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tomorrow"

"Do I do thee such injuries, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that thou

wouldst see me dead so soon?"

"It is not for that," replied Sancho, "but because I hate keeping things

long, and I don't want the"

"At any rate," said Don Quixote, "I have ood nature; and so I would have thee know that this night there

befell est adventures that I could describe, and to

relate it to thee briefly thou hter of the lord of this castle caant and beautiful damsel that could be found in the orld What

I could tell thee of the charms of her person! of her lively wit! of

other secret matters which, to preserve the fealty I owe to my lady

Dulcinea del Toboso, I shall pass over unnoticed and in silence! I will

only tell thee that, either fate being envious of so great a boon placed

in ood fortune, or perhaps (and this is , as I have already said, enchanted, at the tied in the sweetest and most a or knohence it caiant, that planted such a cuff on my jaws that I have them

all bathed in blood, and then puht than yesterday when the carriers, on account of Rocinante's

misbehaviour, inflicted on us the injury thou knowest of; whence

conjecture that therethe treasure

of this damsel's beauty, and that it is not for me"