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The History of Don Quixote of la Mancha (1881)
The History of Don Quixote of la Mancha - 1881 Author:Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of the contract, put her in custody of a very honest sergeant." " Bless us," quoth Sancho, " sergeants too, and poets, and songs, and verses, in your country ! o... more »' my conscience, I think the world is the same all the world over. But go on, Madam Trifaldi, I beseech you, for it is late, and I am upon thorns till I know the end of this long-winded story." u I will," answered the countess. CHAPTER XXXIX. WHERE TRIFALDI CONTINUES HER STUPENDOUS AND MEMORABLE STORY. If every word that Sancho spoke gave the duchess new pleasure, every thing he said put Don Quixote to as much pain ; so that he commanded him silence, and gave the matron opportunity to go on. " In short," said she, " the business was debated a good while; and after many questions and answers, the princess firmly persisting in her first declaration, judgment was given in favor of Don Clavijo, which Queen Maguntia, her mother, took so to heart, that We buried her about three days after." " Then, without doubt she died," quoth Sancho. " That is a clear case," replied Trifaldin ; " for, in Candaya, they do not use to bury the living, but the dead." " But, with your good leave, Mr. Squire," answered Sancho, " people that were in a swoon have been buried alive before now; and methinks Queen Maguntia should only have swooned away, and not have been in such haste to have died in good earnest; for, while there is life there is hope, and there is a remedy for all things but death. I do hot find the young lady was so much out of the way neither, that the mother should lay it so grieVottsly to heart. Indeed, had she married a footman, or some other servant in the family, as I am tbld many others have done, it had been a Very bad business, and past curing; but, for the queen to make such a heavy outcry, when her daughter marrie...« less