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diff --git a/5912.txt b/5912.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..97d967d --- /dev/null +++ b/5912.txt @@ -0,0 +1,906 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I., Part +10., 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. I., Part 10. + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra + +Release Date: July 18, 2004 [EBook #5912] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 10 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + DON QUIXOTE + + by Miguel de Cervantes + + Translated by John Ormsby + + + Volume I. + + Part 10. + + + +CHAPTER XXVIII. + +WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE AND DELIGHTFUL ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL THE +CURATE AND THE BARBER IN THE SAME SIERRA + + +Happy and fortunate were the times when that most daring knight Don +Quixote of La Mancha was sent into the world; for by reason of his having +formed a resolution so honourable as that of seeking to revive and +restore to the world the long-lost and almost defunct order of +knight-errantry, we now enjoy in this age of ours, so poor in light +entertainment, not only the charm of his veracious history, but also of +the tales and episodes contained in it which are, in a measure, no less +pleasing, ingenious, and truthful, than the history itself; which, +resuming its thread, carded, spun, and wound, relates that just as the +curate was going to offer consolation to Cardenio, he was interrupted by +a voice that fell upon his ear saying in plaintive tones: + +"O God! is it possible I have found a place that may serve as a secret +grave for the weary load of this body that I support so unwillingly? If +the solitude these mountains promise deceives me not, it is so; ah! woe +is me! how much more grateful to my mind will be the society of these +rocks and brakes that permit me to complain of my misfortune to Heaven, +than that of any human being, for there is none on earth to look to for +counsel in doubt, comfort in sorrow, or relief in distress!" + +All this was heard distinctly by the curate and those with him, and as it +seemed to them to be uttered close by, as indeed it was, they got up to +look for the speaker, and before they had gone twenty paces they +discovered behind a rock, seated at the foot of an ash tree, a youth in +the dress of a peasant, whose face they were unable at the moment to see +as he was leaning forward, bathing his feet in the brook that flowed +past. They approached so silently that he did not perceive them, being +fully occupied in bathing his feet, which were so fair that they looked +like two pieces of shining crystal brought forth among the other stones +of the brook. The whiteness and beauty of these feet struck them with +surprise, for they did not seem to have been made to crush clods or to +follow the plough and the oxen as their owner's dress suggested; and so, +finding they had not been noticed, the curate, who was in front, made a +sign to the other two to conceal themselves behind some fragments of rock +that lay there; which they did, observing closely what the youth was +about. He had on a loose double-skirted dark brown jacket bound tight to +his body with a white cloth; he wore besides breeches and gaiters of +brown cloth, and on his head a brown montera; and he had the gaiters +turned up as far as the middle of the leg, which verily seemed to be of +pure alabaster. + +As soon as he had done bathing his beautiful feet, he wiped them with a +towel he took from under the montera, on taking off which he raised his +face, and those who were watching him had an opportunity of seeing a +beauty so exquisite that Cardenio said to the curate in a whisper: + +"As this is not Luscinda, it is no human creature but a divine being." + +The youth then took off the montera, and shaking his head from side to +side there broke loose and spread out a mass of hair that the beams of +the sun might have envied; by this they knew that what had seemed a +peasant was a lovely woman, nay the most beautiful the eyes of two of +them had ever beheld, or even Cardenio's if they had not seen and known +Luscinda, for he afterwards declared that only the beauty of Luscinda +could compare with this. The long auburn tresses not only covered her +shoulders, but such was their length and abundance, concealed her all +round beneath their masses, so that except the feet nothing of her form +was visible. She now used her hands as a comb, and if her feet had seemed +like bits of crystal in the water, her hands looked like pieces of driven +snow among her locks; all which increased not only the admiration of the +three beholders, but their anxiety to learn who she was. With this object +they resolved to show themselves, and at the stir they made in getting +upon their feet the fair damsel raised her head, and parting her hair +from before her eyes with both hands, she looked to see who had made the +noise, and the instant she perceived them she started to her feet, and +without waiting to put on her shoes or gather up her hair, hastily +snatched up a bundle as though of clothes that she had beside her, and, +scared and alarmed, endeavoured to take flight; but before she had gone +six paces she fell to the ground, her delicate feet being unable to bear +the roughness of the stones; seeing which, the three hastened towards +her, and the curate addressing her first said: + +"Stay, senora, whoever you may be, for those whom you see here only +desire to be of service to you; you have no need to attempt a flight so +heedless, for neither can your feet bear it, nor we allow it." + +Taken by surprise and bewildered, she made no reply to these words. They, +however, came towards her, and the curate taking her hand went on to say: + +"What your dress would hide, senora, is made known to us by your hair; a +clear proof that it can be no trifling cause that has disguised your +beauty in a garb so unworthy of it, and sent it into solitudes like these +where we have had the good fortune to find you, if not to relieve your +distress, at least to offer you comfort; for no distress, so long as life +lasts, can be so oppressive or reach such a height as to make the +sufferer refuse to listen to comfort offered with good intention. And so, +senora, or senor, or whatever you prefer to be, dismiss the fears that +our appearance has caused you and make us acquainted with your good or +evil fortunes, for from all of us together, or from each one of us, you +will receive sympathy in your trouble." + +While the curate was speaking, the disguised damsel stood as if +spell-bound, looking at them without opening her lips or uttering a word, +just like a village rustic to whom something strange that he has never +seen before has been suddenly shown; but on the curate addressing some +further words to the same effect to her, sighing deeply she broke silence +and said: + +"Since the solitude of these mountains has been unable to conceal me, and +the escape of my dishevelled tresses will not allow my tongue to deal in +falsehoods, it would be idle for me now to make any further pretence of +what, if you were to believe me, you would believe more out of courtesy +than for any other reason. This being so, I say I thank you, sirs, for +the offer you have made me, which places me under the obligation of +complying with the request you have made of me; though I fear the account +I shall give you of my misfortunes will excite in you as much concern as +compassion, for you will be unable to suggest anything to remedy them or +any consolation to alleviate them. However, that my honour may not be +left a matter of doubt in your minds, now that you have discovered me to +be a woman, and see that I am young, alone, and in this dress, things +that taken together or separately would be enough to destroy any good +name, I feel bound to tell what I would willingly keep secret if I +could." + +All this she who was now seen to be a lovely woman delivered without any +hesitation, with so much ease and in so sweet a voice that they were not +less charmed by her intelligence than by her beauty, and as they again +repeated their offers and entreaties to her to fulfil her promise, she +without further pressing, first modestly covering her feet and gathering +up her hair, seated herself on a stone with the three placed around her, +and, after an effort to restrain some tears that came to her eyes, in a +clear and steady voice began her story thus: + +"In this Andalusia there is a town from which a duke takes a title which +makes him one of those that are called Grandees of Spain. This nobleman +has two sons, the elder heir to his dignity and apparently to his good +qualities; the younger heir to I know not what, unless it be the +treachery of Vellido and the falsehood of Ganelon. My parents are this +lord's vassals, lowly in origin, but so wealthy that if birth had +conferred as much on them as fortune, they would have had nothing left to +desire, nor should I have had reason to fear trouble like that in which I +find myself now; for it may be that my ill fortune came of theirs in not +having been nobly born. It is true they are not so low that they have any +reason to be ashamed of their condition, but neither are they so high as +to remove from my mind the impression that my mishap comes of their +humble birth. They are, in short, peasants, plain homely people, without +any taint of disreputable blood, and, as the saying is, old rusty +Christians, but so rich that by their wealth and free-handed way of life +they are coming by degrees to be considered gentlefolk by birth, and even +by position; though the wealth and nobility they thought most of was +having me for their daughter; and as they have no other child to make +their heir, and are affectionate parents, I was one of the most indulged +daughters that ever parents indulged. + +"I was the mirror in which they beheld themselves, the staff of their old +age, and the object in which, with submission to Heaven, all their wishes +centred, and mine were in accordance with theirs, for I knew their worth; +and as I was mistress of their hearts, so was I also of their +possessions. Through me they engaged or dismissed their servants; through +my hands passed the accounts and returns of what was sown and reaped; the +oil-mills, the wine-presses, the count of the flocks and herds, the +beehives, all in short that a rich farmer like my father has or can have, +I had under my care, and I acted as steward and mistress with an +assiduity on my part and satisfaction on theirs that I cannot well +describe to you. The leisure hours left to me after I had given the +requisite orders to the head-shepherds, overseers, and other labourers, I +passed in such employments as are not only allowable but necessary for +young girls, those that the needle, embroidery cushion, and spinning +wheel usually afford, and if to refresh my mind I quitted them for a +while, I found recreation in reading some devotional book or playing the +harp, for experience taught me that music soothes the troubled mind and +relieves weariness of spirit. Such was the life I led in my parents' +house and if I have depicted it thus minutely, it is not out of +ostentation, or to let you know that I am rich, but that you may see how, +without any fault of mine, I have fallen from the happy condition I have +described, to the misery I am in at present. The truth is, that while I +was leading this busy life, in a retirement that might compare with that +of a monastery, and unseen as I thought by any except the servants of the +house (for when I went to Mass it was so early in the morning, and I was +so closely attended by my mother and the women of the household, and so +thickly veiled and so shy, that my eyes scarcely saw more ground than I +trod on), in spite of all this, the eyes of love, or idleness, more +properly speaking, that the lynx's cannot rival, discovered me, with the +help of the assiduity of Don Fernando; for that is the name of the +younger son of the duke I told of." + +The moment the speaker mentioned the name of Don Fernando, Cardenio +changed colour and broke into a sweat, with such signs of emotion that +the curate and the barber, who observed it, feared that one of the mad +fits which they heard attacked him sometimes was coming upon him; but +Cardenio showed no further agitation and remained quiet, regarding the +peasant girl with fixed attention, for he began to suspect who she was. +She, however, without noticing the excitement of Cardenio, continuing her +story, went on to say: + +"And they had hardly discovered me, when, as he owned afterwards, he was +smitten with a violent love for me, as the manner in which it displayed +itself plainly showed. But to shorten the long recital of my woes, I will +pass over in silence all the artifices employed by Don Fernando for +declaring his passion for me. He bribed all the household, he gave and +offered gifts and presents to my parents; every day was like a holiday or +a merry-making in our street; by night no one could sleep for the music; +the love letters that used to come to my hand, no one knew how, were +innumerable, full of tender pleadings and pledges, containing more +promises and oaths than there were letters in them; all which not only +did not soften me, but hardened my heart against him, as if he had been +my mortal enemy, and as if everything he did to make me yield were done +with the opposite intention. Not that the high-bred bearing of Don +Fernando was disagreeable to me, or that I found his importunities +wearisome; for it gave me a certain sort of satisfaction to find myself +so sought and prized by a gentleman of such distinction, and I was not +displeased at seeing my praises in his letters (for however ugly we women +may be, it seems to me it always pleases us to hear ourselves called +beautiful) but that my own sense of right was opposed to all this, as +well as the repeated advice of my parents, who now very plainly perceived +Don Fernando's purpose, for he cared very little if all the world knew +it. They told me they trusted and confided their honour and good name to +my virtue and rectitude alone, and bade me consider the disparity between +Don Fernando and myself, from which I might conclude that his intentions, +whatever he might say to the contrary, had for their aim his own pleasure +rather than my advantage; and if I were at all desirous of opposing an +obstacle to his unreasonable suit, they were ready, they said, to marry +me at once to anyone I preferred, either among the leading people of our +own town, or of any of those in the neighbourhood; for with their wealth +and my good name, a match might be looked for in any quarter. This offer, +and their sound advice strengthened my resolution, and I never gave Don +Fernando a word in reply that could hold out to him any hope of success, +however remote. + +"All this caution of mine, which he must have taken for coyness, had +apparently the effect of increasing his wanton appetite--for that is the +name I give to his passion for me; had it been what he declared it to be, +you would not know of it now, because there would have been no occasion +to tell you of it. At length he learned that my parents were +contemplating marriage for me in order to put an end to his hopes of +obtaining possession of me, or at least to secure additional protectors +to watch over me, and this intelligence or suspicion made him act as you +shall hear. One night, as I was in my chamber with no other companion +than a damsel who waited on me, with the doors carefully locked lest my +honour should be imperilled through any carelessness, I know not nor can +conceive how it happened, but, with all this seclusion and these +precautions, and in the solitude and silence of my retirement, I found +him standing before me, a vision that so astounded me that it deprived my +eyes of sight, and my tongue of speech. I had no power to utter a cry, +nor, I think, did he give me time to utter one, as he immediately +approached me, and taking me in his arms (for, overwhelmed as I was, I +was powerless, I say, to help myself), he began to make such professions +to me that I know not how falsehood could have had the power of dressing +them up to seem so like truth; and the traitor contrived that his tears +should vouch for his words, and his sighs for his sincerity. + +"I, a poor young creature alone, ill versed among my people in cases such +as this, began, I know not how, to think all these lying protestations +true, though without being moved by his sighs and tears to anything more +than pure compassion; and so, as the first feeling of bewilderment passed +away, and I began in some degree to recover myself, I said to him with +more courage than I thought I could have possessed, 'If, as I am now in +your arms, senor, I were in the claws of a fierce lion, and my +deliverance could be procured by doing or saying anything to the +prejudice of my honour, it would no more be in my power to do it or say +it, than it would be possible that what was should not have been; so +then, if you hold my body clasped in your arms, I hold my soul secured by +virtuous intentions, very different from yours, as you will see if you +attempt to carry them into effect by force. I am your vassal, but I am +not your slave; your nobility neither has nor should have any right to +dishonour or degrade my humble birth; and low-born peasant as I am, I +have my self-respect as much as you, a lord and gentleman: with me your +violence will be to no purpose, your wealth will have no weight, your +words will have no power to deceive me, nor your sighs or tears to soften +me: were I to see any of the things I speak of in him whom my parents +gave me as a husband, his will should be mine, and mine should be bounded +by his; and my honour being preserved even though my inclinations were +not would willingly yield him what you, senor, would now obtain by force; +and this I say lest you should suppose that any but my lawful husband +shall ever win anything of me.' 'If that,' said this disloyal gentleman, +'be the only scruple you feel, fairest Dorothea' (for that is the name of +this unhappy being), 'see here I give you my hand to be yours, and let +Heaven, from which nothing is hid, and this image of Our Lady you have +here, be witnesses of this pledge.'" + +When Cardenio heard her say she was called Dorothea, he showed fresh +agitation and felt convinced of the truth of his former suspicion, but he +was unwilling to interrupt the story, and wished to hear the end of what +he already all but knew, so he merely said: + +"What! is Dorothea your name, senora? I have heard of another of the same +name who can perhaps match your misfortunes. But proceed; by-and-by I may +tell you something that will astonish you as much as it will excite your +compassion." + +Dorothea was struck by Cardenio's words as well as by his strange and +miserable attire, and begged him if he knew anything concerning her to +tell it to her at once, for if fortune had left her any blessing it was +courage to bear whatever calamity might fall upon her, as she felt sure +that none could reach her capable of increasing in any degree what she +endured already. + +"I would not let the occasion pass, senora," replied Cardenio, "of +telling you what I think, if what I suspect were the truth, but so far +there has been no opportunity, nor is it of any importance to you to know +it." + +"Be it as it may," replied Dorothea, "what happened in my story was that +Don Fernando, taking an image that stood in the chamber, placed it as a +witness of our betrothal, and with the most binding words and extravagant +oaths gave me his promise to become my husband; though before he had made +an end of pledging himself I bade him consider well what he was doing, +and think of the anger his father would feel at seeing him married to a +peasant girl and one of his vassals; I told him not to let my beauty, +such as it was, blind him, for that was not enough to furnish an excuse +for his transgression; and if in the love he bore me he wished to do me +any kindness, it would be to leave my lot to follow its course at the +level my condition required; for marriages so unequal never brought +happiness, nor did they continue long to afford the enjoyment they began +with. + +"All this that I have now repeated I said to him, and much more which I +cannot recollect; but it had no effect in inducing him to forego his +purpose; he who has no intention of paying does not trouble himself about +difficulties when he is striking the bargain. At the same time I argued +the matter briefly in my own mind, saying to myself, 'I shall not be the +first who has risen through marriage from a lowly to a lofty station, nor +will Don Fernando be the first whom beauty or, as is more likely, a blind +attachment, has led to mate himself below his rank. Then, since I am +introducing no new usage or practice, I may as well avail myself of the +honour that chance offers me, for even though his inclination for me +should not outlast the attainment of his wishes, I shall be, after all, +his wife before God. And if I strive to repel him by scorn, I can see +that, fair means failing, he is in a mood to use force, and I shall be +left dishonoured and without any means of proving my innocence to those +who cannot know how innocently I have come to be in this position; for +what arguments would persuade my parents that this gentleman entered my +chamber without my consent?' + +"All these questions and answers passed through my mind in a moment; but +the oaths of Don Fernando, the witnesses he appealed to, the tears he +shed, and lastly the charms of his person and his high-bred grace, which, +accompanied by such signs of genuine love, might well have conquered a +heart even more free and coy than mine--these were the things that more +than all began to influence me and lead me unawares to my ruin. I called +my waiting-maid to me, that there might be a witness on earth besides +those in Heaven, and again Don Fernando renewed and repeated his oaths, +invoked as witnesses fresh saints in addition to the former ones, called +down upon himself a thousand curses hereafter should he fail to keep his +promise, shed more tears, redoubled his sighs and pressed me closer in +his arms, from which he had never allowed me to escape; and so I was left +by my maid, and ceased to be one, and he became a traitor and a perjured +man. + +"The day which followed the night of my misfortune did not come so +quickly, I imagine, as Don Fernando wished, for when desire has attained +its object, the greatest pleasure is to fly from the scene of pleasure. I +say so because Don Fernando made all haste to leave me, and by the +adroitness of my maid, who was indeed the one who had admitted him, +gained the street before daybreak; but on taking leave of me he told me, +though not with as much earnestness and fervour as when he came, that I +might rest assured of his faith and of the sanctity and sincerity of his +oaths; and to confirm his words he drew a rich ring off his finger and +placed it upon mine. He then took his departure and I was left, I know +not whether sorrowful or happy; all I can say is, I was left agitated and +troubled in mind and almost bewildered by what had taken place, and I had +not the spirit, or else it did not occur to me, to chide my maid for the +treachery she had been guilty of in concealing Don Fernando in my +chamber; for as yet I was unable to make up my mind whether what had +befallen me was for good or evil. I told Don Fernando at parting, that as +I was now his, he might see me on other nights in the same way, until it +should be his pleasure to let the matter become known; but, except the +following night, he came no more, nor for more than a month could I catch +a glimpse of him in the street or in church, while I wearied myself with +watching for one; although I knew he was in the town, and almost every +day went out hunting, a pastime he was very fond of. I remember well how +sad and dreary those days and hours were to me; I remember well how I +began to doubt as they went by, and even to lose confidence in the faith +of Don Fernando; and I remember, too, how my maid heard those words in +reproof of her audacity that she had not heard before, and how I was +forced to put a constraint on my tears and on the expression of my +countenance, not to give my parents cause to ask me why I was so +melancholy, and drive me to invent falsehoods in reply. But all this was +suddenly brought to an end, for the time came when all such +considerations were disregarded, and there was no further question of +honour, when my patience gave way and the secret of my heart became known +abroad. The reason was, that a few days later it was reported in the town +that Don Fernando had been married in a neighbouring city to a maiden of +rare beauty, the daughter of parents of distinguished position, though +not so rich that her portion would entitle her to look for so brilliant a +match; it was said, too, that her name was Luscinda, and that at the +betrothal some strange things had happened." + +Cardenio heard the name of Luscinda, but he only shrugged his shoulders, +bit his lips, bent his brows, and before long two streams of tears +escaped from his eyes. Dorothea, however, did not interrupt her story, +but went on in these words: + +"This sad intelligence reached my ears, and, instead of being struck with +a chill, with such wrath and fury did my heart burn that I scarcely +restrained myself from rushing out into the streets, crying aloud and +proclaiming openly the perfidy and treachery of which I was the victim; +but this transport of rage was for the time checked by a resolution I +formed, to be carried out the same night, and that was to assume this +dress, which I got from a servant of my father's, one of the zagals, as +they are called in farmhouses, to whom I confided the whole of my +misfortune, and whom I entreated to accompany me to the city where I +heard my enemy was. He, though he remonstrated with me for my boldness, +and condemned my resolution, when he saw me bent upon my purpose, offered +to bear me company, as he said, to the end of the world. I at once packed +up in a linen pillow-case a woman's dress, and some jewels and money to +provide for emergencies, and in the silence of the night, without letting +my treacherous maid know, I sallied forth from the house, accompanied by +my servant and abundant anxieties, and on foot set out for the city, but +borne as it were on wings by my eagerness to reach it, if not to prevent +what I presumed to be already done, at least to call upon Don Fernando to +tell me with what conscience he had done it. I reached my destination in +two days and a half, and on entering the city inquired for the house of +Luscinda's parents. The first person I asked gave me more in reply than I +sought to know; he showed me the house, and told me all that had occurred +at the betrothal of the daughter of the family, an affair of such +notoriety in the city that it was the talk of every knot of idlers in the +street. He said that on the night of Don Fernando's betrothal with +Luscinda, as soon as she had consented to be his bride by saying 'Yes,' +she was taken with a sudden fainting fit, and that on the bridegroom +approaching to unlace the bosom of her dress to give her air, he found a +paper in her own handwriting, in which she said and declared that she +could not be Don Fernando's bride, because she was already Cardenio's, +who, according to the man's account, was a gentleman of distinction of +the same city; and that if she had accepted Don Fernando, it was only in +obedience to her parents. In short, he said, the words of the paper made +it clear she meant to kill herself on the completion of the betrothal, +and gave her reasons for putting an end to herself all which was +confirmed, it was said, by a dagger they found somewhere in her clothes. +On seeing this, Don Fernando, persuaded that Luscinda had befooled, +slighted, and trifled with him, assailed her before she had recovered +from her swoon, and tried to stab her with the dagger that had been +found, and would have succeeded had not her parents and those who were +present prevented him. It was said, moreover, that Don Fernando went away +at once, and that Luscinda did not recover from her prostration until the +next day, when she told her parents how she was really the bride of that +Cardenio I have mentioned. I learned besides that Cardenio, according to +report, had been present at the betrothal; and that upon seeing her +betrothed contrary to his expectation, he had quitted the city in +despair, leaving behind him a letter declaring the wrong Luscinda had +done him, and his intention of going where no one should ever see him +again. All this was a matter of notoriety in the city, and everyone spoke +of it; especially when it became known that Luscinda was missing from her +father's house and from the city, for she was not to be found anywhere, +to the distraction of her parents, who knew not what steps to take to +recover her. What I learned revived my hopes, and I was better pleased +not to have found Don Fernando than to find him married, for it seemed to +me that the door was not yet entirely shut upon relief in my case, and I +thought that perhaps Heaven had put this impediment in the way of the +second marriage, to lead him to recognise his obligations under the +former one, and reflect that as a Christian he was bound to consider his +soul above all human objects. All this passed through my mind, and I +strove to comfort myself without comfort, indulging in faint and distant +hopes of cherishing that life that I now abhor. + +"But while I was in the city, uncertain what to do, as I could not find +Don Fernando, I heard notice given by the public crier offering a great +reward to anyone who should find me, and giving the particulars of my age +and of the very dress I wore; and I heard it said that the lad who came +with me had taken me away from my father's house; a thing that cut me to +the heart, showing how low my good name had fallen, since it was not +enough that I should lose it by my flight, but they must add with whom I +had fled, and that one so much beneath me and so unworthy of my +consideration. The instant I heard the notice I quitted the city with my +servant, who now began to show signs of wavering in his fidelity to me, +and the same night, for fear of discovery, we entered the most thickly +wooded part of these mountains. But, as is commonly said, one evil calls +up another and the end of one misfortune is apt to be the beginning of +one still greater, and so it proved in my case; for my worthy servant, +until then so faithful and trusty when he found me in this lonely spot, +moved more by his own villainy than by my beauty, sought to take +advantage of the opportunity which these solitudes seemed to present him, +and with little shame and less fear of God and respect for me, began to +make overtures to me; and finding that I replied to the effrontery of his +proposals with justly severe language, he laid aside the entreaties which +he had employed at first, and began to use violence. + +"But just Heaven, that seldom fails to watch over and aid good intentions, +so aided mine that with my slight strength and with little exertion I +pushed him over a precipice, where I left him, whether dead or alive I +know not; and then, with greater speed than seemed possible in my terror +and fatigue, I made my way into the mountains, without any other thought +or purpose save that of hiding myself among them, and escaping my father +and those despatched in search of me by his orders. It is now I know not +how many months since with this object I came here, where I met a +herdsman who engaged me as his servant at a place in the heart of this +Sierra, and all this time I have been serving him as herd, striving to +keep always afield to hide these locks which have now unexpectedly +betrayed me. But all my care and pains were unavailing, for my master +made the discovery that I was not a man, and harboured the same base +designs as my servant; and as fortune does not always supply a remedy in +cases of difficulty, and I had no precipice or ravine at hand down which +to fling the master and cure his passion, as I had in the servant's case, +I thought it a lesser evil to leave him and again conceal myself among +these crags, than make trial of my strength and argument with him. So, as +I say, once more I went into hiding to seek for some place where I might +with sighs and tears implore Heaven to have pity on my misery, and grant +me help and strength to escape from it, or let me die among the +solitudes, leaving no trace of an unhappy being who, by no fault of hers, +has furnished matter for talk and scandal at home and abroad." + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I., +Part 10., by Miguel de Cervantes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 10 *** + +***** This file should be named 5912.txt or 5912.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/9/1/5912/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +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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