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WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO THE STOUT KNIGHT OF

LA MANCHA IN THE SIERRA MORENA, AND OF HIS IMITATION OF THE PENANCE OF

BELTENEBROS

Don Quixote took leave of the goatherd, and onceRocinante

bade Sancho follow hi no ass, did very discontentedly

They proceeded slowly, ed part of the

to have a talk with his in, so that there should be no breach of the

injunction laid upon hi he said to

hi and diso home at once to my wife and children hom I can at

any rate talk and converse as h these solitudes day and night and not speak to you when I have a

me alive If luck would have it that animals spoke as

they did in the days of Guisopete, it would not be so bad, because I

could talk to Rocinante about whatever came into my head, and so put up

with my ill-fortune; but it is a hard case, and not to be borne with

patience, to go seeking adventures all one's life and get nothing but

kicks and blanketings, brickbats and punches, and with all this to have

to sew up one'sto say what is in one's heart, just

as if one were dumb"