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堂吉诃德|Don Quixote

Part 2 第52章|Part 2 Chapter 50

属类： 双语小说 【分类】世界名著 -[作者: 塞万提斯] 阅读：[44821]
《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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的唐娜罗德里格斯的奇遇

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锡德·哈迈德说到唐吉诃德的伤口已经愈合，于是他觉得继续在那个城堡里住下去有悖于他所奉行的骑士道，便决定请求公爵和公爵夫人允许他到萨拉戈萨去。萨拉戈萨的节日已经临近，唐吉诃德想在节日里参加比武赢一副盔甲。一天，他同公爵和公爵夫人一起吃饭。他正要张口说出自己的请求，忽然看见大门口进来两个女人，她们从头到脚都罩着黑衣服。其中一人走到唐吉诃德面前伏了下来，嘴贴着他的脚抽泣起来。她抽泣得如此伤心，如此深切，如此悲痛，使得所有在场的人都不知所措了。尽管公爵和公爵夫人猜想，可能是佣人们又要拿唐吉诃德开心，可是看到那女人唉声叹气并且哭得那么悲切，也觉得莫名其妙了。最后，还是唐吉诃德动了恻隐之心，把那女人扶了起来，让她揭去蒙在头上的黑纱，露出脸来。那女人把黑纱拿了下来，大家万万没想到原来是女佣唐娜罗德里格斯。另一个穿黑衣服的女人是她那个遭富农儿子耍弄的女儿。所有认识她们的人都大为吃惊，尤其是公爵和公爵夫人。虽然他们觉得唐娜罗德里格斯有些呆头呆脑，而且脾气也怪，却没想到她会做出这种疯事来。唐娜罗德里格斯向公爵和公爵夫人转过身来说道：

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“请你们允许我同这位骑士说几句话，只有这样我才能摆脱一个心怀叵测的家伙对我的无礼行为。”

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公爵说他允许唐娜罗德里格斯同唐吉诃德大人说话，而且想说什么都可以。唐娜罗德里格斯转向唐吉诃德说道：

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“英勇的骑士，前两天我已经向您讲过一个坏农夫糟蹋我心爱的女儿的事情，这个不幸的姑娘就在您眼前。您曾答应我要保护她，要为她所遭受的痛苦伸张正义，可我现在却听说您要离开这座城堡，去追求上帝赐予您的好运。我想让您在上路之前向那个野小子挑战，让他同我女儿结婚，实现他在同我女儿结合之前许下的诺言。要指望我的主人公爵主持公道，那是白日做梦，这里面的原因我私下已经同您讲过了。为此，愿上帝保佑您身体健康长寿，保佑我们能够得到您的庇护。”

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唐吉诃德对此一本正经地答道：

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“好女佣，擦干你的眼泪吧，或者说，你不要再唉声叹气了。我来负责拯救你的女儿。其实，当初她不轻信情人的诺言就好了，这种诺言常常是说得容易实现难。这样吧，只要我的主人公爵允许，我马上就去找那个没良心的家伙。找到他我就向他挑战。如果他逃避兑现他的诺言，我就立刻杀了他。我的主要职责就是惩强扶弱，也就是说，帮助弱者，惩罚强暴者。”

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“您不必费力去找这位善良的女佣所指责的农夫了。”公爵说，“您也不必请求我允许您向他挑战了。现在，我就确认这场决斗，并且负责把你的挑战通知他，让他到我的城堡来应战。我将在城堡里为你们提供可靠的场地，并且像其他所有在自己的领地内为交战双方提供场地的贵族一样，保证对双方不偏不倚。”

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“既然您允许，而且又这么肯定，”唐吉诃德说，“那么我就在此宣布，这次我放弃我的贵族身份，自贬为平民，以便与这个害人的家伙平起平坐，让他能够同我决斗。虽然他现在不在场，我也宣布向他挑战。他做了坏事，没有履行对这个可怜姑娘的诺言，玷污了她的清白。他必须履行他答应做这个姑娘的丈夫的诺言，或者是为此而丧命。”

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说完唐吉诃德就摘下一只手套，扔到了大厅中央。公爵把手套拾了起来，说就像刚才自己说过的那样，他以他那位臣民的名义接受挑战，并且确定日期就在六天之后，地点就在城堡的一块空场上。骑士们惯用的各种武器，包括长矛、盾牌、合成盔甲①以及各种附件都一应俱全，而且要经过裁判官的检查，无一作假。

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①一种可拆卸的盔甲，以利于骑士的行动。

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“不过，在此之前需要我这位好女佣和苦命的姑娘赋予唐吉诃德全权，让他为她们主持公道，否则就不算数，连这次挑战也不能算数。”

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“我全权委托他。”女佣说。

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“我也全权委托他。”那姑娘满面泪痕，既羞愧又沮丧地接着说道。

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事情敲定了，公爵也想好了下面该怎么做。两个穿黑衣服的女人离开了大厅。公爵夫人吩咐从那以后不要再把她们看作佣人，而要把她们看成是跑到公爵家来请求公道的江湖女子，并且为她们单独准备了房间，把她们当成外人看待。这一下其他女佣可有点害怕了，不知道愚蠢放肆的唐娜罗德里格斯和她倒霉的女儿会把事情弄到什么地步。这时，为了凑热闹活跃气氛，让人愉快地吃完这顿饭，给桑乔·潘萨总督的夫人特雷莎·潘萨送信和礼物的侍童进来了。他这一到，公爵和公爵夫人都高兴起来，他们急于知道侍童此行的情况。他们问侍童，侍童说不便在大庭广众面前讲，而且也不是几句话就可以说完的，请求主人允许他以后再单独同他们讲，现在则可以先看看回信。侍童说着拿出了两封信，交给公爵夫人。一封信上面写着“不知何在的公爵夫人收”，另一封上面写着“巴拉塔里亚岛总督、我的丈夫桑乔·潘萨收，愿上帝让他比我多享福”。

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公爵夫人迫不及待。她打开信看了一遍，觉得可以让公爵和其他在场的人听，便念起来：

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特雷莎·潘萨给公爵夫人的信

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亲爱的夫人，很高兴收到您的来信，说实话，这封信我期待已久。珊瑚珠很好看，我丈夫的猎服也不错。这儿的人听说您让我丈夫桑乔当了总督，都非常高兴，尽管有些人并不相信，特别是神甫、理发师尼古拉斯师傅和参孙·卡拉斯科学士。不过，我对此无所谓，随它去吧，他们愿意怎么说就让他们去说吧。说实话，如果不是见到珊瑚珠和猎服，我也不会相信，因为这儿的人都把我丈夫看成笨蛋，除了能管一群羊外，无法想象他还能管好什么。但愿上帝保佑他当好总督，这对子女们也有利。有利时机不可错过，尊贵的夫人，我已经决定，只要您允许，我就乘车到京城去，让那些嫉妒我的人把眼珠子都气出来。所以，我请求您让我丈夫给我寄点儿钱来，得要一笔钱呢。因为京城的开销很大，面包论雷阿尔卖，肉论磅卖，三十马拉维迪一磅，真够贵的。如果他不想让我去，也早点儿告诉我。我现在已经像热锅上的蚂蚁，急着要上路呢。我的女朋友和女邻居们都对我说，如果我和我女儿在京城春风得意，神气活现，那么，就是我丈夫靠我们出了名，而不是我们靠他出了名。那时候很多人肯定会问：‘车上的夫人是什么人？’我的佣人就会回答：‘是巴拉塔里亚岛总督桑乔·潘萨的夫人和女儿。’这样桑乔就出名了，我也身价倍增，反正我是豁出去了。

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很抱歉，今年我们这儿橡子歉收。尽管如此，我还是为您送去半塞雷敏的橡子，这些都是我到山上一个一个捡来的，我捡的都是最大的。我很希望它们个个都像驼鸟蛋那么大。

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请您务必给我写信，我也一定给您回信，告诉您我的身体状况和这儿的各种情况。我请求上帝保佑您，也保佑我。我的女儿桑奇卡和儿子吻您的手。我不仅愿意给您写信，而且更愿意见到您。

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您的仆人

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特雷莎·潘萨

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大家听公爵夫人念完特雷莎·潘萨的这封信，都觉得很有意思，尤其是公爵和公爵夫人。公爵夫人问唐吉诃德，是否可以把特雷莎·潘萨给总督的信也打开看看，估计也非常有意思。唐吉诃德说他可以把信拆开，以飨众人。唐吉诃德把信拆开了，信是这样写的：

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特雷莎·潘萨给丈夫桑乔·潘萨的信

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我亲爱的桑乔，来信收到了。我向你保证，并且以一个基督教徒的身份发誓，我差点儿高兴得疯了。你听着，伙计，我一听说你成了总督，就高兴得以为自己快要死过去了。听说突如其来的喜悦也会像巨大的痛苦一样让人毙命。你女儿桑奇卡高兴得眼泪都出来了，可是她自己却不知道。你派人送来的衣服就在我眼前，公爵夫人送给我的珊瑚珠就挂在我脖子上，信就在我手上，信使就在我身旁。即使这样，我还是觉得我看到摸到的都是一场梦。谁能想到一个牧羊人能够成为岛屿的总督呢？你也知道，伙计，我母亲常说：“人活得长，才见识多。”我这么说是因为我想活得长，见得多，直到看见你成为税吏的时候。虽然那种差事干得不好会去见阎王，但他们手里总是有钱。女主人公爵夫人会向你转达我想去京城的愿望。你考虑一下，决定之后告诉我。我打算乘车去京城，为你争光。

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神甫、理发师，甚至包括教堂司事，都不相信你当了总督，说这是一种哄骗或者魔法之类的事情，就像你主人唐吉诃德遇到的那些事情一样。参孙还说要去找你，把你头脑里的总督赶走，也除掉唐吉诃德脑袋里的疯狂。我对此只是一笑置之，然后看看自己的珊瑚珠，盘算着怎样把你的衣服给女儿穿。

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我送给公爵夫人一点儿橡子，但愿它们都是最好的。如果那个岛上时兴珍珠项链，你给我带几串来。

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咱们这儿的新闻就是贝鲁埃卡把她的女儿嫁给了一个糟糕的画家，他到咱们这儿来看看有什么好画的。村委会让他把国王的徽记画在村委会的门上。他要两个杜卡多，结果画了八天，什么也没画出来。他说他不善于画这种零七八碎的东西，又把钱还回来了。即使这样，他还是以画家的名义结了婚。实际上他已经不再画画儿了，而是拿起锄头下地干活，也算个正经人了。佩德罗·德洛沃的儿子已经准备出家当教士。明戈·西尔瓦托的孙女明吉利娅则要求他履行诺言，同自己结婚。有些碎嘴的人说她怀的孩子就是他的，可是他矢口否认。

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今年油橄榄没有收成，全村找不到一滴醋。有一队士兵从咱们村路过，顺便带走了三个姑娘。我不想告诉你是哪三个人。也许她们还会回来。无论她们是不是有事，我想，肯定会有人愿意娶她们为妻。

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桑奇卡织花边，每天可以挣八个马拉维迪。她把钱放在储钱罐里，以后可以补充她的嫁妆。不过，现在她已经是总督的女儿了，即使不干活，你也可以给她准备嫁妆了。广场上的泉眼干涸了，一个闪电击到山峰上，可是这些跟我又有什么关系呢！

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我等着你的回信以及有关我去京城的决定。愿上帝保佑你比我活得更长，或者同我活得一样长，因为我不想让你单独留在这个世界上。

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你的妻子

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特雷莎·潘萨

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大家对这两封信大加赞扬，谈笑不休。这时邮差又带来了桑乔给唐吉诃德的信，大家也把这封信念了一遍。于是人们对桑乔到底是否蠢笨开始怀疑了。公爵夫人退了出去，问了侍童有关他在桑乔家乡遇到的情况。侍童一五一十地讲了一遍，除了把橡子交给公爵夫人外，还呈上特雷莎送给她的一块奶酪。那块奶酪特别好，比特龙琼出产的奶酪还要好。公爵夫人非常高兴地收下了奶酪。我们暂且先不谈公爵夫人，而是去看看海岛总督的精英桑乔·潘萨如何结束他的总督任职吧。

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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, Sancho Panza’s Wife

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Cide Hamete, the painstaking investigator of the minute points of this veracious history, says that when Dona Rodriguez left her own room to go to Don Quixote’s , another duenna who slept with her observed her, and as all duennas are fond of prying, listening, and sniffing, she followed her so silently that the good Rodriguez never perceived it; and as soon as the duenna saw her enter Don Quixote’s room, not to fail in a duenna’s invariable practice of tattling, she hurried off that instant to report to the duchess how Dona Rodriguez was closeted with Don Quixote. The duchess told the duke, and asked him to let her and Altisidora go and see what the said duenna wanted with Don Quixote. The duke gave them leave, and the pair cautiously and quietly crept to the door of the room and posted themselves so close to it that they could hear all that was said inside. But when the duchess heard how the Rodriguez had made public the Aranjuez of her issues she could not restrain herself, nor Altisidora either; and so, filled with rage and thirsting for vengeance, they burst into the room and tormented Don Quixote and flogged the duenna in the manner already described; for indignities offered to their charms and self-esteem mightily provoke the anger of women and make them eager for revenge. The duchess told the duke what had happened, and he was much amused by it; and she, in pursuance of her design of making merry and diverting herself with Don Quixote, despatched the page who had played the part of Dulcinea in the negotiations for her disenchantment (which Sancho Panza in the cares of government had forgotten all about) to Teresa Panza his wife with her husband’s letter and another from herself, and also a great string of fine coral beads as a present.

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Now the history says this page was very sharp and quick-witted; and eager to serve his lord and lady he set off very willingly for Sancho’s village. Before he entered it he observed a number of women washing in a brook, and asked them if they could tell him whether there lived there a woman of the name of Teresa Panza, wife of one Sancho Panza, squire to a knight called Don Quixote of La Mancha. At the question a young girl who was washing stood up and said, “Teresa Panza is my mother, and that Sancho is my father, and that knight is our master.”

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“Well then, miss,” said the page, “come and show me where your mother is, for I bring her a letter and a present from your father.”

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“That I will with all my heart, senor,” said the girl, who seemed to be about fourteen, more or less; and leaving the clothes she was washing to one of her companions, and without putting anything on her head or feet, for she was bare-legged and had her hair hanging about her, away she skipped in front of the page’s horse, saying, “Come, your worship, our house is at the entrance of the town, and my mother is there, sorrowful enough at not having had any news of my father this ever so long.”

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“Well,” said the page, “I am bringing her such good news that she will have reason to thank God.”

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And then, skipping, running, and capering, the girl reached the town, but before going into the house she called out at the door, “Come out, mother Teresa, come out, come out; here’s a gentleman with letters and other things from my good father.” At these words her mother Teresa Panza came out spinning a bundle of flax, in a grey petticoat (so short was it one would have fancied “they to her shame had cut it short”), a grey bodice of the same stuff, and a smock. She was not very old, though plainly past forty, strong, healthy, vigorous, and sun-dried; and seeing her daughter and the page on horseback, she exclaimed, “What’s this, child? What gentleman is this?”

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“A servant of my lady, Dona Teresa Panza,” replied the page; and suiting the action to the word he flung himself off his horse, and with great humility advanced to kneel before the lady Teresa, saying, “Let me kiss your hand, Senora Dona Teresa, as the lawful and only wife of Senor Don Sancho Panza, rightful governor of the island of Barataria.”

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“Ah, senor, get up, do that,” said Teresa; “for I’m not a bit of a court lady, but only a poor country woman, the daughter of a clodcrusher, and the wife of a squire-errant and not of any governor at all.”

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“You are,” said the page, “the most worthy wife of a most arch-worthy governor; and as a proof of what I say accept this letter and this present;” and at the same time he took out of his pocket a string of coral beads with gold clasps, and placed it on her neck, and said, “This letter is from his lordship the governor, and the other as well as these coral beads from my lady the duchess, who sends me to your worship.”

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Teresa stood lost in astonishment, and her daughter just as much, and the girl said, “May I die but our master Don Quixote’s at the bottom of this; he must have given father the government or county he so often promised him.”

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“That is the truth,” said the page; “for it is through Senor Don Quixote that Senor Sancho is now governor of the island of Barataria, as will be seen by this letter.”

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“Will your worship read it to me, noble sir?” said Teresa; “for though I can spin I can’t read, not a scrap.”

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“Nor I either,” said Sanchica; “but wait a bit, and I’ll go and fetch some one who can read it, either the curate himself or the bachelor Samson Carrasco, and they’ll come gladly to hear any news of my father.”

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“There is no need to fetch anybody,” said the page; “for though I can’t spin I can read, and I’ll read it;” and so he read it through, but as it has been already given it is not inserted here; and then he took out the other one from the duchess, which ran as follows:

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Friend Teresa, — Your husband Sancho’s good qualities, of heart as well as of head, induced and compelled me to request my husband the duke to give him the government of one of his many islands. I am told he governs like a gerfalcon, of which I am very glad, and my lord the duke, of course, also; and I am very thankful to heaven that I have not made a mistake in choosing him for that same government; for I would have Senora Teresa know that a good governor is hard to find in this world and may God make me as good as Sancho’s way of governing. Herewith I send you, my dear, a string of coral beads with gold clasps; I wish they were Oriental pearls; but “he who gives thee a bone does not wish to see thee dead;” a time will come when we shall become acquainted and meet one another, but God knows the future. Commend me to your daughter Sanchica, and tell her from me to hold herself in readiness, for I mean to make a high match for her when she least expects it. They tell me there are big acorns in your village; send me a couple of dozen or so, and I shall value them greatly as coming from your hand; and write to me at length to assure me of your health and well-being; and if there be anything you stand in need of, it is but to open your mouth, and that shall be the measure; and so God keep you.

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From this place. Your loving friend, The DUCHESS.

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“Ah, what a good, plain, lowly lady!” said Teresa when she heard the letter; “that I may be buried with ladies of that sort, and not the gentlewomen we have in this town, that fancy because they are gentlewomen the wind must not touch them, and go to church with as much airs as if they were queens, no less, and seem to think they are disgraced if they look at a farmer’s wife! And see here how this good lady, for all she’s a duchess, calls me ‘friend,’ and treats me as if I was her equal — and equal may I see her with the tallest church-tower in La Mancha! And as for the acorns, senor, I’ll send her ladyship a peck and such big ones that one might come to see them as a show and a wonder. And now, Sanchica, see that the gentleman is comfortable; put up his horse, and get some eggs out of the stable, and cut plenty of bacon, and let’s give him his dinner like a prince; for the good news he has brought, and his own bonny face deserve it all; and meanwhile I’ll run out and give the neighbours the news of our good luck, and father curate, and Master Nicholas the barber, who are and always have been such friends of thy father’s .”

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“That I will, mother,” said Sanchica; “but mind, you must give me half of that string; for I don’t think my lady the duchess could have been so stupid as to send it all to you.”

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“It is all for thee, my child,” said Teresa; “but let me wear it round my neck for a few days; for verily it seems to make my heart glad.”

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“You will be glad too,” said the page, “when you see the bundle there is in this portmanteau, for it is a suit of the finest cloth, that the governor only wore one day out hunting and now sends, all for Senora Sanchica.”

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“May he live a thousand years,” said Sanchica, “and the bearer as many, nay two thousand, if needful.”

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With this Teresa hurried out of the house with the letters, and with the string of beads round her neck, and went along thrumming the letters as if they were a tambourine, and by chance coming across the curate and Samson Carrasco she began capering and saying, “None of us poor now, faith! We’ve got a little government! Ay, let the finest fine lady tackle me, and I’ll give her a setting down!”

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“What’s all this, Teresa Panza,” said they; “what madness is this, and what papers are those?”

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“The madness is only this,” said she, “that these are the letters of duchesses and governors, and these I have on my neck are fine coral beads, with ave-marias and paternosters of beaten gold, and I am a governess.”

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“God help us,” said the curate, “we don’t understand you, Teresa, or know what you are talking about.”

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“There, you may see it yourselves,” said Teresa, and she handed them the letters.

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The curate read them out for Samson Carrasco to hear, and Samson and he regarded one another with looks of astonishment at what they had read, and the bachelor asked who had brought the letters. Teresa in reply bade them come with her to her house and they would see the messenger, a most elegant youth, who had brought another present which was worth as much more. The curate took the coral beads from her neck and examined them again and again, and having satisfied himself as to their fineness he fell to wondering afresh, and said, “By the gown I wear I don’t know what to say or think of these letters and presents; on the one hand I can see and feel the fineness of these coral beads, and on the other I read how a duchess sends to beg for a couple of dozen of acorns.”

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“Square that if you can,” said Carrasco; “well, let’s go and see the messenger, and from him we’ll learn something about this mystery that has turned up.”

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They did so, and Teresa returned with them. They found the page sifting a little barley for his horse, and Sanchica cutting a rasher of bacon to be paved with eggs for his dinner. His looks and his handsome apparel pleased them both greatly; and after they had saluted him courteously, and he them, Samson begged him to give them his news, as well of Don Quixote as of Sancho Panza, for, he said, though they had read the letters from Sancho and her ladyship the duchess, they were still puzzled and could not make out what was meant by Sancho’s government, and above all of an island, when all or most of those in the Mediterranean belonged to his Majesty.

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To this the page replied, “As to Senor Sancho Panza’s being a governor there is no doubt whatever; but whether it is an island or not that he governs, with that I have nothing to do; suffice it that it is a town of more than a thousand inhabitants; with regard to the acorns I may tell you my lady the duchess is so unpretending and unassuming that, not to speak of sending to beg for acorns from a peasant woman, she has been known to send to ask for the loan of a comb from one of her neighbours; for I would have your worships know that the ladies of Aragon, though they are just as illustrious, are not so punctilious and haughty as the Castilian ladies; they treat people with greater familiarity.”

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In the middle of this conversation Sanchica came in with her skirt full of eggs, and said she to the page, “Tell me, senor, does my father wear trunk-hose since he has been governor?”

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“I have not noticed,” said the page; “but no doubt he wears them.”

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“Ah! my God!” said Sanchica, “what a sight it must be to see my father in tights! Isn’t it odd that ever since I was born I have had a longing to see my father in trunk-hose?”

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“As things go you will see that if you live,” said the page; “by God he is in the way to take the road with a sunshade if the government only lasts him two months more.”

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The curate and the bachelor could see plainly enough that the page spoke in a waggish vein; but the fineness of the coral beads, and the hunting suit that Sancho sent (for Teresa had already shown it to them) did away with the impression; and they could not help laughing at Sanchica’s wish, and still more when Teresa said, “Senor curate, look about if there’s anybody here going to Madrid or Toledo, to buy me a hooped petticoat, a proper fashionable one of the best quality; for indeed and indeed I must do honour to my husband’s government as well as I can; nay, if I am put to it and have to, I’ll go to Court and set a coach like all the world; for she who has a governor for her husband may very well have one and keep one.”

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“And why not, mother!” said Sanchica; “would to God it were to-day instead of to-morrow, even though they were to say when they saw me seated in the coach with my mother, ‘See that rubbish, that garlic-stuffed fellow’s daughter, how she goes stretched at her ease in a coach as if she was a she-pope!’ But let them tramp through the mud, and let me go in my coach with my feet off the ground. Bad luck to backbiters all over the world; ‘let me go warm and the people may laugh.’ Do I say right, mother?”

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“To be sure you do, my child,” said Teresa; “and all this good luck, and even more, my good Sancho foretold me; and thou wilt see, my daughter, he won’t stop till he has made me a countess; for to make a beginning is everything in luck; and as I have heard thy good father say many a time (for besides being thy father he’s the father of proverbs too), ‘When they offer thee a heifer, run with a halter; when they offer thee a government, take it; when they would give thee a county, seize it; when they say, “Here, here!” to thee with something good, swallow it.’ Oh no! go to sleep, and don’t answer the strokes of good fortune and the lucky chances that are knocking at the door of your house!”

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“And what do I care,” added Sanchica, “whether anybody says when he sees me holding my head up, ‘The dog saw himself in hempen breeches,’ and the rest of it?”

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Hearing this the curate said, “I do believe that all this family of the Panzas are born with a sackful of proverbs in their insides, every one of them; I never saw one of them that does not pour them out at all times and on all occasions.”

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“It may be so,” said the bachelor; “but dubitat Augustinus.”

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“Doubt who will,” said the page; “what I have told you is the truth, and that will always rise above falsehood as oil above water; if not operibus credite, et non verbis. Let one of you come with me, and he will see with his eyes what he does not believe with his ears.”

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