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堂吉诃德|Don Quixote
Part 2 第65章|Part 2 Chapter 63
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双语小说
【分类】世界名著
-[作者: 塞万提斯]
阅读：[44375]
《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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安东尼奥跟着白月骑士一直走进城里的客店，想弄清他到底是谁。一路上，一群孩子也跟着白月骑士起哄。一个侍从自客店里出来，为白月骑士卸去了盔甲。白月骑士走进一间客房，安东尼奥也跟了进去，他迫不及待地想看到白月骑士的本来面目。白月骑士见安东尼奥紧追不放，便对安东尼奥说道：
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“大人，我知道你想弄清我到底是谁。我没有必要隐瞒你。趁着侍从为我卸去盔甲的工夫，我可以把事情的真相一五一十都告诉你。大人，我是参孙·卡拉斯科学士，与唐吉诃德同住一村。看见他那疯呆模样，我们所有认识他的人都可怜他，特别是我。我们觉得要想让他恢复健康，就得让他回到村里去，在家好好休养。我正是为此而来的。三个月前，我扮成游侠骑士的样子，自称是镜子骑士，在路上等着他，想同他交锋，打败他却又不伤害他，条件是谁败了谁就服从胜利者。我想如果他败了，我向他提出的条件就是让他回到村里去，一年之内不准再出村，也许在这段时间里，他的病可以治愈。谁知天有不测，他把我打败了，把我掀下了马。结果我没有达到预期的目的，他继续走他的路。我被打败了，满心惭愧，而且摔得不轻，只好回家了。不过，我并没有因此就放弃再次找他并打败他的想法。你们今天也看到了，他是个恪守游侠骑士规矩的人，因此，他既然答应了我向他提出的条件，就肯定会说到做到。
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“大人，这就是事情的全部原委。我请求您不要暴露我的身份，也不要告诉唐吉诃德我是谁，以免我的良好愿望落空。他本来是个很聪明的人，只要他放弃那愚蠢的骑士道，就会恢复他的神志。”
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“噢，大人，”安东尼奥说，“愿上帝饶恕您吧！您想让世界上最滑稽的疯子恢复正常，就等于冒犯了大家。您难道没看到吗，大人？一个头脑正常的唐吉诃德给人们带来的利益，并不如一个丑态百出的唐吉诃德给人们带来的乐趣多。我估计，学士大人的计策并不能让一个如此疯癫的人恢复正常。若不是于心不忍，我倒真希望唐吉诃德别恢复正常。因为他一旦恢复正常，我们就不仅失掉了从他身上得到的乐趣，而且也失掉了从他的侍从桑乔·潘萨那儿获得的乐趣。这两种乐趣都足以给人带来欢乐，排忧解愁。尽管如此，我会守口如瓶的，决不向唐吉诃德透露半点儿实情。我想以此来证实我怀疑卡拉斯科大人的计策能否奏效是正确的。”
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卡拉斯科说，无论怎样，既然事情已经有了开头，他就希望有个圆满的结局。他问安东尼奥还有什么吩咐，然后向安东尼奥告别，把自己的兵器收拾好，放到骡背上，又骑上他刚才同唐吉诃德交战时骑的那匹马，当天就出城返乡了，一路上并没有遇到什么值得记述的事情。安东尼奥把卡拉斯科对他讲的话告诉了总督，总督听了有些沮丧。他觉得唐吉诃德一旦返乡隐居，就失去了可以借他的疯癫开心的那种欢乐。
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唐吉诃德在床上躺了六天，闷闷不乐，情绪低落，反反复复地想他被打败的倒霉事。桑乔来宽慰他，对他说道：
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“大人，抬起头来，若是可能就高兴起来吧。您得感谢老天，虽然您被打翻在地，却并未摔断一根肋骨。您应该知道，恶有恶报，‘以为那儿有咸肉，其实连挂肉的钩子都没有’。您也别理医生，现在并不需要他们为您看病。咱们还是回家去吧，别再在异地他乡征什么险了。其实您想想，虽然您最倒霉，最吃亏的却还是我。我放弃了总督的位置，不再想当总督了，可是我并没有放弃当伯爵的愿望。如果您放弃做游侠骑士，不当国王，我也就当不成伯爵，我的希望就全部化为乌有了。”
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“住嘴，桑乔，你明白，我退居家乡只不过是一年时间，然后，我还要重操我的光荣事业，那时候还会有王国等着我去征服，也还有伯爵的头衔可以授予你。”
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“愿上帝听见此话，”桑乔说，“充耳不闻的是罪人！我常听人说，‘良好的希望胜过菲薄的实物’。”
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他们正说着话，安东尼奥走过来，十分高兴地说道：
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“好消息，唐吉诃德大人，格雷戈里奥和去营救他的叛教者已经上岸了。我怎么只说上岸了？他们现在已经在总督家里，并且马上就要到这儿来了。”
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唐吉诃德略微高兴地说道：
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“说实话，如果事情的结局相反，我倒会更高兴。那样我就得去柏培拉了，用我臂膀的力量解救格雷戈里奥，而且还要解救那里的所有西班牙俘虏。可是，我这个可怜人，还有什么好说的呢？战败者难道不是我吗？被打翻在地的难道不是我吗？一年之内不准再操兵器的难道不是我吗？我都答应了什么？我更适合纺线而不是操剑，我还有什么可夸口的呢？”
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“别这样，大人，”桑乔说，“‘掉了毛的凤凰也赛过鸡’，‘一日河东，一日河西’，‘胜负乃兵家常事’，今天摔倒了，只要不是泄了气趴在床上，我是说只要不自暴自弃，而是准备重振旗鼓，明天就可以重新崛起。您赶快起来接待格雷戈里奥吧，外面人声嘈杂，我估计他们已经到了。”
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果然如此，在格雷戈里奥和叛教者向总督汇报了他们的情况之后，格雷戈里奥急于见到安娜·费利克斯，就同叛教者一起来到了安东尼奥家。格雷戈里奥从阿尔及尔逃出时仍然身着女装，后来在船上与一个同行的俘虏对换了衣服。可是无论穿什么衣服，他都显得那么惹人喜欢，那么英俊，他太漂亮了。他的年龄看上去大约十七八岁。里科特和女儿出来迎接他。里科特眼含热泪，安娜·费利克斯倒显得有些矜持，两个年轻人并没有互相拥抱。爱情笃厚并不一定要十分外露。格雷戈里奥和安娜·费利克斯这一对儿的美貌使在场的人无不啧啧赞叹。一对情人相对无言，眼睛成了传递他们欢乐而又圣洁的情思的媒介。叛教者讲述了他们设法解救格雷戈里奥的过程，格雷戈里奥则介绍了他在女人堆里的危险和窘境。他没有长篇大论，而是寥寥数语，表现了一种少年老成的智慧。后来里科特慷慨解囊，酬谢了划船的水手。叛教者重又皈依了圣教，他那已腐烂的身体经过忏悔认罪重又纯洁健康了。
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两天之后，总督同安东尼奥商量，怎样才能让安娜·费利克斯和她父亲留在西班牙。他们觉得，把如此虔诚的基督徒安娜·费利克斯和她的善良的父亲留在西班牙，并没有什么不合适的地方。安东尼奥自告奋勇到京城去游说这件事，而且他正好有事要到京城去办。他觉得在京城通过熟人关系送点儿礼，很多麻烦的事情都可以迎刃而解。
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“并非如此，”里科特在一旁听到了安东尼奥的话之后说道，“靠熟人关系和送礼并不能解决问题。对于我们的萨拉萨尔伯爵、伟大的唐贝尔纳迪诺·德委拉斯科大人来说，任何乞求、许诺、送礼和可怜相都无济于事。当初，皇上就是责成他把我们赶走的。虽然他对我们恩威并用，可是他看透了我们这个民族已病入膏肓，只能用烧灼疗法来根治，不能再用涂膏药来敷衍了。于是，他凭着他那处事谨慎、嗅觉灵敏、聪明的才智和令人生畏的威严挑起了这副重担，无论我们如何绞尽脑汁、费尽心机、苦苦哀求或者企图蒙混过关，都无法逃脱他那双阿尔戈斯①的眼睛。他总是时刻警惕着，不让我们任何一个人能够留下来，不让任何一件事瞒住他。万一有根茎留下来，随着时间的流逝，就会在西班牙发芽并结出毒果。而目前，西班牙已经彻底排除了由于我们存在而造成的隐患。菲利普三世责成唐贝尔纳迪诺·德委拉斯科负责这件事，这是多么大胆的决定，多么英明的决策呀！”
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①希腊神话中的三眼、四眼或多眼怪物，力大无穷，睡觉的时候总睁着一些眼睛。
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“无论如何，我到了京城以后都会尽力而为。谋事在人，成事在天。”安东尼奥说，“格雷戈里奥同我一起去。他走了以后，他的父母很伤心，他也得安抚一下父母。安娜·费利克斯不妨同我夫人留在家里或者到修道院去。我知道总督大人很愿意让善良的里科特到他家去，然后等我回来再视情况作出决定。”
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总督同意安东尼奥的意见，可是格雷戈里奥说，他无论如何也不愿意和不能离开安娜·费利克斯。不过，后来考虑到还得去见父母，回来后仍然可以找她，他便同意了。于是，安娜·费利克斯留下来同安东尼奥的夫人在一起，里科特去了总督家。
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安东尼奥出发的日子到了。唐吉诃德因为摔伤了，不便赶路，因此和桑乔又呆了两天才走。格雷戈里奥同安娜·费利克斯告别时，两人哭得死去活来。里科特对格雷戈里奥说，如果他愿意，可以给他一千个盾。可是格雷戈里奥一个盾也没要，只是向安东尼奥借了五个盾，而且说到京城之后一定还。于是两人上路了。两天之后，唐吉诃德和桑乔也离开了。唐吉诃德没有穿盔甲，只是一身便装。桑乔的驴驮着盔甲，因而桑乔只能步行跟在后面。
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Profound were Don Quixote’s reflections on the reply of the enchanted head, not one of them, however, hitting on the secret of the trick, but all concentrated on the promise, which he regarded as a certainty, of Dulcinea’s disenchantment. This he turned over in his mind again and again with great satisfaction, fully persuaded that he would shortly see its fulfillment; and as for Sancho, though, as has been said, he hated being a governor, still he had a longing to be giving orders and finding himself obeyed once more; this is the misfortune that being in authority, even in jest, brings with it.
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To resume; that afternoon their host Don Antonio Moreno and his two friends, with Don Quixote and Sancho, went to the galleys. The commandant had been already made aware of his good fortune in seeing two such famous persons as Don Quixote and Sancho, and the instant they came to the shore all the galleys struck their awnings and the clarions rang out. A skiff covered with rich carpets and cushions of crimson velvet was immediately lowered into the water, and as Don Quixote stepped on board of it, the leading galley fired her gangway gun, and the other galleys did the same; and as he mounted the starboard ladder the whole crew saluted him (as is the custom when a personage of distinction comes on board a galley) by exclaiming “Hu, hu, hu,” three times. The general, for so we shall call him, a Valencian gentleman of rank, gave him his hand and embraced him, saying, “I shall mark this day with a white stone as one of the happiest I can expect to enjoy in my lifetime, since I have seen Senor Don Quixote of La Mancha, pattern and image wherein we see contained and condensed all that is worthy in knight-errantry.”
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Don Quixote delighted beyond measure with such a lordly reception, replied to him in words no less courteous. All then proceeded to the poop, which was very handsomely decorated, and seated themselves on the bulwark benches; the boatswain passed along the gangway and piped all hands to strip, which they did in an instant. Sancho, seeing such a number of men stripped to the skin, was taken aback, and still more when he saw them spread the awning so briskly that it seemed to him as if all the devils were at work at it; but all this was cakes and fancy bread to what I am going to tell now. Sancho was seated on the captain’s stage, close to the aftermost rower on the right-hand side. He, previously instructed in what he was to do, laid hold of Sancho, hoisting him up in his arms, and the whole crew, who were standing ready, beginning on the right, proceeded to pass him on, whirling him along from hand to hand and from bench to bench with such rapidity that it took the sight out of poor Sancho’s eyes, and he made quite sure that the devils themselves were flying away with him; nor did they leave off with him until they had sent him back along the left side and deposited him on the poop; and the poor fellow was left bruised and breathless and all in a sweat, and unable to comprehend what it was that had happened to him.
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Don Quixote when he saw Sancho’s flight without wings asked the general if this was a usual ceremony with those who came on board the galleys for the first time; for, if so, as he had no intention of adopting them as a profession, he had no mind to perform such feats of agility, and if anyone offered to lay hold of him to whirl him about, he vowed to God he would kick his soul out; and as he said this he stood up and clapped his hand upon his sword. At this instant they struck the awning and lowered the yard with a prodigious rattle. Sancho thought heaven was coming off its hinges and going to fall on his head, and full of terror he ducked it and buried it between his knees; nor were Don Quixote’s knees altogether under control, for he too shook a little, squeezed his shoulders together and lost colour. The crew then hoisted the yard with the same rapidity and clatter as when they lowered it, all the while keeping silence as though they had neither voice nor breath. The boatswain gave the signal to weigh anchor, and leaping upon the middle of the gangway began to lay on to the shoulders of the crew with his courbash or whip, and to haul out gradually to sea.
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When Sancho saw so many red feet (for such he took the oars to be) moving all together, he said to himself, “It’s these that are the real chanted things, and not the ones my master talks of. What can those wretches have done to be so whipped; and how does that one man who goes along there whistling dare to whip so many? I declare this is hell, or at least purgatory!”
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Don Quixote, observing how attentively Sancho regarded what was going on, said to him, “Ah, Sancho my friend, how quickly and cheaply might you finish off the disenchantment of Dulcinea, if you would strip to the waist and take your place among those gentlemen! Amid the pain and sufferings of so many you would not feel your own much; and moreover perhaps the sage Merlin would allow each of these lashes, being laid on with a good hand, to count for ten of those which you must give yourself at last.”
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The general was about to ask what these lashes were, and what was Dulcinea’s disenchantment, when a sailor exclaimed, “Monjui signals that there is an oared vessel off the coast to the west.”
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On hearing this the general sprang upon the gangway crying, “Now then, my sons, don’t let her give us the slip! It must be some Algerine corsair brigantine that the watchtower signals to us.” The three others immediately came alongside the chief galley to receive their orders. The general ordered two to put out to sea while he with the other kept in shore, so that in this way the vessel could not escape them. The crews plied the oars driving the galleys so furiously that they seemed to fly. The two that had put out to sea, after a couple of miles sighted a vessel which, so far as they could make out, they judged to be one of fourteen or fifteen banks, and so she proved. As soon as the vessel discovered the galleys she went about with the object and in the hope of making her escape by her speed; but the attempt failed, for the chief galley was one of the fastest vessels afloat, and overhauled her so rapidly that they on board the brigantine saw clearly there was no possibility of escaping, and the rais therefore would have had them drop their oars and give themselves up so as not to provoke the captain in command of our galleys to anger. But chance, directing things otherwise, so ordered it that just as the chief galley came close enough for those on board the vessel to hear the shouts from her calling on them to surrender, two Toraquis, that is to say two Turks, both drunken, that with a dozen more were on board the brigantine, discharged their muskets, killing two of the soldiers that lined the sides of our vessel. Seeing this the general swore he would not leave one of those he found on board the vessel alive, but as he bore down furiously upon her she slipped away from him underneath the oars. The galley shot a good way ahead; those on board the vessel saw their case was desperate, and while the galley was coming about they made sail, and by sailing and rowing once more tried to sheer off; but their activity did not do them as much good as their rashness did them harm, for the galley coming up with them in a little more than half a mile threw her oars over them and took the whole of them alive. The other two galleys now joined company and all four returned with the prize to the beach, where a vast multitude stood waiting for them, eager to see what they brought back. The general anchored close in, and perceived that the viceroy of the city was on the shore. He ordered the skiff to push off to fetch him, and the yard to be lowered for the purpose of hanging forthwith the rais and the rest of the men taken on board the vessel, about six-and-thirty in number, all smart fellows and most of them Turkish musketeers. He asked which was the rais of the brigantine, and was answered in Spanish by one of the prisoners (who afterwards proved to he a Spanish renegade), “This young man, senor that you see here is our rais,” and he pointed to one of the handsomest and most gallant-looking youths that could be imagined. He did not seem to be twenty years of age.
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“Tell me, dog,” said the general, “what led thee to kill my soldiers, when thou sawest it was impossible for thee to escape? Is that the way to behave to chief galleys? Knowest thou not that rashness is not valour? Faint prospects of success should make men bold, but not rash.”
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The rais was about to reply, but the general could not at that moment listen to him, as he had to hasten to receive the viceroy, who was now coming on board the galley, and with him certain of his attendants and some of the people.
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“You have had a good chase, senor general,” said the viceroy.
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“Your excellency shall soon see how good, by the game strung up to this yard,” replied the general.
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“How so?” returned the viceroy.
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“Because,” said the general, “against all law, reason, and usages of war they have killed on my hands two of the best soldiers on board these galleys, and I have sworn to hang every man that I have taken, but above all this youth who is the rais of the brigantine,” and he pointed to him as he stood with his hands already bound and the rope round his neck, ready for death.
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The viceroy looked at him, and seeing him so well-favoured, so graceful, and so submissive, he felt a desire to spare his life, the comeliness of the youth furnishing him at once with a letter of recommendation. He therefore questioned him, saying, “Tell me, rais, art thou Turk, Moor, or renegade?”
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To which the youth replied, also in Spanish, “I am neither Turk, nor Moor, nor renegade.”
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“What art thou, then?” said the viceroy.
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“A Christian woman,” replied the youth.
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“A woman and a Christian, in such a dress and in such circumstances! It is more marvellous than credible,” said the viceroy.
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“Suspend the execution of the sentence,” said the youth; “your vengeance will not lose much by waiting while I tell you the story of my life.”
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What heart could be so hard as not to he softened by these words, at any rate so far as to listen to what the unhappy youth had to say? The general bade him say what he pleased, but not to expect pardon for his flagrant offence. With this permission the youth began in these words.
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“Born of Morisco parents, I am of that nation, more unhappy than wise, upon which of late a sea of woes has poured down. In the course of our misfortune I was carried to Barbary by two uncles of mine, for it was in vain that I declared I was a Christian, as in fact I am, and not a mere pretended one, or outwardly, but a true Catholic Christian. It availed me nothing with those charged with our sad expatriation to protest this, nor would my uncles believe it; on the contrary, they treated it as an untruth and a subterfuge set up to enable me to remain behind in the land of my birth; and so, more by force than of my own will, they took me with them. I had a Christian mother, and a father who was a man of sound sense and a Christian too; I imbibed the Catholic faith with my mother’s milk, I was well brought up, and neither in word nor in deed did I, I think, show any sign of being a Morisco. To accompany these virtues, for such I hold them, my beauty, if I possess any, grew with my growth; and great as was the seclusion in which I lived it was not so great but that a young gentleman, Don Gaspar Gregorio by name, eldest son of a gentleman who is lord of a village near ours, contrived to find opportunities of seeing me. How he saw me, how we met, how his heart was lost to me, and mine not kept from him, would take too long to tell, especially at a moment when I am in dread of the cruel cord that threatens me interposing between tongue and throat; I will only say, therefore, that Don Gregorio chose to accompany me in our banishment. He joined company with the Moriscoes who were going forth from other villages, for he knew their language very well, and on the voyage he struck up a friendship with my two uncles who were carrying me with them; for my father, like a wise and far-sighted man, as soon as he heard the first edict for our expulsion, quitted the village and departed in quest of some refuge for us abroad. He left hidden and buried, at a spot of which I alone have knowledge, a large quantity of pearls and precious stones of great value, together with a sum of money in gold cruzadoes and doubloons. He charged me on no account to touch the treasure, if by any chance they expelled us before his return. I obeyed him, and with my uncles, as I have said, and others of our kindred and neighbours, passed over to Barbary, and the place where we took up our abode was Algiers, much the same as if we had taken it up in hell itself. The king heard of my beauty, and report told him of my wealth, which was in some degree fortunate for me. He summoned me before him, and asked me what part of Spain I came from, and what money and jewels I had. I mentioned the place, and told him the jewels and money were buried there; but that they might easily be recovered if I myself went back for them. All this I told him, in dread lest my beauty and not his own covetousness should influence him. While he was engaged in conversation with me, they brought him word that in company with me was one of the handsomest and most graceful youths that could be imagined. I knew at once that they were speaking of Don Gaspar Gregorio, whose comeliness surpasses the most highly vaunted beauty. I was troubled when I thought of the danger he was in, for among those barbarous Turks a fair youth is more esteemed than a woman, be she ever so beautiful. The king immediately ordered him to be brought before him that he might see him, and asked me if what they said about the youth was true. I then, almost as if inspired by heaven, told him it was, but that I would have him to know it was not a man, but a woman like myself, and I entreated him to allow me to go and dress her in the attire proper to her, so that her beauty might be seen to perfection, and that she might present herself before him with less embarrassment. He bade me go by all means, and said that the next day we should discuss the plan to be adopted for my return to Spain to carry away the hidden treasure. I saw Don Gaspar, I told him the danger he was in if he let it be seen he was a man, I dressed him as a Moorish woman, and that same afternoon I brought him before the king, who was charmed when he saw him, and resolved to keep the damsel and make a present of her to the Grand Signor; and to avoid the risk she might run among the women of his seraglio, and distrustful of himself, he commanded her to be placed in the house of some Moorish ladies of rank who would protect and attend to her; and thither he was taken at once. What we both suffered (for I cannot deny that I love him) may be left to the imagination of those who are separated if they love one an. other dearly. The king then arranged that I should return to Spain in this brigantine, and that two Turks, those who killed your soldiers, should accompany me. There also came with me this Spanish renegade” — and here she pointed to him who had first spoken — “whom I know to be secretly a Christian, and to be more desirous of being left in Spain than of returning to Barbary. The rest of the crew of the brigantine are Moors and Turks, who merely serve as rowers. The two Turks, greedy and insolent, instead of obeying the orders we had to land me and this renegade in Christian dress (with which we came provided) on the first Spanish ground we came to, chose to run along the coast and make some prize if they could, fearing that if they put us ashore first, we might, in case of some accident befalling us, make it known that the brigantine was at sea, and thus, if there happened to be any galleys on the coast, they might be taken. We sighted this shore last night, and knowing nothing of these galleys, we were discovered, and the result was what you have seen. To sum up, there is Don Gregorio in woman’s dress, among women, in imminent danger of his life; and here am I, with hands bound, in expectation, or rather in dread, of losing my life, of which I am already weary. Here, sirs, ends my sad story, as true as it is unhappy; all I ask of you is to allow me to die like a Christian, for, as I have already said, I am not to be charged with the offence of which those of my nation are guilty;” and she stood silent, her eyes filled with moving tears, accompanied by plenty from the bystanders. The viceroy, touched with compassion, went up to her without speaking and untied the cord that bound the hands of the Moorish girl.
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But all the while the Morisco Christian was telling her strange story, an elderly pilgrim, who had come on board of the galley at the same time as the viceroy, kept his eyes fixed upon her; and the instant she ceased speaking he threw himself at her feet, and embracing them said in a voice broken by sobs and sighs, “O Ana Felix, my unhappy daughter, I am thy father Ricote, come back to look for thee, unable to live without thee, my soul that thou art!”
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At these words of his, Sancho opened his eyes and raised his head, which he had been holding down, brooding over his unlucky excursion; and looking at the pilgrim he recognised in him that same Ricote he met the day he quitted his government, and felt satisfied that this was his daughter. She being now unbound embraced her father, mingling her tears with his, while he addressing the general and the viceroy said, “This, sirs, is my daughter, more unhappy in her adventures than in her name. She is Ana Felix, surnamed Ricote, celebrated as much for her own beauty as for my wealth. I quitted my native land in search of some shelter or refuge for us abroad, and having found one in Germany I returned in this pilgrim’s dress, in the company of some other German pilgrims, to seek my daughter and take up a large quantity of treasure I had left buried. My daughter I did not find, the treasure I found and have with me; and now, in this strange roundabout way you have seen, I find the treasure that more than all makes me rich, my beloved daughter. If our innocence and her tears and mine can with strict justice open the door to clemency, extend it to us, for we never had any intention of injuring you, nor do we sympathise with the aims of our people, who have been justly banished.”
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“I know Ricote well,” said Sancho at this, “and I know too that what he says about Ana Felix being his daughter is true; but as to those other particulars about going and coming, and having good or bad intentions, I say nothing.”
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While all present stood amazed at this strange occurrence the general said, “At any rate your tears will not allow me to keep my oath; live, fair Ana Felix, all the years that heaven has allotted you; but these rash insolent fellows must pay the penalty of the crime they have committed;” and with that he gave orders to have the two Turks who had killed his two soldiers hanged at once at the yard-arm. The viceroy, however, begged him earnestly not to hang them, as their behaviour savoured rather of madness than of bravado. The general yielded to the viceroy’s request, for revenge is not easily taken in cold blood. They then tried to devise some scheme for rescuing Don Gaspar Gregorio from the danger in which he had been left. Ricote offered for that object more than two thousand ducats that he had in pearls and gems; they proposed several plans, but none so good as that suggested by the renegade already mentioned, who offered to return to Algiers in a small vessel of about six banks, manned by Christian rowers, as he knew where, how, and when he could and should land, nor was he ignorant of the house in which Don Gaspar was staying. The general and the viceroy had some hesitation about placing confidence in the renegade and entrusting him with the Christians who were to row, but Ana Felix said she could answer for him, and her father offered to go and pay the ransom of the Christians if by any chance they should not be forthcoming. This, then, being agreed upon, the viceroy landed, and Don Antonio Moreno took the fair Morisco and her father home with him, the viceroy charging him to give them the best reception and welcome in his power, while on his own part he offered all that house contained for their entertainment; so great was the good-will and kindliness the beauty of Ana Felix had infused into his heart.
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