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In pursuance of this change of plan, he hastily and somewhat clumsily

divided what he had written into chapters on the model of "Amadis,"

invented the fable of a eli in imitation of the almost invariable practice of the

chivalry-ro their books to so out the new ideas, he soon found the value

of Sancho Panza Indeed, the keynote, not only to Sancho's part, but to

the whole book, is struck in the first words Sancho utters when he

announces his intention of taking his ass with him "About the ass," we

are told, "Don Quixote hesitated a little, trying whether he could call

towith him an esquire mounted on ass-back;

but no instance occurred to his lance, the stolid unconsciousness of Sancho and the perplexity of his

ruity has just forced itself

This is Sancho's hout the book; he is an unconscious

Mephistopheles, always unwittinglythe fallacy of his ideas by so him back to the world of fact

and commonplace by force of sheer stolidity

By the tiot his voluh to set about the Second Part in earnest,

the case was very much altered Don Quixote and Sancho Panza had not

merely found favour, but had already become, what they have never since

ceased to be, veritable entities to the popular iination There was no

occasion for him now to interpolate extraneous matter; nay, his readers