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Identifier: libraryofworldsbe08warn (find matches)
Title: Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert, 1844- Warner, George H., 1883-1919
Subjects: Literature Literature
Publisher: New York : International Society
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f La Mancha, the undoer of wrongs and injustices; andso God be with you, and keep in mind what you have promisedand sworn under those penalties that have been already declaredto you. ° So saying, he gave Rosinante the spur and was soon out ofreach. The farmer followed him with his eyes, and when hesaw that he had cleared the wood and was no longer in sight,he turned to his boy Andres and said, Come here, my son; Iwant to pay you what I owe you, as that undoer of wrongs hascommanded me.0 My oath on it, ° said Andres, your Worship will be well ad-vised to obey the command of that good knight — may he live athousand years! — for as he is a valiant and just judge, by Roque,if you do not pay me, he will come back and do as he said.0 My oath on it too,0 said the farmer; but as I have astrong affection for you, I want to add to the debt in order toadd to the payment;0 and seizing him by the arm, he tied himup to the oak again, where he gave him such a flogging that heleft him for dead.
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CERVANTES )465 Now, Master Andres, w said the farmer, (< call on the undoerof wrongs; you will find he wont undo that, though I am notsure that I have quite done with you, for I have a good mindto flay you alive as you feared. But at last he untied him,and gave him leave to go look for his judge in order to put thesentence pronounced into execution. Andres went off rather down in the mouth, swearing hewould go to look for the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha andtell him exactly what had happened, and that all would have tobe repaid him sevenfold; but for all that he went off weeping,while his master stood laughing. Thus did the valiant Don Quixote right that wrong; andthoroughly satisfied with what had taken place, as he consideredhe had made a very happy and noble beginning with his knight-hood, he took the road towards his village in perfect self-content, saying in a low voice: — Well mayest thou this day callthyself fortunate above all on earth, O Dulcinea del Toboso,fairest o

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