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The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha [by M. De Cervantes Saavedra. Transl.].
The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha - by M. De Cervantes Saavedra. Transl. Author:Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1820 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAP. III. Of the pleasant conversation which passed between Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, and the bachelor, Sampson Carrasco. Don Quixote remained extremely thoughtful, expecting, with impatience, the coming of the bachelor Carrasco, from whom he hoped to hear an account of himself, published in a book, as Sancho had told him ; though he could hardly persuade himself that such a history could be extant, since the blood of the enemies he had slain was still reeking on his sword-blade; and was it to be supposed, that, his high feats of arms should be already in print ? However, he concluded at last, that some sage, either friend or foe, had by magic art sent them to the press; if a friend, to aggrandize and extol them above the most signal achievements of any knight- errant; if an enemy, to annihilate and sink them below the meanest that ever were written of any squire; although, as he recollected, the feats of squires were never written. But should it prove to be fact, that such a history is really extant, since it is the history of a knight-errant, it must of necessity, quoth he to himself, be sublime, lofty, illustrious, magnificent, and true. This thought afforded him some comfort; but he lost it again upon considering, that the author was a Moor, as was evident from thetitle of Cid, and that no truth could be expected from that quarter, the Moors being all impostors liars and visionaries. He was fearful his amours might be treated with indecency, which might redound to the disparagement and prejudice of the unsullied purity of his lady Dulcinea del Toboso; whereas he wished to find a faithful repres...« less