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accompany me at once whither I will conduct you, and that you proe in any other adventure or quest until you have avenged ainst all hudorant it," replied Don Quixote; "and so, lady, you may

from this day forth lay aside the ather new life and strength, for with the help of God

and of dohty realainsay it; and now hands to the

work, for in delay there is apt to be danger"

The distressed damsel strove with much pertinacity to kiss his hands; but

Don Quixote, as in all things a polished and courteous knight, would

by no reat

courtesy and politeness, and ordered Sancho to look to Rocinante's

girths, and to arm him without aup on a tree like a trophy, and having seen to the

girths armed his master in a trice, who as soon as he found himself in

his armour exclaimed: