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diff --git a/5927.txt b/5927.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e606ed --- /dev/null +++ b/5927.txt @@ -0,0 +1,633 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., Part +24, by Miguel de Cervantes + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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 www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., Part 24 + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra + +Release Date: July 22, 2004 [EBook #5927] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 24 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + DON QUIXOTE + + Volume II. + + Part 24. + + by Miguel de Cervantes + + + Translated by John Ormsby + + + +CHAPTER XXI. + +IN WHICH CAMACHO'S WEDDING IS CONTINUED, WITH OTHER DELIGHTFUL INCIDENTS + + +While Don Quixote and Sancho were engaged in the discussion set forth the +last chapter, they heard loud shouts and a great noise, which were +uttered and made by the men on the mares as they went at full gallop, +shouting, to receive the bride and bridegroom, who were approaching with +musical instruments and pageantry of all sorts around them, and +accompanied by the priest and the relatives of both, and all the most +distinguished people of the surrounding villages. When Sancho saw the +bride, he exclaimed, "By my faith, she is not dressed like a country +girl, but like some fine court lady; egad, as well as I can make out, the +patena she wears rich coral, and her green Cuenca stuff is thirty-pile +velvet; and then the white linen trimming--by my oath, but it's satin! +Look at her hands--jet rings on them! May I never have luck if they're +not gold rings, and real gold, and set with pearls as white as a curdled +milk, and every one of them worth an eye of one's head! Whoreson baggage, +what hair she has! if it's not a wig, I never saw longer or fairer all +the days of my life. See how bravely she bears herself--and her shape! +Wouldn't you say she was like a walking palm tree loaded with clusters of +dates? for the trinkets she has hanging from her hair and neck look just +like them. I swear in my heart she is a brave lass, and fit 'to pass over +the banks of Flanders.'" + +Don Quixote laughed at Sancho's boorish eulogies and thought that, saving +his lady Dulcinea del Toboso, he had never seen a more beautiful woman. +The fair Quiteria appeared somewhat pale, which was, no doubt, because of +the bad night brides always pass dressing themselves out for their +wedding on the morrow. They advanced towards a theatre that stood on one +side of the meadow decked with carpets and boughs, where they were to +plight their troth, and from which they were to behold the dances and +plays; but at the moment of their arrival at the spot they heard a loud +outcry behind them, and a voice exclaiming, "Wait a little, ye, as +inconsiderate as ye are hasty!" At these words all turned round, and +perceived that the speaker was a man clad in what seemed to be a loose +black coat garnished with crimson patches like flames. He was crowned (as +was presently seen) with a crown of gloomy cypress, and in his hand he +held a long staff. As he approached he was recognised by everyone as the +gay Basilio, and all waited anxiously to see what would come of his +words, in dread of some catastrophe in consequence of his appearance at +such a moment. He came up at last weary and breathless, and planting +himself in front of the bridal pair, drove his staff, which had a steel +spike at the end, into the ground, and, with a pale face and eyes fixed +on Quiteria, he thus addressed her in a hoarse, trembling voice: + +"Well dost thou know, ungrateful Quiteria, that according to the holy law +we acknowledge, so long as live thou canst take no husband; nor art thou +ignorant either that, in my hopes that time and my own exertions would +improve my fortunes, I have never failed to observe the respect due to +thy honour; but thou, casting behind thee all thou owest to my true love, +wouldst surrender what is mine to another whose wealth serves to bring +him not only good fortune but supreme happiness; and now to complete it +(not that I think he deserves it, but inasmuch as heaven is pleased to +bestow it upon him), I will, with my own hands, do away with the obstacle +that may interfere with it, and remove myself from between you. Long live +the rich Camacho! many a happy year may he live with the ungrateful +Quiteria! and let the poor Basilio die, Basilio whose poverty clipped the +wings of his happiness, and brought him to the grave!" + +And so saying, he seized the staff he had driven into the ground, and +leaving one half of it fixed there, showed it to be a sheath that +concealed a tolerably long rapier; and, what may be called its hilt being +planted in the ground, he swiftly, coolly, and deliberately threw himself +upon it, and in an instant the bloody point and half the steel blade +appeared at his back, the unhappy man falling to the earth bathed in his +blood, and transfixed by his own weapon. + +His friends at once ran to his aid, filled with grief at his misery and +sad fate, and Don Quixote, dismounting from Rocinante, hastened to +support him, and took him in his arms, and found he had not yet ceased to +breathe. They were about to draw out the rapier, but the priest who was +standing by objected to its being withdrawn before he had confessed him, +as the instant of its withdrawal would be that of this death. Basilio, +however, reviving slightly, said in a weak voice, as though in pain, "If +thou wouldst consent, cruel Quiteria, to give me thy hand as my bride in +this last fatal moment, I might still hope that my rashness would find +pardon, as by its means I attained the bliss of being thine." + +Hearing this the priest bade him think of the welfare of his soul rather +than of the cravings of the body, and in all earnestness implore God's +pardon for his sins and for his rash resolve; to which Basilio replied +that he was determined not to confess unless Quiteria first gave him her +hand in marriage, for that happiness would compose his mind and give him +courage to make his confession. + +Don Quixote hearing the wounded man's entreaty, exclaimed aloud that what +Basilio asked was just and reasonable, and moreover a request that might +be easily complied with; and that it would be as much to Senor Camacho's +honour to receive the lady Quiteria as the widow of the brave Basilio as +if he received her direct from her father. + +"In this case," said he, "it will be only to say 'yes,' and no +consequences can follow the utterance of the word, for the nuptial couch +of this marriage must be the grave." + +Camacho was listening to all this, perplexed and bewildered and not +knowing what to say or do; but so urgent were the entreaties of Basilio's +friends, imploring him to allow Quiteria to give him her hand, so that +his soul, quitting this life in despair, should not be lost, that they +moved, nay, forced him, to say that if Quiteria were willing to give it +he was satisfied, as it was only putting off the fulfillment of his +wishes for a moment. At once all assailed Quiteria and pressed her, some +with prayers, and others with tears, and others with persuasive +arguments, to give her hand to poor Basilio; but she, harder than marble +and more unmoved than any statue, seemed unable or unwilling to utter a +word, nor would she have given any reply had not the priest bade her +decide quickly what she meant to do, as Basilio now had his soul at his +teeth, and there was no time for hesitation. + +On this the fair Quiteria, to all appearance distressed, grieved, and +repentant, advanced without a word to where Basilio lay, his eyes already +turned in his head, his breathing short and painful, murmuring the name +of Quiteria between his teeth, and apparently about to die like a heathen +and not like a Christian. Quiteria approached him, and kneeling, demanded +his hand by signs without speaking. Basilio opened his eyes and gazing +fixedly at her, said, "O Quiteria, why hast thou turned compassionate at +a moment when thy compassion will serve as a dagger to rob me of life, +for I have not now the strength left either to bear the happiness thou +givest me in accepting me as thine, or to suppress the pain that is +rapidly drawing the dread shadow of death over my eyes? What I entreat of +thee, O thou fatal star to me, is that the hand thou demandest of me and +wouldst give me, be not given out of complaisance or to deceive me +afresh, but that thou confess and declare that without any constraint +upon thy will thou givest it to me as to thy lawful husband; for it is +not meet that thou shouldst trifle with me at such a moment as this, or +have recourse to falsehoods with one who has dealt so truly by thee." + +While uttering these words he showed such weakness that the bystanders +expected each return of faintness would take his life with it. Then +Quiteria, overcome with modesty and shame, holding in her right hand the +hand of Basilio, said, "No force would bend my will; as freely, +therefore, as it is possible for me to do so, I give thee the hand of a +lawful wife, and take thine if thou givest it to me of thine own free +will, untroubled and unaffected by the calamity thy hasty act has brought +upon thee." + +"Yes, I give it," said Basilio, "not agitated or distracted, but with +unclouded reason that heaven is pleased to grant me, thus do I give +myself to be thy husband." + +"And I give myself to be thy wife," said Quiteria, "whether thou livest +many years, or they carry thee from my arms to the grave." + +"For one so badly wounded," observed Sancho at this point, "this young +man has a great deal to say; they should make him leave off billing and +cooing, and attend to his soul; for to my thinking he has it more on his +tongue than at his teeth." + +Basilio and Quiteria having thus joined hands, the priest, deeply moved +and with tears in his eyes, pronounced the blessing upon them, and +implored heaven to grant an easy passage to the soul of the newly wedded +man, who, the instant he received the blessing, started nimbly to his +feet and with unparalleled effrontery pulled out the rapier that had been +sheathed in his body. All the bystanders were astounded, and some, more +simple than inquiring, began shouting, "A miracle, a miracle!" But +Basilio replied, "No miracle, no miracle; only a trick, a trick!" The +priest, perplexed and amazed, made haste to examine the wound with both +hands, and found that the blade had passed, not through Basilio's flesh +and ribs, but through a hollow iron tube full of blood, which he had +adroitly fixed at the place, the blood, as was afterwards ascertained, +having been so prepared as not to congeal. In short, the priest and +Camacho and most of those present saw they were tricked and made fools +of. The bride showed no signs of displeasure at the deception; on the +contrary, hearing them say that the marriage, being fraudulent, would not +be valid, she said that she confirmed it afresh, whence they all +concluded that the affair had been planned by agreement and understanding +between the pair, whereat Camacho and his supporters were so mortified +that they proceeded to revenge themselves by violence, and a great number +of them drawing their swords attacked Basilio, in whose protection as +many more swords were in an instant unsheathed, while Don Quixote taking +the lead on horseback, with his lance over his arm and well covered with +his shield, made all give way before him. Sancho, who never found any +pleasure or enjoyment in such doings, retreated to the wine-jars from +which he had taken his delectable skimmings, considering that, as a holy +place, that spot would be respected. + +"Hold, sirs, hold!" cried Don Quixote in a loud voice; "we have no right +to take vengeance for wrongs that love may do to us: remember love and +war are the same thing, and as in war it is allowable and common to make +use of wiles and stratagems to overcome the enemy, so in the contests and +rivalries of love the tricks and devices employed to attain the desired +end are justifiable, provided they be not to the discredit or dishonour +of the loved object. Quiteria belonged to Basilio and Basilio to Quiteria +by the just and beneficent disposal of heaven. Camacho is rich, and can +purchase his pleasure when, where, and as it pleases him. Basilio has but +this ewe-lamb, and no one, however powerful he may be, shall take her +from him; these two whom God hath joined man cannot separate; and he who +attempts it must first pass the point of this lance;" and so saying he +brandished it so stoutly and dexterously that he overawed all who did not +know him. + +But so deep an impression had the rejection of Quiteria made on Camacho's +mind that it banished her at once from his thoughts; and so the counsels +of the priest, who was a wise and kindly disposed man, prevailed with +him, and by their means he and his partisans were pacified and +tranquillised, and to prove it put up their swords again, inveighing +against the pliancy of Quiteria rather than the craftiness of Basilio; +Camacho maintaining that, if Quiteria as a maiden had such a love for +Basilio, she would have loved him too as a married woman, and that he +ought to thank heaven more for having taken her than for having given +her. + +Camacho and those of his following, therefore, being consoled and +pacified, those on Basilio's side were appeased; and the rich Camacho, to +show that he felt no resentment for the trick, and did not care about it, +desired the festival to go on just as if he were married in reality. +Neither Basilio, however, nor his bride, nor their followers would take +any part in it, and they withdrew to Basilio's village; for the poor, if +they are persons of virtue and good sense, have those who follow, honour, +and uphold them, just as the rich have those who flatter and dance +attendance on them. With them they carried Don Quixote, regarding him as +a man of worth and a stout one. Sancho alone had a cloud on his soul, for +he found himself debarred from waiting for Camacho's splendid feast and +festival, which lasted until night; and thus dragged away, he moodily +followed his master, who accompanied Basilio's party, and left behind him +the flesh-pots of Egypt; though in his heart he took them with him, and +their now nearly finished skimmings that he carried in the bucket +conjured up visions before his eyes of the glory and abundance of the +good cheer he was losing. 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