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Don Quixote

By Miguel de Cervantes

A Spanish noble reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to become a knight-errant.

Total Chapters: 130•Public Domain Free Read

Table of Contents

CHAPTER LXXIV OF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK,

AND OF THE WILL HE MADE, AND HOW HE DIED INTRODUCTION PREFARATORY It was with considerable reluctance that I abandoned in favour of the present undertaking what had long been a...

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CHAPTER I.

WHICH TREATS OF THE CHARACTER AND PURSUITS OF THE FAMOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA p007.jpg (150K) Full Size In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desi...

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CHAPTER II.

WHICH TREATS OF THE FIRST SALLY THE INGENIOUS DON QUIXOTE MADE FROM HOME p007c.jpg (97K) Full Size These preliminaries settled, he did not care to put off any longer the executi...

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CHAPTER III.

WHEREIN IS RELATED THE DROLL WAY IN WHICH DON QUIXOTE HAD HIMSELF DUBBED A KNIGHT p009.jpg (164K) Full Size Harassed by this reflection, he made haste with his scanty pothouse s...

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CHAPTER IV.

OF WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR KNIGHT WHEN HE LEFT THE INN p018.jpg (94K) Full Size Day was dawning when Don Quixote quitted the inn, so happy, so gay, so exhilarated at finding himsel...

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CHAPTER V.

IN WHICH THE NARRATIVE OF OUR KNIGHT’S MISHAP IS CONTINUED p022.jpg (123K) Full Size Finding, then, that, in fact he could not move, he thought himself of having recourse to his...

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CHAPTER VI.

OF THE DIVERTING AND IMPORTANT SCRUTINY WHICH THE CURATE AND THE BARBER MADE IN THE LIBRARY OF OUR INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN c06a.jpg (92K) Full Size He was still sleeping; so the cur...

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book in the world. Here knights eat and sleep, and die in their beds,

and make their wills before dying, and a great deal more of which there is nothing in all the other books. Nevertheless, I say he who wrote it, for deliberately composing such fool...

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CHAPTER VII.

OF THE SECOND SALLY OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA c07a.jpg (151K) Full Size At this instant Don Quixote began shouting out, “Here, here, valiant knights! here is...

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CHAPTER VIII.

OF THE GOOD FORTUNE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE TERRIBLE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE WINDMILLS, WITH OTHER OCCURRENCES WORTHY TO BE FITLY RECORDED c08a.jpg (142K...

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CHAPTER IX.

IN WHICH IS CONCLUDED AND FINISHED THE TERRIFIC BATTLE BETWEEN THE GALLANT BISCAYAN AND THE VALIANT MANCHEGAN c09a.jpg (142K) Full Size In the First Part of this history we left...

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CHAPTER X.

OF THE PLEASANT DISCOURSE THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA c10a.jpg (91K) Full Size Now by this time Sancho had risen, rather the worse for the handli...

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CHAPTER XI.

WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH CERTAIN GOATHERDS c11a.jpg (173K) Full Size He was cordially welcomed by the goatherds, and Sancho, having as best he could put up Rocinante and the...

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CHAPTER XII.

OF WHAT A GOATHERD RELATED TO THOSE WITH DON QUIXOTE c12a.jpg (143K) Full Size Just then another young man, one of those who fetched their provisions from the village, came up a...

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CHAPTER XIII.

IN WHICH IS ENDED THE STORY OF THE SHEPHERDESS MARCELA, WITH OTHER INCIDENTS c13a.jpg (181K) Full Size But hardly had day begun to show itself through the balconies of the east,...

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CHAPTER XIV.

WHEREIN ARE INSERTED THE DESPAIRING VERSES OF THE DEAD SHEPHERD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS NOT LOOKED FOR c14a.jpg (172K) Full Size THE LAY OF CHRYSOSTOM Since thou dost in...

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CHAPTER XV.

IN WHICH IS RELATED THE UNFORTUNATE ADVENTURE THAT DON QUIXOTE FELL IN WITH WHEN HE FELL OUT WITH CERTAIN HEARTLESS YANGUESANS c15a.jpg (81K) Full Size The sage Cid Hamete Benen...

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CHAPTER XVI.

OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN IN THE INN WHICH HE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE c16a.jpg (129K) Full Size The innkeeper, seeing Don Quixote slung across the ass, asked Sanch...

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CHAPTER XVII.

IN WHICH ARE CONTAINED THE INNUMERABLE TROUBLES WHICH THE BRAVE DON QUIXOTE AND HIS GOOD SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA ENDURED IN THE INN, WHICH TO HIS MISFORTUNE HE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE c17...

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CHAPTER XVIII.

IN WHICH IS RELATED THE DISCOURSE SANCHO PANZA HELD WITH HIS MASTER, DON QUIXOTE, AND OTHER ADVENTURES WORTH RELATING c18a.jpg (79K) Full Size Sancho reached his master so limp ...

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CHAPTER XIX.

OF THE SHREWD DISCOURSE WHICH SANCHO HELD WITH HIS MASTER, AND OF THE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL HIM WITH A DEAD BODY, TOGETHER WITH OTHER NOTABLE OCCURRENCES “It seems to me, señor, t...

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CHAPTER XX.

OF THE UNEXAMPLED AND UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURE WHICH WAS ACHIEVED BY THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA WITH LESS PERIL THAN ANY EVER ACHIEVED BY ANY FAMOUS KNIGHT IN THE WORLD c19a...

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CHAPTER XXI.

WHICH TREATS OF THE EXALTED ADVENTURE AND RICH PRIZE OF MAMBRINO’S HELMET, TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO OUR INVINCIBLE KNIGHT c20a.jpg (73K) Full Size It now bega...

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CHAPTER XXII.

OF THE FREEDOM DON QUIXOTE CONFERRED ON SEVERAL UNFORTUNATES WHO AGAINST THEIR WILL WERE BEING CARRIED WHERE THEY HAD NO WISH TO GO c22a.jpg (178K) Full Size Cid Hamete Benengel...

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CHAPTER XXIII.

OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE SIERRA MORENA, WHICH WAS ONE OF THE RAREST ADVENTURES RELATED IN THIS VERACIOUS HISTORY c23a.jpg (148K) Full Size Seeing himself served in this...

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CHAPTER XXIV.

IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIERRA MORENA c24a.jpg (151K) Full Size The history relates that it was with the greatest attention Don Quixote listened to the ragged...

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CHAPTER XXV.

WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO THE STOUT KNIGHT OF LA MANCHA IN THE SIERRA MORENA, AND OF HIS IMITATION OF THE PENANCE OF BELTENEBROS c25a.jpg (168K) Full Si...

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CHAPTER XXVI.

IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE REFINEMENTS WHEREWITH DON QUIXOTE PLAYED THE PART OF A LOVER IN THE SIERRA MORENA c26a.jpg (111K) Full Size Returning to the proceedings of him of the...

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CHAPTER XXVII.

OF HOW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER PROCEEDED WITH THEIR SCHEME; TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF RECORD IN THIS GREAT HISTORY c27a.jpg (169K) Full Size The curate’s plan did ...

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CHAPTER XXVIII.

WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE AND DELIGHTFUL ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL THE CURATE AND THE BARBER IN THE SAME SIERRA c28a.jpg (159K) Full Size Happy and fortunate were the times when t...

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CHAPTER XXIX.

WHICH TREATS OF THE DROLL DEVICE AND METHOD ADOPTED TO EXTRICATE OUR LOVE-STRICKEN KNIGHT FROM THE SEVERE PENANCE HE HAD IMPOSED UPON HIMSELF c29a.jpg (99K) Full Size “Such, sir...

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CHAPTER XXX.

WHICH TREATS OF ADDRESS DISPLAYED BY THE FAIR DOROTHEA, WITH OTHER MATTERS PLEASANT AND AMUSING c30a.jpg (147K) Full Size The curate had hardly ceased speaking, when Sancho said...

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CHAPTER XXXI.

OF THE DELECTABLE DISCUSSION BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO PANZA, HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS c31a.jpg (151K) Full Size “All that is not unsatisfactory to me,” sa...

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CHAPTER XXXII.

WHICH TREATS OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE’S PARTY AT THE INN c32a.jpg (132K) Full Size Their dainty repast being finished, they saddled at once, and without any adventure worth me...

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CHAPTER XXXIII.

IN WHICH IS RELATED THE NOVEL OF “THE ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY” In Florence, a rich and famous city of Italy in the province called Tuscany, there lived two gentlemen of wealth and q...

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CHAPTER XXXIV.

IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE NOVEL OF “THE ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY” “It is commonly said that an army looks ill without its general and a castle without its castellan, and I say that a...

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CHAPTER XXXV.

WHICH TREATS OF THE HEROIC AND PRODIGIOUS BATTLE DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH CERTAIN SKINS OF RED WINE, AND BRINGS THE NOVEL OF “THE ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY” TO A CLOSE There remained but ...

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CHAPTER XXXVI.

WHICH TREATS OF MORE CURIOUS INCIDENTS THAT OCCURRED AT THE INN c36a.jpg (124K) Full Size Just at that instant the landlord, who was standing at the gate of the inn, exclaimed, ...

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CHAPTER XXXVII.

IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE STORY OF THE FAMOUS PRINCESS MICOMICONA, WITH OTHER DROLL ADVENTURES c37a.jpg (159K) Full Size To all this Sancho listened with no little sorrow at hea...

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CHAPTER XXXVIII.

WHICH TREATS OF THE CURIOUS DISCOURSE DON QUIXOTE DELIVERED ON ARMS AND LETTERS c38a.jpg (180K) Full Size Continuing his discourse Don Quixote said: “As we began in the student’...

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CHAPTER XXXIX.

WHEREIN THE CAPTIVE RELATES HIS LIFE AND ADVENTURES c39a.jpg (137K) Full Size My family had its origin in a village in the mountains of Leon, and nature had been kinder and more...

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CHAPTER XL.

IN WHICH THE STORY OF THE CAPTIVE IS CONTINUED. c40a.jpg (131K) Full Size SONNET “Blest souls, that, from this mortal husk set free, In guerdon of brave deeds beatified, Above ...

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CHAPTER XLI.

IN WHICH THE CAPTIVE STILL CONTINUES HIS ADVENTURES c41a.jpg (106K) Full Size Before fifteen days were over our renegade had already purchased an excellent vessel with room for ...

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part I should have been sorry if he had spoken to her, for perhaps it

might have alarmed her to find her affairs talked of by renegades. But God, who ordered it otherwise, afforded no opportunity for our renegade’s well-meant purpose; and he, seeing ...

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CHAPTER XLII.

WHICH TREATS OF WHAT FURTHER TOOK PLACE IN THE INN, AND OF SEVERAL OTHER THINGS WORTH KNOWING c42a.jpg (139K) Full Size With these words the captive held his peace, and Don Fern...

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CHAPTER XLIII.

WHEREIN IS RELATED THE PLEASANT STORY OF THE MULETEER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER STRANGE THINGS THAT CAME TO PASS IN THE INN c43a.jpg (127K) Full Size Ah me, Love’s mariner am I On Lo...

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CHAPTER XLIV.

IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURES OF THE INN c44a.jpg (144K) Full Size So loud, in fact, were the shouts of Don Quixote, that the landlord opening the gate of the...

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CHAPTER XLV.

IN WHICH THE DOUBTFUL QUESTION OF MAMBRINO’S HELMET AND THE PACK-SADDLE IS FINALLY SETTLED, WITH OTHER ADVENTURES THAT OCCURRED IN TRUTH AND EARNEST c45a.jpg (154K) Full Size “W...

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CHAPTER XLVI.

OF THE END OF THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE OFFICERS OF THE HOLY BROTHERHOOD; AND OF THE GREAT FEROCITY OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT, DON QUIXOTE c46a.jpg (163K) Full Size While Don Quix...

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CHAPTER XLVII.

OF THE STRANGE MANNER IN WHICH DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA WAS CARRIED AWAY ENCHANTED, TOGETHER WITH OTHER REMARKABLE INCIDENTS c47a.jpg (181K) Full Size When Don Quixote saw himse...

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CHAPTER XLVIII.

IN WHICH THE CANON PURSUES THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOKS OF CHIVALRY, WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF HIS WIT c48a.jpg (80K) Full Size “It is as you say, señor canon,” said the curate; ...

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CHAPTER XLIX.

WHICH TREATS OF THE SHREWD CONVERSATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HELD WITH HIS MASTER DON QUIXOTE c49a.jpg (181K) Full Size “Aha, I have caught you,” said Sancho; “this is what in my ...

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CHAPTER L.

OF THE SHREWD CONTROVERSY WHICH DON QUIXOTE AND THE CANON HELD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS c50a.jpg (160K) Full Size “A good joke, that!” returned Don Quixote. “Books that ha...

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CHAPTER LI.

WHICH DEALS WITH WHAT THE GOATHERD TOLD THOSE WHO WERE CARRYING OFF DON QUIXOTE c51a.jpg (115K) Full Size Three leagues from this valley there is a village which, though small, ...

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CHAPTER LII.

OF THE QUARREL THAT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE GOATHERD, TOGETHER WITH THE RARE ADVENTURE OF THE PENITENTS, WHICH WITH AN EXPENDITURE OF SWEAT HE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY CONCLUSION c52a....

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Volume II

p003.jpg (307K) Full Size DEDICATION OF VOLUME II. TO THE COUNT OF LEMOS: These days past, when sending Your Excellency my plays, that had appeared in print before being shown ...

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CHAPTER I.

OF THE INTERVIEW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE ABOUT HIS MALADY p01a.jpg (156K) Full Size Cide Hamete Benengeli, in the Second Part of this history, and third s...

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CHAPTER II.

WHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE’S NIECE, AND HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER DROLL MATTERS p02a.jpg (159K) Full Size The history...

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CHAPTER III.

OF THE LAUGHABLE CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE, SANCHO PANZA, AND THE BACHELOR SAMSON CARRASCO p03a.jpg (131K) Full Size Don Quixote remained very deep in thought...

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CHAPTER IV.

IN WHICH SANCHO PANZA GIVES A SATISFACTORY REPLY TO THE DOUBTS AND QUESTIONS OF THE BACHELOR SAMSON CARRASCO, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTH KNOWING AND TELLING p04a.jpg (143K)...

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CHAPTER V.

OF THE SHREWD AND DROLL CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN SANCHO PANZA AND HIS WIFE TERESA PANZA, AND OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF BEING DULY RECORDED p05a.jpg (129K) Full Size The tr...

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CHAPTER VI.

OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS NIECE AND HOUSEKEEPER; ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE HISTORY p06a.jpg (93K) Full Size While Sancho Panza and his...

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CHAPTER VII.

OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS p07a.jpg (140K) Full Size The instant the housekeeper saw Sancho Panza shut himself...

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CHAPTER VIII.

WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO SEE HIS LADY DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO p08a.jpg (65K) Full Size “Blessed be Allah the all-powerful!” says Hamete Benengeli on ...

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CHAPTER IX.

WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE p09a.jpg (79K) Full Size ’Twas at the very midnight hour—more or less—when Don Quixote and Sancho quitted the wood and entered El Tobo...

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CHAPTER X.

WHEREIN IS RELATED THE CRAFTY DEVICE SANCHO ADOPTED TO ENCHANT THE LADY DULCINEA, AND OTHER INCIDENTS AS LUDICROUS AS THEY ARE TRUE p10a.jpg (142K) Full Size When the author of ...

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CHAPTER XI.

OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE CAR OR CART OF “THE CORTES OF DEATH” p11a.jpg (172K) Full Size Dejected beyond measure did Don Quixote pursue...

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CHAPTER XII.

OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE WITH THE BOLD KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS p12a.jpg (98K) Full Size The night succeeding the day of the encounter with Dea...

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CHAPTER XIII.

IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GROVE, TOGETHER WITH THE SENSIBLE, ORIGINAL, AND TRANQUIL COLLOQUY THAT PASSED BETWEEN THE TWO SQUIRES p13a.jpg (126K) Fu...

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CHAPTER XIV.

WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GROVE p14a.jpg (120K) Full Size Among the things that passed between Don Quixote and the Knight of the Wood, the history ...

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CHAPTER XV.

WHEREIN IT IS TOLD AND KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS AND HIS SQUIRE WERE p15a.jpg (122K) Full Size Don Quixote went off satisfied, elated, and vain-glorious in the highest...

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CHAPTER XVI.

OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH A DISCREET GENTLEMAN OF LA MANCHA p16a.jpg (85K) Full Size Don Quixote pursued his journey in the high spirits, satisfaction, and self-complacenc...

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CHAPTER XVII.

WHEREIN IS SHOWN THE FURTHEST AND HIGHEST POINT WHICH THE UNEXAMPLED COURAGE OF DON QUIXOTE REACHED OR COULD REACH; TOGETHER WITH THE HAPPILY ACHIEVED ADVENTURE OF THE LIONS p17a....

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CHAPTER XVIII.

OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE OR HOUSE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GREEN GABAN, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS OUT OF THE COMMON p18a.jpg (133K) Full Size Don Quixote found D...

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CHAPTER XIX.

IN WHICH IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENAMOURED SHEPHERD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRULY DROLL INCIDENTS p19a.jpg (131K) Full Size Don Quixote had gone but a short distance beyond...

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CHAPTER XX.

WHEREIN AN ACCOUNT IS GIVEN OF THE WEDDING OF CAMACHO THE RICH, TOGETHER WITH THE INCIDENT OF BASILIO THE POOR p20a.jpg (125K) Full Size Scarce had the fair Aurora given bright ...

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CHAPTER XXI.

IN WHICH CAMACHO’S WEDDING IS CONTINUED, WITH OTHER DELIGHTFUL INCIDENTS p21a.jpg (118K) Full Size While Don Quixote and Sancho were engaged in the discussion set forth the last...

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CHAPTER XXII.

WHEREIN IS RELATED THE GRAND ADVENTURE OF THE CAVE OF MONTESINOS IN THE HEART OF LA MANCHA, WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY TERMINATION p22a.jpg (112K) Full Size...

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CHAPTER XXIII.

OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS THE INCOMPARABLE DON QUIXOTE SAID HE SAW IN THE PROFOUND CAVE OF MONTESINOS, THE IMPOSSIBILITY AND MAGNITUDE OF WHICH CAUSE THIS ADVENTURE TO BE DEEMED APOC...

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CHAPTER XXIV.

WHEREIN ARE RELATED A THOUSAND TRIFLING MATTERS, AS TRIVIAL AS THEY ARE NECESSARY TO THE RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF THIS GREAT HISTORY p24a.jpg (137K) Full Size He who translated th...

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CHAPTER XXV.

WHEREIN IS SET DOWN THE BRAYING ADVENTURE, AND THE DROLL ONE OF THE PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER WITH THE MEMORABLE DIVINATIONS OF THE DIVINING APE p25a.jpg (154K) Full Size Don Qui...

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CHAPTER XXVI.

WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE DROLL ADVENTURE OF THE PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS IN TRUTH RIGHT GOOD p26a.jpg (157K) Full Size All were silent, Tyrians and Trojans; I ...

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CHAPTER XXVII.

WHEREIN IT IS SHOWN WHO MASTER PEDRO AND HIS APE WERE, TOGETHER WITH THE MISHAP DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE BRAYING ADVENTURE, WHICH HE DID NOT CONCLUDE AS HE WOULD HAVE LIKED OR AS HE ...

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CHAPTER XXVIII.

OF MATTERS THAT BENENGELI SAYS HE WHO READS THEM WILL KNOW, IF HE READS THEM WITH ATTENTION p28a.jpg (111K) Full Size When the brave man flees, treachery is manifest and it is f...

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CHAPTER XXIX.

OF THE FAMOUS ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED BARK p29a.jpg (127K) Full Size By stages as already described or left undescribed, two days after quitting the grove Don Quixote and San...

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CHAPTER XXX.

OF DON QUIXOTE’S ADVENTURE WITH A FAIR HUNTRESS p30a.jpg (134K) Full Size They reached their beasts in low spirits and bad humour enough, knight and squire, Sancho particularly,...

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CHAPTER XXXI.

WHICH TREATS OF MANY AND GREAT MATTERS p31a.jpg (155K) Full Size Supreme was the satisfaction that Sancho felt at seeing himself, as it seemed, an established favourite with the...

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CHAPTER XXXII.

OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE HIS CENSURER, WITH OTHER INCIDENTS, GRAVE AND DROLL p32a.jpg (152K) Full Size Don Quixote, then, having risen to his feet, trembling from head to f...

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CHAPTER XXXIII.

OF THE DELECTABLE DISCOURSE WHICH THE DUCHESS AND HER DAMSELS HELD WITH SANCHO PANZA, WELL WORTH READING AND NOTING p33a.jpg (138K) Full Size The history records that Sancho did...

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CHAPTER XXXIV.

WHICH RELATES HOW THEY LEARNED THE WAY IN WHICH THEY WERE TO DISENCHANT THE PEERLESS DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO, WHICH IS ONE OF THE RAREST ADVENTURES IN THIS BOOK p34a.jpg (141K) Full ...

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CHAPTER XXXV.

WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO DON QUIXOTE TOUCHING THE DISENCHANTMENT OF DULCINEA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MARVELLOUS INCIDENTS p35a.jpg (108K) Full Size They saw ad...

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CHAPTER XXXVI.

WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA, ALIAS THE COUNTESS TRIFALDI, TOGETHER WITH A LETTER WHICH SANCHO PANZA WROTE TO HIS WIFE, TERESA ...

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CHAPTER XXXVII.

WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA p37a.jpg (94K) Full Size The duke and duchess were extremely glad to see how readily Don Quixote fell in with...

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CHAPTER XXXVIII.

WHEREIN IS TOLD THE DISTRESSED DUENNA’S TALE OF HER MISFORTUNES p38a.jpg (54K) Full Size Following the melancholy musicians there filed into the garden as many as twelve duennas...

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CHAPTER XXXIX.

IN WHICH THE TRIFALDI CONTINUES HER MARVELLOUS AND MEMORABLE STORY p39a.jpg (96K) Full Size By every word that Sancho uttered, the duchess was as much delighted as Don Quixote w...

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CHAPTER XL.

OF MATTERS RELATING AND BELONGING TO THIS ADVENTURE AND TO THIS MEMORABLE HISTORY p40a.jpg (129K) Full Size Verily and truly all those who find pleasure in histories like this o...

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CHAPTER XLI.

OF THE ARRIVAL OF CLAVILEÑO AND THE END OF THIS PROTRACTED ADVENTURE p41a.jpg (138K) Full Size And now night came, and with it the appointed time for the arrival of the famous h...

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CHAPTER XLII.

OF THE COUNSELS WHICH DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA BEFORE HE SET OUT TO GOVERN THE ISLAND, TOGETHER WITH OTHER WELL-CONSIDERED MATTERS p42a.jpg (120K) Full Size The duke and du...

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CHAPTER XLIII.

OF THE SECOND SET OF COUNSELS DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA p43a.jpg (129K) Full Size Who, hearing the foregoing discourse of Don Quixote, would not have set him down for a pers...

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CHAPTER XLIV.

HOW SANCHO PANZA WAS CONDUCTED TO HIS GOVERNMENT, AND OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE p44a.jpg (140K) Full Size It is stated, they say, in the tru...

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CHAPTER XLV.

OF HOW THE GREAT SANCHO PANZA TOOK POSSESSION OF HIS ISLAND, AND OF HOW HE MADE A BEGINNING IN GOVERNING p45a.jpg (141K) Full Size O perpetual discoverer of the antipodes, torch...

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CHAPTER XLVI.

OF THE TERRIBLE BELL AND CAT FRIGHT THAT DON QUIXOTE GOT IN THE COURSE OF THE ENAMOURED ALTISIDORA’S WOOING p46a.jpg (58K) Full Size We left Don Quixote wrapped up in the reflec...

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CHAPTER XLVII.

WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ACCOUNT OF HOW SANCHO PANZA CONDUCTED HIMSELF IN HIS GOVERNMENT p47a.jpg (139K) Full Size The history says that from the justice court they carried Sanc...

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CHAPTER XLVIII.

OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH DOÑA RODRIGUEZ, THE DUCHESS’S DUENNA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER OCCURRENCES WORTHY OF RECORD AND ETERNAL REMEMBRANCE p48a.jpg (131K) Full Size Exceedin...

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CHAPTER XLIX.

OF WHAT HAPPENED SANCHO IN MAKING THE ROUND OF HIS ISLAND p49a.jpg (170K) Full Size We left the great governor angered and irritated by that portrait-painting rogue of a farmer ...

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CHAPTER L.

WHEREIN IS SET FORTH WHO THE ENCHANTERS AND EXECUTIONERS WERE WHO FLOGGED THE DUENNA AND PINCHED DON QUIXOTE, AND ALSO WHAT BEFELL THE PAGE WHO CARRIED THE LETTER TO TERESA PANZA, ...

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CHAPTER LI.

OF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO’S GOVERNMENT, AND OTHER SUCH ENTERTAINING MATTERS p51a.jpg (188K) Full Size Day came after the night of the governor’s round; a night which the head-ca...

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CHAPTER LII.

WHEREIN IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND DISTRESSED OR AFFLICTED DUENNA, OTHERWISE CALLED DOÑA RODRIGUEZ p52a.jpg (131K) Full Size Cide Hamete relates that Don Quixote bei...

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CHAPTER LIII.

OF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION SANCHO PANZA’S GOVERNMENT CAME TO p53a.jpg (109K) Full Size To fancy that in this life anything belonging to it will remain for ever in the ...

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CHAPTER LIV.

WHICH DEALS WITH MATTERS RELATING TO THIS HISTORY AND NO OTHER p54a.jpg (109K) Full Size The duke and duchess resolved that the challenge Don Quixote had, for the reason already...

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CHAPTER LV.

OF WHAT BEFELL SANCHO ON THE ROAD, AND OTHER THINGS THAT CANNOT BE SURPASSED p55a.jpg (126K) Full Size The length of time he delayed with Ricote prevented Sancho from reaching t...

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CHAPTER LVI.

OF THE PRODIGIOUS AND UNPARALLELED BATTLE THAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA AND THE LACQUEY TOSILOS IN DEFENCE OF THE DAUGHTER OF DOÑA RODRIGUEZ p56a.jpg (158K) Fu...

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CHAPTER LVII.

WHICH TREATS OF HOW DON QUIXOTE TOOK LEAVE OF THE DUKE, AND OF WHAT FOLLOWED WITH THE WITTY AND IMPUDENT ALTISIDORA, ONE OF THE DUCHESS’S DAMSELS p57a.jpg (119K) Full Size Don Q...

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CHAPTER LVIII.

WHICH TELLS HOW ADVENTURES CAME CROWDING ON DON QUIXOTE IN SUCH NUMBERS THAT THEY GAVE ONE ANOTHER NO BREATHING-TIME p58a.jpg (105K) Full Size When Don Quixote saw himself in op...

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CHAPTER LIX.

WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE THING, WHICH MAY BE REGARDED AS AN ADVENTURE, THAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE p59a.jpg (126K) Full Size A clear limpid spring which they discovered in a...

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CHAPTER LX.

OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO BARCELONA p60a.jpg (129K) Full Size It was a fresh morning giving promise of a cool day as Don Quixote quitted the inn, first of all t...

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CHAPTER LXI.

OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON ENTERING BARCELONA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS THAT PARTAKE OF THE TRUE RATHER THAN OF THE INGENIOUS p61a.jpg (143K) Full Size Don Quixote passe...

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CHAPTER LXII.

WHICH DEALS WITH THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED HEAD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRIVIAL MATTERS WHICH CANNOT BE LEFT UNTOLD p62a.jpg (156K) Full Size Don Quixote’s host was one Don An...

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CHAPTER LXIII.

OF THE MISHAP THAT BEFELL SANCHO PANZA THROUGH THE VISIT TO THE GALLEYS, AND THE STRANGE ADVENTURE OF THE FAIR MORISCO p63a.jpg (151K) Full Size Profound were Don Quixote’s refl...

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CHAPTER LXIV.

TREATING OF THE ADVENTURE WHICH GAVE DON QUIXOTE MORE UNHAPPINESS THAN ALL THAT HAD HITHERTO BEFALLEN HIM p64a.jpg (80K) Full Size The wife of Don Antonio Moreno, so the history...

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CHAPTER LXV.

WHEREIN IS MADE KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE WHITE MOON WAS; LIKEWISE DON GREGORIO’S RELEASE, AND OTHER EVENTS p65a.jpg (149K) Full Size Don Antonio Moreno followed the Knight of...

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CHAPTER LXVI.

WHICH TREATS OF WHAT HE WHO READS WILL SEE, OR WHAT HE WHO HAS IT READ TO HIM WILL HEAR p66a.jpg (125K) Full Size As he left Barcelona, Don Quixote turned gaze upon the spot whe...

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CHAPTER LXVII.

OF THE RESOLUTION DON QUIXOTE FORMED TO TURN SHEPHERD AND TAKE TO A LIFE IN THE FIELDS WHILE THE YEAR FOR WHICH HE HAD GIVEN HIS WORD WAS RUNNING ITS COURSE; WITH OTHER EVENTS TRUL...

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CHAPTER LXVIII.

OF THE BRISTLY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE p68a.jpg (119K) Full Size The night was somewhat dark, for though there was a moon in the sky it was not in a quarter where she ...

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CHAPTER LXIX.

OF THE STRANGEST AND MOST EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE WHOLE COURSE OF THIS GREAT HISTORY p69a.jpg (141K) Full Size The horsemen dismounted, and, toget...

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CHAPTER LXX.

WHICH FOLLOWS SIXTY-NINE AND DEALS WITH MATTERS INDISPENSABLE FOR THE CLEAR COMPREHENSION OF THIS HISTORY p70a.jpg (131K) Full Size Sancho slept that night in a cot in the same ...

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CHAPTER LXXI.

OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO ON THE WAY TO THEIR VILLAGE p71a.jpg (82K) Full Size The vanquished and afflicted Don Quixote went along very downcast i...

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CHAPTER LXXII.

OF HOW DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO REACHED THEIR VILLAGE p72a.jpg (155K) Full Size All that day Don Quixote and Sancho remained in the village and inn waiting for night, the one to f...

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CHAPTER LXXIII.

OF THE OMENS DON QUIXOTE HAD AS HE ENTERED HIS OWN VILLAGE, AND OTHER INCIDENTS THAT EMBELLISH AND GIVE A COLOUR TO THIS GREAT HISTORY p73a.jpg (141K) Full Size At the entrance ...

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CHAPTER LXXIV.

OF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK, AND OF THE WILL HE MADE, AND HOW HE DIED p74a.jpg (96K) Full Size As nothing that is man’s can last for ever, but all tends ever downwards from its...

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