Don Quixote - Part II - Page 93/129

He of the green gaban was filled with astonishment at Don Quixote's

argument, so much so that he began to abandon the notion he had taken up

about his being crazy. But in the middle of the discourse, it being not

very much to his taste, Sancho had turned aside out of the road to beg a

little milk from some shepherds, who were milking their ewes hard by; and

just as the gentleman, highly pleased, was about to renew the

conversation, Don Quixote, raising his head, perceived a cart covered

with royal flags coming along the road they were travelling; and

persuaded that this must be some new adventure, he called aloud to Sancho

to come and bring him his helmet. Sancho, hearing himself called, quitted

the shepherds, and, prodding Dapple vigorously, came up to his master, to

whom there fell a terrific and desperate adventure.