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At last, while they were all, with the exception of the two bruisers who

were lee and enjoyment, they heard a trumpet

sound a note so doleful that it made them all look in the direction

whence the sound see it was Don Quixote, who though sorely against his will he was

under the goatherd, and so more than pretty well pummelled, said

to him, "Brother devil (for it is iht and strength enough to overcome mine), I ask

thee to agree to a truce for but one hour for the solemn note of yonder

trumpet that falls on our ears seeoatherd, as by this ti pu to his feet

and turning his eyes to the quarter where the sound had been heard,

suddenly saw co down the slope of a hill several men clad in white

like penitents

The fact was that the clouds had that year withheld their es of the district they were organising

processions, rogations, and penances, i God to open the hands of

his mercy and send the rain; and to this end the people of a village that

was hard by were going in procession to a holy here there was on one

side of that valley Don Quixote when he saw the strange garb of the

penitents, without reflecting how often he had seen it before, took it

into his head that this was a case of adventure, and that it fell to hie in it; and he was all the e draped in black they

had with them was some illustrious lady that these villains and

discourteous thieves were carrying off by force As soon as this occurred

to hie, and

taking the bridle and the buckler from the saddle-bow, he had hi to Sancho for his sword he mounted Rocinante,

braced his buckler on his arm, and in a loud voice exclaimed to those who

stood by, "Now, noble company, ye shall see how ihts in the world professing the of knight-errantry;