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堂吉诃德|Don Quixote

Part 2 第55章|Part 2 Chapter 53

属类: 双语小说 【分类】世界名著 -[作者: 塞万提斯] 阅读:[44468]
《堂吉诃德》是一部幽默诙谐、滑稽可笑、充满了奇思妙想的长篇文学巨著。此书主要描写了一个有趣、可敬、可悲、喜欢自欺欺人的没落贵族堂吉诃德,他痴狂地迷恋古代骑士小说,以至于放弃家业,用破甲驽马装扮成古代骑士的样子,再雇佣农民桑乔作侍从,三次出征周游全国,去创建所谓的扶弱锄强的骑士业绩。他们在征险的生涯中闹出了许多笑话,到处碰壁受辱,堂吉诃德多次被打成重伤,有一次还被当成疯子关在笼子里遣送回乡。最后,他因征战不利郁郁寡欢而与世长辞,临终前他那一番貌似悔悟的话语让人匪夷所思又哭笑不得。
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桑乔那天半路遇见里科特耽误了时间,当天没能赶回公爵的城堡。他离城堡还有半西里路的时候,天色就黑下来了。不过因为是夏天,问题也不大。桑乔离开了大路,想找个地方,等到天亮再走。可他偏偏是那么倒霉,就在他找地方休息的时候,竟然连人带驴掉进了几座破旧建筑物之间一个又深又黑的坑里。往坑下摔的时候,桑乔在内心虔诚地祈求上帝保佑。他以为自己摔到万丈深渊里去了,可事实并不是这样。他的驴摔到三人深的时候就落了地,桑乔在驴背上竟然安然无恙。他摸遍了自己的全身,又屏住气,看自己到底是完整无缺还是身上哪儿摔出了窟窿。他见自己好好的,没有摔坏,便不停地感谢上帝对他大发慈悲,否则他肯定会摔得粉身碎骨了。他用手摸着坑壁,想看自己能否爬出去,可到处都是光秃秃的,没有可以下手的地方,因此他很沮丧,再听到他的驴的痛苦呻吟声,就更难过了。不过这不怪驴,它并不是无病呻吟,而是确实不好受。

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“哎,”桑乔感慨道,“人活在这个可怜的世界上,随时都有可能遇到飞来的横祸!谁能想到,岛屿的总督昨天还对佣人和臣民颐指气使,今天竟摔到了一个坑里,而且无论是他的佣人还是他的臣民,居然无一人赶来相助!即使驴不疼死,我不伤心死,我们也得在这儿活活饿死!至少我不像我的主人唐吉诃德那样走运。他下了蒙特西诺斯洞窟后,那儿的饭桌和床铺都是现成的,条件比他家里还好。他在那儿看到的幽灵都漂亮文静,而我在这儿看到的只能是蛤蟆和蛇。我真倒霉,我的疯癫和幻想落了个什么结局呀!等到老天有眼发现我们的时候,我们已经成为两具白骨了。他们发现我这头好驴的骨头,大概就会猜到我们是准了,至少那些听说过桑乔离不开驴,驴也离不开桑乔的人可以猜到。我再说一遍,我们真可怜,我们的倒霉的命运竟不让我们死在家乡,死在亲人中间,否则,即使无法把我们从不幸中解救出来,至少还有人为我们伤心,在我们临终时为我们合上眼睛!哎,我的伙伴,我的朋友,你忠心耿耿地为我服务,可是我对你的报答多么不够呀!原谅我吧,请求命运尽可能把我们从困境中解脱出来吧。我发誓要在你的头上戴个桂冠,让你像个得了桂冠的诗人一样,而且还要把你的饲料增加一倍。”

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桑乔在那儿唉声叹气,他的驴在旁边听着一声不吭,这就是可怜的桑乔当时的处境。桑乔在哀叹和抱怨中度过了那个凄凉的夜晚。白昼来临,天亮了,这回桑乔才看清,如果没人帮忙,他就休想从坑里出去。他哀叹起来,喊叫起来,看是否有人听见自己的喊声。可是他的喊声如落入荒野,没人能听到他的喊声,于是桑乔以为自己死定了。驴仰面躺在地上,桑乔把它扶了起来,它才算勉强站住了。褡裢也同桑乔一起落入了坑内。桑乔从褡裢里拿出一块面包喂驴,驴也不客气。就好像驴能听懂他说话似的,桑乔对驴说道:

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“肚子吃饱,痛苦减少。”

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这时,桑乔发现坑的一侧有一个洞,容得下一个人蜷缩进去。桑乔爬了进去,看到那洞里面非常宽敞,一束阳光从一个可以称为洞顶的地方射进来,照亮了洞里。他还看到,这个洞延伸到另一边,另外还有一个宽敞的洞穴。看完后,桑乔又回到驴身边,拿起一块石头,把洞口周围的土挖掉,一直挖到能够让驴顺利通过的程度才罢手。桑乔扯起驴缰绳走过洞口,向前走去,看是否能从另一侧找到出口。洞内忽明忽暗,令人提心吊胆。“万能的上帝保佑我吧。”桑乔心里说,“这种事对于我来说是倒霉事,但若是遇到我的主人唐吉诃德,就成奇遇了。他肯定会把这地穴洞窟当成是鲜花满园和富丽堂皇的宫殿。而且,他还希望走出又黑又窄的洞后,外面又是遍野的鲜花。我就没那么有运气了。我没这个意识,也没这个情绪。我每走一步都想着脚下会裂出一个更比一个大的深渊,把我吞进去。‘祸如果单行,就算是万幸’。”桑乔就这样想着,走了大约半西里路,发现前面有一束朦胧的光线。

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对于桑乔来说,也许这就意味着他的生死路走到了尽头。

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锡德·哈迈德·贝嫩赫利写到这儿,又把故事转到了唐吉诃德那儿。唐吉诃德正惊喜地等着与夺走了唐娜罗德里格斯女儿名誉的家伙决斗,他要让那个家伙为自己做的孽付出代价。在预定决斗的前一天早晨,唐吉诃德骑着罗西南多疾驰出去,准备为决斗做些演练活动,结果跑到一个坑边的时候,幸亏他紧紧勒住了缰绳,不然就掉下去了。唐吉诃德催马走到坑边,从马上向坑内张望。他正看着,忽听坑内有人大声喊叫。他又仔细听了听,听到仿佛有人在向他呼救:

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“喂,上面的人,有哪位基督徒能听见我喊叫吗?或者,有哪位好心的骑士心疼这位被活埋的罪人,这位已经不再是总督的不幸总督吗?”

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唐吉诃德听着觉得像桑乔的声音,非常惊奇。他全力提高了嗓门,问道:

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“谁在下面?谁在叫苦?”

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“还有谁能在这儿叫苦呢?”桑乔说,“只能是那个由于自己的罪孽和厄运而吃尽了苦头的巴拉塔里亚岛总督,也就是曼查的著名骑士唐吉诃德以前的侍从桑乔·潘萨呗。”

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唐吉诃德听下面这么一说,更惊奇了,而且开始感到害怕。他立刻想到桑乔大概已经死了,眼下在下面赎罪的是桑乔的鬼魂。这样一想,他便说道:

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“我以一个虔诚的基督徒的名义向你发誓,请你告诉我你是谁。如果你是个正在涤罪的鬼魂,请告诉我,我能为你做点什么。我的职业就是帮助这个世界受苦受难的人,而且我也扶助另一个世界的苦难者,假如他们不能自助的话。”

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“这么说来,”桑乔说,“上面同我说话的人大概就是我的主人唐吉诃德吧,听声音只能是他,不可能是别人。”

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“我是唐吉诃德。”唐吉诃德答道,“我从事的事业就是帮助受苦难的活人和死人。告诉我你是谁,我简直莫名其妙了。如果你是我的侍从桑乔,那么你大概已经死了。可是上帝开恩,没让魔鬼把你带走,而是让你留在炼狱里。我们神圣的天主教完全可以帮助你,把你从这个炼狱里解脱出来。我也愿意用我的全部财力求教会超度你。所以我刚才问你,你到底是谁。”

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“真见鬼了,”下面答道,“不管您怎么说,唐吉诃德大人,我发誓,我就是您的侍从桑乔。我一天也没死过,只不过是不再当总督了。这里面的情况和原因待我以后再找时间告诉您。昨天晚上,我掉到了这个坑里。我的驴也在这儿,它可以作证,它就在我身边呢。”

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驴似乎听懂了桑乔说的话,立刻大声嘶叫起来,叫声在整个坑里回荡。

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“真是个好见证!”唐吉诃德说,“这驴叫声我太熟悉了,你的声音我也听到了。桑乔,你等着,公爵的城堡离这儿不远,我马上就去,找人把你从坑里弄出来。你掉进坑里,大概是因为你造了孽。”

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“您去吧,”桑乔说,“看在上帝份上,您快点儿回来。我被活埋在这儿,真受不了,简直快要把我吓死了。”

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唐吉诃德离开桑乔回到城堡里,把桑乔的事告诉了公爵和公爵夫人。他们虽然知道那个坑,那个坑早在不知什么年代就有了,可还是感到很意外。他们不明白桑乔为什么不事先通知他们就决定不当总督了。最后,派很多人带了很多绳索,费了很大气力,才把桑乔从那个坑里拉了上来。一个学生模样的人见状说道:

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“所有坏总督离职时都应该是这个样子,就像这个罪人从坑里出来时一样,饿得面无血色,而且看样子身无分文。”

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桑乔听到后说道:

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“那位说话的老弟呀,在八天或十天以前,我得到了一个岛屿,当上了总督。在这段时间里,我从没有一刻吃饱过,而且有医生害我,有敌人踩疼了我的骨头;我既没有得到不义之财,也没有赚到钱。在这种情况下,我觉得我不该落得这样的下场。可是‘人生有命,富贵在天’,每个人怎样才好,上帝自有安排,只能听天由命,这话真绝了。‘以为那儿挂着咸肉,其实连挂肉的钩子也没有’。只要上帝理解我就够了,我也不再说什么了,尽管我还能说。”

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“你不要生气,桑乔,也不必为别人说什么而发火,那就没完了。你只要问心无愧就行,别人爱说什么就让他们去说吧;若想管住多嘴人的舌头,只能是螳臂当车。如果总督离任时发了财,人们就会说他是盗贼;如果他离任时没钱,人们就会说他是傻瓜笨蛋。”

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“我敢肯定,”桑乔说,“这次人们不会说我是盗贼,只会说我是笨蛋。”

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他们就这样边走边说,由许多大人和孩子簇拥着回到公爵的城堡。公爵和公爵夫人正在走廊里等着唐吉诃德和桑乔。可桑乔还是先到马厩把他的驴安顿好,才去见公爵和公爵夫人,解释说他的驴前一天晚上已经受了不少罪。桑乔见到公爵和公爵夫人时双膝跪地,说道:

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“两位大人,我按照你们的意愿,而并非自己有此能力,到巴拉塔里亚岛当了总督,结果来去赤条条,没亏也没赚。至于我这个总督当得好不好,这儿自有证人,他们可以随便说。我判明了疑案,解决了争端,总是饥肠辘辘,因为岛上总督的医生,那个蒂尔特亚富埃拉的佩德罗·雷西奥大夫,总让我这样。敌人趁夜向我们进攻,情况十分危急,岛上的人说只有靠我的臂膀的力量,他们才能安然无恙,取得胜利。他们说的是实话,愿上帝保佑他们身体健康。反正经过这段时间,我已经体会到了总督的重负和责任,而且也意识到我的肩膀和肋骨,还有我的承受能力,都不足以担负起如此的重负和责任。所以,与其让总督职务把我解除,还不如我先把总督职务解除了。昨天早晨我离开了海岛,走过了我去岛上时走过的街道和房子。我没有向任何人借过钱,也没有赚到一点儿钱。我本来想颁布几个有益的法令,可是我没有颁布,怕它们得不到遵守,那就等于没颁布一样。就像我刚才说的,我只身一人离开了海岛,只有我的驴陪伴我。我走过一个坑边时摔了进去,今天早晨,出了太阳,我才看到出口。出来可不那么容易,若不是老天派我的主人唐吉诃德去救我,我肯定就死在那儿了。所以,我的公爵大人和公爵夫人,你们的总督桑乔·潘萨就在你们面前。他当了十天总督,所得的收获就是认识到,别说当一个海岛的总督,就是当全世界的总督,他也无所谓了。他就是带着这个想法前来吻你们的脚,而且还模仿着孩子们做游戏的话说:‘你跳来,我跳去。’现在我从总督的位置上跳出来,再回来服侍我的主人唐吉诃德。同他在一起,虽然吃饭时常担惊受怕,我也知足了。无论是熊掌还是鱼,对我来说都一样。”

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桑乔就这样长篇大论地说了一通。唐吉诃德本来怕桑乔说起话来又是漏洞百出,见桑乔这么快就说完了,直在心里感谢老天。公爵拥抱了桑乔,说他从心里对桑乔如此迅速地离开了总督职务感到遗憾,不过他会尽力为桑乔物色一个担子轻可是油水大的差事干。公爵夫人也拥抱了桑乔,并且吩咐家人好好招待桑乔,因为看样子桑乔伤得不轻,情绪也不佳。

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To fancy that in this life anything belonging to it will remain for ever in the same state is an idle fancy; on the contrary, in it everything seems to go in a circle, I mean round and round. The spring succeeds the summer, the summer the fall, the fall the autumn, the autumn the winter, and the winter the spring, and so time rolls with never-ceasing wheel. Man’s life alone, swifter than time, speeds onward to its end without any hope of renewal, save it be in that other life which is endless and boundless. Thus saith Cide Hamete the Mahometan philosopher; for there are many that by the light of nature alone, without the light of faith, have a comprehension of the fleeting nature and instability of this present life and the endless duration of that eternal life we hope for; but our author is here speaking of the rapidity with which Sancho’s government came to an end, melted away, disappeared, vanished as it were in smoke and shadow. For as he lay in bed on the night of the seventh day of his government, sated, not with bread and wine, but with delivering judgments and giving opinions and making laws and proclamations, just as sleep, in spite of hunger, was beginning to close his eyelids, he heard such a noise of bell-ringing and shouting that one would have fancied the whole island was going to the bottom. He sat up in bed and remained listening intently to try if he could make out what could be the cause of so great an uproar; not only, however, was he unable to discover what it was, but as countless drums and trumpets now helped to swell the din of the bells and shouts, he was more puzzled than ever, and filled with fear and terror; and getting up he put on a pair of slippers because of the dampness of the floor, and without throwing a dressing gown or anything of the kind over him he rushed out of the door of his room, just in time to see approaching along a corridor a band of more than twenty persons with lighted torches and naked swords in their hands, all shouting out, “To arms, to arms, senor governor, to arms! The enemy is in the island in countless numbers, and we are lost unless your skill and valour come to our support.”

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Keeping up this noise, tumult, and uproar, they came to where Sancho stood dazed and bewildered by what he saw and heard, and as they approached one of them called out to him, “Arm at once, your lordship, if you would not have yourself destroyed and the whole island lost.”

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“What have I to do with arming?” said Sancho. “What do I know about arms or supports? Better leave all that to my master Don Quixote, who will settle it and make all safe in a trice; for I, sinner that I am, God help me, don’t understand these scuffles.”

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“Ah, senor governor,” said another, “what slackness of mettle this is! Arm yourself; here are arms for you, offensive and defensive; come out to the plaza and be our leader and captain; it falls upon you by right, for you are our governor.”

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“Arm me then, in God’s name,” said Sancho, and they at once produced two large shields they had come provided with, and placed them upon him over his shirt, without letting him put on anything else, one shield in front and the other behind, and passing his arms through openings they had made, they bound him tight with ropes, so that there he was walled and boarded up as straight as a spindle and unable to bend his knees or stir a single step. In his hand they placed a lance, on which he leant to keep himself from falling, and as soon as they had him thus fixed they bade him march forward and lead them on and give them all courage; for with him for their guide and lamp and morning star, they were sure to bring their business to a successful issue.

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“How am I to march, unlucky being that I am?” said Sancho, “when I can’t stir my knee-caps, for these boards I have bound so tight to my body won’t let me. What you must do is carry me in your arms, and lay me across or set me upright in some postern, and I’ll hold it either with this lance or with my body.”

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“On, senor governor!” cried another, “it is fear more than the boards that keeps you from moving; make haste, stir yourself, for there is no time to lose; the enemy is increasing in numbers, the shouts grow louder, and the danger is pressing.”

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Urged by these exhortations and reproaches the poor governor made an attempt to advance, but fell to the ground with such a crash that he fancied he had broken himself all to pieces. There he lay like a tortoise enclosed in its shell, or a side of bacon between two kneading-troughs, or a boat bottom up on the beach; nor did the gang of jokers feel any compassion for him when they saw him down; so far from that, extinguishing their torches they began to shout afresh and to renew the calls to arms with such energy, trampling on poor Sancho, and slashing at him over the shield with their swords in such a way that, if he had not gathered himself together and made himself small and drawn in his head between the shields, it would have fared badly with the poor governor, as, squeezed into that narrow compass, he lay, sweating and sweating again, and commending himself with all his heart to God to deliver him from his present peril. Some stumbled over him, others fell upon him, and one there was who took up a position on top of him for some time, and from thence as if from a watchtower issued orders to the troops, shouting out, “Here, our side! Here the enemy is thickest! Hold the breach there! Shut that gate! Barricade those ladders! Here with your stink-pots of pitch and resin, and kettles of boiling oil! Block the streets with feather beds!” In short, in his ardour he mentioned every little thing, and every implement and engine of war by means of which an assault upon a city is warded off, while the bruised and battered Sancho, who heard and suffered all, was saying to himself, “O if it would only please the Lord to let the island be lost at once, and I could see myself either dead or out of this torture!” Heaven heard his prayer, and when he least expected it he heard voices exclaiming, “Victory, victory! The enemy retreats beaten! Come, senor governor, get up, and come and enjoy the victory, and divide the spoils that have been won from the foe by the might of that invincible arm.”

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“Lift me up,” said the wretched Sancho in a woebegone voice. They helped him to rise, and as soon as he was on his feet said, “The enemy I have beaten you may nail to my forehead; I don’t want to divide the spoils of the foe, I only beg and entreat some friend, if I have one, to give me a sup of wine, for I’m parched with thirst, and wipe me dry, for I’m turning to water.”

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They rubbed him down, fetched him wine and unbound the shields, and he seated himself upon his bed, and with fear, agitation, and fatigue he fainted away. Those who had been concerned in the joke were now sorry they had pushed it so far; however, the anxiety his fainting away had caused them was relieved by his returning to himself. He asked what o’clock it was; they told him it was just daybreak. He said no more, and in silence began to dress himself, while all watched him, waiting to see what the haste with which he was putting on his clothes meant.

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He got himself dressed at last, and then, slowly, for he was sorely bruised and could not go fast, he proceeded to the stable, followed by all who were present, and going up to Dapple embraced him and gave him a loving kiss on the forehead, and said to him, not without tears in his eyes, “Come along, comrade and friend and partner of my toils and sorrows; when I was with you and had no cares to trouble me except mending your harness and feeding your little carcass, happy were my hours, my days, and my years; but since I left you, and mounted the towers of ambition and pride, a thousand miseries, a thousand troubles, and four thousand anxieties have entered into my soul;” and all the while he was speaking in this strain he was fixing the pack-saddle on the ass, without a word from anyone. Then having Dapple saddled, he, with great pain and difficulty, got up on him, and addressing himself to the majordomo, the secretary, the head-carver, and Pedro Recio the doctor and several others who stood by, he said, “Make way, gentlemen, and let me go back to my old freedom; let me go look for my past life, and raise myself up from this present death. I was not born to be a governor or protect islands or cities from the enemies that choose to attack them. Ploughing and digging, vinedressing and pruning, are more in my way than defending provinces or kingdoms. ‘Saint Peter is very well at Rome; I mean each of us is best following the trade he was born to. A reaping-hook fits my hand better than a governor’s sceptre; I’d rather have my fill of gazpacho’ than be subject to the misery of a meddling doctor who me with hunger, and I’d rather lie in summer under the shade of an oak, and in winter wrap myself in a double sheepskin jacket in freedom, than go to bed between holland sheets and dress in sables under the restraint of a government. God be with your worships, and tell my lord the duke that ‘naked I was born, naked I find myself, I neither lose nor gain;’ I mean that without a farthing I came into this government, and without a farthing I go out of it, very different from the way governors commonly leave other islands. Stand aside and let me go; I have to plaster myself, for I believe every one of my ribs is crushed, thanks to the enemies that have been trampling over me to-night.”

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“That is unnecessary, senor governor,” said Doctor Recio, “for I will give your worship a draught against falls and bruises that will soon make you as sound and strong as ever; and as for your diet I promise your worship to behave better, and let you eat plentifully of whatever you like.”

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“You spoke late,” said Sancho. “I’d as soon turn Turk as stay any longer. Those jokes won’t pass a second time. By God I’d as soon remain in this government, or take another, even if it was offered me between two plates, as fly to heaven without wings. I am of the breed of the Panzas, and they are every one of them obstinate, and if they once say ‘odds,’ odds it must be, no matter if it is evens, in spite of all the world. Here in this stable I leave the ant’s wings that lifted me up into the air for the swifts and other birds to eat me, and let’s take to level ground and our feet once more; and if they’re not shod in pinked shoes of cordovan, they won’t want for rough sandals of hemp; ‘every ewe to her like,’ ‘and let no one stretch his leg beyond the length of the sheet;’ and now let me pass, for it’s growing late with me.”

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To this the majordomo said, “Senor governor, we would let your worship go with all our hearts, though it sorely grieves us to lose you, for your wit and Christian conduct naturally make us regret you; but it is well known that every governor, before he leaves the place where he has been governing, is bound first of all to render an account. Let your worship do so for the ten days you have held the government, and then you may go and the peace of God go with you.”

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“No one can demand it of me,” said Sancho, “but he whom my lord the duke shall appoint; I am going to meet him, and to him I will render an exact one; besides, when I go forth naked as I do, there is no other proof needed to show that I have governed like an angel.”

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“By God the great Sancho is right,” said Doctor Recio, “and we should let him go, for the duke will be beyond measure glad to see him.”

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They all agreed to this, and allowed him to go, first offering to bear him company and furnish him with all he wanted for his own comfort or for the journey. Sancho said he did not want anything more than a little barley for Dapple, and half a cheese and half a loaf for himself; for the distance being so short there was no occasion for any better or bulkier provant. They all embraced him, and he with tears embraced all of them, and left them filled with admiration not only at his remarks but at his firm and sensible resolution.

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