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Don Quixote

Part 1 Chapter 7

Word Count: 2025    |    Released on: 18/11/2017

ney!" Called away by this noise and outcry, they proceeded no farther with the scrutiny of the remaining books, and so it is thought that "The Carolea," "The Lion of Spain," and "The Deeds of the Empe

sen

, and was still shouting and raving, and slashing and c

"Of a truth, Senor Archbishop Turpin, it is a great disgrace for us who call ourselves the Twelve Peers, so carelessly to allow the

t to-day may be won to-morrow; for the present let your worship have a care of y

he sees that I alone rival him in his achievements. But I should not call myself Reinaldos of Montalvan did he not pay me for it in spite of all his enchantments as soo

thing to eat, and once more he fell aslee

must have been consumed that deserved preservation in everlasting archives, but their fate and the laziness of

they might say that a magician had carried them off, room and all; and this was done with all despatch. Two days later Don Quixote got up, and the first thing he did was to go and look at his books, and not finding the room where he had left it, he wandered from side

id, "What room or what nothing is it that your worship is looking for? There are ne

fter a little while he made off, flying through the roof, and left the house full of smoke; and when we went to see what he had done we saw neither book nor room: but we remember very well, the housekeeper and I, that on leaving

aid Friston," s

iston or Friton," said the housekeeper, "I

in process of time I am to engage in single combat with a knight whom he befriends and that I am to conquer, and he will be unable to prevent it; and for

ot be better to remain at peace in your own house instead of roaming the world looking for bet

thy reckoning: ere they shear me I shall have plucked away and stripped

any further answer, as they s

with his two gossips, the curate and the barber, on the point he maintained, that knights-errant were what the world stood most in need of, and that in him was to be accomplished the r

sions and promises, that the poor clown made up his mind to sally forth with him and serve him as esquire. Don Quixote, among other things, told him he ought to be ready to go with him gladly, because any moment an adventure might oc

said he would, and that he meant to take also a very good ass he had, as he was not much given to going on foot. About the ass, Don Quixote hesitated a little, trying whether he could call to mind any knight-errant taking with him an esquire mounted on ass-back, but no instance occurred to his memory. For all that, however, he determined to take him, intending to furnish him with a more honourable mount when a chance of it presented itself, by appropriating the horse of the firs

m. Don Quixote decided upon taking the same route and road he had taken on his first journey, that over the Campo de Montiel, which he travelled with

are, Senor Knight-errant, not to forget about the island you have

or they sometimes, and perhaps most frequently, waited until their squires were old, and then when they had had enough of service and hard days and worse nights, they gave them some title or other, of count, or at the most marquis, of some valley or province more or less; but if thou livest and I live, it may well be that before six days a

one of those miracles your worship speaks of, even Juana Gutierre

ubts it?" sai

own kingdoms upon earth, not one of them would fit the head of Mari Gutierrez. Let me tell you, senor,

r what suits her best; but do not undervalue thyself so much as to co

of such quality for a master in your worship, who will know how

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