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diff --git a/5939.txt b/5939.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d3d60b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/5939.txt @@ -0,0 +1,863 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., Part +36, 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 36 + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra + +Release Date: July 25, 2004 [EBook #5939] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 36 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + DON QUIXOTE + + Volume II. + + Part 36. + + by Miguel de Cervantes + + + Translated by John Ormsby + + + + +CHAPTER LX. + +OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO BARCELONA + + +It was a fresh morning giving promise of a cool day as Don Quixote +quitted the inn, first of all taking care to ascertain the most direct +road to Barcelona without touching upon Saragossa; so anxious was he to +make out this new historian, who they said abused him so, to be a liar. +Well, as it fell out, nothing worthy of being recorded happened him for +six days, at the end of which, having turned aside out of the road, he +was overtaken by night in a thicket of oak or cork trees; for on this +point Cide Hamete is not as precise as he usually is on other matters. + +Master and man dismounted from their beasts, and as soon as they had +settled themselves at the foot of the trees, Sancho, who had had a good +noontide meal that day, let himself, without more ado, pass the gates of +sleep. But Don Quixote, whom his thoughts, far more than hunger, kept +awake, could not close an eye, and roamed in fancy to and fro through all +sorts of places. At one moment it seemed to him that he was in the cave +of Montesinos and saw Dulcinea, transformed into a country wench, +skipping and mounting upon her she-ass; again that the words of the sage +Merlin were sounding in his ears, setting forth the conditions to be +observed and the exertions to be made for the disenchantment of Dulcinea. +He lost all patience when he considered the laziness and want of charity +of his squire Sancho; for to the best of his belief he had only given +himself five lashes, a number paltry and disproportioned to the vast +number required. At this thought he felt such vexation and anger that he +reasoned the matter thus: "If Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot, +saying, 'To cut comes to the same thing as to untie,' and yet did not +fail to become lord paramount of all Asia, neither more nor less could +happen now in Dulcinea's disenchantment if I scourge Sancho against his +will; for, if it is the condition of the remedy that Sancho shall receive +three thousand and odd lashes, what does it matter to me whether he +inflicts them himself, or some one else inflicts them, when the essential +point is that he receives them, let them come from whatever quarter they +may?" + +With this idea he went over to Sancho, having first taken Rocinante's +reins and arranged them so as to be able to flog him with them, and began +to untie the points (the common belief is he had but one in front) by +which his breeches were held up; but the instant he approached him Sancho +woke up in his full senses and cried out, "What is this? Who is touching +me and untrussing me?" + +"It is I," said Don Quixote, "and I come to make good thy shortcomings +and relieve my own distresses; I come to whip thee, Sancho, and wipe off +some portion of the debt thou hast undertaken. Dulcinea is perishing, +thou art living on regardless, I am dying of hope deferred; therefore +untruss thyself with a good will, for mine it is, here, in this retired +spot, to give thee at least two thousand lashes." + +"Not a bit of it," said Sancho; "let your worship keep quiet, or else by +the living God the deaf shall hear us; the lashes I pledged myself to +must be voluntary and not forced upon me, and just now I have no fancy to +whip myself; it is enough if I give you my word to flog and flap myself +when I have a mind." + +"It will not do to leave it to thy courtesy, Sancho," said Don Quixote, +"for thou art hard of heart and, though a clown, tender of flesh;" and at +the same time he strove and struggled to untie him. + +Seeing this Sancho got up, and grappling with his master he gripped him +with all his might in his arms, giving him a trip with the heel stretched +him on the ground on his back, and pressing his right knee on his chest +held his hands in his own so that he could neither move nor breathe. + +"How now, traitor!" exclaimed Don Quixote. "Dost thou revolt against thy +master and natural lord? Dost thou rise against him who gives thee his +bread?" + +"I neither put down king, nor set up king," said Sancho; "I only stand up +for myself who am my own lord; if your worship promises me to be quiet, +and not to offer to whip me now, I'll let you go free and unhindered; if +not-- + +Traitor and Dona Sancha's foe, +Thou diest on the spot." +Don Quixote gave his promise, and swore by the life of his thoughts not +to touch so much as a hair of his garments, and to leave him entirely +free and to his own discretion to whip himself whenever he pleased. + +Sancho rose and removed some distance from the spot, but as he was about +to place himself leaning against another tree he felt something touch his +head, and putting up his hands encountered somebody's two feet with shoes +and stockings on them. He trembled with fear and made for another tree, +where the very same thing happened to him, and he fell a-shouting, +calling upon Don Quixote to come and protect him. Don Quixote did so, and +asked him what had happened to him, and what he was afraid of. Sancho +replied that all the trees were full of men's feet and legs. Don Quixote +felt them, and guessed at once what it was, and said to Sancho, "Thou +hast nothing to be afraid of, for these feet and legs that thou feelest +but canst not see belong no doubt to some outlaws and freebooters that +have been hanged on these trees; for the authorities in these parts are +wont to hang them up by twenties and thirties when they catch them; +whereby I conjecture that I must be near Barcelona;" and it was, in fact, +as he supposed; with the first light they looked up and saw that the +fruit hanging on those trees were freebooters' bodies. + +And now day dawned; and if the dead freebooters had scared them, their +hearts were no less troubled by upwards of forty living ones, who all of +a sudden surrounded them, and in the Catalan tongue bade them stand and +wait until their captain came up. Don Quixote was on foot with his horse +unbridled and his lance leaning against a tree, and in short completely +defenceless; he thought it best therefore to fold his arms and bow his +head and reserve himself for a more favourable occasion and opportunity. +The robbers made haste to search Dapple, and did not leave him a single +thing of all he carried in the alforjas and in the valise; and lucky it +was for Sancho that the duke's crowns and those he brought from home were +in a girdle that he wore round him; but for all that these good folk +would have stripped him, and even looked to see what he had hidden +between the skin and flesh, but for the arrival at that moment of their +captain, who was about thirty-four years of age apparently, strongly +built, above the middle height, of stern aspect and swarthy complexion. +He was mounted upon a powerful horse, and had on a coat of mail, with +four of the pistols they call petronels in that country at his waist. He +saw that his squires (for so they call those who follow that trade) were +about to rifle Sancho Panza, but he ordered them to desist and was at +once obeyed, so the girdle escaped. He wondered to see the lance leaning +against the tree, the shield on the ground, and Don Quixote in armour and +dejected, with the saddest and most melancholy face that sadness itself +could produce; and going up to him he said, "Be not so cast down, good +man, for you have not fallen into the hands of any inhuman Busiris, but +into Roque Guinart's, which are more merciful than cruel." + +"The cause of my dejection," returned Don Quixote, "is not that I have +fallen into thy hands, O valiant Roque, whose fame is bounded by no +limits on earth, but that my carelessness should have been so great that +thy soldiers should have caught me unbridled, when it is my duty, +according to the rule of knight-errantry which I profess, to be always on +the alert and at all times my own sentinel; for let me tell thee, great +Roque, had they found me on my horse, with my lance and shield, it would +not have been very easy for them to reduce me to submission, for I am Don +Quixote of La Mancha, he who hath filled the whole world with his +achievements." + +Roque Guinart at once perceived that Don Quixote's weakness was more akin +to madness than to swagger; and though he had sometimes heard him spoken +of, he never regarded the things attributed to him as true, nor could he +persuade himself that such a humour could become dominant in the heart of +man; he was extremely glad, therefore, to meet him and test at close +quarters what he had heard of him at a distance; so he said to him, +"Despair not, valiant knight, nor regard as an untoward fate the position +in which thou findest thyself; it may be that by these slips thy crooked +fortune will make itself straight; for heaven by strange circuitous ways, +mysterious and incomprehensible to man, raises up the fallen and makes +rich the poor." + +Don Quixote was about to thank him, when they heard behind them a noise +as of a troop of horses; there was, however, but one, riding on which at +a furious pace came a youth, apparently about twenty years of age, clad +in green damask edged with gold and breeches and a loose frock, with a +hat looped up in the Walloon fashion, tight-fitting polished boots, gilt +spurs, dagger and sword, and in his hand a musketoon, and a pair of +pistols at his waist. + +Roque turned round at the noise and perceived this comely figure, which +drawing near thus addressed him, "I came in quest of thee, valiant Roque, +to find in thee if not a remedy at least relief in my misfortune; and not +to keep thee in suspense, for I see thou dost not recognise me, I will +tell thee who I am; I am Claudia Jeronima, the daughter of Simon Forte, +thy good friend, and special enemy of Clauquel Torrellas, who is thine +also as being of the faction opposed to thee. Thou knowest that this +Torrellas has a son who is called, or at least was not two hours since, +Don Vicente Torrellas. Well, to cut short the tale of my misfortune, I +will tell thee in a few words what this youth has brought upon me. He saw +me, he paid court to me, I listened to him, and, unknown to my father, I +loved him; for there is no woman, however secluded she may live or close +she may be kept, who will not have opportunities and to spare for +following her headlong impulses. In a word, he pledged himself to be +mine, and I promised to be his, without carrying matters any further. +Yesterday I learned that, forgetful of his pledge to me, he was about to +marry another, and that he was to go this morning to plight his troth, +intelligence which overwhelmed and exasperated me; my father not being at +home I was able to adopt this costume you see, and urging my horse to +speed I overtook Don Vicente about a league from this, and without +waiting to utter reproaches or hear excuses I fired this musket at him, +and these two pistols besides, and to the best of my belief I must have +lodged more than two bullets in his body, opening doors to let my honour +go free, enveloped in his blood. I left him there in the hands of his +servants, who did not dare and were not able to interfere in his defence, +and I come to seek from thee a safe-conduct into France, where I have +relatives with whom I can live; and also to implore thee to protect my +father, so that Don Vicente's numerous kinsmen may not venture to wreak +their lawless vengeance upon him." + +Roque, filled with admiration at the gallant bearing, high spirit, comely +figure, and adventure of the fair Claudia, said to her, "Come, senora, +let us go and see if thy enemy is dead; and then we will consider what +will be best for thee." Don Quixote, who had been listening to what +Claudia said and Roque Guinart said in reply to her, exclaimed, "Nobody +need trouble himself with the defence of this lady, for I take it upon +myself. Give me my horse and arms, and wait for me here; I will go in +quest of this knight, and dead or alive I will make him keep his word +plighted to so great beauty." + +"Nobody need have any doubt about that," said Sancho, "for my master has +a very happy knack of matchmaking; it's not many days since he forced +another man to marry, who in the same way backed out of his promise to +another maiden; and if it had not been for his persecutors the enchanters +changing the man's proper shape into a lacquey's the said maiden would +not be one this minute." + +Roque, who was paying more attention to the fair Claudia's adventure than +to the words of master or man, did not hear them; and ordering his +squires to restore to Sancho everything they had stripped Dapple of, he +directed them to return to the place where they had been quartered during +the night, and then set off with Claudia at full speed in search of the +wounded or slain Don Vicente. They reached the spot where Claudia met +him, but found nothing there save freshly spilt blood; looking all round, +however, they descried some people on the slope of a hill above them, and +concluded, as indeed it proved to be, that it was Don Vicente, whom +either dead or alive his servants were removing to attend to his wounds +or to bury him. They made haste to overtake them, which, as the party +moved slowly, they were able to do with ease. They found Don Vicente in +the arms of his servants, whom he was entreating in a broken feeble voice +to leave him there to die, as the pain of his wounds would not suffer him +to go any farther. Claudia and Roque threw themselves off their horses +and advanced towards him; the servants were overawed by the appearance of +Roque, and Claudia was moved by the sight of Don Vicente, and going up to +him half tenderly half sternly, she seized his hand and said to him, +"Hadst thou given me this according to our compact thou hadst never come +to this pass." + +The wounded gentleman opened his all but closed eyes, and recognising +Claudia said, "I see clearly, fair and mistaken lady, that it is thou +that hast slain me, a punishment not merited or deserved by my feelings +towards thee, for never did I mean to, nor could I, wrong thee in thought +or deed." + +"It is not true, then," said Claudia, "that thou wert going this morning +to marry Leonora the daughter of the rich Balvastro?" + +"Assuredly not," replied Don Vicente; "my cruel fortune must have carried +those tidings to thee to drive thee in thy jealousy to take my life; and +to assure thyself of this, press my hands and take me for thy husband if +thou wilt; I have no better satisfaction to offer thee for the wrong thou +fanciest thou hast received from me." + +Claudia wrung his hands, and her own heart was so wrung that she lay +fainting on the bleeding breast of Don Vicente, whom a death spasm seized +the same instant. Roque was in perplexity and knew not what to do; the +servants ran to fetch water to sprinkle their faces, and brought some and +bathed them with it. Claudia recovered from her fainting fit, but not so +Don Vicente from the paroxysm that had overtaken him, for his life had +come to an end. On perceiving this, Claudia, when she had convinced +herself that her beloved husband was no more, rent the air with her sighs +and made the heavens ring with her lamentations; she tore her hair and +scattered it to the winds, she beat her face with her hands and showed +all the signs of grief and sorrow that could be conceived to come from an +afflicted heart. "Cruel, reckless woman!" she cried, "how easily wert +thou moved to carry out a thought so wicked! O furious force of jealousy, +to what desperate lengths dost thou lead those that give thee lodging in +their bosoms! O husband, whose unhappy fate in being mine hath borne thee +from the marriage bed to the grave!" + +So vehement and so piteous were the lamentations of Claudia that they +drew tears from Roque's eyes, unused as they were to shed them on any +occasion. The servants wept, Claudia swooned away again and again, and +the whole place seemed a field of sorrow and an abode of misfortune. In +the end Roque Guinart directed Don Vicente's servants to carry his body +to his father's village, which was close by, for burial. Claudia told him +she meant to go to a monastery of which an aunt of hers was abbess, where +she intended to pass her life with a better and everlasting spouse. He +applauded her pious resolution, and offered to accompany her +whithersoever she wished, and to protect her father against the kinsmen +of Don Vicente and all the world, should they seek to injure him. Claudia +would not on any account allow him to accompany her; and thanking him for +his offers as well as she could, took leave of him in tears. The servants +of Don Vicente carried away his body, and Roque returned to his comrades, +and so ended the love of Claudia Jeronima; but what wonder, when it was +the insuperable and cruel might of jealousy that wove the web of her sad +story? + +Roque Guinart found his squires at the place to which he had ordered +them, and Don Quixote on Rocinante in the midst of them delivering a +harangue to them in which he urged them to give up a mode of life so full +of peril, as well to the soul as to the body; but as most of them were +Gascons, rough lawless fellows, his speech did not make much impression +on them. Roque on coming up asked Sancho if his men had returned and +restored to him the treasures and jewels they had stripped off Dapple. +Sancho said they had, but that three kerchiefs that were worth three +cities were missing. + +"What are you talking about, man?" said one of the bystanders; "I have +got them, and they are not worth three reals." + +"That is true," said Don Quixote; "but my squire values them at the rate +he says, as having been given me by the person who gave them." + +Roque Guinart ordered them to be restored at once; and making his men +fall in in line he directed all the clothing, jewellery, and money that +they had taken since the last distribution to be produced; and making a +hasty valuation, and reducing what could not be divided into money, he +made shares for the whole band so equitably and carefully, that in no +case did he exceed or fall short of strict distributive justice. + +When this had been done, and all left satisfied, Roque observed to Don +Quixote, "If this scrupulous exactness were not observed with these +fellows there would be no living with them." + +Upon this Sancho remarked, "From what I have seen here, justice is such a +good thing that there is no doing without it, even among the thieves +themselves." + +One of the squires heard this, and raising the butt-end of his harquebuss +would no doubt have broken Sancho's head with it had not Roque Guinart +called out to him to hold his hand. Sancho was frightened out of his +wits, and vowed not to open his lips so long as he was in the company of +these people. + +At this instant one or two of those squires who were posted as sentinels +on the roads, to watch who came along them and report what passed to +their chief, came up and said, "Senor, there is a great troop of people +not far off coming along the road to Barcelona." + +To which Roque replied, "Hast thou made out whether they are of the sort +that are after us, or of the sort we are after?" + +"The sort we are after," said the squire. + +"Well then, away with you all," said Roque, "and bring them here to me at +once without letting one of them escape." + +They obeyed, and Don Quixote, Sancho, and Roque, left by themselves, +waited to see what the squires brought, and while they were waiting Roque +said to Don Quixote, "It must seem a strange sort of life to Senor Don +Quixote, this of ours, strange adventures, strange incidents, and all +full of danger; and I do not wonder that it should seem so, for in truth +I must own there is no mode of life more restless or anxious than ours. +What led me into it was a certain thirst for vengeance, which is strong +enough to disturb the quietest hearts. I am by nature tender-hearted and +kindly, but, as I said, the desire to revenge myself for a wrong that was +done me so overturns all my better impulses that I keep on in this way of +life in spite of what conscience tells me; and as one depth calls to +another, and one sin to another sin, revenges have linked themselves +together, and I have taken upon myself not only my own but those of +others: it pleases God, however, that, though I see myself in this maze +of entanglements, I do not lose all hope of escaping from it and reaching +a safe port." + +Don Quixote was amazed to hear Roque utter such excellent and just +sentiments, for he did not think that among those who followed such +trades as robbing, murdering, and waylaying, there could be anyone +capable of a virtuous thought, and he said in reply, "Senor Roque, the +beginning of health lies in knowing the disease and in the sick man's +willingness to take the medicines which the physician prescribes; you are +sick, you know what ails you, and heaven, or more properly speaking God, +who is our physician, will administer medicines that will cure you, and +cure gradually, and not of a sudden or by a miracle; besides, sinners of +discernment are nearer amendment than those who are fools; and as your +worship has shown good sense in your remarks, all you have to do is to +keep up a good heart and trust that the weakness of your conscience will +be strengthened. And if you have any desire to shorten the journey and +put yourself easily in the way of salvation, come with me, and I will +show you how to become a knight-errant, a calling wherein so many +hardships and mishaps are encountered that if they be taken as penances +they will lodge you in heaven in a trice." + +Roque laughed at Don Quixote's exhortation, and changing the conversation +he related the tragic affair of Claudia Jeronima, at which Sancho was +extremely grieved; for he had not found the young woman's beauty, +boldness, and spirit at all amiss. + +And now the squires despatched to make the prize came up, bringing with +them two gentlemen on horseback, two pilgrims on foot, and a coach full +of women with some six servants on foot and on horseback in attendance on +them, and a couple of muleteers whom the gentlemen had with them. The +squires made a ring round them, both victors and vanquished maintaining +profound silence, waiting for the great Roque Guinart to speak. He asked +the gentlemen who they were, whither they were going, and what money they +carried with them; "Senor," replied one of them, "we are two captains of +Spanish infantry; our companies are at Naples, and we are on our way to +embark in four galleys which they say are at Barcelona under orders for +Sicily; and we have about two or three hundred crowns, with which we are, +according to our notions, rich and contented, for a soldier's poverty +does not allow a more extensive hoard." + +Roque asked the pilgrims the same questions he had put to the captains, +and was answered that they were going to take ship for Rome, and that +between them they might have about sixty reals. He asked also who was in +the coach, whither they were bound and what money they had, and one of +the men on horseback replied, "The persons in the coach are my lady Dona +Guiomar de Quinones, wife of the regent of the Vicaria at Naples, her +little daughter, a handmaid and a duenna; we six servants are in +attendance upon her, and the money amounts to six hundred crowns." + +"So then," said Roque Guinart, "we have got here nine hundred crowns and +sixty reals; my soldiers must number some sixty; see how much there falls +to each, for I am a bad arithmetician." As soon as the robbers heard this +they raised a shout of "Long life to Roque Guinart, in spite of the +lladres that seek his ruin!" + +The captains showed plainly the concern they felt, the regent's lady was +downcast, and the pilgrims did not at all enjoy seeing their property +confiscated. Roque kept them in suspense in this way for a while; but he +had no desire to prolong their distress, which might be seen a bowshot +off, and turning to the captains he said, "Sirs, will your worships be +pleased of your courtesy to lend me sixty crowns, and her ladyship the +regent's wife eighty, to satisfy this band that follows me, for 'it is by +his singing the abbot gets his dinner;' and then you may at once proceed +on your journey, free and unhindered, with a safe-conduct which I shall +give you, so that if you come across any other bands of mine that I have +scattered in these parts, they may do you no harm; for I have no +intention of doing injury to soldiers, or to any woman, especially one of +quality." + +Profuse and hearty were the expressions of gratitude with which the +captains thanked Roque for his courtesy and generosity; for such they +regarded his leaving them their own money. Senora Dona Guiomar de +Quinones wanted to throw herself out of the coach to kiss the feet and +hands of the great Roque, but he would not suffer it on any account; so +far from that, he begged her pardon for the wrong he had done her under +pressure of the inexorable necessities of his unfortunate calling. The +regent's lady ordered one of her servants to give the eighty crowns that +had been assessed as her share at once, for the captains had already paid +down their sixty. The pilgrims were about to give up the whole of their +little hoard, but Roque bade them keep quiet, and turning to his men he +said, "Of these crowns two fall to each man and twenty remain over; let +ten be given to these pilgrims, and the other ten to this worthy squire +that he may be able to speak favourably of this adventure;" and then +having writing materials, with which he always went provided, brought to +him, he gave them in writing a safe-conduct to the leaders of his bands; +and bidding them farewell let them go free and filled with admiration at +his magnanimity, his generous disposition, and his unusual conduct, and +inclined to regard him as an Alexander the Great rather than a notorious +robber. + +One of the squires observed in his mixture of Gascon and Catalan, "This +captain of ours would make a better friar than highwayman; if he wants to +be so generous another time, let it be with his own property and not +ours." + +The unlucky wight did not speak so low but that Roque overheard him, and +drawing his sword almost split his head in two, saying, "That is the way +I punish impudent saucy fellows." They were all taken aback, and not one +of them dared to utter a word, such deference did they pay him. Roque +then withdrew to one side and wrote a letter to a friend of his at +Barcelona, telling him that the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, the +knight-errant of whom there was so much talk, was with him, and was, he +assured him, the drollest and wisest man in the world; and that in four +days from that date, that is to say, on Saint John the Baptist's Day, he +was going to deposit him in full armour mounted on his horse Rocinante, +together with his squire Sancho on an ass, in the middle of the strand of +the city; and bidding him give notice of this to his friends the Niarros, +that they might divert themselves with him. He wished, he said, his +enemies the Cadells could be deprived of this pleasure; but that was +impossible, because the crazes and shrewd sayings of Don Quixote and the +humours of his squire Sancho Panza could not help giving general pleasure +to all the world. He despatched the letter by one of his squires, who, +exchanging the costume of a highwayman for that of a peasant, made his +way into Barcelona and gave it to the person to whom it was directed. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., +Part 36, by Miguel de Cervantes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 36 *** + +***** This file should be named 5939.txt or 5939.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/9/3/5939/ + +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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