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W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch71b">CHAPTER LXXI</a> +OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO +ON THE WAY TO THEIR VILLAGE + +<a href="#ch72b">CHAPTER LXXII</a> +OF HOW DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO REACHED THEIR VILLAGE + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch71b"></a>CHAPTER LXXI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO ON THE +WAY TO THEIR VILLAGE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p71a"></a><img alt="p71a.jpg (82K)" src="images/p71a.jpg" height="341" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p71a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>The vanquished and afflicted Don Quixote went along very downcast in +one respect and very happy in another. His sadness arose from his +defeat, and his satisfaction from the thought of the virtue that lay +in Sancho, as had been proved by the resurrection of Altisidora; +though it was with difficulty he could persuade himself that the +love-smitten damsel had been really dead. Sancho went along anything +but cheerful, for it grieved him that Altisidora had not kept her +promise of giving him the smocks; and turning this over in his mind he +said to his master, "Surely, senor, I'm the most unlucky doctor in the +world; there's many a physician that, after killing the sick man he +had to cure, requires to be paid for his work, though it is only +signing a bit of a list of medicines, that the apothecary and not he +makes up, and, there, his labour is over; but with me though to cure +somebody else costs me drops of blood, smacks, pinches, +pinproddings, and whippings, nobody gives me a farthing. Well, I swear +by all that's good if they put another patient into my hands, +they'll have to grease them for me before I cure him; for, as they +say, 'it's by his singing the abbot gets his dinner,' and I'm not +going to believe that heaven has bestowed upon me the virtue I have, +that I should be dealing it out to others all for nothing."</p> + +<p>"Thou art right, Sancho my friend," said Don Quixote, "and +Altisidora has behaved very badly in not giving thee the smocks she +promised; and although that virtue of thine is gratis data—as it +has cost thee no study whatever, any more than such study as thy +personal sufferings may be—I can say for myself that if thou +wouldst have payment for the lashes on account of the disenchant of +Dulcinea, I would have given it to thee freely ere this. I am not +sure, however, whether payment will comport with the cure, and I would +not have the reward interfere with the medicine. I think there will be +nothing lost by trying it; consider how much thou wouldst have, +Sancho, and whip thyself at once, and pay thyself down with thine +own hand, as thou hast money of mine."</p> + +<p>At this proposal Sancho opened his eyes and his ears a palm's +breadth wide, and in his heart very readily acquiesced in whipping +himself, and said he to his master, "Very well then, senor, I'll +hold myself in readiness to gratify your worship's wishes if I'm to +profit by it; for the love of my wife and children forces me to seem +grasping. Let your worship say how much you will pay me for each +lash I give myself."</p> + +<p>"If Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "I were to requite thee as the +importance and nature of the cure deserves, the treasures of Venice, +the mines of Potosi, would be insufficient to pay thee. See what +thou hast of mine, and put a price on each lash."</p> + +<p>"Of them," said Sancho, "there are three thousand three hundred +and odd; of these I have given myself five, the rest remain; let the +five go for the odd ones, and let us take the three thousand three +hundred, which at a quarter real apiece (for I will not take less +though the whole world should bid me) make three thousand three +hundred quarter reals; the three thousand are one thousand five +hundred half reals, which make seven hundred and fifty reals; and +the three hundred make a hundred and fifty half reals, which come to +seventy-five reals, which added to the seven hundred and fifty make +eight hundred and twenty-five reals in all. These I will stop out of +what I have belonging to your worship, and I'll return home rich and +content, though well whipped, for 'there's no taking trout'—but I say +no more."</p> + +<p>"O blessed Sancho! O dear Sancho!" said Don Quixote; "how we shall +be bound to serve thee, Dulcinea and I, all the days of our lives that +heaven may grant us! If she returns to her lost shape (and it cannot +be but that she will) her misfortune will have been good fortune, +and my defeat a most happy triumph. 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>"When?" said Sancho; "this night without fail. Let your worship +order it so that we pass it out of doors and in the open air, and I'll +scarify myself."</p> + +<p>Night, longed for by Don Quixote with the greatest anxiety in the +world, came at last, though it seemed to him that the wheels of +Apollo's car had broken down, and that the day was drawing itself +out longer than usual, just as is the case with lovers, who never make +the reckoning of their desires agree with time. They made their way at +length in among some pleasant trees that stood a little distance +from the road, and there vacating Rocinante's saddle and Dapple's +pack-saddle, they stretched themselves on the green grass and made +their supper off Sancho's stores, and he making a powerful and +flexible whip out of Dapple's halter and headstall retreated about +twenty paces from his master among some beech trees. Don Quixote +seeing him march off with such resolution and spirit, said to him, +"Take care, my friend, not to cut thyself to pieces; allow the +lashes to wait for one another, and do not be in so great a hurry as +to run thyself out of breath midway; I mean, do not lay on so +strenuously as to make thy life fail thee before thou hast reached the +desired number; and that thou mayest not lose by a card too much or +too little, I will station myself apart and count on my rosary here +the lashes thou givest thyself. May heaven help thee as thy good +intention deserves."</p> + +<p>"'Pledges don't distress a good payer,'" said Sancho; "I mean to lay +on in such a way as without killing myself to hurt myself, for in +that, no doubt, lies the essence of this miracle."</p> + +<p>He then stripped himself from the waist upwards, and snatching up +the rope he began to lay on and Don Quixote to count the lashes. He +might have given himself six or eight when he began to think the +joke no trifle, and its price very low; and holding his hand for a +moment, he told his master that he cried off on the score of a blind +bargain, for each of those lashes ought to be paid for at the rate +of half a real instead of a quarter.</p> + +<p>"Go on, Sancho my friend, and be not disheartened," said Don +Quixote; "for I double the stakes as to price."</p> + +<p>"In that case," said Sancho, "in God's hand be it, and let it rain +lashes." But the rogue no longer laid them on his shoulders, but +laid on to the trees, with such groans every now and then, that one +would have thought at each of them his soul was being plucked up by +the roots. Don Quixote, touched to the heart, and fearing he might +make an end of himself, and that through Sancho's imprudence he +might miss his own object, said to him, "As thou livest, my friend, +let the matter rest where it is, for the remedy seems to me a very +rough one, and it will be well to have patience; 'Zamora was not won +in an hour.' If I have not reckoned wrong thou hast given thyself over +a thousand lashes; that is enough for the present; 'for the ass,' to +put it in homely phrase, 'bears the load, but not the overload.'"</p> + +<p>"No, no, senor," replied Sancho; "it shall never be said of me, 'The +money paid, the arms broken;' go back a little further, your +worship, and let me give myself at any rate a thousand lashes more; +for in a couple of bouts like this we shall have finished off the lot, +and there will be even cloth to spare."</p> + +<p>"As thou art in such a willing mood," said Don Quixote, "may +heaven aid thee; lay on and I'll retire."</p> + +<p>Sancho returned to his task with so much resolution that he soon had +the bark stripped off several trees, such was the severity with +which he whipped himself; and one time, raising his voice, and +giving a beech a tremendous lash, he cried out, "Here dies Samson, and +all with him!"</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p71b"></a><img alt="p71b.jpg (349K)" src="images/p71b.jpg" height="828" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p71b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>At the sound of his piteous cry and of the stroke of the cruel lash, +Don Quixote ran to him at once, and seizing the twisted halter that +served him for a courbash, said to him, "Heaven forbid, Sancho my +friend, that to please me thou shouldst lose thy life, which is needed +for the support of thy wife and children; let Dulcinea wait for a +better opportunity, and I will content myself with a hope soon to be +realised, and have patience until thou hast gained fresh strength so +as to finish off this business to the satisfaction of everybody."</p> + +<p>"As your worship will have it so, senor," said Sancho, "so be it; +but throw your cloak over my shoulders, for I'm sweating and I don't +want to take cold; it's a risk that novice disciplinants run."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote obeyed, and stripping himself covered Sancho, who +slept until the sun woke him; they then resumed their journey, which +for the time being they brought to an end at a village that lay +three leagues farther on. They dismounted at a hostelry which Don +Quixote recognised as such and did not take to be a castle with +moat, turrets, portcullis, and drawbridge; for ever since he had +been vanquished he talked more rationally about everything, as will be +shown presently. They quartered him in a room on the ground floor, +where in place of leather hangings there were pieces of painted +serge such as they commonly use in villages. On one of them was +painted by some very poor hand the Rape of Helen, when the bold +guest carried her off from Menelaus, and on the other was the story of +Dido and AEneas, she on a high tower, as though she were making +signals with a half sheet to her fugitive guest who was out at sea +flying in a frigate or brigantine. He noticed in the two stories +that Helen did not go very reluctantly, for she was laughing slyly and +roguishly; but the fair Dido was shown dropping tears the size of +walnuts from her eyes. Don Quixote as he looked at them observed, +"Those two ladies were very unfortunate not to have been born in +this age, and I unfortunate above all men not to have been born in +theirs. Had I fallen in with those gentlemen, Troy would not have been +burned or Carthage destroyed, for it would have been only for me to +slay Paris, and all these misfortunes would have been avoided."</p> + +<p>"I'll lay a bet," said Sancho, "that before long there won't be a +tavern, roadside inn, hostelry, or barber's shop where the story of +our doings won't be painted up; but I'd like it painted by the hand of +a better painter than painted these."</p> + +<p>"Thou art right, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for this painter is +like Orbaneja, a painter there was at Ubeda, who when they asked him +what he was painting, used to say, 'Whatever it may turn out; and if +he chanced to paint a cock he would write under it, 'This is a +cock,' for fear they might think it was a fox. The painter or +writer, for it's all the same, who published the history of this new +Don Quixote that has come out, must have been one of this sort I +think, Sancho, for he painted or wrote 'whatever it might turn out;' +or perhaps he is like a poet called Mauleon that was about the Court +some years ago, who used to answer at haphazard whatever he was asked, +and on one asking him what Deum de Deo meant, he replied De donde +diere. But, putting this aside, tell me, Sancho, hast thou a mind to +have another turn at thyself to-night, and wouldst thou rather have it +indoors or in the open air?"</p> + +<p>"Egad, senor," said Sancho, "for what I'm going to give myself, it +comes all the same to me whether it is in a house or in the fields; +still I'd like it to be among trees; for I think they are company +for me and help me to bear my pain wonderfully."</p> + +<p>"And yet it must not be, Sancho my friend," said Don Quixote; +"but, to enable thee to recover strength, we must keep it for our +own village; for at the latest we shall get there the day after +tomorrow."</p> + +<p>Sancho said he might do as he pleased; but that for his own part +he would like to finish off the business quickly before his blood +cooled and while he had an appetite, because "in delay there is apt to +be danger" very often, and "praying to God and plying the hammer," and +"one take was better than two I'll give thee's," and "a sparrow in the +hand than a vulture on the wing."</p> + +<p>"For God's sake, Sancho, no more proverbs!" exclaimed Don Quixote; +"it seems to me thou art becoming sicut erat again; speak in a +plain, simple, straight-forward way, as I have often told thee, and +thou wilt find the good of it."</p> + +<p>"I don't know what bad luck it is of mine," argument to my mind; +however, I mean to mend said Sancho, "but I can't utter a word without +a proverb that is not as good as an argument to my mind; however, I +mean to mend if I can;" and so for the present the conversation ended.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p71e"></a><img alt="p71e.jpg (42K)" src="images/p71e.jpg" height="505" width="493"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch72b"></a>CHAPTER LXXII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF HOW DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO REACHED THEIR VILLAGE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p72a"></a><img alt="p72a.jpg (155K)" src="images/p72a.jpg" height="388" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p72a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p> +All that day Don Quixote and Sancho remained in the village and +inn waiting for night, the one to finish off his task of scourging +in the open country, the other to see it accomplished, for therein lay +the accomplishment of his wishes. Meanwhile there arrived at the +hostelry a traveller on horseback with three or four servants, one +of whom said to him who appeared to be the master, "Here, Senor Don +Alvaro Tarfe, your worship may take your siesta to-day; the quarters +seem clean and cool."</p> + +<p>When he heard this Don Quixote said to Sancho, "Look here, Sancho; +on turning over the leaves of that book of the Second Part of my +history I think I came casually upon this name of Don Alvaro Tarfe."</p> + +<p>"Very likely," said Sancho; "we had better let him dismount, and +by-and-by we can ask about it."</p> + +<p>The gentleman dismounted, and the landlady gave him a room on the +ground floor opposite Don Quixote's and adorned with painted serge +hangings of the same sort. The newly arrived gentleman put on a summer +coat, and coming out to the gateway of the hostelry, which was wide +and cool, addressing Don Quixote, who was pacing up and down there, he +asked, "In what direction your worship bound, gentle sir?"</p> + +<p>"To a village near this which is my own village," replied Don +Quixote; "and your worship, where are you bound for?"</p> + +<p>"I am going to Granada, senor," said the gentleman, "to my own +country."</p> + +<p>"And a goodly country," said Don Quixote; "but will your worship +do me the favour of telling me your name, for it strikes me it is of +more importance to me to know it than I can tell you."</p> + +<p>"My name is Don Alvaro Tarfe," replied the traveller.</p> + +<p>To which Don Quixote returned, "I have no doubt whatever that your +worship is that Don Alvaro Tarfe who appears in print in the Second +Part of the history of Don Quixote of La Mancha, lately printed and +published by a new author."</p> + +<p>"I am the same," replied the gentleman; "and that same Don +Quixote, the principal personage in the said history, was a very great +friend of mine, and it was I who took him away from home, or at +least induced him to come to some jousts that were to be held at +Saragossa, whither I was going myself; indeed, I showed him many +kindnesses, and saved him from having his shoulders touched up by +the executioner because of his extreme rashness."</p> + +<p>"Tell me, Senor Don Alvaro," said Don Quixote, "am I at all like that +Don Quixote you talk of?"</p> + +<p>"No indeed," replied the traveller, "not a bit."</p> + +<p>"And that Don Quixote-" said our one, "had he with him a squire +called Sancho Panza?"</p> + +<p>"He had," said Don Alvaro; "but though he had the name of being very +droll, I never heard him say anything that had any drollery in it."</p> + +<p>"That I can well believe," said Sancho at this, "for to come out +with drolleries is not in everybody's line; and that Sancho your +worship speaks of, gentle sir, must be some great scoundrel, +dunderhead, and thief, all in one; for I am the real Sancho Panza, and +I have more drolleries than if it rained them; let your worship only +try; come along with me for a year or so, and you will find they +fall from me at every turn, and so rich and so plentiful that though +mostly I don't know what I am saying I make everybody that hears me +laugh. And the real Don Quixote of La Mancha, the famous, the valiant, +the wise, the lover, the righter of wrongs, the guardian of minors and +orphans, the protector of widows, the killer of damsels, he who has +for his sole mistress the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, is this +gentleman before you, my master; all other Don Quixotes and all +other Sancho Panzas are dreams and mockeries."</p> + +<p>"By God I believe it," said Don Alvaro; "for you have uttered more +drolleries, my friend, in the few words you have spoken than the other +Sancho Panza in all I ever heard from him, and they were not a few. He +was more greedy than well-spoken, and more dull than droll; and I am +convinced that the enchanters who persecute Don Quixote the Good +have been trying to persecute me with Don Quixote the Bad. But I don't +know what to say, for I am ready to swear I left him shut up in the +Casa del Nuncio at Toledo, and here another Don Quixote turns up, +though a very different one from mine."</p> + +<p>"I don't know whether I am good," said Don Quixote, "but I can +safely say I am not 'the Bad;' and to prove it, let me tell you, Senor +Don Alvaro Tarfe, I have never in my life been in Saragossa; so far +from that, when it was told me that this imaginary Don Quixote had +been present at the jousts in that city, I declined to enter it, in +order to drag his falsehood before the face of the world; and so I +went on straight to Barcelona, the treasure-house of courtesy, haven +of strangers, asylum of the poor, home of the valiant, champion of the +wronged, pleasant exchange of firm friendships, and city unrivalled in +site and beauty. And though the adventures that befell me there are +not by any means matters of enjoyment, but rather of regret, I do +not regret them, simply because I have seen it. In a word, Senor Don +Alvaro Tarfe, I am Don Quixote of La Mancha, the one that fame +speaks of, and not the unlucky one that has attempted to usurp my name +and deck himself out in my ideas. I entreat your worship by your +devoir as a gentleman to be so good as to make a declaration before +the alcalde of this village that you never in all your life saw me +until now, and that neither am I the Don Quixote in print in the +Second Part, nor this Sancho Panza, my squire, the one your worship +knew."</p> + +<p>"That I will do most willingly," replied Don Alvaro; "though it +amazes me to find two Don Quixotes and two Sancho Panzas at once, as +much alike in name as they differ in demeanour; and again I say and +declare that what I saw I cannot have seen, and that what happened +me cannot have happened."</p> + +<p>"No doubt your worship is enchanted, like my lady Dulcinea del +Toboso," said Sancho; "and would to heaven your disenchantment +rested on my giving myself another three thousand and odd lashes +like what I'm giving myself for her, for I'd lay them on without +looking for anything."</p> + +<p>"I don't understand that about the lashes," said Don Alvaro. +Sancho replied that it was a long story to tell, but he would tell him +if they happened to be going the same road.</p> + +<p>By this dinner-time arrived, and Don Quixote and Don Alvaro dined +together. The alcalde of the village came by chance into the inn +together with a notary, and Don Quixote laid a petition before him, +showing that it was requisite for his rights that Don Alvaro Tarfe, +the gentleman there present, should make a declaration before him that +he did not know Don Quixote of La Mancha, also there present, and that +he was not the one that was in print in a history entitled "Second +Part of Don Quixote of La Mancha, by one Avellaneda of Tordesillas." +The alcalde finally put it in legal form, and the declaration was made +with all the formalities required in such cases, at which Don +Quixote and Sancho were in high delight, as if a declaration of the +sort was of any great importance to them, and as if their words and +deeds did not plainly show the difference between the two Don Quixotes +and the two Sanchos. Many civilities and offers of service were +exchanged by Don Alvaro and Don Quixote, in the course of which the +great Manchegan displayed such good taste that he disabused Don Alvaro +of the error he was under; and he, on his part, felt convinced he must +have been enchanted, now that he had been brought in contact with +two such opposite Don Quixotes.</p> + +<p>Evening came, they set out from the village, and after about half +a league two roads branched off, one leading to Don Quixote's village, +the other the road Don Alvaro was to follow. In this short interval +Don Quixote told him of his unfortunate defeat, and of Dulcinea's +enchantment and the remedy, all which threw Don Alvaro into fresh +amazement, and embracing Don Quixote and Sancho he went his way, and +Don Quixote went his. That night he passed among trees again in +order to give Sancho an opportunity of working out his penance, +which he did in the same fashion as the night before, at the expense +of the bark of the beech trees much more than of his back, of which he +took such good care that the lashes would not have knocked off a fly +had there been one there. The duped Don Quixote did not miss a +single stroke of the count, and he found that together with those of +the night before they made up three thousand and twenty-nine. The +sun apparently had got up early to witness the sacrifice, and with his +light they resumed their journey, discussing the deception practised +on Don Alvaro, and saying how well done it was to have taken his +declaration before a magistrate in such an unimpeachable form. That +day and night they travelled on, nor did anything worth mention happen +them, unless it was that in the course of the night Sancho finished +off his task, whereat Don Quixote was beyond measure joyful. He +watched for daylight, to see if along the road he should fall in +with his already disenchanted lady Dulcinea; and as he pursued his +journey there was no woman he met that he did not go up to, to see +if she was Dulcinea del Toboso, as he held it absolutely certain +that Merlin's promises could not lie. Full of these thoughts and +anxieties, they ascended a rising ground wherefrom they descried their +own village, at the sight of which Sancho fell on his knees +exclaiming, "Open thine eyes, longed-for home, and see how thy son +Sancho Panza comes back to thee, if not very rich, very well +whipped! Open thine arms and receive, too, thy son Don Quixote, who, +if he comes vanquished by the arm of another, comes victor over +himself, which, as he himself has told me, is the greatest victory +anyone can desire. I'm bringing back money, for if I was well whipped, +I went mounted like a gentleman."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p72b"></a><img alt="p72b.jpg (375K)" src="images/p72b.jpg" height="815" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p72b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>"Have done with these fooleries," said Don Quixote; "let us push +on straight and get to our own place, where we will give free range to +our fancies, and settle our plans for our future pastoral life."</p> + +<p>With this they descended the slope and directed their steps to their +village.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p72e"></a><img alt="p72e.jpg (35K)" src="images/p72e.jpg" height="651" width="425"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p40.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p42.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + + |