"i do so ce it," replied the duenna.
"and i too," added her daughter, all in tears and covered with shameand confusion.
this deration having been made, and the duke having settled inhis own mind what he would do in the matter, thedies in ckwithdrew, and the duchess gave orders that for the future they werenot to be treated as servants of hers, but asdy adventurers whocame to her house to demand justice; so they gave them a room tothemselves and waited on them as they would on strangers, to theconsternation of the other women-servants, who did not know wherethe folly and imprudence of dona rodriguez and her unlucky daughterwould stop.
and now, toplete the enjoyment of the feast and bring the dinnerto a satisfactory end, lo and behold the page who had carried theletters and presents to teresa panza, the wife of the governor sancho,entered the hall; and the duke and duchess were very well pleased tosee him, being anxious to know the result of his journey; but whenthey asked him the page said in reply that he could not give it beforeso many people or in a few words, and begged their excellences to bepleased to let it wait for a private opportunity, and in themeantime amuse themselves with these letters; and taking out theletters he ced them in the duchesss hand. one bore by way ofaddress, letter for mydy the duchess so-and-so, of i dont knowwhere; and the other to my husband sancho panza, governor of theind of barataria, whom god prosper longer than me. the duchesssbread would not bake, as the saying is, until 射 had read her letter;and having looked over it herself and seen that it might be read aloudfor the duke and all present to hear, 射 read out as follows.
teresa panzas letter to the duchess.
the letter your highness wrote me, mydy, gave me greatpleasure, for indeed i found it very wee. the string of coralbeads is very fine, and my husbands hunting suit does not fallshort of it. all this vige is very much pleased that youdyship has made a governor of my good man sancho; though nobody willbelieve it, particrly the curate, and master nichs the barber,and the bachelor samson carrasco; but i dont care for that, for solong as it is true, as it is, they may all say what they like; though,to tell the truth, if the coral beads and the suit had note iwould not have believed it either; for in this vige everybodythinks my husband a numskull, and except for governing a flock ofgoats, they cannot fancy what sort of government he can be fit for.god grant it, and direct him ording as he sees his children standin need of it. i am resolved with your worships leave,dy of mysoul, to make the most of this fair day, and go to court to stretchmyself at ease in a coach, and make all those i have envying mealready burst their eyes out; so i beg your excellence to order myhusband to send me a small trifle of money, and to let it be somethingto speak of, because ones expenses are heavy at the court; for a loafcosts a real, and meat thirty maravedis a pound, which is beyondeverything; and if he does not want me to go let him tell me intime, for my feet are on the fidgets to he off; and my friends andneighbours tell me that if my daughter and i make a figure and a braveshow at court, my husband wille to be known far more by me thani by him, for of course plenty of people will ask, "who are thosdies in that coach?" and some servant of mine will answer, "the wifeand daughter of sancho panza, governor of the ind of barataria;"and in this way sancho will be known, and ill be thought well of,and "to rome for everything." i am as vexed as vexed can be thatthey have gathered no acorns this year in our vige; for all thati send your highness about half a peck that i went to the wood togather and pick out one by one myself, and i could find no biggerones; i wish they were as big as ostrich eggs.
let not your high mightiness forget to write to me; and i willtake care to answer, and let you know how i am, and whatever newsthere may be in this ce, where i remain, praying our lord to haveyour highness in his keeping and not to forget me.
san插 my daughter, and my son, kiss your worships hands.
射 who would rather see yourdyship than write to you,
your servant,
teresa panza.
all were greatly amused by teresa panzas letter, but particrlythe duke and duchess; and the duchess asked don quixotes opinionwhether they might open the letter that hade for the governor,which 射 suspected must be very good. don quixote said that togratify them he would open it, and did so, and found that it ran asfollows.
teresa panzas letter to her husband sancho panza.
i got thy letter, sancho of my soul, and i promise thee and swear asa catholic christian that i was within two fingers breadth of goingmad i was so happy. i can tell thee, brother, when i came to hear thatthou wert a governor i thought i should have dropped dead with purejoy; and thou knowest they say sudden joy kills as well as greatsorrow; and as for sanchica thy daughter, 射 leaked from 射erhappiness. i had before me the suit thou didst send me, and thecoral beads mydy the duchess sent me round my neck, and the lettersin my hands, and there was the bearer of them standing by, and inspite of all this i verily believed and thought that what i saw andhandled was all a dream; for who could have thought that a goatherdwoulde to be a governor of inds? thou knowest, my friend,what my mother used to say, that one must live long to see much; i sayit because i expect to see more if i live longer; for i dont expectto stop until i see thee a farmer of taxes or a collector ofrevenue, which are offices where, though the devil carries off thosewho make a bad use of them, still they make and handle money. mdy the duchess will tell thee the desire i have to go to thecourt; consider the matter and let me know thy pleasure; i will try todo honour to thee by going in a coach.
neither the curate, nor the barber, nor the bachelor, nor even thesacristan, can believe that thou art a governor, and they say thewhole thing is a delusion or an en插ntment affair, like everythingbelonging to thy master don quixote; and samson says he must go insearch of thee and drive the government out of thy head and themadness out of don quixotes skull; i onlyugh, and look at mystring of beads, and n out the dress i am going to make for ourdaughter out of thy suit. i sent some acorns to mydy the duchess; iwish they had been gold. send me some strings of pearls if they are infashion in that ind. here is the news of the vige; berruecahas married her daughter to a good-for-nothing painter, who camehere to paint anything that might turn up. the council gave him anorder to paint his majestys arms over the door of the town-hall; heasked two ducats, which they paid him in advance; he worked foreight days, and at the end of them had nothing painted, and thensaid he had no turn for painting such trifling things; he returned themoney, and for all that has married on the pretence of being a goodworkman; to be sure he has nowid aside his paint-brush and takena spade in hand, and goes to the field like a gentleman. pedrolobos son has received the first orders and tonsure, with theintention of bing a priest. mingui, mingo silvatosgranddaughter, found it out, and has gone tow with him on the scoreof having given her promise of marriage. evil tongues say 射 iswith child by him, but he denies it stoutly. there are no olivesthis year, and there is not a drop of vinegar to be had in the wholevige. apany of soldiers passed through here; when they leftthey took away with them three of the girls of the vige; i will nottell thee who they are; perhaps they wille back, and they willbe sure to find those who will take them for wives with all theirblemi射s, good or bad. sanchica is making bonce; 射 earns eightmaravedis a day clear, which 射 puts into a moneybox as a helptowards house furnishing; but now that 射 is a governors daughterthou wilt give her a portion without her working for it. thefountain in the za has run dry. a sh of lightning struck thegibbet, and i wish they all lit there. i look for an answer to this,and to know thy mind about my going to the court; and so, god keepthee longer than me, or as long, for i would not leave thee in thisworld without me.
thy wife,
teresa panza.
the letters were apuded,ughed over, reli射d, and admired; andthen, as if to put the seal to the business, the courier arrived,bringing the one sancho sent to don quixote, and this, too, was readout, and it raised some doubts as to the governors simplicity. theduchess withdrew to hear from the page about his adventures insanchos vige, which he narrated at full length without leaving asingle circumstance unmentioned. he gave her the acorns, and also acheese which teresa had given him as being particrly good andsuperior to those of tronchon. the duchess received it with greatestdelight, in which we will leave her, to describe the end of thegovernment of the great sancho panza, flower and mirror of allgovernors of inds.
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of the troublous end and termination sancho panzas governmentcame to
to fancy that in this life anything belonging to it will remainfor ever in the same state is an idle fancy; on the contrary, in iteverything seems to go in a circle, i mean round and round. the springseeds the summer, the summer the fall, the fall the autumn, theautumn the winter, and the winter the spring, and so time rolls withnever-ceasing wheel. mans life alone, swifter than time, speedsonward to its end without any hope of renewal, save it be in thatother life which is endless and boundless. thus saith cide hametethe mahometan philosopher; for there are many that by the light ofnature alone, without the light of faith, have aprehension ofthe fleeting nature and instability of this present life and theendless duration of that eternal life we hope for; but our author i射re speaking of the rapidity with which sanchos government came toan end, melted away, disappeared, vani射d as it were in smoke andshadow. for as hey in bed on the night of the seventh day of hisgovernment, sated, not with bread and wine, but with deliveringjudgments and giving opinions and makingws and promations,just as sleep, in spite of hunger, was beginning to close his eyelids,he heard such a noise of bell-ringing and shouting that one would havefancied the whole ind was going to the bottom. he sat up in bed andremained listening intently to try if he could make out what couldbe the cause of so great an uproar; not only, however, was he unableto discover what it was, but as countless drums and trumpets nowhelped to swell the din of the bells and shouts, he was more puzzledthan ever, and filled with fear and terror; and getting up he put on apair of slippers because of the dampness of the floor, and withoutthrowing a dressing gown or anything of the kind over him he ru射dout of the door of his room, just in time to see approaching along acorridor a band of more than twenty persons with lighted torches andnaked swords in their hands, all shouting out, "to arms, to arms,senor governor, to arms! the enemy is in the ind in countlessnumbers, and we are lost unless your skill and valoure to oursupport."
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"and i too," added her daughter, all in tears and covered with shameand confusion.
this deration having been made, and the duke having settled inhis own mind what he would do in the matter, thedies in ckwithdrew, and the duchess gave orders that for the future they werenot to be treated as servants of hers, but asdy adventurers whocame to her house to demand justice; so they gave them a room tothemselves and waited on them as they would on strangers, to theconsternation of the other women-servants, who did not know wherethe folly and imprudence of dona rodriguez and her unlucky daughterwould stop.
and now, toplete the enjoyment of the feast and bring the dinnerto a satisfactory end, lo and behold the page who had carried theletters and presents to teresa panza, the wife of the governor sancho,entered the hall; and the duke and duchess were very well pleased tosee him, being anxious to know the result of his journey; but whenthey asked him the page said in reply that he could not give it beforeso many people or in a few words, and begged their excellences to bepleased to let it wait for a private opportunity, and in themeantime amuse themselves with these letters; and taking out theletters he ced them in the duchesss hand. one bore by way ofaddress, letter for mydy the duchess so-and-so, of i dont knowwhere; and the other to my husband sancho panza, governor of theind of barataria, whom god prosper longer than me. the duchesssbread would not bake, as the saying is, until 射 had read her letter;and having looked over it herself and seen that it might be read aloudfor the duke and all present to hear, 射 read out as follows.
teresa panzas letter to the duchess.
the letter your highness wrote me, mydy, gave me greatpleasure, for indeed i found it very wee. the string of coralbeads is very fine, and my husbands hunting suit does not fallshort of it. all this vige is very much pleased that youdyship has made a governor of my good man sancho; though nobody willbelieve it, particrly the curate, and master nichs the barber,and the bachelor samson carrasco; but i dont care for that, for solong as it is true, as it is, they may all say what they like; though,to tell the truth, if the coral beads and the suit had note iwould not have believed it either; for in this vige everybodythinks my husband a numskull, and except for governing a flock ofgoats, they cannot fancy what sort of government he can be fit for.god grant it, and direct him ording as he sees his children standin need of it. i am resolved with your worships leave,dy of mysoul, to make the most of this fair day, and go to court to stretchmyself at ease in a coach, and make all those i have envying mealready burst their eyes out; so i beg your excellence to order myhusband to send me a small trifle of money, and to let it be somethingto speak of, because ones expenses are heavy at the court; for a loafcosts a real, and meat thirty maravedis a pound, which is beyondeverything; and if he does not want me to go let him tell me intime, for my feet are on the fidgets to he off; and my friends andneighbours tell me that if my daughter and i make a figure and a braveshow at court, my husband wille to be known far more by me thani by him, for of course plenty of people will ask, "who are thosdies in that coach?" and some servant of mine will answer, "the wifeand daughter of sancho panza, governor of the ind of barataria;"and in this way sancho will be known, and ill be thought well of,and "to rome for everything." i am as vexed as vexed can be thatthey have gathered no acorns this year in our vige; for all thati send your highness about half a peck that i went to the wood togather and pick out one by one myself, and i could find no biggerones; i wish they were as big as ostrich eggs.
let not your high mightiness forget to write to me; and i willtake care to answer, and let you know how i am, and whatever newsthere may be in this ce, where i remain, praying our lord to haveyour highness in his keeping and not to forget me.
san插 my daughter, and my son, kiss your worships hands.
射 who would rather see yourdyship than write to you,
your servant,
teresa panza.
all were greatly amused by teresa panzas letter, but particrlythe duke and duchess; and the duchess asked don quixotes opinionwhether they might open the letter that hade for the governor,which 射 suspected must be very good. don quixote said that togratify them he would open it, and did so, and found that it ran asfollows.
teresa panzas letter to her husband sancho panza.
i got thy letter, sancho of my soul, and i promise thee and swear asa catholic christian that i was within two fingers breadth of goingmad i was so happy. i can tell thee, brother, when i came to hear thatthou wert a governor i thought i should have dropped dead with purejoy; and thou knowest they say sudden joy kills as well as greatsorrow; and as for sanchica thy daughter, 射 leaked from 射erhappiness. i had before me the suit thou didst send me, and thecoral beads mydy the duchess sent me round my neck, and the lettersin my hands, and there was the bearer of them standing by, and inspite of all this i verily believed and thought that what i saw andhandled was all a dream; for who could have thought that a goatherdwoulde to be a governor of inds? thou knowest, my friend,what my mother used to say, that one must live long to see much; i sayit because i expect to see more if i live longer; for i dont expectto stop until i see thee a farmer of taxes or a collector ofrevenue, which are offices where, though the devil carries off thosewho make a bad use of them, still they make and handle money. mdy the duchess will tell thee the desire i have to go to thecourt; consider the matter and let me know thy pleasure; i will try todo honour to thee by going in a coach.
neither the curate, nor the barber, nor the bachelor, nor even thesacristan, can believe that thou art a governor, and they say thewhole thing is a delusion or an en插ntment affair, like everythingbelonging to thy master don quixote; and samson says he must go insearch of thee and drive the government out of thy head and themadness out of don quixotes skull; i onlyugh, and look at mystring of beads, and n out the dress i am going to make for ourdaughter out of thy suit. i sent some acorns to mydy the duchess; iwish they had been gold. send me some strings of pearls if they are infashion in that ind. here is the news of the vige; berruecahas married her daughter to a good-for-nothing painter, who camehere to paint anything that might turn up. the council gave him anorder to paint his majestys arms over the door of the town-hall; heasked two ducats, which they paid him in advance; he worked foreight days, and at the end of them had nothing painted, and thensaid he had no turn for painting such trifling things; he returned themoney, and for all that has married on the pretence of being a goodworkman; to be sure he has nowid aside his paint-brush and takena spade in hand, and goes to the field like a gentleman. pedrolobos son has received the first orders and tonsure, with theintention of bing a priest. mingui, mingo silvatosgranddaughter, found it out, and has gone tow with him on the scoreof having given her promise of marriage. evil tongues say 射 iswith child by him, but he denies it stoutly. there are no olivesthis year, and there is not a drop of vinegar to be had in the wholevige. apany of soldiers passed through here; when they leftthey took away with them three of the girls of the vige; i will nottell thee who they are; perhaps they wille back, and they willbe sure to find those who will take them for wives with all theirblemi射s, good or bad. sanchica is making bonce; 射 earns eightmaravedis a day clear, which 射 puts into a moneybox as a helptowards house furnishing; but now that 射 is a governors daughterthou wilt give her a portion without her working for it. thefountain in the za has run dry. a sh of lightning struck thegibbet, and i wish they all lit there. i look for an answer to this,and to know thy mind about my going to the court; and so, god keepthee longer than me, or as long, for i would not leave thee in thisworld without me.
thy wife,
teresa panza.
the letters were apuded,ughed over, reli射d, and admired; andthen, as if to put the seal to the business, the courier arrived,bringing the one sancho sent to don quixote, and this, too, was readout, and it raised some doubts as to the governors simplicity. theduchess withdrew to hear from the page about his adventures insanchos vige, which he narrated at full length without leaving asingle circumstance unmentioned. he gave her the acorns, and also acheese which teresa had given him as being particrly good andsuperior to those of tronchon. the duchess received it with greatestdelight, in which we will leave her, to describe the end of thegovernment of the great sancho panza, flower and mirror of allgovernors of inds.
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of the troublous end and termination sancho panzas governmentcame to
to fancy that in this life anything belonging to it will remainfor ever in the same state is an idle fancy; on the contrary, in iteverything seems to go in a circle, i mean round and round. the springseeds the summer, the summer the fall, the fall the autumn, theautumn the winter, and the winter the spring, and so time rolls withnever-ceasing wheel. mans life alone, swifter than time, speedsonward to its end without any hope of renewal, save it be in thatother life which is endless and boundless. thus saith cide hametethe mahometan philosopher; for there are many that by the light ofnature alone, without the light of faith, have aprehension ofthe fleeting nature and instability of this present life and theendless duration of that eternal life we hope for; but our author i射re speaking of the rapidity with which sanchos government came toan end, melted away, disappeared, vani射d as it were in smoke andshadow. for as hey in bed on the night of the seventh day of hisgovernment, sated, not with bread and wine, but with deliveringjudgments and giving opinions and makingws and promations,just as sleep, in spite of hunger, was beginning to close his eyelids,he heard such a noise of bell-ringing and shouting that one would havefancied the whole ind was going to the bottom. he sat up in bed andremained listening intently to try if he could make out what couldbe the cause of so great an uproar; not only, however, was he unableto discover what it was, but as countless drums and trumpets nowhelped to swell the din of the bells and shouts, he was more puzzledthan ever, and filled with fear and terror; and getting up he put on apair of slippers because of the dampness of the floor, and withoutthrowing a dressing gown or anything of the kind over him he ru射dout of the door of his room, just in time to see approaching along acorridor a band of more than twenty persons with lighted torches andnaked swords in their hands, all shouting out, "to arms, to arms,senor governor, to arms! the enemy is in the ind in countlessnumbers, and we are lost unless your skill and valoure to oursupport."
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