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All the tih he held Luscinda in

his arms, never took his eyes off Don Fernando, determined, if he saw him

make any hostile movement, to try and defend hiht assail hih it should cost him his life

But now Don Fernando's friends, as well as the curate and the barber, who

had been present all the while, not forgetting the worthy Sancho Panza,

ran forward and gathered round Don Fernando, entreating hiard for the tears of Dorothea, and not suffer her reasonable hopes to

be disappointed, since, as they fir hiht seem, by

accident, but by a special disposition of Providence that they had all

And the curate

bade him remember that only death could part Luscinda from Cardenio; that

even if some sere to separate them they would think their death

most happy; and that in a case that ad and putting a constraint upon hienerous mind, and of his own accord suffer these two to enjoy the

happiness Heaven had granted them He bade him, too, turn his eyes upon

the beauty of Dorothea and he would see that few if any could equal much

less excel her; while to that beauty should be added herlove she bore him But besides all this, he reentleman and a Christian, he could not

do otherwise than keep his plighted word; and that in doing so he would

obey God and nised it to be the privilege of beauty, even in one of humble birth,

provided virtue accompany it, to be able to raise itself to the level of

any rank, without any slur upon him who places it upon an equality with

himself; and furthermore that when the potent sway of passion asserts

itself, so long as there be no ives way to it