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"In that case," said the curate, "there is nothing more required than to

set about it at once, for beyond a doubt fortune is declaring itself in

our favour, since it has so unexpectedly begun to open a door for your

relief, and smoothed the way for us to our object"

Dorothea then took out of her pillow-case a coreen mantle of some other fine material, and a

necklace and other ornaments out of a little box, and with these in an

instant she so arrayed herself that she looked like a great and rich

lady All this, and more, she said, she had taken from home in case of

need, but that until then she had had no occasion to race, air, and beauty, and declared

Don Fernando to be a man of very little taste when he rejected such

charms But the one who admired her most was Sancho Panza, for it seemed

to him (what indeed was true) that in all the days of his life he had

never seen such a lovely creature; and he asked the curate with great

eagerness who this beautiful lady was, and what she wanted in these

out-of-the-way quarters

"This fair lady, brother Sancho," replied the curate, "is no less a

personage than the heiress in the direct do a boon of hi or injury that a wicked giant has done

her; and froht which your master has acquired