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The progress of Camacho's wedding; with other delightful accidents.
Don Quixote and Sancho were now interrupted by a great noise of joy and acclamation raised by the horsemen, who, shouting and galloping, went to meet the young couple; who, surrounded by a thousand instruments and devices, were coming to the arbour, accompanied by the curate, their relations, and all the better sort of the neighbourhood, set out in their holiday-clothes. "Hey-day," quoth Sancho, as soon as he saw the bride, "what have we here? Truly this is no country lass, but a fine court-lady, all in her silks and satins! Look, look ye, master, see if, instead of glass necklaces, she have not on fillets of rich coral; and instead of green serge of Cuencha, a thirty-piled velvet. Bless us, see what rings she has on her fingers; no jet, no pewter baubles, but pure beaten gold, and set with pearls too; if every pearl be not as white as a syllabub, and each of them as precious as an eye! How she is bedizened, and glistens from top to toe! And now yonder again, what fine long locks the young slut has got; if they be not false, I never saw longer in my born days! Ah, what a fine stately person she is! What a number of trinkets and glaring gewgaws are dangling in her hair and about her neck! Well, I say no more, but happy is the man that has thee!"
Don Quixote could not help smiling to hear Sancho set forth
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the bride after his rustic way, though at the same time he beheld
her with admiration. The procession was just arrived when they
heard a piercing outcry, and a voice calling out, "Stay, rash and
hasty people, stay!" Upon which, all turning about, they saw
a person coming after them in a black coat, bordered with crimson
powdered with flames of fire. On his head he wore a garland
of mournful cypress, and a large truncheon in his hand, headed
with an iron spike. As soon as he drew near, they knew him to
be the gallant Basil; and seeing him come thus unlooked for,
and with such an outcry and behaviour, began to fear some mischief
would ensue. He came up tired and panting before the
bride and bridegroom; then leaning on his truncheon, he fixed
his eyes on Quiteria; and with a fearful hollow voice, "Too well
you know," cried he, "unkind Quiteria, that by the ties of truth,
and the laws of that Heaven which we all revere, while I have
life you cannot be married to another. You are now about to
snap all the ties between us, and give my right to another; whose
large possessions, though they can procure him all other blessings,
I had never envied, could they not have purchased you. But no
more. It is ordained; and I will therefore remove this unhappy
obstacle out of your way. Live, rich Camacho; live happy with
the ungrateful Quiteria many years; and let the poor, the miserable
Basil die, whose poverty has clipped the wings of his felicity,
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