Chapter L
Cervantes reveals that it was Altisidora and the duchess who
bounded into Quixote’s room to seek revenge upon the chatty Doña Rodríguez, and
then the author takes the reader to the village of the Panza family just as the
page arrives to deliver correspondence from Sancho and the duchess to Sancho’s
wife. Teresa Panza and daughter Sanchica
are elated of the news of Sancho’s governorship, and begin to imagine being
the envy of the village women, while the curate and Sansón Currasco
coincidently enter the scene and are completely confounded by the preposterous
developments of Sancho and pursue the page for more information.
Chapter LI
Another day in Sancho’s government and another deliberate
case is brought before the governor to judge, whereas he exercises wisdom
recalling Don Quixote’s precept: “when justice is in doubt, draw back and
resort to mercy.” During the same day, a
friendly letter from Don Quixote is delivered to Sancho’s court and read aloud
to him, in which he immediately dictates a response to be delivered to his old
master.
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