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As soon as Don Quixote came to his senses he got up in great haste, stumbling here and falling there, and began to run after the herd. "Stop, you scoundrels!" he bawled. "Stop! It is a single knight that defies you." But no one took the least notice of him, and he sat sadly down on the road, waiting till Sancho brought "Rozinante" to him.
Now while the keeper took time to open the foremost cage, Don Quixote stood debating with himself, whether he had best make his attack on foot or on horseback; and upon mature deliberation, he resolved to do it on foot, lest Rozinante, at sight of the lions, should be put into disorder.
Now that his armor was complete, it occurred to him that he must give his horse a name every knight's horse should have a good name and after four days thought he decided that "Rozinante" would best suit the animal. Then, for himself, after eight days of puzzling, he resolved that he should be called Don Quixote de la Mancha. There was but one thing more.
'Keep him there as long as you may, said the priest who had brought him; but it is whispered that this period of rest and repose did not last, and that soon Don Quixote might have been seen again mounted on Rozinante and seeking adventures. In the days of the emperor Charles the Great there lived two young men named Huon and Gerard, sons of the duke of Bordeaux and heirs of his lands.
For a while he was content to pass the hours of his journey in hearing and telling of matters of chivalry, rejoicing to find himself once more on the back of Rozinante.
And as to his armor, why, he thought he might scour and polish that till nothing could be whiter. So he rode on, letting "Rozinante" take which road he pleased, that being, he supposed, as good a way as any of looking for adventures. All day he rode, to his sorrow without finding anything worth calling an adventure.
Having got together some money, and having made other preparations, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza one dark night stole out of the village without a word to any one, and began their adventures. Don Quixote rode "Rozinante;" Sancho Panza was mounted on an ass.
Jennings sits his steed with nose aloft, and a high perch in the general, somewhat loosely, and, had the pony been a Bucephalus rather than a Rozinante, not a little perilously. Simon is jogging hitherwards toward Roger Acton, as he digs the land-drain across this marshy meadow: let us see how it fares now with our poor hero.
Thus did things happen in books of chivalry, and he did not doubt that thus it would happen with him. III. The Immortal Partnership So it came to pass that one night Don Quixote stole away from his home, and Sancho Panza from his wife and children, and with the master on Rozinante, the servant on his ass, Dapple, hastened away under cover of darkness in search of adventures.
Thus prepared for the worst, Sir Norman sprang on his horse like a second Don Quixote striding his good steed Rozinante, and sallied forth in quest of adventures.
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