Don Quixote - Part II - Page 51/129

"Sancho," said Don Quixote, "thou hast delivered a thousand sentences

condensed in the compass of a few words; I thank thee for the advice thou

hast given me, and take it most gladly. Come, my son, let us go look for

some place where I may hide, while thou dost return, as thou sayest, to

seek, and speak with my lady, from whose discretion and courtesy I look

for favours more than miraculous."

Sancho was in a fever to get his master out of the town, lest he should

discover the falsehood of the reply he had brought to him in the Sierra

Morena on behalf of Dulcinea; so he hastened their departure, which they

took at once, and two miles out of the village they found a forest or

thicket wherein Don Quixote ensconced himself, while Sancho returned to

the city to speak to Dulcinea, in which embassy things befell him which

demand fresh attention and a new chapter.