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Maritornes felt sure that Don Quixote would present the hand she had

asked, and ot down from the hole and

went into the stable, where she took the halter of Sancho Panza's ass,

and in all haste returned to the hole, just as Don Quixote had planted

hirated

here he supposed the lovelorn da her his

hand, he said, "Lady, take this hand, or rather this scourge of the

evil-doers of the earth; take, I say, this hand which no other hand of

woman has ever touched, not even hers who has complete possession of my

entire body I present it to you, not that you may kiss it, but that you

may observe the contexture of the sinews, the close network of the

muscles, the breadth and capacity of the veins, whence you th of the arm that has such a hand"

"That we shall see presently," said Maritornes, andknot

on the halter, she passed it over his wrist and co down from the hole

tied the other end very firmly to the bolt of the door of the straw-loft

Don Quixote, feeling the roughness of the rope on his wrist, exclai my hand; treat it

not so harshly, for it is not to blaiven you, nor is it just to wreak all your vengeance on so small a part;

ree herself so

cruelly"

But there was nobody now to listen to these words of Don Quixote's, for

as soon as Maritornes had tied hi, leaving him fastened in such a way that it was

impossible for hi on Rocinante, with his arh the hole and his wrist tied to the bolt of the door, and in

by the arm if Rocinante were

to stir one side or the other; so he did not dare to h from the patience and iood reason to expect that he would stand without