| Back | Don Antonia Moreno followed the Knight of the White Moon, and a number of boys followed him too, nay pursued him, until they had him fairly housed in a hostel in the heart of the city. Don Antonio, eager to make his acquaintance, entered also; a squire came out to meet him and remove his armour, and he shut himself into a lower room, still attended by Don Antonio, whose bread would not bake until he had found out who he was. He of the White Moon, seeing then that the gentleman would not leave him, said, "I know very well, senor, what you have come for; it is to find out who I am; and as there is no reason why I should conceal it from you, while my servant here is taking off my armour I will tell you the true state of the case, without leaving out anything. You must know, senor, that I am called the bachelor Samson Carrasco. I am of the same village as Don Quixote of La Mancha, whose craze and folly make all of us who know him feel pity for him, and I am one of those who have felt it most; and persuaded that his chance of recovery lay in quiet and keeping at home and in his own house, I hit upon a device for keeping him there. Three months ago, therefore, I went out to meet him as a knight-errant, under the assumed name of the Knight of the Mirrors, intending to engage him in combat and overcome him without hurting him, making it the condition of our combat that the vanquished should be at the disposal of the victor. What I meant to demand of him (for I regarded him as vanquished already) was that he should return to his own village, and not leave it for a whole year, by which time he might be cured. But fate ordered it otherwise, for he vanquished me and unhorsed me, and so my plan failed. He went his way, and I came back conquered, covered with shame, and sorely bruised by my fall, which was a particularly dangerous one. But this did not quench my desire to meet him again and overcome him, as you have seen to-day. And as he is so scrupulous in his observance of the laws of knight-errantry, he will, no doubt, in order to keep his word, obey the injunction I have laid upon him. This, senor, is how the matter stands, and I have nothing more to tell you. I implore of you not to betray me, or tell Don Quixote who I am; so that my honest endeavours may be successful, and that a man of excellent wits—were he only rid of the fooleries of chivalry—may get them back again." |
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| Front | Siguió don Antonio Moreno al Caballero de la Blanca Luna, y siguiéronle también, y aun persiguiéronle, muchos muchachos, hasta que le cerraron en un mesón dentro de la ciudad. Entró el don Antonio con deseo de conocerle; salió un escudero a recebirle y a desarmarle; encerróse en una sala baja, y con él don Antonio, que no se le cocía el pan hasta saber quién fuese. Viendo, pues, el de la Blanca Luna que aquel caballero no le dejaba, le dijo: -Bien sé, señor, a lo que venís, que es a saber quién soy; y, porque no hay para qué negároslo, en tanto que este mi criado me desarma os lo diré, sin faltar un punto a la verdad del caso. Sabed, señor, que a mí me llaman el bachiller Sansón Carrasco; soy del mesmo lugar de don Quijote de la Mancha, cuya locura y sandez mueve a que le tengamos lástima todos cuantos le conocemos, y entre los que más se la han tenido he sido yo; y, creyendo que está su salud en su reposo y en que se esté en su tierra y en su casa, di traza para hacerle estar en ella; y así, habrá tres meses que le salí al camino como caballero andante, llamándome el Caballero de los Espejos, con intención de pelear con él y vencerle, sin hacerle daño, poniendo por condición de nuestra pelea que el vencido quedase a discreción del vencedor; y lo que yo pensaba pedirle, porque ya le juzgaba por vencido, era que se volviese a su lugar y que no saliese dél en todo un año, en el cual tiempo podría ser curado; pero la suerte lo ordenó de otra manera, porque él me venció a mí y me derribó del caballo, y así, no tuvo efecto mi pensamiento: él prosiguió su camino, y yo me volví, vencido, corrido y molido de la caída, que fue además peligrosa; pero no por esto se me quitó el deseo de volver a buscarle y a vencerle, como hoy se ha visto. Y como él es tan puntual en guardar las órdenes de la andante caballería, sin duda alguna guardará la que le he dado, en cumplimiento de su palabra. Esto es, señor, lo que pasa, sin que tenga que deciros otra cosa alguna; suplícoos no me descubráis ni le digáis a don Quijote quién soy, porque tengan efecto los buenos pensamientos míos y vuelva a cobrar su juicio un hombre que le tiene bonísimo, como le dejen las sandeces de la caballería. |
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