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would have knocked one another to pieces

"Leave ht of the Rueful Countenance," said Sancho,

grappling with the goatherd, "for of this felloho is a clown like

ht, I can safely take satisfaction for the

affront he has offeredwith him hand to hand like an honest

man"

"That is true," said Don Quixote, "but I know that he is not to blame for

what has happened"

With this he pacified theoatherd if it would be

possible to find Cardenio, as he felt the greatest anxiety to know the

end of his story The goatherd told hi of a certainty where his lair was; but that if he

wandered about hbourhood he could not fail to fall in

with him either in or out of his senses