +Adventure of the Distressed Duenna, Alias the +Countess Trifaldi, Together with a +Letter Which Sancho Panza +Wrote to His Wife, +Teresa Panza</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE Duke's majordomo had played the part of Merlin, +and he it was who induced a page to appear as +Dulcinea. This majordomo was a fellow full of pranks +and good humor, and it was he who had written the verses +he recited, too. To him the Duke now turned, and they +contrived together another amusing scheme.</p> + +<p>The next day Sancho was asked by the Duchess how +many lashes he had given himself; and he replied meekly +that he had commenced with five. After a moment's inquisition, +however, the squire admitted that it had not been +with lashes but slaps that he had done penance. The +Duchess said she was certain that the sage Merlin would +not tolerate any such false pretense. She suggested that +he make a scourge with claws or knotted cords so that he +would be sure to feel what he was doing to himself, and +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[Pg 245]</a></span> +when the Duchess offered to bring him such a scourge in the +morning, he had to promise to accept it. Then he told her +that he had written a letter to his wife, Teresa Panza, in +the governor style; and begged her to read it, which she +did. The Duchess derived so much amusement from it +that she hastened to show it to the Duke. And when Sancho +was asked whether he had written the letter himself, +he said that he only dictated it, since he could neither read +nor write.</p> + +<p>After dinner the Duke and the Duchess were sitting in +the garden talking with Don Quixote and Sancho, when +suddenly there was heard the sound of a deep doleful voice. +They all turned quickly to see who was speaking, and there +they saw approaching them a man with a snow-white beard +that reached almost to the ground. He said he was Trifaldin, +of the White Beard, squire to the Countess Trifaldi, +otherwise called the Distressed Duenna, and that he had +come in search of the valiant knight Don Quixote who he +had heard was visiting at the castle. His mistress, he said, +in order to find this knight had traveled all the way from +the kingdom of Kandy without breaking her fast, and now +he begged that Don Quixote would receive the lady, that +she herself might tell him her misfortunes.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote at once bade the squire go and fetch the +Countess; at the same time he uttered a desire to the Duke +that the confessor who did not believe in knights errant +might have been present to see how appreciated and famed +his achievements had become throughout the world. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[Pg 246]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXXVII-XXXIX" id="v2CHAPTERXXXVII-XXXIX"></a>CHAPTERS XXXVII-XXXIX</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Is Continued the Notable Adventure of the +Distressed Duenna, Including Her +Marvelous and Memorable +Tale of Misfortune</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE Countess soon arrived, escorted by twelve duennas, +who formed a lane through which she passed into +the Duke's presence. On seeing so distinguished a guest, +he went to receive her with all the honors due to her rank. +When she had curtsied, she asked the Duke if it were +true that the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha was present +in the company. The import of her question was +heightened by the way she expressed it, for these were +her words spoken in a deep and coarse voice: "Are there +present here that knight immaculatissimus, Don Quixote +de la Manchissima, and his squirissimus Panza?"</p> + +<p>Before Don Quixote or any one else had had an opportunity +to reply, Sancho opened his mouth and burst out: +"The Panza is here, and Don Quixottissimus too; and so, +most distressedest Duennissima, you may say what you +willissimus, for we are all readissimus to do you any servissimus."</p> + +<p>Then Don Quixote stepped forward and begged the +duenna to give him an account of her distress that he might +know how to relieve it. The duenna became emotional +almost beyond bounds. She thrust herself before Don +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[Pg 247]</a></span> +Quixote and embraced his legs, imploring his and his +squire's help, and then began to tell her story of misery.</p> + +<p>All the while the Duke and the Duchess were in paroxysms +of laughter, so well did the duenna act her part. And +their enjoyment was further heightened by the remarks +and questions that Sancho interspersed here and there, +always at the wrong moment and much to his master's +chagrin.</p> + +<p>The weeping duenna went on to tell how she had been +the ranking duenna at the court of the dowager-queen of +Kandy; how she had been entrusted with the care and the +bringing up of the Princess Antonomasia, the young heiress +of the kingdom, and how she had permitted a young +gentleman at the court, who was enamored of the Princess, +to gain her favor in such a degree that marriage followed. +The young Don had captivated both the Princess and the +duenna with his accomplishments, for not only did he +play the guitar and write poetry, and dance, but he could +as well make bird-cages. But when the Queen learned of +her daughter's marriage to one so much beneath her in +rank, her heart broke in twain and she collapsed and was +buried in three days, the duenna declared, tears streaming +down her face all the while.</p> + +<p>Sancho was curious at once, and wanted to have a doubt +settled. "She died, no doubt?" he asked; and the duenna +assured him that they did not bury the living in Kandy, +only the dead. But Sancho thought it was a very stupid +thing for the Old Queen to go and die thus; he said he +could see no reason why she should have taken the whole +thing so to heart, for the Princess might have married a +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[Pg 248]</a></span> +page. That, in Sancho's opinion, might have been an excuse +for dying; but the Don was such an accomplished +man, and a gentleman at that, who could even make bird-cages. +Dying was too absurd!</p> + +<p>Then the duenna resumed, and now came the worst of +her story. She told how the two lovers, upon the Queen's +death, had become enchanted by the giant Malambruno, +the Queen's first cousin, who had sworn that they would +not regain their right shapes until the famous and valiant +knight of La Mancha had met him in single combat. Having +sentenced them thus, he summoned all the duennas +in the castle, charging them with the responsibility of the +evil match, and saying that since he did not wish them to +suffer death, he would punish them in some other way. +Scarcely had the giant uttered these words before their +faces began to sting, their pores opened, and when the +duennas put their hands to their faces, they felt themselves +punished in a most horrifying manner.</p> + +<p>Here the thirteen duennas raised their veils, and the +Duke and his company were amazed to see that all the +women were bearded. The Distressed Duenna raised a +wail, and assured those present that had it not been that +she had cried so much that she had no tears left, she would +now shed them copiously, and she exclaimed: "Where, +I ask, can a duenna with a beard go? What father or +mother will pity her? Who will help her? For, if even +when she has a smooth skin and a face tortured by a thousand +kinds of cosmetics, she can hardly get anybody to +love her, what will she do when she shows a countenance +turned into a thicket? O duennas! It was an unlucky +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[Pg 249]</a></span> +moment when we were born and when our fathers begot +us!"</p> + +<p>As the unhappy duenna spoke these words, it seemed as +if she were about to faint. With a deep and distressing +moan, she covered her face with her hands.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXL" id="v2CHAPTERXL"></a>CHAPTER XL</h2> + +<h4>Of Matters Relating and Belonging to This Adventure +and to This Memorable History</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE one who was most impressed by this sad story +and enchantment was Sancho, who thought it a dastardly +trick for any giant to do. Did not the enchanter +know that it cost money to shave? In Sancho's opinion, +it would have been infinitely better to have taken off a +part of their noses, even if it would have given them an impediment +of speech. The duennas replied that some of +them had tried sticking-plaster in order to spare themselves +the expense of shaving, but to jerk it off their faces, +was a painful procedure, they said.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote interrupted and declared that they would +have to follow no such course, for he would rid them of +their beards or he would pluck out his own in the land of +the Moors. Such a noble declaration seemed to revive the +Distressed Duenna. She came up to Don Quixote and told +him that the giant Malambruno had been courteous enough +to offer to send the famous wooden steed that the valiant +Pierres used. Merlin had made it. This horse could go +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[Pg 250]</a></span> +through the air with a speed that carried its rider to the +ends of the world overnight. It was steered by a peg in +his forehead, she said, and this peg also served as a bridle. +Furthermore, there was room for two—one in the saddle, +and one on the croup.</p> + +<p>"I should like to see him," said Sancho; "but to fancy +that I am going to mount him, either in the saddle or on the +croup, is to ask pears of an elm-tree. Let each one shave +himself as best he can; I am not going to be bruised to get +rid of any one's beard."</p> + +<p>But Countess Trifaldi insisted that Panza was indispensable +to the shaving of the duennas; and when the +Duchess had pleaded with him and he saw the Distressed +Duenna's eyes fill with tears, he could hardly keep his own +back. He bent to their will and resigned himself to his +fate and the adventure of riding through the air on the +croup of the mighty wooden steed.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXLI" id="v2CHAPTERXLI"></a>CHAPTER XLI</h2> + +<h4>The End of This Protracted Adventure</h4> + +<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE was in a state of anxiety during the +whole day for fear that Malambruno should not +send the steed, but soon after nightfall there arrived in +the garden four wild-men, clad in ivy, and carrying on +their shoulders a large wooden horse. Don Quixote was +summoned by the Distressed Duenna and he mounted the +horse at once, not even putting on his spurs. By this time, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[Pg 251]</a></span> +however, Sancho had changed his mind and decided that he +was not going to fly through the air like a witch. But +upon the earnest and courteous solicitations of the Duke, +Sancho at last consented to ride with his master.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote begged Sancho to give himself five hundred +lashes on behalf of his enchanted Dulcinea before they +set off; but this request struck the squire as the absurdest +one he had ever heard. How could his master expect +him to sit on a hard wooden horse while he was all bruised +and sore from the lashes? He did promise solemnly, +however, that as soon as the duennas had been shaved he +would turn to the fulfilling of the other debt.</p> + +<p>The Distressed Duenna blindfolded them, saying that +doing so would prevent them from getting dizzy when +they rose to great heights; and Sancho, trembling and tearful, +complained that the croup was too hard and begged for +a cushion. But the duenna answered him that the magic +steed permitted no trappings of any kind, and she +suggested that he place himself sideways like a woman, +for no doubt he would feel the hardness less in that position.</p> + +<p>Sancho did so; and then he uncovered his eyes and +looked in a tender fashion on those he was leaving behind, +and began to cry piteously. Don Quixote told him +sharply to cover his eyes again and not to act like a fool and +a coward; and his squire did as he was bidden, after having +commended himself to God and begged the duennas to +pray all the paternosters and ave-marias they could for +him. They in turn admonished him to stick tight to the +croup and not to lose hold of it, warning him that if he fell, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[Pg 252]</a></span> +he would fall like a planet and be blinded by all the stars +he would meet on his way down to Earth.</p> + +<p>Sobbing, Sancho clung to his master, embracing him with +his fat arms so tightly that Don Quixote came near being +upset. The knight took a firm grip on the steering peg, +and reprimanded his squire for squeezing him. He told +him there was nothing to worry about, for it seemed to him +he had never in his life ridden a steed that was so easy-going: +one would hardly think they had budged from their +original place, he said. When Sancho had calmed himself, +he concurred in this opinion. He had never heard +that there were people living in the air, and did he not +hear voices quite close to his ears? Don Quixote then had +to explain that affairs of this sort were not of the every-day +kind, and that whenever one went on a trip like this, +the voices from the Earth would reach thousands of +leagues away.</p> + +<p>Scarcely had Don Quixote said this, before a gust of +wind came that threatened to unseat both the knight and +his squire. (The fact was that it was the draught from a +tremendous pair of bellows which the Duke had had unearthed +for the occasion.) Sancho was shaking in his seat, +and Don Quixote warned him again to sit still, for they +were in danger of having a runaway straight into the regions +of air and thunder, and then into the region of fire. +He feared he might not get the steed to turn before it was +too late, he said; for it seemed as if the machinery of the +peg were rather intricate, and did not work quickly.</p> + +<p>Suddenly Sancho began to yell that they were already +lost in the flames, and would be burned to death. (He +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_253" id="Page_253">[Pg 253]</a></span> +felt his beard being singed by a torch. It was one of a +great number that the majordomo had provided.) Don +Quixote, too, felt his face warm up. But he would not +permit Sancho to uncover his eyes; if he did, the knight +said he would only be seized with giddiness and both of +them would fall off their horse. Besides, he comforted +Sancho with the thought that the journey would last only +a few moments longer, and that they were now passing a +final test before landing in the kingdom of Kandy. Don +Quixote added that the distance they had traveled must +have been tremendous, and Sancho replied: "All I know +is that if the Seņora Magallanes or Magalona was satisfied +with this croup, she could not have been very tender of +flesh."</p> + +<p>At this moment came the culmination of their journey +through the air. A torch was tied to the tail of the steed, +which was stuffed with fire-crackers, and suddenly there +was a tremendous noise and a flash, and in the next moment +Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, both scorched, lay +as if thunderstruck on the ground.</p> + +<p>When the knight and his squire finally came to, and +looked about, they were aghast at what they saw. The +ground was strewn with bodies, but the bearded duennas +were gone. Planted in the ground they saw a lance, attached +to which they found a parchment which proclaimed +that the enchantment of the duennas and of the Don and +his royal bride was at an end, and that as soon as the squire +Sancho Panza deigned to carry out the flogging he was +to give himself, the peerless Dulcinea would appear in all +her original beauty again. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_254" id="Page_254">[Pg 254]</a></span></p> + +<p>Now the Duke and the Duchess, who were among the +bodies lying on the ground, seemingly dead, lifted up their +heads, as if just coming out of a long sleep; and Don +Quixote hastened to tell them of the great miracle that had +befallen him. They were both convulsed with laughter—which +Don Quixote mistook for emotion—and when he +had finished telling them about his marvelous adventure, +they had all they could do to reply. The Duke finally +gathered enough strength to embrace him and tell him +that he was no doubt the greatest knight the world had +ever known.</p> + +<p>The Duchess was curious to know how Sancho had enjoyed +the trip; and he confessed that in spite of his master's +command he had peered from underneath the kerchief before +his eyes, and had seen the earth below, and that the +people seemed as little as hazelnuts and the earth itself +looked like a grain of mustard-seed; and when he passed +through the region of fire he had seen the goats of heaven, +he said.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXLII" id="v2CHAPTERXLII"></a>CHAPTER XLII</h2> + +<h4>Of the Counsels Which Don Quixote Gave Sancho Panza +Before He Set Out to Govern the Island, +Together with Other Well-Considered +Matters</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE heaven-riding adventure had been such a success +that the Duke and the Duchess could not rest +until they had seen Sancho installed as governor of his +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_255" id="Page_255">[Pg 255]</a></span> +island; for they felt certain they should derive a great +fund of amusement from such an experiment. So Sancho +was told to prepare himself.</p> + +<p>But Sancho, having seen heaven, seemed less keen to be +governor now, since he felt how small humanity really was, +particularly in comparison with the goats of the sky +which he claimed he had seen, and he replied that he would +much rather have a bit of heaven than any island on earth. +The Duke, however, told Sancho that, not being the ruler +there, it was for God to dispose of such domains. So +Sancho promised to come down to earth and be governor, +and to attire himself in the regalia befitting the office.</p> + +<p>This being done, Don Quixote and Sancho withdrew to +the knight's room, and there Don Quixote gave his squire +advice about governing. He admonished him to be a champion +of virtue always, to strive to know himself and not +to puff himself up like a peacock, whose feathers, he bade +him remember, were fine, but who had ugly feet. And the +advice and instructions that master gave servant were such +that no one would have thought it was a madman speaking.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXLIII" id="v2CHAPTERXLIII"></a>CHAPTER XLIII</h2> + +<h4>Of the Second Set of Counsels Don Quixote Gave +Sancho Panza</h4> + +<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE then told his squire to forget +neither to cut his nails nor to supply his servants +with livery. The latter, he said, must be neat and never +showy. If he could do with three servants instead of six, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_256" id="Page_256">[Pg 256]</a></span> +he advised him to clothe three poor men: thus he would +have pages for heaven as well as for earth. He must +never eat garlic or onions, the knight said, and he begged +him to leave out all affectations. When it came to drinking, +he asked him always to bear in mind that too much +wine kept neither secrets nor promises. Another thing he +must not do was to flatter people; Don Quixote considered +this a very odious practice. Last, but not least, said Don +Quixote, he must remember not to use such quantities of +proverbs as he had been wont to.</p> + +<p>Here Sancho felt he had to break in and say a word, and +he retorted: "God alone can cure that, for I have more +proverbs in me than a book, and when I speak they fall to +fighting among themselves to get out; that's why my +tongue lets fly the first that comes, though it may not be +pat to the purpose." And here Sancho in the very face of +his master's admonitions, let go a string of proverbs so long +that Don Quixote was almost in despair.</p> + +<p>"My mother beats me, and I go on with my tricks," said +Don Quixote. "I am bidding thee avoid proverbs, and +here in a second thou hast shot out a whole litany of them. +Those proverbs will bring thee to the gallows some day, +I promise thee." +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_257" id="Page_257">[Pg 257]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXLIV" id="v2CHAPTERXLIV"></a>CHAPTER XLIV</h2> + +<h4>How Sancho Panza Was Conducted to His Government; +and of the Strange Adventure That Befell Don +Quixote in the Castle</h4> + +<p class="cap">BEFORE Sancho departed for his island—which was +in reality a village belonging to his new master's +duchy, and surrounded by land on all sides—Don Quixote +wrote out carefully the advice he had given him in the +morning of the same day. To escort the new governor to +the village the Duke had chosen the majordomo, who had +played the part of the Countess Trifaldi; and the moment +Sancho saw his face and heard him speak, he confided to +to his master the resemblance in voice and appearance.</p> + +<p>Always suspicious of enchanters, Don Quixote bade his +late squire to keep a sharp eye on the man, and to be sure +to inform him whether anything happened that confirmed +his suspicion.</p> + +<p>Then Sancho was dressed in the garb of a lawyer and +mounted on a mule. Dapple followed behind with new +trappings, and Sancho was so pleased with the appearance +of Dapple that he could not help turning around +from time to time to look at him. Don Quixote wept +when it came to the leave-taking, and Sancho kissed devotedly +the hands of the Duchess and the Duke.</p> + +<p>But as soon as Sancho had left, Don Quixote felt a +great loneliness in his heart; and that night, after having +supped with the ducal pair, he begged to be excused early +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_258" id="Page_258">[Pg 258]</a></span> +and retired to his room, saying he wanted no servant to +wait on him.</p> + +<p>He undressed at once, and went to bed, leaving the +window overlooking the garden open. Soon he heard the +voices of two young maidens, and he was surprised to hear +that they were speaking of him. One of them he recognized +as the fair Altisidora, and, persuaded by the other +voice, she commenced to serenade the knight, to whom in +her song she bared her aching heart, and the passion that +burned there for him.</p> + +<p>But the knight could not be moved. His was a love +for no one but his Dulcinea. To indicate to the young +maiden that he was aware of her intentions and could not +be swayed, he rose from his bed, and went to the window +and feigned a sneeze. When that was of no avail and +neither produced reticence in the maidens nor drove them +away from his window, he sighed: "O what an unlucky +knight I am that no damsel can set eyes on me but falls in +love with me!" And he went on to bewail his fate, crying +out in the night that all the empresses in the world were +jealous of the love he bore in his heart for the sweet Dulcinea, +and saying that he must and would remain hers, +pure, courteous, and chaste, in spite of all the magic-working +powers on earth.</p> + +<p>Then the worthy knight shut his window with a bang, +and thrust himself on his bed, entirely out of patience with +the enticing and sinful young maidens. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_259" id="Page_259">[Pg 259]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXLV" id="v2CHAPTERXLV"></a>CHAPTER XLV</h2> + +<h4>Of How the Great Sancho Panza Took Possession of His +Island; and of How He Made a Beginning in +Governing</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHEN Sancho arrived in his village he learned that +his island was called Barataria. He was greeted +with great demonstrations: the whole community had +turned out to meet him, and all the churchbells were ringing. +He was first taken to the church, where he gave +thanks to God; then he was presented with the keys of the +town. From the church he was taken to the judgment +seat outside, and there he was told to answer numerous +questions which the majordomo put to him, saying that +that was an ancient custom on taking office.</p> + +<p>The questions were cases of quarrels between the villagers, +and Sancho answered each one of them so sagely +that every one gaped in wonder, for, judging by his appearance +and the way he talked, they had thought their +governor a fool. Instead of thinking thus, they now began +to admire him and to consider themselves lucky and +blessed by having him in their midst. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_260" id="Page_260">[Pg 260]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXLVI" id="v2CHAPTERXLVI"></a>CHAPTER XLVI</h2> + +<h4>Of the Terrible Bell and Cat Fright That Don Quixote +Got in the Course of the Enamored Altisidora's +Wooing</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE thought of Altisidora's love bothered Don Quixote +so that he could not go to sleep. He had torn +his green stockings, while undressing, and having neither +needle nor thread he could not mend them, and this increased +his annoyance. Soon it was morning, and to put +an end to his agony, he rose and dressed himself. But on +his way to the ante-chamber, where the Duke and Duchess +would receive him, he passed through a gallery, where he +was surprised to find the fair Altisidora and her friend +who had been with her outside his window the night before.</p> + +<p>When Altisidora laid eyes on the knight errant, she fell +in a dead faint, but was caught in the arms of her friend, +who began to unlace her dress. Don Quixote remained +cold and untouched, mumbling all the while to himself +that he knew perfectly well why she had fainted. Her +friend retorted with venom in her voice that she wished +he would disappear from the castle, for if he remained +there much longer Altisidora would be wasting away into +nothingness—even if she were the healthiest and most +buxom maiden there at the moment—and die from a broken +heart. This seemed to touch Don Quixote, for he replied +that if she would see to it that a lute was put in his room +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">[Pg 261]</a></span> +that night, he would sing to her and try to comfort her in +the night while she stood outside his window.</p> + +<p>The damsels went at once to tell the Duchess what had +happened, and she was pleased beyond words; and together +they hit upon a new joke which would bring them +fresh merriment.</p> + +<p>Just before midnight Don Quixote came to his chamber +and found there a guitar; and, having tuned it as best he +could, he began to let out his rusty voice into the notes of +a ballad that he himself had composed that day. While +he stood there on his balcony singing, there suddenly broke +out a tremendous din; and from above was let down a cord +to which hundreds of bells were attached, making the most +deafening sound. At the same time a bag of cats, each +with a bell tied to its tail, came shooting down upon the +unfortunate knight, who was frightened beyond words by +the meowing and squalling and screaming of the cats and +by the jingling of the bells.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote stood paralyzed, with the guitar clutched +in his hand, when suddenly it struck him that his room +must have been invaded by jumping devils—for the cats +had knocked the candles down on the floor, extinguishing +them as they did so, and the room was now in pitch darkness. +He suddenly flung his guitar away and drew his +sword, charging the enchanters with all the fervor and energy +that he possessed.</p> + +<p>All the cats flew toward the balcony, from where they +escaped into the garden—all except one, which Don Quixote +had cornered, and was making violent stabs at, without +hitting anything but the air, the wall and the floor. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_262" id="Page_262">[Pg 262]</a></span> +This little beast, fighting for its life, like one beset, jumped +at the knight, put its teeth and claws into his nose, and remained +there, holding on infuriated, while Don Quixote +gave out the most terrible screams and howls.</p> + +<p>When the Duke and the Duchess heard what was going +on, they became afraid that some harm might be done the +knight errant; so they ran to his chamber with all haste. +The Duke rushed to the rescue of Don Quixote's nose; but +in spite of the horrible pain he must have been in, the +knight was brave enough to decline all aid, shouting aloud +that he wished to fight the malignant enchanter alone. At +last, however, the Duke could see the poor fellow suffer +no longer, and he managed to separate the cat from Don +Quixote's nose.</p> + +<p>The fair Altisidora was given the task to cover the damaged +parts of the knight's face with ointment, and she did +this with a loving and caressing hand, although she could +not resist telling him that he would not have been in this +predicament if he had listened to her the night before. +She jealously hoped, too, that his squire Sancho would forget +all about the whippings so that Dulcinea would remain +enchanted forever. But Don Quixote was insensible to +anything she said; he only sighed and sighed. And then he +thanked the Duke and the Duchess for all their kindness; +and they really felt sorry in their hearts for the end the +joke had taken. They bade him good-night; he stretched +himself on his bed; and there he remained for five days. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_263" id="Page_263">[Pg 263]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXLVII" id="v2CHAPTERXLVII"></a>CHAPTER XLVII</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Is Continued the Account of How Sancho Panza +Conducted Himself in His Government</h4> + +<p class="cap">HAVING held court, Sancho was escorted to a +magnificent palace, where dinner had been laid in +a large and gorgeous chamber. There were numerous +ceremonies that he had to pass through as he entered; but +he went through them all undisturbed and with phlegmatic +dignity. He was seated at the head of the table, his own +guest of honor as it were, for he found he was the only one +present there, excepting a number of pages who surrounded +him. But then he discovered behind himself a +gentleman who turned out to be a physician, and who soon +aroused Sancho's ire. For every time a dish was passed to +Sancho, it had first to be passed upon by the physician; +and this dignitary seemed to have made up his mind that +governors were not meant to live, for every dish was sent +back to the kitchen, and Sancho found that a governor's +meal consisted in starvation.</p> + +<p>This finally enraged the new governor so that he ordered +the doctor out of his sight, threatening to break a +chair over his head if he did not disappear quickly enough; +but just at that moment there arrived a messenger with a +letter for the Governor from the Duke, and Sancho became +so excited that he forgot about his physician's expulsion +for the moment. The majordomo read the letter, which +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_264" id="Page_264">[Pg 264]</a></span> +was addressed to the Governor of the Island of Barataria. +In it the Duke warned Sancho that attacks would be made +upon the island some night in the near future by enemies +of the Duke, and also, the Duke said, he had learned that +four men had entered the town in disguise, and that they +would make an attempt upon the Governor's life. He +therefore cautioned Sancho to eat nothing that was offered +to him.</p> + +<p>At once Sancho decided that the worst conspirator against +his life was the physician, who wanted to kill him by the +slow death of hunger. He said he thought it best to have +him thrust into a dungeon. And then he asked for a piece +of bread and four pounds of grapes, feeling sure that no +poison would be in them, announcing at the same time as his +maxim that if he were going to be able to combat enemies +he would have to be well fed.</p> + +<p>He then turned to the messenger and bade him say +to the Duke that his wishes would be obeyed; at the +same time he sent a request to the Duchess that she should +not forget to have the letter he had written to his Teresa +Panza delivered, together with the bundle, by a messenger. +Last but not least, he asked to be remembered to his beloved +master Don Quixote by a kiss of the hand. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_265" id="Page_265">[Pg 265]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXLVIII-XLIX" id="v2CHAPTERXLVIII-XLIX"></a>CHAPTERS XLVIII-XLIX</h2> + +<h4>Of What Happened to Sancho in Making the Round of +His Island</h4> + +<p class="cap">AT last the physician felt it to his advantage to consent +to prescribe a good supper for the Governor that +evening. The day had been taken up with all sorts of +applicants, who, it seemed to Sancho, would always arrive +at the wrong time, either when he was about to eat +or wanted to sleep.</p> + +<p>The supper hour, which Sancho had been longing for all +that day arrived at last, and he was delighted with the beef, +salad, onions, and calves' feet that were put before him. +He told the doctor that for the future he ought never to +trouble himself about giving him dainty dishes and choice +food to eat, for it would only unhinge his stomach. Then +to the head-carver he said: "What you had best do is to +serve me with what they call <i>ollas podridas</i>—and the rottener +they are the better they smell!" The others he addressed +proverbially thus: "But let nobody play pranks on +me, for either we are or we are not. Let us live and eat in +peace and good fellowship, for when God sends the dawn, +he sends it for all. I mean to govern this island without +giving up a right or taking a bribe. Let every one keep his +eye open, and look out for the arrow; for I can tell them +'the devil is in Cantillana,' and if they drive me to it they +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_266" id="Page_266">[Pg 266]</a></span> +shall see something that will astonish them. Nay, make +yourself honey and the flies will eat you."</p> + +<p>In reply to this the head-carver took it upon himself to +speak for the rest of the inhabitants on the island, assuring +Sancho that every one was greatly pleased with his mild +government, and that he already stood high in their affections.</p> + +<p>This brought forth a declaration from Sancho that if the +people were not pleased with his government, they would +be fools; and then he went on to state that he intended to +see to it himself that the island was purged of everything +unclean and of all idlers and vagabonds. The latter he +compared to the drones in a hive, that eat up the honey the +industrious bees make. Furthermore, he emphasized that +he would encourage and reward the virtuous, and protect +the church and its ministers.</p> + +<p>The majordomo was genuinely filled with admiration +for all the excellent ideas and remarks of the new governor, +particularly when he considered that he was a man +without either education or culture; and he could not help +admitting to himself that even a joke could sometimes become +a reality, and that those who had played a joke on +some one might live to find themselves the victims of the +very same joke.</p> + +<p>That night the Governor as usual made his rounds, accompanied +by the majordomo and his whole staff, including +the chronicler, who was to record the deeds of Governor +Don Sancho Panza; and before the night was over he had +given fresh proof of his wisdom, for he settled a quarrel +between two gamblers and decided to break up gambling +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_267" id="Page_267">[Pg 267]</a></span> +on his island. He kept a youth out of jail. And he restored +a young girl, who wanted to see the world as a boy, +to her father.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERL" id="v2CHAPTERL"></a>CHAPTER L</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Is Set Forth How Governor Sancho Panza's +Wife Received a Message and a Gift from the +Duchess; and also What Befell the Page Who +Carried the Letter to Teresa Panza</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE Duchess did not forget her promise, and she sent +the page who had played the part of Dulcinea when +the Devil entered a plea for her disenchantment, with +Governor Sancho's letter and bundle to his wife. At the +same time the Duchess entrusted him with a string of coral +beads as a gift from herself to Teresa Panza, with which +gift went a letter as well.</p> + +<p>When the page reached the village of La Mancha he +saw, on entering it, some women washing clothes in a +brook; and he found that one of them was no other than the +Governor's young daughter. She eagerly ran to the good-looking +young man, and, breathless with excitement at the +thought of his having news from her father, she skipped +along in front of him until they had reached their little +house.</p> + +<p>Teresa Panza was spinning, and she came out in a gray +petticoat, vigorous, sunburnt and healthy, and wanted to +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_268" id="Page_268">[Pg 268]</a></span> +know what all the excitement was about. The page +quickly jumped from his horse, thrust himself on his knees +before her, and exclaimed to the bewildered woman: +"Let me kiss your hand, Seņora Doņa Panza, as the lawful +and only wife of Seņor Don Sancho Panza, rightful governor +of the island of Barataria."</p> + +<p>But by this time the poor woman had got over her first +surprise, and she bade him rise, saying that he should not +do things like that, and that she was only a poor country +woman, and the wife of a squire errant, not a governor. +However, when the page had given her the letters and the +gifts, her doubts were crushed, and she decided that Sancho's +master must have given her husband the government +he had promised him, the one that Sancho had been talking +about all the time. And then she asked the page to read +the letters to her, since she herself had not learned that art, +although she could spin, she said.</p> + +<p>When the page had finished reading the Duchess' letter, +poor Teresa Panza was overcome with gratitude to the +gracious lady who had made her husband, a poor illiterate +booby, governor—and a good one besides—and who +had deigned to ask her, humble woman that she was, for a +couple of dozen or so of acorns.</p> + +<p>"Ah, what a good, plain, lowly lady!" she exclaimed. +"May I be buried with ladies of that sort, and not with +the gentlewomen we have in this town, that fancy, because +they are gentlewomen, the wind must not touch them, and +go to church with as much airs as if they were queens, no +less, and who seem to think they are disgraced if they look +as a farmer's wife! And see here how this good lady, for +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_269" id="Page_269">[Pg 269]</a></span> +all she is a Duchess, calls me her friend, and treats me as +if I were her equal!"</p> + +<p>Then she told her Sanchica to make ready a meal, with +plenty of eggs and bacon, for the lad who had brought +them such good news, while she herself ran out and told +the neighbors of their great luck. Soon Samson Carrasco +and the curate came to the house, having heard the news, +and wanted to know what madness had taken possession of +Sancho's wife. But when they had read the letters and +had seen the presents, they themselves were perplexed, and +did not know what to make of it; and when they had met the +page and he had confirmed everything that was said in the +letters, they were convinced, although they were at a loss +to understand how it all had come to happen.</p> + +<p>The Duchess' asking for a few acorns, they could not +quite comprehend, but even this was soon explained, for +the page assured them that his lady, the Duchess, was so +plain and unassuming that she had even been known to +have borrowed a comb from a peasant-woman neighbor on +one occasion; and he added that the ladies of Aragon were +not nearly as stiff and arrogant as those of Castile.</p> + +<p>Sanchica's greatest concern centered around her father's +legs. She was anxious to learn how he covered them, now +that he had become governor. She was hoping that he +would wear trunk-hose, for she had always had a secret +longing, she said, to see her father in tights; "What a +sight he must be in them!" she added.</p> + +<p>The page replied that he had not observed her father's +legs or how they were dressed; but the joking way in which +he gave his answer furnished the curate and the bachelor +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_270" id="Page_270">[Pg 270]</a></span> +with a fresh doubt as to the reality of the governorship and +Sancho's position. Yet they could not forget the coral +beads and the fine hunting-suit that the page had brought, +and which pointed to some truth in the matter.</p> + +<p>Sanchica was anxious to make the trip to her father's +island at once with the messenger, who told them he had to +leave that evening; and Teresa Panza wanted to know +whether the curate had heard of any one in the village going +to Madrid or Toledo, for she thought that she at least +ought to provide herself with a hooped petticoat, now that +she was the wife of a distinguished governor and no doubt +destined to be made a countess.</p> + +<p>And while mother and daughter were contemplating and +worrying about their new position in life, they interspersed +their sentences with so many proverbs that the +curate felt obliged to remark that he thought that all the +Panzas were born with a sackful of proverbs in their insides. +The page told them here that the Governor uttered +them most frequently and spontaneously, much to the +amusement of the Duke and the Duchess; and then he reminded +the Governor's lady of his hunger. But the curate +softly took him by the arm and whispered to him that poor +Teresa Panza had more will to serve than she had means, +and invited him to sup at his own house.</p> + +<p>In order not to lose weight or starve, the page consented; +and the curate was glad to have an opportunity to talk +with him alone.</p> + +<p>Sanchica again expressed her desire to travel with the +page; and the page tried to persuade her not to come along, +for, he said, the daughters of governors must travel in a +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_271" id="Page_271">[Pg 271]</a></span> +coach and in style, with many attendants. The girl +thought that was nonsense, however, and it was not until +her mother hushed her up with her proverbial logic that +she ceased arguing. Said mother Teresa Panza to her +daughter: "As the time so the behavior: when it was Sancho +it was Sanchica, when it is governor it is seņorita." +And that settled it.</p> + +<p>The bachelor offered to write letters for Teresa Panza +to her husband and the Duchess; but, somehow, she did +not seem to trust him, for she refused his offer. Instead +she induced a young acolyte to write the epistles for her, +paying him with the eggs which she was to have used for +the page's supper.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLI" id="v2CHAPTERLI"></a>CHAPTER LI</h2> + +<h4>Of the Progress of Sancho's Government; and Other +Such Entertaining Matters</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE thing that troubled Sancho most was not his +manifold duties nor his judgments, but his appetite. +It was as keen as ever, yet he got next to nothing to +eat. The morning after he had made his round, they gave +him only some water and a little conserve for breakfast, the +doctor advising him that light food was the most nourishing +for the wits, and especially to be recommended to +people who were placed in responsible positions—such as +governors, for instance. Thus poor Sancho was persuaded +to submit to a process of starvation which was gradually +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_272" id="Page_272">[Pg 272]</a></span> +making him regret, and finally curse, his ever having become +governor.</p> + +<p>He sat in judgment that day but a short time, and made +a decision in an intricate case with so much good sense and +wit that the majordomo was overwhelmed with admiration, +and could not refrain from taking pity on the governor's +stomach. So he stood up and announced, knowing +it would have the Governor's immediate and unqualified +sanction, that the session had come to an end for the morning; +then turning to Sancho, he promised to give him a +dinner that day that would please him.</p> + +<p>Sancho was grateful in advance, and felt moved to thank +him. "That is all I ask for," he declared: "fair play! +Give me my dinner, and then let it rain cases and questions +on me, and I shall despatch them in a twinkling." And +since it had been arranged by the conspirators in the joke +that this was to be the last day of Sancho Panza's reign +as governor, the majordomo gave him the best dinner that +he could.</p> + +<p>Just as the Governor was finishing his repast a courier +arrived with a letter from Don Quixote. The secretary +read it aloud to him, and he listened attentively and respectfully +to the wisdom and good and sound advice that +his beloved Don Quixote gave him in the letter. All who +heard it read were agreed that they had seldom had the +fortune to hear such a well-worded and thoroughly sensible +epistle; and Sancho was proud of the praise that was +being bestowed on his former master, to whom he still was +as devoted as ever.</p> + +<p>The Governor withdrew with his secretary into his own +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_273" id="Page_273">[Pg 273]</a></span> +room, and there he dictated at once his reply to Don Quixote's +letter. In this he confided to him all that had happened +on his island, the reforms he had undertaken, and +the judgments he had handed down. He finished by asking +the knight to kiss the hand of the sweet Duchess for +him and tell her that she had not thrown it into a sack +with a hole in it, as she would see in the end: meaning +by this that he would show her how grateful he was as +soon as he had an opportunity.</p> + +<p>The courier returned to the ducal palace with the Governor's +message; and Sancho spent the afternoon in making +provisions for all sorts of beneficial improvements in his +government, reducing prices on a number of necessaries, +and confirming laws that tended to help the poor and +needy, while they would incriminate those who were impostors, +good-for-nothings, and vagabonds. Even to this +day some of these laws are in existence there, and are +called <i>The constitutions of the great governor, Sancho +Panza</i>.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLII" id="v2CHAPTERLII"></a>CHAPTER LII</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Three Delectable Epistles Are Read By the +Duchess</h4> + +<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE had now been healed of his scratches, +and he began to long for the road; for the life was +too easy, he thought, for one who had dedicated himself +to knight-errantry and valorous deeds. But the day he +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_274" id="Page_274">[Pg 274]</a></span> +had decided to break the news to the Duke and the Duchess, +the messenger that the Duchess had sent to Sancho's +wife returned, bringing with him two letters, one addressed +to "The Duchess So-and-so, of I don't know where," and +the other one to "The Governor, Sancho Panza of the +Island of Barataria, whom God prosper longer than me!"</p> + +<p>The Duchess was so eager to read her letter that she +opened it at once; and having read it to herself, she felt +she ought to give amusement to the others too, so she read +it aloud to all who were there. She was dying to see what +the letter to the Governor contained, so she asked Don +Quixote whether he thought it would be a breach of etiquette +to read it; and Don Quixote took it upon himself, +as Sancho's late master and guardian, to open it. Then +he read it to the Duke and the Duchess, who laughed to +their heart's content at the many drolleries with which Teresa +Panza had stuffed her epistle.</p> + +<p>Just as the merriment was at its peak, the courier with +Sancho Panza's reply to Don Quixote arrived, and that +communication too was read aloud; and the Duke could +not omit remarking that it was a most excellent and sane +letter. The Duchess, however, was anxious to question the +page about his visit with Teresa Panza, so she excused herself, +and withdrew with the page and her presents; for, +besides the acorns, the Governor's wife had sent her a +cheese, much to the gratification of the Duchess. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_275" id="Page_275">[Pg 275]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLIII" id="v2CHAPTERLIII"></a>CHAPTER LIII</h2> + +<h4>Of the Troublous End and Termination of Sancho Panza's +Government</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE seventh day of Sancho's government was approaching +its end. The Governor lay in his bed, resting +after all the judgments and proclamations he had +made that day upon a fasting stomach. Suddenly he rose +in his bed, for he heard the most deafening noise, intermingled +with the ringing of churchbells. To this sound +was added that of trumpets and drums, and the combination +made a din that frightened Sancho almost out of his +wits. He flew out of bed, put on a pair of slippers, and +rushed into the street, dressed in nothing but his night +shirt. He was startled to see the streets crowded with +men, carrying torches, and crying: "To arms, Seņor Governor, +to arms! The enemy is here, and we are lost, unless +you come to the rescue with your sword!"</p> + +<p>Sancho was lost; he did not know what to do, for swordsmanship +was not among his accomplishments. And so +he simply asked them whether the enemy could not wait +until he had a chance to summon his master Don Quixote +of La Mancha, who, he said, knew all about arms.</p> + +<p>Just then one of the inhabitants came along, carrying +two shields, and without any ceremony he told Sancho in +plain language that it was his duty as their governor to +lead them into battle. Then he covered him—without +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_276" id="Page_276">[Pg 276]</a></span> +giving him a chance to put on anything besides his night-shirt—with +the two shields, one in front and the other one +behind; pressing them together as tightly as he and another +man could manage, they laced them with rope, so that Sancho +could neither move a muscle, nor bend a leg. Then +they put a lance in his hand and told him to lead them into +battle against the enemy, for now they were no longer afraid +of the outcome, they said.</p> + +<p>"How am I to march, unlucky being that I am," asked +Sancho, "when I cannot stir my knee-caps for these boards +that are bound so tightly to my body! What you must do +is to carry me in your arms, and lay me across or set me upright +in some postern, and I shall hold it either with this +lance or with my body."</p> + +<p>When the men heard the Governor speak thus, one of +them was bold enough to suggest that he could not move +because he was too frightened; and this angered poor Sancho +into a frantic attempt to take a step in the direction of +the invading army. But this step was a fatal one, for the +Governor fell in his undignified stiffness flat on his back +with such a crash that he thought he had broken every bone +in his body.</p> + +<p>The men now quickly extinguished their torches, and +began to step on his shield, slashing their swords over his +head, shouting and yelling, and making all the noise they +could. Had Sancho not pulled in his head like a tortoise +in his shell, he might have fared ill. One man boldly +placed himself on Sancho's roof, calling in a mighty voice, +now and then filled with an agonized grunt, such directions +as these: "Hold the breach there! Shut the gate! +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_277" id="Page_277">[Pg 277]</a></span> +Barricade those ladders! Block the streets with feather-beds! +Here with your stink-pots of pitch and resin, and +kettles of boiling oil!"</p> + +<p>All these exclamations put fear in the already hard-pressed +and squeezed heart of Sancho Panza, who was +wishing where he lay that he had never seen the sight of an +island. He was in such an agony that he began to pray to +the Lord in Heaven to have mercy on him and let him die, +or else let this terrible strife and warfare come to an end.</p> + +<p>Heaven must have heard Sancho's prayer, for suddenly +he heard cries of: "Victory! Victory! The enemy retreats!" +Then some one jerked him by the arm, and told +him to stand up and enjoy the victory; and finally some +of the bystanders took pity on him, and lifted him up from +his vertical position. But Sancho refused to enjoy any +victory. All he asked for, he said, was that some one wipe +the perspiration from his body, and give him some wine +for his parched throat. When they had fulfilled this desire +of his, they carried him to his chamber, were they put +him to bed. Hardly had they got him to bed before he +fainted away, overcome with excitement and governments.</p> + +<p>The attendants sprinkled some water in the Governor's +face, and he soon came back to life. The first thing he +asked was what time it was. They replied it was early +morning. He rose without saying a word, dressed himself +in haste, and then went out to the stable, where they +found him hanging round his Dapple's neck, kissing and +embracing him, while tears were streaming down his face. +Having swallowed the first flood of tears, the late squire +addressed his faithful donkey in the tenderest and most +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_278" id="Page_278">[Pg 278]</a></span> +heartrending terms, telling him that he should have stuck +by him all the time, and not let himself be carried away +by ambitions to become governor of islands.</p> + +<p>Sancho then put the pack-saddle on Dapple's back, and +mounted—a process of much pain—and from his dear confederate's +back he addressed the majordomo and those of +his staff who had followed him to the stable. "Make way," +he said, "and let me go back to my old freedom; let me go +look for my past life, and raise myself up from this present +death. I was not born to be a governor or to protect +islands or cities from the enemies that choose to attack +them. Ploughing and digging, vine-dressing and pruning, +are more in my way than defending provinces or kingdoms. +Saint Peter is very well in Rome: I mean, each of us is +best following the trade he was born to. I would rather +have my fill of the simplest pot-luck than be subject to the +misery of a meddling doctor who kills me with hunger; and +I would rather lie in summer under the shade of an oak, +and in winter wrap myself in a double sheepskin jacket in +freedom, than to go to bed between Holland sheets and +dress in sables under the restraint of a government. God +be with your Worships! Tell my lord, the Duke, that +naked was I born, naked I find myself, I neither lose nor +gain: I mean that without a farthing I came into this +government, and without a farthing I go out of it—very +different from the way governors commonly leave other +islands. Stand aside and let me go. I have to plaster +myself, for I believe every one of my ribs is crushed, thanks +to the enemies that have been trampling over me to-night."</p> + +<p>Here the doctor offered to give the retiring governor a +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_279" id="Page_279">[Pg 279]</a></span> +draught that would cure him of all pain. He also promised +Sancho if he would stay he would behave better in the +future, and give him as much to eat as he desired. But +Sancho was not at a loss for an answer this time.</p> + +<p>"You spoke late," said he. "I should as soon turn Turk +as stay any longer. Those jokes will not pass a second +time. By the Lord, I should as soon remain in this government, +or take another one, even if it was offered me between +two plates, as fly to heaven without wings. I am +of the breed of Panzas, and they are every one of them obstinate, +and if they once say odds, odds it must be, no +matter if it is evens, in spite of all the world. Here in +this stable I leave the ant's wings that lifted me up into +the air for the swifts and other birds to eat them, and let +us take to the level ground and our feet once more; and +if they are not shod in pinked shoes of cordovan, they shall +not want for rough sandals of hemp. Every ewe to her +like and let no one stretch his leg beyond the length of the +sheet. And now let me pass, for it is growing late with me."</p> + +<p>After this meditation, strung with proverbs, the majordomo +turned to Sancho and said that before he departed it +was necessary that he render an account for the ten days +that he had governed the island. But this was not Sancho's +idea, and he quickly replied that he would seek out +the Duke and give an accounting to him, for he was the +only one to whom he was responsible. He added that as +he would come to him naked, that would be the best proof +that he had governed like an angel.</p> + +<p>So they all agreed to let him proceed, for they were certain +that the Duke would be delighted to see him. They +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_280" id="Page_280">[Pg 280]</a></span> +offered him anything that he might need for the journey; +but all Sancho asked for was some barley for his Dapple, +and some bread and cheese for himself. Then they all +bade him godspeed and embraced him; and Sancho, with +tears in his eyes, took leave of them. The majordomo and +the rest of Sancho's staff could not help thinking that he +had displayed more sense than most men might have under +the same circumstances; for when Sancho left his government +he had earned their admiration for many and good +reasons.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLIV-LV" id="v2CHAPTERLIV-LV"></a>CHAPTERS LIV-LV</h2> + +<h4>Of What Befell Sancho on the Road; and Other Things +That Cannot Be Surpassed</h4> + +<p class="cap">SANCHO had almost reached the Duke's castle, when +night suddenly fell and it grew so dark that he considered +it best to stop where he was and remain there overnight. +Accordingly he took Dapple off the road, and they +went in search for some comfortable place where they could +rest. Presently Sancho found himself among some old ruins, +and as he was stumbling along he suddenly felt himself +and Dapple falling deep into the earth. He thought it +was going to be an endless journey, but when he struck +bottom he discovered that nothing had happened to him or +to his faithful donkey, for there he was, still mounted even.</p> + +<p>Of course he was somewhat shaken by this sudden +plunge into the lower regions, and taken aback; but as soon +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_281" id="Page_281">[Pg 281]</a></span> +as he realized that he was unhurt he began to praise the +Lord and to give thanks to him on behalf of himself and +Dapple, who had burst into lamentations upon finding +himself separated from meadow and green grass. Then +Sancho began to look about for a way out, but he searched +in vain, and it became plain to him that here he was buried +alive. He thought of his master's descent into the cave of +Montesinos, and was envious of Don Quixote's imagination +which could conjure up so easily soft beds to sleep +in and good food to eat. He could already see himself as +a skeleton, and he shed a tear when he thought of having +no one to close his or Dapple's eyes, when they had breathed +their last breath.</p> + +<p>All that night they sat there in somber reflection on the +strange fates of man and beast; and when dawn came Sancho +found that he was in a cave that had no outlet but +which seemed to extend for miles underneath the ground. +He crawled with Dapple from one cavern or compartment +to another one; one dungeon was dark, the next one had a +bit of flickering light; and as he proceeded he kept calling +aloud, "God Almighty, help me!" at every step he took, +fearing that he would be plunged still deeper into the insides +of the earth, into still darker abysses. And then he +wished that it had been his master instead of himself who +had landed in this spot, for he was sure that Don Quixote +would have welcomed such an adventure.</p> + +<p>It so happened that Don Quixote was riding along the +countryside that day on Rocinante, and suddenly his steed's +hoof grazed against a hole in the earth. Rocinante might +have fallen into the hole had not Don Quixote swiftly +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_282" id="Page_282">[Pg 282]</a></span> +pulled in the reins and held him back. As the knight was +passing, and about to continue on his journey, he turned +in his seat to observe the spot well, and then he was startled +by a cry that seemed to come from the depths of the earth +and found an outlet through this pit. Still more startled +he was, when he recognized the voice of his own squire +Sancho! These were the words he heard: "Ho, above +there! Is there any Christian that hears me, or any charitable +gentleman that will take pity on a sinner buried +alive, or an unfortunate, disgoverned governor?"</p> + +<p>Of course it never entered our valiant knight's mind, +devout Catholic that he was, that it was the voice of any +Sancho Panza in the flesh. He thought that his devoted +squire had suddenly met with death, and that his soul was +now in Purgatory, and that it was from there that these +sounds emanated. So he answered that he would do all +in his power to have Sancho released from his pains.</p> + +<p>This brought forth an emphatic and tearful denial from +below. Sancho swore that he had never died in his life. +As if to corroborate that his master was not a liar, Dapple +at this moment brayed most tellingly, and Don Quixote +believed everything that Dapple told him in that short +space of time, for Don Quixote knew Dapple's braying as +well as if he had been his father. The knight errant assured +Sancho that he would get him out of his prison in a +very short time, though he thought it best to return to the +castle first and get some men to help him in the task. Sancho +begged his master to hurry, for he was afraid unto +death, and could not stand the thought of being buried +there much longer. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_283" id="Page_283">[Pg 283]</a></span></p> + +<p>As soon as the Duke heard what had happened to his +governor, he was extremely surprised, for he had had no +news from the island of Barataria about Sancho's departure. +He sent men with ropes and tackle, and after much +trouble they finally succeeded in hoisting Sancho and his +beloved donkey out of the cave.</p> + +<p>Surrounded by a crowd of children and others, they +arrived at the castle, where the Duke was awaiting them; +but Sancho would not present himself before him until he +had seen that Dapple was being taken good care of in the +stable. Then he went before the Duke, and as soon as the +Duke had greeted him, Sancho commenced a speech that +seemed to last forever, stuffed with proverbs galore. In it +he related to the Duke everything that happened during +the time he was governor, ending it thus: "I have come +by the knowledge that I should not give anything to be a +governor, not to say of an island, but of the whole world; +and that point being settled, kissing your Worship's feet, +and imitating the game of the boys when they say, 'Leap +thou, and give me one,' I take a leap out of the government +and pass into the service of my master Don Quixote. +For after all, though in it I eat my bread in fear and trembling, +at any rate I take my fill; and, for my part, so long +as I am full, it is alike to me whether it is with carrots +or with partridges."</p> + +<p>When Sancho had finished his discourse Don Quixote +was grateful, for he was constantly worried that his squire +might say something that would cover both of them with +discredit, and Sancho made no great blunders in his speech +this time. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_284" id="Page_284">[Pg 284]</a></span></p> + +<p>The Duke and the Duchess both embraced Sancho with +warmth, and he was greatly touched when they told him +that they would try to find him another position, less responsible +but more profitable, on their estate; and they +gave orders that he was to be well taken care of and his +wounds and bruises properly and carefully bandaged.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLVI-LVII" id="v2CHAPTERLVI-LVII"></a>CHAPTERS LVI-LVII</h2> + +<h4>Which Treats of How Don Quixote Again Felt the +Calling of Knight-errantry and How He Took Leave +of the Duke, and of What Followed with the +Witty and Impudent Altisidora, +One of the Duchess' +Damsels</h4> + +<p class="cap">AGAIN the feeling came over Don Quixote that he was +wasting his life while he was staying at the castle in +luxury and ease as the Duke's guest. Out yonder was +the great, wide world in which adventures were calling to +him all the time. So it finally came about that after much +hesitation he requested of the Duke and his consort that +they grant him his release. They gave it to him, although +they were sorry to see him go, they said.</p> + +<p>Early the following morning Sancho was soliloquizing +in the courtyard of the castle, when suddenly Don Quixote +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_285" id="Page_285">[Pg 285]</a></span> +appeared, in full regalia, ready to take to the road again +for new adventures. The Duke and all in the castle were +observing the departure from the corridors. Unobserved +by Don Quixote, the majordomo gave Sancho a purse, in +which he counted no less than two hundred gold crowns.</p> + +<p>When knight and squire had mounted, the fair Altisidora +declaimed with touching voice some verses of poetry +which she had written in the night, and in which she bewailed +her cruel fate that had thrust her in the path of the +valorous Don Quixote. Each verse ended with a denunciation +of his coldness toward her, and a curse upon him +and his Dulcinea. Then the daring maiden had inserted +lines in which she accused the innocent knight of having +taken possession of three kerchiefs and a pair of garters belonging +to her. Don Quixote blushed with perplexity, but +his squire came to the rescue and said that he had the +kerchiefs, but knew nothing about the garters. The Duke, +who was well initiated in the joke, now rose and announced +that it was beginning to seem like a serious matter; and if +the knight had the garters and did not wish to part with +them, he, the Duke, would have to defend the fair maiden's +honor and challenge him to single combat.</p> + +<p>Now Don Quixote was beside himself. Surely, he said, +it would never occur to him, who had enjoyed such unbounded, +superlative hospitality at the hands of one so +illustrious as the Duke, to let such things come to pass as +to bear arms against him; and he swore again by everything +he could think of that he was innocent of what the +maiden had inferred. Here the damsel gave a little shriek, +and announced in a giggling voice that she had found the +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_286" id="Page_286">[Pg 286]</a></span> +garters. Don Quixote was much relieved, and so seemed +the Duke (though in reality both he and the Duchess were +just about to burst from the pain that their own joke had +inflicted upon them).</p> + +<p>Now the knight errant could depart without any smudge +or stain on his honor, and quickly and resolutely he gave +Rocinante the spur, and his steed gathered all the strength +he had and turned around. Gallantly saluting the Duke +and the whole assembly with a sweep of his lance, Don +Quixote set off on the road to Saragossa, followed by the +retired governor, who sat on his Dapple's back as phlegmatically +as if the two were grown together.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLVIII" id="v2CHAPTERLVIII"></a>CHAPTER LVIII</h2> + +<h4>Which Tells How Adventures Came Crowding on Don +Quixote in Such Numbers That They Gave +One Another No Breathing-Time</h4> + +<p class="cap">OUT on the open road Don Quixote was himself again, +and he turned to Sancho and began to discourse on +freedom, telling his squire that it was more precious than +anything else in the world. And he ended by saying: +"Happy he to whom Heaven has given a piece of bread +for which he is not bound to give thanks to any but Heaven +itself!"</p> + +<p>Here Sancho broke his silence, for he felt that, in spite of +what his master had just said, a good deal of thanks was +due to the majordomo for the purse with the two hundred +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_287" id="Page_287">[Pg 287]</a></span> +crowns, which he was carrying like a plaster next to his +heart.</p> + +<p>While they were conversing thus, they suddenly came +to a spot from where they could see a great many men, +dressed like laborers, lying on the grass of a meadow, and +partaking of their noonday meal. Here and there on the +grass were scattered some objects or figures covered with +white cloth, and as soon as Don Quixote observed them he +could constrain himself no longer but had to learn what +they were. So he politely approached the men and asked +them what was hidden underneath the white coverings, and +was told that they were images of saints that they were +transporting to their village church; and in order not to +soil them, they had covered them thus.</p> + +<p>The man took great pride in showing our knight the +figures—there were Saint George, Saint Martin, Saint +James the Moorslayer, and Saint Paul. Don Quixote +spoke learnedly on each one of them. When he had seen +them all, he bade the men cover the images with the cloths +again. Then he declared that he considered it a happy +omen to have come upon the images; for, said he, they were +knights like himself. There was this difference, however, +that while he fought with human weapons, poor sinner that +he was, they used divine ones. And he added that if only +his Dulcinea could be saved from her sufferings, perhaps +his own mind might be restored to its proper function, +and a desire for a milder and better life than he was leading +now be the result. At this Sancho reverently chirped: +"May God hear and sin be deaf!"</p> + +<p>The men, having finished their repast, took leave of +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_288" id="Page_288">[Pg 288]</a></span> +Don Quixote and Sancho and continued the journey to +their village. They were not out of sight before Sancho +broke loose with praise for his master, who knew everything +under the sun, it seemed. Then he added: "In +truth, master, if what has happened to us to-day is to be +called an adventure, it has been one of the sweetest and +pleasantest that has befallen us in the whole course of our +travels; we have come out of it without having drawn +sword, nor have we been left famishing. Blessed be God +that he has let me see such a thing with my own eyes!"</p> + +<p>The conversation now turned to other things, and soon +love became the topic. Sancho could not understand why +his master, as ugly as he was, should have turned the head +of the fair Altisidora; and why his master had not fallen +head over heels in love with her was entirely beyond Sancho's +comprehension. Had he himself had the same opportunity +he should not have foregone it, he could have promised +his master. Here Don Quixote tried to explain to +Sancho that there were different kinds of love: love of the +mind, and of the body; but this explanation seemed to +remain a puzzle to the squire.</p> + +<p>While they had been talking in this manner, they had +come into a wood, and suddenly Don Quixote rode into a +green net which entangled him so completely that he began +to shout that he had been enchanted again. He made +ready to cut and slash with his sword, when two beautiful +girls dressed as shepherdesses came from amidst the trees +and began to plead with him not to tear the nets, which +they had spread in the woods that they might snare the +little birds. There was a holiday in the neighborhood, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_289" id="Page_289">[Pg 289]</a></span> +and they were to give a pageant and a play, they said, and +they wanted the birds to be actors in the play with them. +Then they courteously begged Don Quixote to be their +guest and remain with them; but Don Quixote in return +told them that the urgency of his calling made it necessary +for him to refuse, whereupon he made them aware of who +he was. As soon as the girls heard that they had Don +Quixote of La Mancha in their midst, they became still +more eager that he should remain, for they had all read +and heard of their illustrious guest, they said, through +the book that the whole of Spain and all the world was devouring +just then.</p> + +<p>A gay youth, who was the brother of the young maidens, +came up at this moment and joined his sisters in their persuasions, +and at last Don Quixote gave in and consented +to stay. The youth, who was attired as a shepherd, brought +Don Quixote to their tents, and after a morning of gaiety +a repast was served, at which the knight was given the +place of honor.</p> + +<p>When the meal was over, Don Quixote rose and addressed +the gathering in his usual dignified manner. He +chose for his topic gratitude, and said that there was but +one way in which he could show his full appreciation of +the hospitality he had enjoyed that day at their hands: +namely, to maintain in the middle of the highway leading +to Saragossa, for a period of two days, that these two damsels +were—with the exception of his lady Dulcinea—the +most adorable and beautiful maidens in the world.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote had got so far in the course of his speech, +when the faithful Sancho could restrain his admiration for +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_290" id="Page_290">[Pg 290]</a></span> +his master no longer. Brimming over with enthusiasm, he +burst out: "Is it possible there is any one in the world +who will dare to say and swear that this master of mine is +a madman? Tell me, gentlemen shepherds, is there a +village priest, be he ever so wise or learned, who could say +what my master has said; or is there a knight errant, whatever +renown he may have as a man of valor, who could +offer what my master has offered now?" This outburst of +his squire's infuriated Don Quixote. He began to foam +at the mouth, and after having scolded the meek and +meddlesome Sancho, he told him abruptly to go at once and +saddle Rocinante. His hosts were astounded at his remarkable +behavior and proposal, and did all they could to +stay him from carrying it out, but he was not to be swayed. +So they all followed at a distance to see what would happen +to the knight, who in his anger had not been slow to mount +and disappear with Sancho trailing behind on Dapple at his +usual gait.</p> + +<p>As soon as Don Quixote had posted himself in the middle +of the road, he shouted out his challenge. But no one who +passed seemed to pay any attention to what he said, much +less were they inclined to take up the challenge, if they +heard it. Suddenly, however, the knight sighted a troop +of men on horseback, all armed with lances. They were +coming closer at a fast pace, and as soon as the shepherds +and shepherdesses saw them they withdrew in great haste. +Sancho, overcome with some innate foreboding of disaster, +took refuge in the shade of Rocinante's hindquarters; +but Don Quixote stood resolute and held his +ground. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_291" id="Page_291">[Pg 291]</a></span></p> + +<p>Ahead of the oncoming troop rode a man, who, observing +Don Quixote's position, began to make violent signs +to him to get away from the road; and when he saw that he +was not being understood or obeyed, he yelled out with +fierceness: "Get out of the way, you son of the devil, or +these bulls will knock you to pieces!"</p> + +<p>But all Don Quixote was concerned about was his challenge, +and permitting no evasions, he retorted heroically: +"Rabble! I care nothing for bulls! Confess at once, +scoundrels, that what I have declared is true; else ye have +to deal with me in combat."</p> + +<p>Hardly had he spoken these words before the drove of +bulls was on him and Sancho, trampling them both to the +ground as if they had been figures of pasteboard; for they +were no common bulls, they were fierce animals that were +being taken to a nearby village for a bull-fight on the following +day. Yet when they had passed, and the valiant +knight came to, he had lost none of his intrepidity, for as +soon as he could stand up he kept shouting at them to return +and he would fight them all alone.</p> + +<p>The knight was so enraged and so humiliated to have +been stepped on in such an unromantic fashion, that he +sat down and buried his head in his hands; and Sancho +could not persuade him to return to their hosts to bid them +farewell. And so he decided instead to be on his way to +Saragossa, and master and squire mounted again and continued +their journey dejectedly. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_292" id="Page_292">[Pg 292]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLIX" id="v2CHAPTERLIX"></a>CHAPTER LIX</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Is Related the Strange Thing, Which May Be +Regarded as an Adventure, That Happened to +Don Quixote</h4> + +<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE was extremely weighed down and +oppressed by the disaster of the morning. When +they had ridden but a short way they came to a place where +there was a spring, and they dismounted to refresh their +dusty throats and to wash themselves. The knight was +wearied, and Sancho suggested that he lie down and rest +for a while. The suggestion pleased his master, who said he +would do so if his squire would give himself three or four +hundred lashes with Rocinante's reins in the meantime, as a +help toward his Dulcinea's disenchantment. But after some +arguing, Sancho wiggled himself out of the business for the +moment, having pleaded an ill-nourished body—in spite of +his constant eating. He said it was, besides, no easy +matter to flog oneself in cold blood, but promised to make +good some time, unexpectedly. Then they both ate a +little, and soon afterward they fell asleep beside their faithful +beasts. They awoke, refreshed, and made off to reach +an inn—and Sancho gave thanks to Heaven that Don +Quixote took it for an inn—that they had sighted in the +distance before they went to sleep.</p> + +<p>When they arrived at the inn Sancho at once took the +beasts to the stable and fed them, while Don Quixote +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_293" id="Page_293">[Pg 293]</a></span> +retired to his room. When supper time came the landlord +brought in a stewpan which contained cow-heels that tasted, +he swore, like calves' feet; and the knight and his squire +gathered gluttonously around the meal. They had scarcely +began eating, however, when Don Quixote heard his name +mentioned next door, and, surprised, he listened and heard +some one say: "What displeases me most in this Second +Part of 'Don Quixote of La Mancha' is that it represents +Don Quixote as now cured of his love for Dulcinea del +Toboso."</p> + +<p>Like a flash the knight was on his feet, shouting to +the adjoining room: "Whoever he may be who says that +Don Quixote of La Mancha has forgotten Dulcinea del +Toboso, I will teach him with equal arms that what he says +is very far from true; for his motto is constancy, and his +profession is to maintain the same with his life and never +wrong it."</p> + +<p>Immediately voices from the other room wished to know +who was speaking; and Sancho shouted back that it was +his master, and that his master was none other than Don +Quixote of La Mancha himself. In the next instant two +gentlemen entered the room, and as soon as they perceived +Don Quixote, they fell on his neck and embraced him, saying +that they were pleased and proud beyond measure to +meet so distinguished and illustrious a personage, their +own morning star of knight-errantry. One of the gentlemen, +Don Jeronimo, assured him that there was no doubt in +his mind that he was the real Don Quixote of the First Part, +and not the counterfeit one of the Aragonese Second Part. +With these words he put his copy of the Second Part, which +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_294" id="Page_294">[Pg 294]</a></span> +he had just been reading, into Don Quixote's hands and +begged him to read it. Don Quixote took it and glanced +it through, and after having read a few pages, he returned +it to the gentleman, with the remark that he had already +discovered three things in the book that ought to be censured; +and he said that when an author could make such a +colossal mistake as to speak of Sancho's wife as Mari Guiterrez, +one would be likely to doubt the veracity of every +other statement of his in the book.</p> + +<p>When Sancho heard of this audacious libel, he became +red in the face with indignation. "A nice sort of historian, +indeed!" he burst out. "He must know a deal about our +affairs when he calls my wife, Teresa Panza, Mari Guiterrez! +Take the book again, seņor, and see whether I am +in it and whether he has changed my name!"</p> + +<p>The gentleman looked at Sancho in an expectant manner, +and said: "From your talk, friend, no doubt you are +Sancho Panza, Seņor Don Quixote's squire."</p> + +<p>When Sancho affirmed this, saying he was proud of it, +it was Don Jeronimo's turn to become indignant; for it +seemed to him nothing short of blasphemy to take all the +drollery out of the Sancho, whom he saw before him here, +he said, and who had furnished him with so many enjoyable +moments through his amusing talk, while he was reading +the First Part. The Sancho of the Second Part was a +stupid character, a fool with no sense of humor whatever, +he declared; and his declaration promptly brought forth +a proverb from Sancho's lips, which summed up his contempt +for the new author. "Let him who knows how ring +the bells," he exclaimed. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_295" id="Page_295">[Pg 295]</a></span></p> + +<p>The two gentlemen now invited the knight errant to +join them at supper, as they knew, they said, that the inn +could afford nothing that was befitting a warrior as illustrious +as he. Always courteous, Don Quixote acquiesced, +and they withdrew to the adjoining room, leaving Sancho +and the landlord to sup by themselves. At supper Don +Quixote related to the two gentlemen his many strange adventures, +and they listened with the utmost interest; they +could not help admiring his elegant and finished speech, +and at the same time were astounded at the strange mixture +of good sense and wit and absurd nonsense that flowed +from his lips.</p> + +<p>When Sancho had finished his cow-heels, he betook himself +to the room where his master and the gentleman were +supping; and as he entered he asked Don Jeronimo: "If +this author calls me glutton, as your Worships say, I trust +he does not call me drunkard too."</p> + +<p>Don Jeronimo said that the author had been impertinent +enough to do so, although he assured Sancho that he could +see by his face that the author had lied. "Believe me," +declared the squire, "the Sancho and the Don Quixote of +this history must be different persons from those that appear +in the one Cid Hamet Benengeli wrote, who are +ourselves—my master, valiant, wise, and true in love, +and I, simple, droll, and neither glutton nor drunkard."</p> + +<p>The other gentleman, Don Juan, was of Sancho's +opinion, and he added that he thought no one but Cid +Hamet, the original author, should be permitted to write +the history of Don Quixote's achievements—just as Alexander +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_296" id="Page_296">[Pg 296]</a></span> +issued an order that no one but Apelles should presume +to paint his portrait.</p> + +<p>They carried on a conversation in this manner until quite +late in the night. Don Juan offered the Second Part to +our hero to read, but Don Quixote declined it, saying that +it would only be flattering and encouraging to the author if +he should, by chance, learn that he had read his book. +Then they asked him where he would be bound for when he +left the inn; and when he told them Saragossa, they mentioned +that the author had given a description in the book +of a tilting at the ring in that city, in which he who was +called Don Quixote had participated.</p> + +<p>That made the knight change his intentions at once. +Now he was determined not to set foot in Saragossa: thus +he would make the author commit perjury, trap him as a +complete liar, and hold him up to ridicule before the whole +world. The gentlemen thought this a most ingenious way +to treat the blaspheming author, and made a suggestion +that there were to be other jousts at Barcelona, to which he +would be welcomed; and Don Quixote announced that he +would go there instead. Then he begged leave in his +usual courteous manner to retire, and withdrew to his room.</p> + +<p>Early on the following morning the knight rose, and bade +good-by to his two new friends by knocking at the partition +that separated their rooms, while Sancho paid the landlord +for the lodging and the cow-heels. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_297" id="Page_297">[Pg 297]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLX" id="v2CHAPTERLX"></a>CHAPTER LX</h2> + +<h4>Of What Happened to Don Quixote on His Way to +Barcelona</h4> + +<p class="cap">FOR six days Don Quixote and Sancho traveled without +anything happening to them worth recording. At +the end of the sixth day they came to a grove of oak and +cork trees, where they dismounted and settled themselves +for the night. Sancho, who had been nourished plentifully +that day, at once fell asleep, but Don Quixote's mind +wandered hither and thither into strange regions and imaginary +places; and he thought of the sad plight of his beloved +one. The more he considered the cruelty of his squire, the +more enraged he became; and at last he decided that the +only thing for him to do was to strip Sancho and administer +the beating himself. With this intention he began to +undo the squire's garments.</p> + +<p>Sancho, being awakened and realizing his master's foul +play, now had lost all desire for sleep. He reminded his +master that the whipping would have no effect toward Dulcinea's +disenchantment, unless it was applied voluntarily +and by his own hand. But Don Quixote insisted that there +must be an end to this nonsense, for he had no desire to let +his peerless Dulcinea suffer because of his squire's uncharitable +disposition. And then he proceeded, with Rocinante's +reins in his hand, to give his squire, as he said, two +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_298" id="Page_298">[Pg 298]</a></span> +thousand lashes on account of the three thousand three hundred. +But Sancho was on his feet in an instant, and began +to grapple with his master, and he crushed his emaciated +body almost to flatness in his firm grip. Then he suddenly +let him loose and despatched him with a kick to no mean +distance, and, still pursuing his victim, he there sat upon +him. Don Quixote managed at last to gather all the +breath that had not been squeezed out of him by the combat, +and supported by that he ejaculated in a hoarse +whisper:</p> + +<p>"How now, traitor! Dost thou revolt against thy +master and natural lord? Dost thou rise against him who +gives thee his bread?"</p> + +<p>"I neither put down king, nor set up king," replied Sancho, +himself somewhat out of breath. And then he proceeded +to dictate the peace terms, and he extracted a promise +from his natural lord never to try to whip him again, +neither awake nor asleep.</p> + +<p>Then the victor disappeared in the grove and went to lie +down against a tree: but just as he had placed himself +comfortably, he was frightened almost to death by seeing +two feet, with shoes and stockings, dangling in the air above +his head. He ran to another tree, thinking he had been +dreaming, and there he found a like apparition haunting +him. He began to scream aloud, calling upon his master +for help, and ran to search for him. Don Quixote asked +him what had frightened him, and the squire replied that +all the trees were full of feet and legs. Don Quixote +calmly looked at the dead bodies in the trees and told his +squire that no doubt they were outlaws that had been +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_299" id="Page_299">[Pg 299]</a></span> +hanged by the authorities; and he took them to be a sign +that they were now close to Barcelona. They then lay +down to rest for the night.</p> + +<p>When they awoke at dawn, they found themselves surrounded +by a band of men who turned out to be highwaymen. +The band stripped them of all they possessed, and +were just about to search Sancho further for money, when +a swarthy-looking man in his thirties appeared, mounted +on a splendid horse and armed with many pistols. It was +their captain, and none other than the notorious Roque +Guinart, a man who had taken to the life of banditry and +hold-ups because of having been wronged by the authorities.</p> + +<p>When the bandit captain observed what his men were +about to do to Sancho, he commanded them to stop, and to +return everything they had taken away from the knight +and his squire. He asked Don Quixote why he looked so +dejected, and the knight responded that he was grieved +that he had been taken unaware, saying that had he been +armed with his lance and shield and mounted on his Rocinante +when he found himself surrounded by these men, +he would have defended himself to the last drop of his +blood, in accordance with all the rules of knight-errantry. +And then he told Roque that he was the Don Quixote of +La Mancha who had filled the whole world with the wonder +of his achievements; and he thanked him for his great +courtesy and mercifulness.</p> + +<p>Just then they heard the violent sound of hoofs clattering +against the hard road, and as they turned they beheld +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_300" id="Page_300">[Pg 300]</a></span> +a youth, extremely pleasing in appearance, who was coming +their way in a wild gallop. As he reached them, he +flung himself from his horse and addressed Roque, who +then perceived that it was not a lad but a maiden. She +said she was the daughter of his friend Simon Forte, and +named Claudia Jeronima, and that she, unbeknown to her +father, had fallen in love with and become engaged to the +son of her father's arch enemy, Clauquel Torrellas, whose +son was named Vicente. Yesterday, she went on, she had +learned that he had promised to marry another one, and +full of jealousy she had stolen upon him this morning in +the guise that he now saw her in and shot him in the presence +of his servants near his house. She had left him at +once, and she now wanted Roque to procure for her a safe-conduct +that she might take refuge in France where she had +relatives. She also wanted to extract a promise from him +to protect her father from the wrath and revenge of the +Torrellas.</p> + +<p>Roque was evidently much taken with the girl, for he +gave her a glance full of admiration; nor had she failed to +make an impression on Don Quixote and Sancho. Don +Quixote wanted at once to go in quest of the knight and +make him keep his troth, and Sancho added that his master +was an admirable match-maker. But Roque hastily +took leave of them, and accompanied only by the fair +Claudia, he had soon come to the spot where she had left +Don Vicente. This young gentleman was surrounded by +some servants who had been attempting to carry him to his +home, but he had begged them to take him no further, for +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_301" id="Page_301">[Pg 301]</a></span> +the pain was too great, he said and he felt that he was dying. +All were astounded at the sight of the feared Roque, +who dismounted with Claudia.</p> + +<p>The fair maiden approached her lover, and clasping his +hand, she said: "Hadst thou given me this according to +our compact thou hadst never come to this pass." And +then the young lady told Don Vicente what she had heard; +but he disavowed to her any intention to marry any one +else but herself. Hearing this she broke down completely, +flung herself upon his breast, and sobbed convulsively; +and then she fainted.</p> + +<p>When she came to, she found that her beloved one had +passed away, and her grief then knew no bounds. Again +and again she would be overcome by her feelings, and +swoon so that they had to sprinkle water on her face. +Roque was moved to tears, and so were the servants, and +Claudia said that she would go into cloister for the rest of +her life to atone for her sin. Roque approved of her decision, +and offered to conduct her wherever she wished to +go, but she declined his company, with many thanks, and +bade him farewell in tears. Roque then directed the servants +to take the body of Don Vicente to the dead man's +father, and returned to his band.</p> + +<p>He found Don Quixote addressing his men on lawlessness, +but they seemed to be little impressed with his sermon. +Soon afterward a sentinel came up to his captain, +and reported that people were coming along on the road +to Barcelona, and Roque, having made certain that they +were not armed troops out to enforce the law and in search +of bandits, gave order to capture the travelers and have +them brought before him. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_302" id="Page_302">[Pg 302]</a></span></p> + +<p>Here the outlaw revealed himself again to Don Quixote +as a naturally kindly and tender-hearted man, for though +the travelers possessed a good deal of money, he assessed +them but one hundred and forty crowns. Of this money +he gave the men of his band two crowns each; that left +twenty crowns over, and this he divided between some pilgrims +who were on their way to Rome and our worthy Sancho. +The travelers were two captains of Spanish infantry, +and some titled ladies; and the women felt so grateful to +Roque for his generosity, and his unusual behavior and +courtesy touched them so, that they wanted to kiss his +hand, considering him in the light of a hero rather than a +robber. Roque did not forget to give them a safe-conduct +to the leaders of his bands, for there were many of them, +operating all through that region.</p> + +<p>One of Roque's men seemed dissatisfied with such leniency +as he had seen displayed, and voiced his opinion +rather too loudly, for the leader of the band heard it, and +the offender's head was nearly cleft open in the next second. +The captain turned to Don Quixote and remarked that +that was the way he punished impudence; then he calmly +sat down and wrote a letter to a friend of his in Barcelona, +telling him of the early arrival there of the famous Don +Quixote of La Mancha, of whose exploits in knight-errantry +the whole world knew; and, to be exact, he fixed +Saint John the Baptist's day as the very day on which our +knight would make his first appearance in the very midst +of the city of Barcelona under the auspices of him to whom +he addressed this letter, and who would be grateful for +the infinite joy Don Quixote and his droll squire Sancho +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_303" id="Page_303">[Pg 303]</a></span> +Panza would afford him and the city. He sent the letter +by one of his trusted followers, who, disguised as a peasant, +made his way into Barcelona and delivered the letter +to the right person.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXI" id="v2CHAPTERLXI"></a>CHAPTER LXI</h2> + +<h4>Of What Happened to Don Quixote on Entering Barcelona, +Together With Other Matters That Partake +of the True Rather Than the Ingenious</h4> + +<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE remained with Roque for three +days, and they were hectic days for our knight. +Roque always slept apart from his men, for the viceroy of +Barcelona had placed a great price on his head, and Roque +was in constant fear that some one in his band would be +tempted to deliver him up. On the fourth day he and +Don Quixote, accompanied by Sancho and six of the band, +made their way toward Barcelona; and on the night of +St. John's Eve they reached the city. There Roque took +farewell of the knight and his squire, and returned to his +haunts in the woods.</p> + +<p>Throughout the night Don Quixote-kept guard over the +city; and there he was still sitting on Rocinante when +dawn appeared on the horizon, and Don Quixote and Sancho +Panza for the first time in their lives beheld the sea. +It seemed to them it was ever so much greater than any of +the lakes they had seen in La Mancha. As the sun rose +it was suddenly greeted with the ringing of bells, the din +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_304" id="Page_304">[Pg 304]</a></span> +of drums, the sound of clarions, and the trampling and +clatter of feet on the streets; and from the galleys along +the beach a mass of streamers in varied colors waved its +welcome, to the music and the noise of bugles, clarions and +trumpets from shipboard. Then cannons on ship and +shore began to thunder, and a constant fire was kept up +from the walls and fortress of the city. It was a noise +and a spectacle that might have over-awed any one, even +a less simple-minded person than Sancho, who stared open-mouthed +at the wonders he beheld. He gasped when he +saw the galleys rowed about by their oarsmen on the water, +and he told his master he had never seen so many feet in +his life. A troop of horsemen in extravagant liveries rode +past them, where they were standing, and suddenly Don +Quixote was startled by hearing some one call out in a +loud voice: "Welcome to our city, mirror, beacon, star +and cynosure of all knight-errantry in its widest extent! +Welcome, I say, valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha! +Not the false, the fictitious, the apocryphal one, but the +true, the legitimate, the real one that Cid Hamet Benengeli, +flower of historians, has described to us!"</p> + +<p>Don Quixote felt flattered by the attention he suddenly +attracted, for all eyes had turned to gaze upon his lean and +queer person; although it may be said here, in confidence, +that the man who had recognized the hero was no other +than the one to whom the rogue Roque had written. The +cavalier divulged his identity to Don Quixote, and begged +him politely to accept his services while in Barcelona; and +Don Quixote replied with as much courtesy that he would +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_305" id="Page_305">[Pg 305]</a></span> +follow him wherever he pleased and be entirely at his disposal. +Then the horsemen closed in around him and they +set out for the center of the city, to the music of a gay tune +played by the clarions and drums.</p> + +<p>The Devil, however, was not asleep. He put temptation +into the hearts of some street urchins, who stole their way +into the close proximity of Rocinante's and Dapple's +hindquarters, and there deposited a bunch of furze under +their tails, with the fatal result that their riders were flung +headlong into the crowd. Our proud hero, covered with +dust and shame, pulled himself together and went to pick +the flowers from the tail of his hack, while Sancho extracted +the cause of Dapple's capers from his own mount. +Then they mounted again, the music continued to play, +and soon they found themselves at a large and impressive +house, which they learned was occupied by the cavalier, +who was a friend of Roque's.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXII" id="v2CHAPTERLXII"></a>CHAPTER LXII</h2> + +<h4>Which Deals with the Adventure of the Enchanted +Head, Together with Other Trivial Matters +Which Cannot Be Left Untold</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE cavalier turned out to be one Don Antonio +Moreno, a gentleman with a great sense of humor, +well read and rich. As soon as Don Quixote had entered +the house, Don Antonio persuaded him to discard the suit +of armor; then he took him out on the balcony, where he +at once attracted all the boys in the street and crowds of +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_306" id="Page_306">[Pg 306]</a></span> +people, who gazed at him as if he had been a monkey. +The cavaliers passed in review before the balcony, and +the knight was given the impression that it was in his +special honor they were bedecked as they were, for he did +not realize that it was a holiday. Sancho was delighted +beyond description. He was treated royally by the servants, +who thought that they had never met any one quite +as amusing as he. Don Antonio's friends were all instructed +to pay homage to Don Quixote and at all times +to address him as if he were a knight errant.</p> + +<p>The flattery and honors were too much for the poor +knight: they turned his head completely, and he became +puffed up with his own importance. Sancho, too, amused +Don Antonio and his guests exceedingly, and they enjoyed +particularly hearing about his escapades as governor.</p> + +<p>After dinner that day, the host took Don Quixote into +a distant room, which contained no furniture except a +table, on which was a pedestal supporting a head made of +what seemed to be bronze. After having acted in the most +mysterious manner, and having carefully ascertained that +all the doors to the room were shut and no one listening, +Antonio swore the knight to secrecy. +Then he proceeded +to tell Don Quixote that the head he saw there before +him had been made by a Polish magician, and possessed +the magic faculty of being able to answer any question +whispered into its ear. Only on certain days, however, +did its magic assert itself, and the following day, which +was the day after Friday—it had been astrologically +worked out—would again witness the miracle. Don +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_307" id="Page_307">[Pg 307]</a></span> +Antonio asked the knight whether there was anything he +should especially like to ask the head; if so, he could put +the question to it on the morrow. Don Quixote seemed +sceptical, but made no comment, and they returned to the +other guests.</p> + +<p>In the afternoon the knight errant was placed on a tall +mule, bedecked with beautiful trimmings, and himself encased +in a heavy and uncomfortably warm garb of yellow +cloth; then, unbeknown to him, they pinned on his back a +parchment with this inscription in large letters: <span class="smcap">This is +Don Quixote of La Mancha.</span></p> + +<p>As they were parading through the streets the knight's +vanity swelled more and more, for from every nook and +corner there came great shouts of recognition. Soon he +was unable to restrain his vainglorious nature, and he +turned to his host and remarked to him with much satisfaction: +"Great are the privileges knight-errantry involves, +for it makes him who professes it known and famous +in every region of the earth. See, Don Antonio, even the +very boys of this city know me without ever having seen +me." Finally the crowds increased so that Don Antonio +was obliged to remove the parchment, and soon they had +to take refuge in his house.</p> + +<p>In the evening Don Antonio's wife gave a dance, and it +was amusing to see the tall and lank hero move about on +the ballroom floor; the men gave him the opportunity to +dance every dance, for they themselves enjoyed watching +him better than dancing. At last Don Quixote was so +exhausted both by the dancing and by the lovemaking that +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_308" id="Page_308">[Pg 308]</a></span> +the ladies had imposed on him—and how they delighted in +hearing him avow his great love for Dulcinea—that Sancho +had to take him to his room and put him to bed.</p> + +<p>The next day Don Antonio took his wife, Don Quixote, +and a few intimate friends into the secret chamber, and +after many mysterious preliminaries, the questioning of the +head began. All seemed particularly interested in what +Don Quixote would have to ask, and felt rewarded when +his turn came, for this is what he demanded: "Tell me, +thou that answerest, was that which happened to me in +the cave of Montesinos the truth or a dream? Will my +squire Sancho's whipping be accomplished without fail? +Will the disenchantment of Dulcinea be brought about?"</p> + +<p>In a mysterious voice that seemed to come from a great +distance, the head returned these answers: "As to the +question of the cave, there is much to be said; there is something +of both in it. Sancho's whipping will proceed +leisurely. The disenchantment of Dulcinea will attain +its due consummation."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote heaved a sigh and declared that if only his +peerless one were disenchanted, it would be all the good +fortune he could wish for. Then Sancho tried his luck; +but at the conclusion of Sancho's audience with the head, +he did not seem properly awed, and his master became displeased +with his pretentious expectations and reprimanded +him severely in the presence of the whole company.</p> + +<p>All the while Sancho's incessant talking and his master's +exalted behavior kept every one in an uproarious humor. +The joke that Don Antonio had arranged consisted in having +a student, a young nephew of Don Antonio's, placed in +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_309" id="Page_309">[Pg 309]</a></span> +a chamber underneath the one in which the head was, to +receive the questions and speak the replies through a tube +that led from the inside of the head to the room below. +Soon after this form of amusement had taken place, it was +agreed upon by the gentlemen of the city to arrange for a +tilting at the ring, for they were convinced that such an +exhibition would afford greater opportunities for mirth +and laughter than anything else they might think of.</p> + +<p>One day Don Quixote and Sancho, accompanied by two +of Don Antonio's servants, were walking on foot through +the city, when they suddenly passed a printing shop; and, +never having seen one, the knight entered with Sancho +and the servants. He was as curious as usual, and asked +the printer innumerable questions about the books that he +was printing. He saw some of the printers reading the +proofs of a book, and he turned to them and inquired what +the title of the book was. They told him it was the Second +Part of "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La +Mancha," adding that it was written by a certain person of +Tordesillas. Upon hearing this, Don Quixote grew quite +cold in his demeanor, and having moralized that fiction +resembling truth is always greater than absurdly untruthful +stories, he uttered a hope that the book would be +burned to ashes. And then he turned his back on the +astonished men and left the shop in great haste. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_310" id="Page_310">[Pg 310]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXIII" id="v2CHAPTERLXIII"></a>CHAPTER LXIII</h2> + +<h4>The Mishap That Befell Sancho Panza Through the +Visit to the Galleys</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE afternoon of that same day Don Antonio took +Don Quixote and Sancho on board one of the +galleys, amid all the honors that accompany the visits of +great and famous personages. There were fanfares, and +cheers, and the firing of guns, and all the high-ranking +officers of the army and navy who were in the city had +been appealed to by Don Antonio Moreno and turned out +to pay him their respects.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was delighted. He could scarcely find +words to express his appreciation of such a magnificent +and royal reception; and Sancho was almost carried away +by the honors that were being paid his master. But when +he saw all the men at the oars—stripped to the skin by the +captain's command—he became afraid, for they seemed to +him like so many devils.</p> + +<p>When Don Quixote and Sancho Panza had been presented +to all the dignitaries, the captain escorted them to +a platform on which he begged them to take their seats +beside him. Sancho sat at the edge of the platform, next +to one of the rowing devils (who had been instructed in +advance by the captain what to do) and suddenly he felt +himself lifted in the air by a pair of strong, muscular arms. +The next instant he was in the clutches of another devil; +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_311" id="Page_311">[Pg 311]</a></span> +and passing from hand to hand, he went the rounds of the +crew with such swiftness that the poor superstitious Sancho +did not know whether he was dead, dreaming, or alive. +Sancho's aërial expedition did not come to an end until +he had been most unceremoniously deposited on the poop, +where he landed in a strangely unbalanced condition—to +the tremendous amusement of the crew and the onlookers. +He was so dazed that it is doubtful whether he would have +known his name, if he had been asked.</p> + +<p>Seeing what had happened to his squire, Don Quixote +thought it best to forestall himself from being put through +any such ceremony; so he stood up, his hand on the hilt of +his sword, and announced with fire in his eyes that any +one who dared to attempt such a thing to him would suffer +by having his head cut off. He had hardly finished his +sentence before a noise was heard that frightened Sancho +almost into insensibility. He thought that Heaven was +coming off its hinges and about to fall on his sinful head. +And even Don Quixote trembled with something closely +akin to fear, and grew (if that were possible) pale under +his yellow hue.</p> + +<p>What the crew had done was to strike the awning and +lower the yard and then hoist it up again with as much clatter +and speed as they could produce, yet without uttering +any human sound. This being done, the boatswain gave +orders to weigh anchor, and as he went about on deck signaling +with a whistle, he continually lashed and beat the +backs of the naked oarsmen with a whip he had in his hand.</p> + +<p>When Sancho saw all the red oars moving, he took them +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_312" id="Page_312">[Pg 312]</a></span> +to be the feet of enchanted beings, and he thought to himself: +"It is these that are the real enchanted things, and +not the ones my master talks of. What can those +wretches have done to be whipped in that way; and how +does that one man who goes along there whistling dare to +whip so many? I declare this is Hell, or at least Purgatory!"</p> + +<p>But when Don Quixote noticed his squire's interest in +the naked creatures at the oars, he turned and said to him +softly: "Ah, Sancho my friend, how quickly and cheaply +you might finish off the disenchantment of Dulcinea, if +you would strip to the waist and take your place among +those gentlemen! Amid the pain and sufferings of so +many you would not feel your own much; and, moreover, +perhaps the sage Merlin would allow each of these lashes, +being laid on with a good hand, to count for ten of those +which you must give yourself at last."</p> + +<p>But Sancho was not to be persuaded, and the general of +the fortress, who was eager to know why Sancho was urged +to lash himself, could not wait for a reply to his question, +for there loomed up on the horizon a ship which attracted +his attention, and he immediately gave orders to the captain +to steer down upon it.</p> + +<p>After an adventure on the seas, the first they had ever +experienced, Don Quixote and Sancho came back to Barcelona +that afternoon, and returned to the house of their +host, escorted by the Viceroy, the General and the other +high dignitaries. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_313" id="Page_313">[Pg 313]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXIV" id="v2CHAPTERLXIV"></a>CHAPTER LXIV</h2> + +<h4>Treating of the Adventure Which Gave Don Quixote +More Unhappiness Than All That Had Hitherto +Befallen Him</h4> + +<p class="cap">A FEW days after Don Quixote had visited the galley, +he was riding along the beach one morning on +Rocinante dressed in his armor, when suddenly he observed +coming toward him a knight, also in full regalia, +with a shining moon painted on his shield. As he came +close to Don Quixote, he held in his horse, and spoke to +our knight thus: "Illustrious knight, and never sufficiently +extolled Don Quixote of La Mancha, I am the +Knight of the White Moon, whose unheard-of achievements +will perhaps recall him to thy memory. I come to do +battle with thee and prove the might of thy arm, to the end +that I make thee acknowledge and confess that my lady, +let her be who she may, is incomparably fairer than thy +Dulcinea del Toboso."</p> + +<p>And then the Knight of the White Moon went on to say +that should he conquer Don Quixote, the Knight of the +Lions must retire to his native village for a period of one +year, and live there in peace and quiet, away from all +knightly endeavors and deeds. Should, however, Don +Quixote turn out to be the victor, he, the challenger, would +gladly forfeit his head, as well as the renown of his many +deeds and conquests, his arms and horse to him. He bade +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_314" id="Page_314">[Pg 314]</a></span> +Don Quixote consider the challenge and give a speedy +answer, for he had but that day at his disposal for the +combat.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was taken aback at the audacity and arrogance +with which the knight had stated his demands, +particularly when he took into consideration that he had +never in his whole life heard him even spoken of, much less +had he heard of the deeds and victorious combats he had +named. But he accepted the challenge with calm pride on +the conditions the Knight of the White Moon had given, +barring the one which involved transferring his renown to +Don Quixote's shoulders in case of his being vanquished. +To our knight that seemed like taking too great chances, +since he had no idea what the nature of the challenger's +deeds might be, and since he was thoroughly satisfied with +his own achievements.</p> + +<p>It so happened that the Viceroy had observed the Knight +of the White Moon in conversation with Don Quixote, +and thinking that some one had planned another joke on +him, he hastened to Don Antonio's house, and got him to +accompany him to the beach, where they found the two +knights just taking their distance, and about to commence +the combat. Don Antonio was as startled when he saw the +other knight as the Viceroy had been, and neither one +could make up his mind whether the whole thing was +a joke, or not, for no one there seemed to know who the +Knight of the White Moon was. However, the two +gentlemen at last decided it could be nothing but a prank, +planned by some gentleman for his own amusement. The +Viceroy then turned to the knight and, learning that the +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_315" id="Page_315">[Pg 315]</a></span> +combat was being fought to decide a question of precedence +of beauty, bade them set to if both of them still remained +unshaken and inflexible in their convictions. The +two combatants, having thanked the Viceroy for his permission, +separated and again took up the necessary distance. +Their horses wheeled around and the knights came +against each other with all the speed their mounts were +capable of. But the Knight of the White Moon was +mounted on a steed that completely outshone the poor +Rocinante, for when they clashed, the poor hack fell +from the mere force of the contact, and Don Quixote +leaped over his head onto earth. At once the unknown +knight held his lance over his visor and threatened him with +death unless he confessed to being vanquished and acknowledged +that he would abide by the conditions of the +combat.</p> + +<p>In a feeble voice Don Quixote answered him that in +spite of his defeat Dulcinea still was the most beautiful +woman in the world, but that now that his honor had been +taken away from him, he might as well die; and he begged +the knight to drive home the blow of his lance. But the +Knight of the White Moon was a generous gentleman. +He said he would not have our hero deny the beauty of +his Dulcinea in deference to his own lady; all that he asked +was that Don Quixote return to his village of La Mancha +and give up knight-errantry as he had promised. Don +Quixote rose in a sorry and battered condition and swore +that he would keep his word like a true knight errant; and +in the next instant the mysterious Knight of the White +Moon set off toward the city at a quick canter. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_316" id="Page_316">[Pg 316]</a></span></p> + +<p>As soon as the unknown knight had left, the Viceroy, Don +Antonio and Sancho hastened to Don Quixote's side. +They found him covered with perspiration and stiff in all +his limbs. Rocinante had not yet stirred, for he, too, was +in a deplorable condition. Sancho for once had lost his +speech, and all that had happened to his master in so +short a time seemed to him proof that the enchanters were +still pursuing him. Now that his master for some time to +come was to be confined to their own village, there would +be no chance for him to redeem the promise he had made +to his squire. Altogether it seemed to Sancho a sad state +of affairs.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was in such a dilapidated condition that he +had to be carried into the city in a hand-chair which the +Viceroy had sent for, and they all escorted him to the house +of Don Antonio.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXV" id="v2CHAPTERLXV"></a>CHAPTER LXV</h2> + +<h4>Wherein Is Made Known Who the Knight of the White +Moon Was; Likewise Other Events</h4> + +<p class="cap">IN the city the Viceroy and Don Antonio tried to locate +the Knight of the White Moon, and when they had +found the hostel at which he was staying Don Antonio +went to call on him and learned that he was the bachelor +Samson Carrasco, from the very same village as Don Quixote. +The bachelor, having explained his aims regarding +the knight, packed his arms in a knapsack, took leave as +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_317" id="Page_317">[Pg 317]</a></span> +soon as he had told his story, and set off at once for La Mancha, +mounted on a mule.</p> + +<p>A few days later, much to the sorrow of Sancho—who +had never been so well fed in his life—Don Quixote and +he took a fond farewell of their estimable and generous +host who had heaped so many honors on them and who had +enjoyed himself so tremendously at their expense. This +time it was a sad and lonely journey on which they started. +Don Quixote was mounted on Rocinante, who had somewhat +recovered from his shock, but Sancho had to tread +the trail on foot, for his Dapple had to serve as a carrier +for the discarded armor of our late and lamented valiant +Knight of the Lions.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXVI-LXVII" id="v2CHAPTERLXVI-LXVII"></a>CHAPTERS LXVI-LXVII</h2> + +<h4>Of the Resolution Which Don Quixote Formed to Turn +Shepherd and Take to a Life in the Fields While the +Year for Which He Had Given His Word Was +Running Its Course; with Other Events +Truly Delectable and Happy</h4> + +<p class="cap">TOWARD the end of the fifth day Don Quixote was +resting in the shade of some trees, and as always +happened when he lay down to rest, his thoughts turned +to the disenchantment of his Dulcinea and a feeling of impatience +with his selfish and uncharitable squire rose up +within him. He pleaded with Sancho and implored him +to go through with the ordeal bravely; but Sancho was unflinching +in his stubbornness and insisted he could see no +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_318" id="Page_318">[Pg 318]</a></span> +reason why he should be coupled with the disenchantment +of the peerless fair one. Thus Don Quixote could only +pray that his squire might be moved by compassion to perform +some day the deed that would liberate his lady.</p> + +<p>While discussing this subject so close to his heart Don +Quixote had decided to pursue his journey, and while they +were traveling along on the road to their village they again +engaged in conversation. Suddenly they found themselves +passing the spot where they had been trampled on +by the bulls, but Don Quixote, not wishing to have his +thoughts return to anything so bitter, turned to Sancho +and remarked that this was where they had encountered +the gay shepherds and shepherdesses. And the next instant +he had decided to emulate their example and turn +shepherd himself, now that his calling of knight errant had +come to an end; he would buy some ewes, he said, and together +they would retire to some quiet pastoral nook where +the woods and the fields met, and where pure crystal water +sprang from the ledge of a rock and the fragrance of flowers +was in the air. And there he would sing to Dulcinea, +his platonic and only love. The thought of a life so calm +and so far away from danger and knightly adventures +pleased Sancho so greatly and made his enthusiasm run +so high that he could not restrain a row of proverbs from +falling from his lips. It was a flow so incessant that Don +Quixote at last felt obliged to ask for a truce.</p> + +<p>Night had now fallen, and Don Quixote thought it best +to withdraw from the roadway and take refuge for the +night some distance away from it. Having supped, Sancho +at once fell asleep, but his master sat up all that night, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_319" id="Page_319">[Pg 319]</a></span> +thinking of Dulcinea and making up rhymes to the sweetness +of her memory.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXVIII" id="v2CHAPTERLXVIII"></a>CHAPTER LXVIII</h2> + +<h4>Of the Bristly Adventure That Befell Don Quixote</h4> + +<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE could not bear to see his squire +sleep so restfully while he was being weighted down +by all the cares of the world. So he woke Sancho, whose +stolid unconcern about Dulcinea again was brought home +to him, and almost went on his knees in order to induce him +to scourge himself. He nearly wept in his efforts to have +Sancho inflict the meager amount of three or four hundred +lashes upon himself; but as ever the cruel squire remained +unmoved. Don Quixote did everything in his power to +entice him to do this beautiful deed of sacrifice. He held +forth to him what a blessed night it would be for them, if +he would only comply with his master's request, for then, +Don Quixote suggested, they could spend the remainder +of it singing, thus making this the beginning of the pastoral +life to which they were about to devote themselves. But +Sancho said he was no monk; and the idea of getting up in +the middle of the night to perform such rituals did not +appeal to him, he frankly avowed. The bewailings of his +master, both in Castilian and in Latin, made no impression +upon the hard-hearted Sancho, who remained as firm as the +rock of Gibraltar, as far as the disenchantment was concerned. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_320" id="Page_320">[Pg 320]</a></span></p> + +<p>Don Quixote had just made up his mind that it was +a useless task to try to prevail upon Sancho at that hour +to do his duty, when suddenly there was heard a tremendous +and terrifying noise, which increased as it seemed to +come closer. Sancho was so frightened that he at once +took refuge behind Dapple, entrenching himself between +the pack-saddle and his master's discarded armor; and Don +Quixote got palpitation of the heart, and began to shiver. +As Sancho peeped from behind his entrenchments and Don +Quixote took courage to look, the grunting drove of six +hundred pigs—for that is what it was—was so close upon +them that in the next moment they found themselves +knocked to the ground; but it was some time before all of +the snorting, disrespectful animals had passed their dirty +feet over the prostrate bodies of the knight, his squire and +their beasts and provisions.</p> + +<p>Sancho rose first, smeared with dirt, and having been +stirred to unusual depths by the condition in which he +found himself, he begged his master to let him take his +sword, saying he felt he had to kill some of the pigs in order +to be soothed. The exceedingly bad manners they had +displayed and especially the fact that they had crushed all +the provisions into nothingness, had produced an ire in +Sancho that seemed wellnigh irrepressible.</p> + +<p>But Don Quixote calmed his squire with these words, +spoken with a melancholy air: "Let them be, my friend. +This insult is the penalty of my sin, and it is the righteous +chastisement of Heaven that jackals should devour a vanquished +knight, and wasps sting him and pigs trample him +under foot." +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_321" id="Page_321">[Pg 321]</a></span></p> + +<p>To this Sancho Panza retorted pensively: "I suppose +it is the chastisement of Heaven, too, that flies should prick +the squires of vanquished knights, and lice eat them, and +hunger assail them. If we squires were the sons of the +knights we serve, or their very near relations, it would be +no wonder if the penalty of their misdeeds descended upon +us, even to the fourth generation. But what have the +Panzas to do with the Quixotes? Well, let us lie down +again and sleep out what little of the night there is left, +and God will send us dawn and we shall be all right."</p> + +<p>Sancho lay down and slept, but his master sat up and +commenced his emulation of the life of a shepherd by singing +the song he had composed to his great love, accompanying +it with his own sighs, and many wet tears. At last +daylight came, and the sun awakened them both. Sancho +began to rub his eyes, and they both got up and made ready +to journey further. But before leaving Sancho again +cursed the pigs for having ruined his stores.</p> + +<p>He and his master had traveled the whole day, when +they encountered a number of men on horseback, and four +or five men on foot, all heavily armed. Don Quixote's +heart ached, for he could not forget his promise to the +Knight of the White Moon. The men who were mounted +approached our hero and Sancho, and surrounded them +without speaking a word. Don Quixote attempted to +ask a question, but one of them warned him to be silent +by putting a finger to his lips, while another one pointed +his lance against the knight's breast. Still another one +took Rocinante by the bridle; while Sancho was being +treated in the same manner by some of the others. Both +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_322" id="Page_322">[Pg 322]</a></span> +Don Quixote and Sancho began to be worried as to the +outcome of this adventure, for the whole proceeding seemed +to them utterly mysterious.</p> + +<p>They rode all that day, unable to make out where they +were being taken, or who their mysterious captors were, +and at last night came. All the while the men were calling +them all kinds of names, such as "bloodthirsty lions," +"cannibals," "murderous Polyphemes" etc.; and Sancho +was scared out of his wits, while Don Quixote was at his +wits ends. Both were convinced that some terrible misfortune +was in store for them, and they could only pray +that they would get out of it as easily as possible.</p> + +<p>Before they knew it, it was midnight, and soon after that +Don Quixote recognized a castle, which he saw in the distance, +as that of the Duke. He was amazed when he found +that the men were taking him there, and he said to himself: +"God bless me! What does this mean? It is all courtesy +and politeness in this house; but with the vanquished, +good turns into evil, and evil into worse." They entered +the court, and found it arrayed in such a manner that they +could not help being amazed and speechless, and they felt +fear creeping into their hearts. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_323" id="Page_323">[Pg 323]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXIX" id="v2CHAPTERLXIX"></a>CHAPTER LXIX</h2> + +<h4>Of the Strangest and Most Extraordinary Adventure +That Befell Don Quixote in the Whole Course +of This Great History</h4> + +<p class="cap">AS soon as the horsemen had dismounted, they and the +men on foot carried Don Quixote and Sancho bodily +into the center of the court, which was illuminated with +hundreds of torches and lamps placed all around it. In +the very center there was a catafalque, elevated to a height +of several yards above the ground and covered by a huge +canopy of black velvet. To the catafalque steps led from +all around, and on the steps were hundreds of wax tapers +burning in silver candlesticks. On the catafalque lay the +dead body of a beautiful maiden. On one side of the +stage there was a large platform on which sat two figures, +with scepters in their hands and crowns on their heads: +judging by this, Don Quixote thought they must be royal +personages. On the side of this platform were two empty +chairs, to which Don Quixote and Sancho were led. And +when they had seated themselves and turned around to +observe what was going to happen, they were suddenly +startled by seeing their friends, the Duke and the Duchess, +mount the platform and seat themselves next to the royalty.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote and Sancho both paid them homage by rising +and bowing profoundly, and the ducal pair returned +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_324" id="Page_324">[Pg 324]</a></span> +their compliment with a slight bow of the head. Following +them came a long row of attendants. Then suddenly +Don Quixote came to realize that the corpse was none +other than that of the fair Altisidora, whose love he had +scorned, and that shocked him greatly.</p> + +<p>Some one connected with the ceremonies passed at that +moment and threw a robe of black buckram covered with +painted red flames of fire over Sancho and, removing his +cap, put on his head a miter of the kind that those who +were undergoing the sentence of the Holy Office wore. At +the same time he whispered in Sancho's ear that if he opened +his lips, his life would not be safe.</p> + +<p>At first Sancho, seeing all the flames that seemed to be +licking his body, got frightened, but when he found that +no heat ensued and nothing else happened, his worries +ceased. In the next moment his and his master's attention +was attracted by low, sweet sounds of music and singing +that seemed to vibrate from underneath the catafalque; +and then there appeared a youth with a harp, and he sang +a song that dealt with the cruelty of Don Quixote toward +the fair Altisidora, who now was dead from a broken heart.</p> + +<p>When he had sung of her charms, one of the two who +seemed like kings rose from his seat and spoke. He, +Minos, who sat in judgment with Rhadamanthus, now +begged the latter to stand up and announce what must be +done in order to affect the resuscitation and restoration of +the damsel Altisidora. As soon as he had declaimed all he +had to say, he sat down, and in the next moment Rhadamanthus +rose and decreed that all the officials gather +quickly and attach the person of Sancho Panza, as through +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_325" id="Page_325">[Pg 325]</a></span> +him alone Altisidora's restoration could be effected, he said, +by his receiving twenty-four smacks in the face, twelve +pinches and six pin-thrusts in the back and arms.</p> + +<p>Nobody but Sancho objected to the King's proclamation; +but Sancho was emphatic enough for a multitude. +"Body of me!" he replied unhesitatingly. "What has +mauling my face got to with the resurrection of this damsel? +The old woman takes kindly to my persecution; they enchant +Dulcinea, and whip me in order to disenchant her. +Altisidora dies of ailments God was pleased to send her, +and to bring her to life they must give me four-and-twenty +smacks, and prick holes in my body with pins, and raise +weals on my arms with pinches! Try those jokes on a +brother-in-law; I am an old dog, and its no use with me."</p> + +<p>But Rhadamanthus was bent in carrying out his threat. +He gave a sign to one of the attendants, and in the next +moment a procession of duennas started toward Sancho +with raised hands. Sancho saw them coming against him, +he grew frantic, and began to bellow like a bull, crying +out: "I might let myself be handled by all the world; but +allow duennas to touch me? Not a bit of it! Scratch +my face, as my master was served in this very castle; run +me through the body with burnished daggers; pinch my +arms with red-hot pincers; I shall bear all in patience to +serve these gentlefolk; but I will not let duennas touch me, +though the devil himself should carry me off!"</p> + +<p>Here Don Quixote thought it was time for him to add +his plea to that of the King, and he began to reason with +Sancho. At last he subdued him somewhat, and by that +time the duennas had reached the spot where Don Quixote +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_326" id="Page_326">[Pg 326]</a></span> +and Sancho were seated, and one of them came up, curtsied, +and gave the poor squire a smack on the face that +nearly unseated him, and that made him exclaim: "Less +politeness and less paint, Seņora Duenna. By God, your +hands smell of vinegar-wash!"</p> + +<p>No sooner had Sancho uttered these words than he was +smacked and pinched by nearly all the rest of them, until +at last he lost his temper and seized a lighted torch, with +which he pursued the flying duennas in an uncontrollable +rage, crying: "Begone, ye ministers of Hell! I am not +made of brass not to feel such out-of-the-way tortures."</p> + +<p>But just then Altisidora—who probably was tired of +lying on her back such a long time—moved, and in the next +moment exclamations were heard from all in the court: +"Altisidora is alive! Altisidora lives!"</p> + +<p>Now that the great miracle had been attained, Rhadamanthus +turned to Sancho and bade him still his anger; +and Don Quixote again entreated Sancho, since he so nobly +had proven that virtue now was ripe in him, to go to work +and disenchant his Dulcinea in the same breath. To this +Sancho replied:</p> + +<p>"That is trick upon trick, I think, and not honey upon +pancakes. A nice thing it would be for a whipping to +come now, on the top of pinches, smacks, and pin-proddings! +You had better take a big stone and tie it round +my neck, and pitch me into a well; I should not mind it +much, if I am to be always made the cow of the wedding +for the cure of other people's ailments. Leave me alone; +or else by the Lord I shall fling the whole thing to the dogs, +come what may!" +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_327" id="Page_327">[Pg 327]</a></span></p> + +<p>By this time Altisidora had entirely recovered from her +death and was now sitting up on the catafalque. The +music was again heard, the voices sang, and all came forward +to help the young maiden down from her elevated +position.</p> + +<p>Altisidora acted as if she were just coming out of a long, +long sleep; and when she saw the Kings and the Duke and +the Duchess she bowed her head to them in respect. Then +she asked the Lord to forgive Don Quixote for his cruelty, +while she praised and thanked Sancho Panza for his sacrifice, +and offered to give him six smocks of hers to make +into shirts for himself, adding that if they were not quite +whole, they were at least all clean. On hearing this, Sancho +fell on his knees and kissed her hands; and then one +of the attendants approached him, at the order of the Duke, +and asked him to return the red robe and the miter. Sancho, +however, wanted to keep them to show to his villagers +as a remembrance of his marvelous experience; and when +the Duchess heard of his desire she commanded that they +be given to her friend as a token of her everlasting esteem.</p> + +<p>Soon everybody had left the court and retired to their +quarters, and the Duke had Don Quixote and Sancho +shown to their old chambers. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_328" id="Page_328">[Pg 328]</a></span></p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXX" id="v2CHAPTERLXX"></a>CHAPTER LXX</h2> + +<h4>Which Follows Chapter Sixty-Nine and Deals with +Matters Indispensable for the Clear +Comprehension of This History</h4> + +<p class="cap">SANCHO slept that night in the same chamber with +Don Quixote. It was some time before he went +asleep, however, for the pain of the pinching and smacking +was quite evident. Don Quixote was inclined to talk, +but Sancho begged him to let him sleep in peace for the remainder +of the night, and at last both master and servant +fell into slumber.</p> + +<p>In the meantime it might be told how it came about that +Don Quixote came to visit the ducal castle again. The +bachelor Samson Carrasco, having learned as much as he +could from the page that carried the letter to Teresa Panza +of the whereabouts of the hero, decided that the time had +come for another combat with him. Thus he procured a +new suit of armor and a fresh horse and set out to find the +Duke's castle. Having reached it, he had a long conversation +with the Duke, wherein he told him it was his great +desire to bring Don Quixote back to his village and his +friends, hoping that if he could defeat him in battle Don +Quixote could be made to return of his own free will and +in time be cured of his strange affliction. He then followed +him to Saragossa, for which city he had set out when +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_329" id="Page_329">[Pg 329]</a></span> +he left the Duke's castle, but finally traced him to Barcelona, +where the bachelor encountered him with the result +that he promised to return to his village and give up +knight-errantry for a year.</p> + +<p>On his way home, the bachelor, at the Duke's request, +had stopped at the castle to inform him of the outcome of +the combat, and it was then that the Duke decided to play +the knight and his squire another joke. The Duke had his +men stationed everywhere on the road that led from Barcelona, +and it was thus that they were able to bring in Don +Quixote in the manner and at the hour that they did.</p> + +<p>When daylight arrived the morning after Altisidora's +coming to life, Don Quixote awoke and found her in his +presence; and the instant he saw her he showed his modesty +and his confusion by pulling the sheet over his head. +But while Don Quixote was not inclined to converse with +a maiden so early in the morning, Sancho showed no aversion +to it whatever, for he bombarded Altisidora with all +kinds of impertinent questions as to what was going on in +Hell when she was there. Of course Altisidora denied +having any intimate knowledge of this place, for in spite +of her immodesty she had only got as far as the gates, she +said.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote now entered into the conversation and +asked why the fair Altisidora had been so persistent in her +love, when she knew that he would never change or give +up his beloved Dulcinea, to whom he maintained he was +born to belong. When she heard Don Quixote talk in +this manner, Altisidora grew very angry with him, and exclaimed: +"God's life! Don Stockfish, soul of a mortar, +stone of a date, more obstinate and obdurate than a clown +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_330" id="Page_330">[Pg 330]</a></span> +asked a favor when he has his mind made up! If I fall +upon you I shall tear your eyes out! Do you fancy, then, +Don Vanquished, Don Cudgeled, that I died for <i>your</i> sake? +All that you have seen to-night has been make believe; I +am not the woman to let the black of my nail suffer for +such a camel, much less die!"</p> + +<p>Sancho interrupted her here and said he could well believe +that; then he added: "All that about lovers pining +to death is absurd. They may talk of it, but as far as doing +it—Judas may believe that!"</p> + +<p>Now the Duke and the Duchess entered, and after an +animated conversation during which Sancho's amusing sayings +as usual captivated his distinguished friends, Don +Quixote begged leave to be on his way to his village. +They granted him his request, and then they asked him +whether he had forgiven Altisidora for having tried to +capture his love. He replied saying that this lady's lack +of virtue had its root in her idleness, and he recommended +that the Duchess see to it that Altisidora was put to making +lace or given some other employment. Sancho approved +of his master's advice, and remarked sagely that he +never had seen any lacemaker die for love; and he further +illustrated the truth of Don Quixote's remark by his own +experience on that score: when he was digging, he vowed, +he never bothered with the thought of his old woman. The +testimony of two such staunch friends of hers as Don Quixote +and Sancho made the Duchess promise that hereafter +she would keep the fair Altisidora employed so that no foolish +thoughts might take her away from the path of virtue. +As soon as the fair maiden heard her mistress speak thus, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_331" id="Page_331">[Pg 331]</a></span> +however, she assured her that there was no longer any +need of her being worked to death in order to divert her +thought from the person of our knight errant, for his cruelty +to her had been such that the very thought of that had +now blotted him out of her memory forever. And, pretending +to wipe a tear from her eye, she made a curtsy to +the Duchess and left the chamber.</p> + +<p>It was now time for dinner, and soon afterward Don +Quixote, having dined with the Duke and the Duchess, +made his departure from the castle with Sancho, and started +again for his home.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXXI" id="v2CHAPTERLXXI"></a>CHAPTER LXXI</h2> + +<h4>Of What Passed Between Don Quixote and His Squire +Sancho on the Way to Their Village</h4> + +<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE and Sancho traveled along, both in +a state of depression. Don Quixote was sad because +he had been forced to give up the glories of knight-errantry +and chivalry; Sancho because Altisidora had not +kept her word when she promised to give him the smocks. +To Sancho it seemed a terrible injustice that physicians +should be paid even if their patients died, and here he +had brought back a human being from the dead, and was +being rewarded in this ungrateful manner!</p> + +<p>But Don Quixote's sadness was suddenly brightened by +a hope that he might at last be able to prevail upon Sancho +to bring about the disenchantment of Dulcinea. Knowing +Sancho's covetousness, he offered him money as a bribe. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_332" id="Page_332">[Pg 332]</a></span> +Now Sancho became interested, and consented, for the love +of his wife and children, to whip himself at a price of a +quarter-real a lash, generously throwing the five lashes he +had already given himself into the bargain.</p> + +<p>"O blessed Sancho! O dear Sancho!" exclaimed Don +Quixote. "How we shall be bound to serve thee, Dulcinea +and I, all the days of our lives that Heaven may grant +us! But look here, Sancho: when wilt thou begin the +scourging? For if thou wilt make short work of it, I will +give thee a hundred reals over and above."</p> + +<p>Sancho swore that he would begin the scourging that +very night, and begged his master that he arrange it so +that they spend the night in the open.</p> + +<p>Night came at last, and when they had supped, Sancho +proceeded to make a sturdy whip out of Dapple's halter. +When he had finished this task he made off for a distant +part of the woods. He left his master with such a determined +look in his eyes that Don Quixote thought it best +to warn him not to go too fast but to take a breathing-space +between lashes so that he would not cut his body to pieces. +He was afraid also, he said, that Sancho might become so +enthusiastic over what he was doing, or so anxious to come +to the end of the lashes that he might overtax his strength, +collapse and die; and he begged Sancho particularly not to +do that, for then he would have gone through all his suffering +in vain. When Sancho had stripped himself to the +waist, Don Quixote placed himself where he could hear the +sound of the lashes, and counted them on his rosary that +Sancho would make neither too much nor too little effort +to disenchant Dulcinea. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_333" id="Page_333">[Pg 333]</a></span></p> + +<p>After half a dozen lashes, Sancho felt that he had inflicted +a sufficient measure of pain upon himself already, +and demanded a higher price for his service. Don Quixote +told Sancho that he would pay him twice the amount +promised; and the squire began again. But this time he +did not whip himself but let the lashes fall on a tree;<a name="Page333Ill" id="Page333Ill"></a> and +with each lash he gave out the most heartrending cries, and +uttered such groans that his master began to feel the pain +of his squire's torture in his own heart. When he had +counted a thousand lashes or thereabout, he was quite +worried about Sancho and begged him to stop for the present, +but Sancho told his master he might as well brave the +remainder of the ordeal now.</p> + +<p>Seeing his squire in such a sacrificing mood, Don Quixote +retired at his request, and Sancho continued with the +lashing, which he administered to a perfectly innocent tree +with such brutality and ferocity that the bark flew in all +directions. All the while he gave vent to his pain by fierce +shrieks, and then there came one long agonizing cry, which +nearly rent Don Quixote's heart, and Sancho exclaimed +piteously: "Here dies Sancho, and all with him!" Don +Quixote hastened to his squire's side, and insisted for the +sake of his unsupported wife and children that he go no +further, but to wait until some other time with the rest. +Sancho retorted with a request that his master cover his +shoulders with his cloak, as the exertion had been too great +and had made him perspire freely, and he did not wish to +run the risk of catching cold. Don Quixote did as he was +asked and begged Sancho to lie down; then he covered him +with the cloak. +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_334" id="Page_334">[Pg 334]</a></span></p> + +<p>At dawn they resumed their journey, and when they had +traveled three leagues, they came to an inn. Don Quixote +did not take it for a castle this time; as a matter of fact, +ever since he had found himself vanquished, he had begun +to talk of and see things in a more rational way. They entered, +and when Sancho saw the painted pictures on the +wall he remarked to his master that not long from now there +would be paintings picturing their deeds in every tavern +and inn in the country. Don Quixote then turned to his +squire and asked him whether he would like to finish the +whipping business that day, and Sancho said it made no +difference to him when he did it; he only made a suggestion +that he thought he would prefer to do it among the trees as +they seemed to help him bear the pain miraculously. But +on second consideration Don Quixote deemed it advisable +to put it off till a later time, when they were closer to their +village, in case Sancho should have a breakdown as a result +of his flogging himself. Their conversation came to an end +when Sancho began to shoot proverbs at his master out of +the corner of his mouth at such a speed that Don Quixote +was overwhelmed and tore his hair in desperation.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXXII-LXXIII" id="v2CHAPTERLXXII-LXXIII"></a>CHAPTERS LXXII-LXXIII</h2> + +<h4>Of the Omens Don Quixote Had as He Entered His Own +Village; and Other Incidents That Embellish +and Give a Color to This Great History</h4> + +<p class="cap">WHEN they had left the inn that day Don Quixote +and his squire traveled all through the night, and +the following morning they arrived at their own village, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_335" id="Page_335">[Pg 335]</a></span> +from which they had been absent so long. Among the +first to meet them were the curate and Samson Carrasco, +who had discovered at a distance the red robe the Duchess +had given to Sancho as a memento of their friendship. +Sancho had thrown it over his donkey and the discarded +armor, and it shone in the morning sun as brightly as a +fiery sunset. Dapple was also adorned with the miter, +which proudly crowned the beast's head.</p> + +<p><a name="Page333pic" id="Page333pic"></a></p> +<div class="figcenter" > +<img src="images/illus4.jpg" width="450" height="593" +alt=""WITH EACH LASH HE GAVE OUT THE MOST HEARTRENDING CRIES."—Page 333" +title=""WITH EACH LASH HE GAVE OUT THE MOST HEARTRENDING CRIES."—Page 333" /> +<span class="caption"><br />"WITH EACH LASH HE GAVE OUT THE MOST HEARTRENDING CRIES."—<a href="#Page333Ill">Page 333</a></span> +</div> + +<p>When Don Quixote saw his old friends, he dismounted +and embraced them; and all the little boys in town came +running to see the sight of Dapple and the returning revivers +of knight-errantry. They called out to their playmates: +"Come here, fellows, and see how Sancho Panza's +donkey is rigged out; and take a look at Don Quixote's +horse: he is leaner than ever!"</p> + +<p>As they walked through the village, it was a whole parade +that followed them; and at Don Quixote's house they +were received by the niece and the housekeeper, who had +already heard of the return.</p> + +<p>Teresa Panza, too, had been given the news, but she was +sorely disappointed when she ran out with her two dirty +children to welcome the returning Governor. She scolded +him soundly for coming home dressed like a vagabond. +But Sancho told her to put a clamp on her tongue, for he +did bring her money, at any rate, he said. Then his +daughter fell on his neck and kissed him, and in the next +instant the whole family had dragged him inside their +little cottage.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote shut himself in with the curate and the +bachelor, as soon as he had entered his house, and related +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_336" id="Page_336">[Pg 336]</a></span> +to them the sad story of his defeat, and the promise he had +made to the Knight of the White Moon; and then he +broached his new idea, that of turning shepherd. He told +his friends he had chosen new names for them, for he hoped +that they would share his new life with him; and they at +once praised his scheme and promised that as shepherds +they would accompany him in his pursuit of happiness. +Samson added that he would be an especially valuable +member of the pastoral colony, for he knew how to write +poetry, and would devote his time to singing the praises +of their simple life. Of course, there must be shepherdesses, +too, Don Quixote ruled, and they could be represented +by such modest and virtuous women as Dulcinea +and Teresa Panza.</p> + +<p>When they had conversed in this pleasant manner for +some time, the curate and the bachelor left, begging Don +Quixote to take good care of himself and to eat plentifully. +As soon as they had departed, the niece and the housekeeper, +who had overheard the three men, entered the late +knight's room and begged him not to turn shepherd saying +that his health was not such as to allow him to dwell in +the open in the damp night air; sooner or later he would succumb, +they said, and take ill and die. They were both +agreed that the foolishness of knight-errantry was much +better than this craze. They entreated him to remain at +home, to go to confession often, and to indulge in doing +good deeds and being kind to the poor, instead. But Don +Quixote would have none of their advice. He told them he +knew where his duty lay. Then he implored them to put +him to bed, saying that they ought to know he had always +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_337" id="Page_337">[Pg 337]</a></span> +their interest at heart, no matter what happened.</p> + +<p>The two women began to weep, and then they helped +Don Quixote to bed, and there they did all they could to +make him comfortable, and gave him something to eat.</p> + +<hr class="hr1" /> +<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXXIV" id="v2CHAPTERLXXIV"></a>CHAPTER LXXIV</h2> + +<h4>Of How Don Quixote Fell Sick, and of the Will He Made; +and How He Died</h4> + +<p class="cap">THE following day Don Quixote did not rise from his +bed, and he was taken with a fever which kept him +in bed for six days. All this time his faithful Sancho remained +at his bedside; and his friends, the curate, the +barber and the bachelor, visited him frequently. They all +did what they could, for they seemed to sense that the +sickness was brought on by the sad thought of his having +been forced to give up his great hope of reviving knight-errantry.</p> + +<p>When the doctor was sent for, he said frankly that it +was time for Don Quixote to turn his thoughts to his soul; +and when the niece and the devoted housekeeper heard +this, they began to weep bitterly. The physician was of +the same opinion as the curate and Don Quixote's other +friends: that melancholy and unhappiness were the cause +of the present state of his health.</p> + +<p>Soon Don Quixote asked to be left alone, and then he +fell into a long sleep, which lasted over six hours. It +provoked the anxiety of the two women, who were afraid +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_338" id="Page_338">[Pg 338]</a></span> +he would never wake up again. At last he awoke, and as +he opened his eyes he exclaimed in a voice of exaltation +and joy: "Blessed be the Lord Almighty, who has shown +me such goodness! In truth his mercies are boundless, +and the sins of men can neither limit them nor keep them +back!"</p> + +<p>The niece was struck by the unusual saneness of these +words. She asked Don Quixote gently what he meant, and +what sins of men he was speaking of. He replied in a +voice full of calmness and serenity that God had just freed +his reason, for he realized now how ignorance in believing +in the absurdities of the books of chivalry had distorted his +mind and vision so sadly. He regretted, he said, that he +saw the light so late in life that there was no time for him +to show his repentance by reading other books, which +might have helped his soul. Then he begged his niece to +send for the curate, the bachelor Carrasco, and the barber, +as he wished to confess his sins and make his will before +he departed from this earth.</p> + +<p>The moment the three friends stepped over the threshold +to his chamber, he called out happily: "Good news +for you, good sirs, that I am no longer Don Quixote of La +Mancha, but Alonso Quixano, whose way of life won for +him the name of the Good." And he went on to say how +he now loathed all books of chivalry which had brought +him to the state he was in, and how happy he was in the +thought that God had made him see his folly. The three +men could only think that this was some new craze of their +friend's and tried to persuade him not to talk thus, now +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_339" id="Page_339">[Pg 339]</a></span> +that they had just got news of his peerless Dulcinea and +were all of them about to become shepherds in order to +keep him company; and they begged him to be rational and +talk no more nonsense. But soon they realized that Don +Quixote was not jesting, for he begged them to send for +a notary, and while the bachelor went to fetch him, the +barber went to soothe the women; and the curate alone +remained with Don Quixote to confess him.</p> + +<p>When the good curate came out after the confession, the +women gathered about him and when he told them that +Don Quixote was indeed dying, they broke into sobs, for +they loved him genuinely and dearly. The notary then +came, and Don Quixote made his will. The first person +he thought of was his faithful and beloved companion, +Sancho Panza, whose simplicity and affection he rewarded +by leaving him all the money of his own that was now +in Sancho's possession. Had he had a kingdom to give +him, he said, it would scarcely have been sufficient reward +for all that Sancho had done for him. Then turning to +Sancho, who stood at his bedside with tears in his eyes, he +said to him: "Forgive me, my friend, that I led thee to +seem as mad as myself, making thee fall into the same +error I myself fell into, that there were and still are knights +errant in the world."</p> + +<p>"Ah," said Sancho, in a voice that was choked with tears, +"do not die, master, but take my advice and live many +years; for the foolishest thing a man can do in this life is +to let himself die without rhyme or reason, without anybody +killing him, or any hands but melancholy's making +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_340" id="Page_340">[Pg 340]</a></span> +an end of him. Come, do not be lazy, but get up from +your bed and let us take to the fields in a shepherd's trim +as we agreed! Perhaps behind some bush we shall find +the Lady Dulcinea disenchanted, as fine as fine can be. +If it be that you are dying of vexation at having been vanquished, +lay the blame on me, and say you were thrown +because I girthed Rocinante badly."</p> + +<p>But although Samson Carrasco tried to persuade the dying +knight that Sancho had reasoned rightly, they at last +came to the conclusion that Don Quixote really was in his +right senses, and that God had worked a miracle.</p> + +<p>They now let the notary proceed and one of the stipulations +in the will was that if his niece, Antonia Quixana, +ever married a man who had read books of chivalry, she +should by so doing forfeit all that he had left to her, and +instead it would go to charity. Another clause contained +a request to the executors to offer his humble apologies to +the author of the Second Part of "The Achievements of +Don Quixote of La Mancha" for his having committed so +many absurdities that had been a provocation to the author +to write this book.</p> + +<p>When he had dictated the last words of his will, a sudden +faintness came over Don Quixote, and for three days after +that he was in a state between life and death. At last the +end came, and he passed away so calmly that the notary +felt compelled to confess that he never had read of any +knight errant in the whole wide world who had breathed +his last breath so peacefully.</p> + +<p>The bachelor, Samson Carrasco, wrote an epitaph for +his tomb; and there is written on a tombstone in a little +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_341" id="Page_341">[Pg 341]</a></span> +village of La Mancha the praise that those who knew and +loved the valiant and doughty, yet gentle Don Quixote of +La Mancha felt in their hearts for him, whose last wish was +that he might die as Alonso Quixano the Good.</p> + +<h3>THE END</h3> + +<div class="bbox"> +<p class="bi">Transcribers' Note:</p> + +<p>The Title Page of this book credits Arvid Paulson and Clayton Edwards +as being the authors of this work. The original Don Quixote of The +Mancha was written, in Spanish, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra around +1605. It has been translated into many languages and editions. This +book is based on Cervantes' story. The catalogue of the Library of +Congress lists Cervantes as the author of this book, and Paulson and +Edwards are included as "related names."</p> + +<p>Variations in spelling, such as grey/gray or pretence/pretense have +been left as they appear in the original book.</p> + +<h4>Some Items That Appear To Be Typographic Errors Have Been Changed +As Follows.</h4> + +<dl> +<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_28">Page 28</a></dt><dd>Corrected Neverthelesss to remove extra "s".</dd> + +<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_63">Page 63</a></dt><dd>Corrected imcomparable to incomparable.</dd> + +<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_130">Page 130</a></dt><dd>Corrected hilarously to hilariously.</dd> + +<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_231">Page 231</a></dt><dd> Corrected sacrilegeous to sacrilegious in the passage that +read "When the confessor heard the sacrilegeous conversation".</dd> + +<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_237">Page 237</a></dt><dd> Corrected Doņo to Doņa in the passage that read "and told +her of the incident with Doņo Rodriguez".</dd> + +<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_246">Page 246</a></dt><dd>Corrected expresseed to expressed.</dd> + +<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_257">Page 257</a></dt><dd> Deleted superfluous "to" in the passage that read "he +confided to to his master the resemblance in voice and appearance".</dd> + +<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_277">Page 277</a></dt><dd> "and lifted him up from his vertical position." +has been left as it appears in the book, although the intent would +appear to be "horizontal" rather than "vertical".</dd> + +<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_306">Page 306</a></dt><dd> In the passage that reads "After having acted in +the most mysterious manner, and having carefully ascertained that all +the doors to the room were shut and no one listening, Don Quixote +swore the knight to secrecy." Don Quixote has been changed to Antonio +as this appears to be a typographic error as Don Quixote is the knight +in question.</dd> + +<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_309">Page 309</a></dt><dd>Changed lead to led in the passage that reads "through a tube +that lead from the inside of the head".</dd> + +<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_317">Page 317</a></dt><dd> Corrected Stubborness to Stubbornness in the passage that +read "but Sancho was unflinching in his stubborness and insisted".</dd> + +<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_328">Page 328</a></dt><dd> Corrected to affliction in the passage that reads "in time be +cured of his strange affiction".</dd> + +</dl> + +<h4><br />Changes Have Been Made to Table of Contents As Follows.</h4> + +<h4>Volume I</h4> + +<p class="bi"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXXII-XXXIV">CHAPTER XXXII-XXXIV</a></p> + +<p class="smcap">Which Treats of What Befell All Don Quixote's Party at the Inn</p> + +<p>The table of contents read "at the End". It has been amended to "at +the Inn" to match the chapter heading.</p> + +<h4>Volume II</h4> + +<p class="bi"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXII">CHAPTER XII</a></p> + +<p class="smcap">Of the Strange Adventure Which Befell the +Valiant Don Quixote with the Bold Knight of the Grove</p> + +<p>The table of contents read "of the Mirrors" It has been amended to +"of the Grove" to match this and the next chapter heading and sense +of the story line.</p> + +<p class="bi"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLIV">CHAPTER XLIV</a></p> + +<p class="smcap">How Sancho Panza Was Conducted to His Government; and of +the Strange Adventure That Befell Don Quixote in the Castle</p> + +<p>"Ad" in adventure was missing from the table of contents which read +"Strange Venture". It has been amended to match the chapter heading.</p> + +<p class="bi"><a href="#v2CHAPTERL">CHAPTER L</a></p> + +<p class="smcap">Wherein Is Set Forth How Governor Sancho Panza's Wife Received a +Message and a Gift from the Duchess; and also What Befell the Page Who +Carried the Letter to Teresa Panza</p> + +<p>The table of contents went on to add "Sancho Panza's Wife" to the end +of the above listing. This has been removed to agree with the chapter +heading.</p> + +<p class="bi"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLVI-LVII">CHAPTERS LVI-LVII</a></p> + +<p class="smcap">Which Treats of How Don Quixote Again Felt the Calling of +Knight-errantry and How He Took Leave of the Duke, and of What +Followed with the Witty and Impudent Altisidora, One of the Duchess' +Damsels</p> + +<p>Deleted "s" from "callings" in contents listing.</p> + +<p>Capitalisation of the Table of Contents has been +modified to agree with each applicable chapter heading.</p> +</div> + +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full" /> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF DON QUIXOTE***</p> +<p>******* This file should be named 29468-h.txt or 29468-h.zip *******</p> +<p>This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:<br /> +<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/9/4/6/29468">http://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/4/6/29468</a></p> +<p>Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed.</p> + +<p>Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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