Question

The cousin was amazed as well at Sancho's boldness as at the patience of his master, and concluded that the good temper the latter displayed arose from the happiness he felt at having seen his lady Dulcinea, even enchanted as she was; because otherwise the words and language Sancho had addressed to him deserved a thrashing; for indeed he seemed to him to have been rather impudent to his master, to whom he now observed, "I, Senor Don Quixote of La Mancha, look upon the time I have spent in travelling with your worship as very well employed, for I have gained four things in the course of it; the first is that I have made your acquaintance, which I consider great good fortune; the second, that I have learned what the cave of Montesinos contains, together with the transformations of Guadiana and of the lakes of Ruidera; which will be of use to me for the Spanish Ovid that I have in hand; the third, to have discovered the antiquity of cards, that they were in use at least in the time of Charlemagne, as may be inferred from the words you say Durandarte uttered when, at the end of that long spell while Montesinos was talking to him, he woke up and said, 'Patience and shuffle.'

Accepted Answer

Y luego prosigue, diciendo: Espantóse el primo, así del atrevimiento de Sancho Panza como de la paciencia de su amo, y juzgó que del contento que tenía de haber visto a su señora Dulcinea del Toboso, aunque encantada, le nacía aquella condición blanda que entonces mostraba; porque, si así no fuera, palabras y razones le dijo Sancho, que merecían molerle a palos; porque realmente le pareció que había andado atrevidillo con su señor, a quien le dijo: -Yo, señor don Quijote de la Mancha, doy por bien empleadísima la jornada que con vuestra merced he hecho, porque en ella he granjeado cuatro cosas. La primera, haber conocido a vuestra merced, que lo tengo a gran felicidad.

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