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[Pg 196] The sable night had spun out half her course, when Don Quixote and Sancho entered Toboso. A profound silence reigned over all the town, and the inhabitants were fast asleep, and stretched out at their ease. Nothing disturbed the general tranquillity but now and then the barking of dogs, that wounded Don Quixote's ears, but more poor Sancho's heart. Sometimes an ass brayed, hogs grunted, cats mewed; which jarring mixture of sounds was not a little augmented by the stillness and serenity of the night, and filled the enamoured champion's head with a thousand inauspicious chimeras. Nevertheless he said, "Sancho, lead on to Dulcinea's palace; it is possible we may find her awake." "To what palace?" answered Sancho; "that in which I saw her highness was but a little mean house." "It was, I suppose, some small apartment of her castle which she had retired to," said the knight, "to amuse herself with her damsels, as is usual with great ladies and princesses." "Since your worship," quoth Sancho, "will needs have my Lady Dulcinea's house to be a castle, is this an hour to find the gates open?" "First, however, let us find this castle," replied Don Quixote, "and then I will tell thee how to act;—but look, my eyes deceive me, or that huge dark pile yonder must be Dulcinea's palace." "Then lead on, sir," said Sancho; "it may be so; though, if I were to see it with my eyes, I will believe it just as much as that it is now day."
The Don led the way, and having gone about two hundred
paces, he came up to the edifice which cast the dark shade; and
perceiving a large tower, he soon found that the building was no
palace, but the principal church of the place; whereupon he said,
"We are come to the church, Sancho." "I see we are," answered
Sancho; "and pray God we be not come to our graves;
for it is no good sign to be rambling about churchyards at such
hours, and especially since I have already told your worship that
this same lady's house stands in a blind alley." "Blockhead!"
said the knight; "where hast thou ever found castles and royal
palaces built in blind alleys?" "Sir," said Sancho, "each
country has its customs; so perhaps it is the fashion here to build
your palaces in alleys; and so I beseech your worship to let me
look among these lanes and alleys just before me; and perhaps I
may pop upon this same palace, which I wish I may see devoured
by dogs for bewildering us at this rate." "Speak with more
respect, Sancho, of what regards my lady," said Don Quixote;
"let us keep our holidays in peace, and not throw the rope after
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the bucket." "I will curb myself," answered Sancho; "but I
cannot think that, though I have seen the house but once, your
worship will needs have me find it at midnight, when you cannot
find it yourself, though (...)
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