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The Story of Don Quixote and His Squire Sancho Panza [abridged From Jarvis's Tr.] by M. Jones
The Story of Don Quixote and His Squire Sancho Panza by M Jones - abridged From Jarvis's Tr. Author:Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. In search of adventures -- His first redress of wrongs -- Adventure with the merchants of Toledo -- Brought home, battered and bruised -- His friends burn his books of chivalry. It was about break of day, when Don Quixote issued forth from the inn, so delighted to see himself knighted, that the joy thereof almost burst his horse's girths. But recollecting the advice of his host concerning the necessary provisions for his undertaking, especially the articles of money and clean shirts, he resolved to return home, and furnish himself accordingly, and also provide himself with a squire : purposing to take into his service a certain country-fellow of the neighbourhood, who was poor, and had children, yet was very fit for the squirely office of chivalry. With this thought, he turned Rozinante towards his village ; but had not gone far, when, on his right hand, from a thicket hard by, he fancied he heard a weak voice, as of a person complaining. Scarcely had he heard it, when he said, "I thank heaven for the favour it does me, in laying before me so early an opportunity of complying with the duty of my profession, and of reaping the fruit of my honourable desires. These are, doubtless, the cries of some distressed person, who stands in need of my protection and assistance." And turning the reins, he put Rozinante forward towards the place from whence he thought the voice came. He had entered but a few paces into the wood, when he saw a mare tied to an oak, and a lad to another, stripped from the waist upwards, who was the person that cried out; and not without cause, for a stout country-fello...« less