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OF WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR KNIGHT WHEN HE LEFT THE INN

Day was dawning when Don Quixote quitted the inn, so happy, so gay, so

exhilarated at finding hiht, that his joy was like

to burst his horse-girths However, recalling the advice of his host as

to the requisites he ought to carry with hi

to o home and provide himself with

all, and also with a squire, for he reckoned upon securing a

farhbour of his, a poor man with a family, but very

well qualified for the office of squire to a knight With this object he

turned his horse's head towards his village, and Rocinante, thus reminded

of his old quarters, stepped out so briskly that he hardly seeone far, when out of a thicket on his right there seemed to

come feeble cries as of some one in distress, and the instant he heard

them he exclaimed, "Thanks be to heaven for the favour it accordsthe obligation I

have undertaken, and gathering the fruit of my ambition These cries, no

doubt, co , he turned Rocinante in the direction