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Good God, as the indignation of Don Quixote when he heard the

audacious words of his squire! So great was it, that in a voice

inarticulate with rage, with a sta fire, he exclainorant, ill-spoken, foul-mouthed, impudent backbiter and slanderer!

Hast thou dared to utter such words in my presence and in that of these

illustrious ladies? Hast thou dared to harbour such gross and shaone from my presence, thou born

arner of knaveries,

inventor of scandals, publisher of absurdities, eneone, show thyself nohe knitted his brows, puffed out his cheeks,

gazed around hiht

foot, showing in every way the rage that was pent up in his heart; and at

his words and furious gestures Sancho was so scared and terrified that he

would have been glad if the earth had opened that instant and sed

hiht was to turn round and ry presence of his master

But the ready-witted Dorothea, who by this time so well understood Don

Quixote's humour, said, to mollify his wrath, "Be not irritated at the

absurdities your good squire has uttered, Sir Knight of the Rueful

Countenance, for perhaps he did not utter theood sense and Christian conscience it is not likely that he would