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Sancho was not so stunned but that he heard all his ree of nimbleness he ran to place himself behind

Dorothea's palfrey, and from that position he said to his master:

"Tell reat

princess, it is plain the kingdo so,

how can you bestow favours upon me? That is what I complain of Let your

worship at any rate ot her here as if

showered down froo back to s in the world who kept

to do with it; and if the truth

is to be told, I like theh I have never seen the lady

Dulcinea"

"How! never seen her, blasphemous traitor!" exclaie from her?"

"I mean," said Sancho, "that I did not see her so much at my leisure that

I could take particular notice of her beauty, or of her charms pieceive thee," said Don Quixote; "and do thou forgive me the

injury I have done thee; for our first impulses are not in our control"

"That I see," replied Sancho, "and with me the wish to speak is always