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Updated: June 18, 2025
I consoled myself with the prospect of a good breakfast in Heilbron the next morning, and slept as well as the cold would let me. We were awakened the next morning while it was still dark. I roamed about in the gloom searching for my errant Rosinante.
Bid a man whose usual lot it is to break stones for the parish at tenpence the cubic yard bid such an one play at marbles with some stone taws for half an hour per day, and pocket one pound one bid a poor horse who has drawn those stones about, and browsed short grass by the wayside bid him canter a few times round a grassy ring, and then go to his corn in short, bid Rosinante change with Pegasus, and you do no more than Mr.
He "gazed on the joint that caused his shame; gazed and looked, then looked again." The battle was won; the vanquished victor stalked forth, forgetting the soldier in the man, and gave order that the General, the Englishman, and the leg of mutton should be allowed to go forth in peace. Rosinante toiled along towards Paris; we passed through St.
He waited for me to do that; and if anybody deserves to be shot, it must be Me. But, dear heart, I did not foresee all this fuss; I said to myself, 'La, Mr. Neville will be sure to call on my father or me some day, or else I shall be out on the piebald and meet him on the gray, and then we can each take our own again. Was I so far out in my reckoning? Is not that my Rosinante yonder?
Peter, as he lounged back in his wicker chair and produced his familiar little briar pipe, began to remind me rather acutely of that pensive old picador in Zuloaga's The Victim of The Fête, the placid and plaintive and only vaguely hopeful knight on his bony old Rosinante, not quite ignorant of the fact that he must forage on to other fields and look for better luck in newer ventures, yet not quite forgetful that life, after all, is rather a blithe adventure and that the man who refuses to surrender his courage, no matter what whimsical turns the adventure may take, is still to be reckoned the conqueror.
Jack and Terence watched him trotting off on a Greek Rosinante with the said well-filled saddle-bags behind him, a thick stick in his hand, and a brace of ship's pistols in his holsters, till he was out of sight. "Terence," said Jack, "we ought to return to the boat, and get under weigh." "Yes; but I vote we do something in the catering line first," was the answer.
My companions, though seemingly gaily mounted, fell sadly astern; but my old mare, Jenny Geddes, one of the Rosinante family, she strained past the Highlandman in spite of all his efforts with the hair halter: just as I was passing him, Donald wheeled his horse, as if to cross before me to mar my progress, when down came his horse, and threw his rider's breekless a in a clipt hedge; and down came Jenny Geddes over all, and my hardship between her and the Highlandman's horse.
But he dropped my hand, of a sudden, and went stumbling rather awkwardly over the Spanish tiling as he passed out to the waiting car. I watched him as he climbed into it, stiffly yet with a show of careless bravado, for all the world like the lean-jowled knight of the vanished fête mounting his bony old Rosinante.
In the Spanish romance, of course, it is not likely to be missed. It is enough in itself that the deranged brain which takes windmills for giants, and carriers for knights, and Rosinante for a Bucephalus, has fixed upon Sancho Panza the crowning proof of its mania as the fitting squire of a knight-errant.
I swung myself boldly upon my Rosinante, called on my good angel to defend me, and away we started, slowly at first, over stock and stone.
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