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El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote De La Mancha (1)
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote De La Mancha - 1 Author:Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1885 Original Publisher: G. Routledge 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... more » you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: BOOK III. CHAPTER XV. Wherein a related the unfortunate adventure which befel Don Quixote, in meeting with certain unmerciful Yanguesians. Leave having been taken, as the sage Cid Hamet Benengeli relates, by Don Quixote, of all those who were present at Chrysostom's funeral, he and his squire entered the same wood into which they had seen the shepherdess Marcela enter. And having ranged through it for above two hours in search of her without success, they stopped in a meadow full of fresh grass, near which ran a pleasant and refreshing brook; insomuch that it invited and compelled them to pass there the sultry hours of mid-day, which now became very oppressive. Don Quixote and Sancho alighted, and, leaving the ass and Rozinante at large to feed upon the abundant grass, they ransacked the wallet; and, without any ceremony, in friendly and social wise, master and man shared what it contained. Sancho had taken no care to fetter Rozinante, being well assured his disposition was so correct, that all the mares of the pastures of Cordova would not provoke him to any indecorum. But fortune, or the devil, who is not always asleep, so ordered it that there were grazing in the same valley a number of Galician mares, belonging to certain Yanguesian carriers, whose custom it is to pass the noon, with their drove, in places where there is grass and water ; an'd that where Don Quixote then reposed suited their purpose. Now it so happened that Roziniinte conceived a wish to pay his respects to the females, and, having them in the wind, he changed his natural and sober pace...« less