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&ot;i carry nobody&039;s ssas, senor,&ot; said the duenna; &ot;little youknow nay, i&039; not far enough advanced years to take to any suchchildish tricks god be praised i have a ul y body still, andall y teeth and grders y outh, except one or o that thelds, on this aragon untry, have robbed of but wait alittle, while i go and light y candle, and i will returnidiately and lay y rrows before you as before one who relievesthose of all the world;&ot; and without stayg for an answer 射 ittedthe roo and left don ixote tranilly ditatg while he waitedfor her a thoand thoughts at once sugsted theselves to hi onthe subject of this new adventure, and it struck hi as beg ill doneand worse advised hi to expose hiself to the danr of breakghis plighted faith to his lady; and said he to hiself, &ot;who knows butthat the devil, beg wily and cunng, ay be tryg now to entrap with a duenna, havg failed with epresses, eens, duchesses,archionesses, and untesses? any a ti have i heard it said byany a an of sense that he will oner offer you a flat-nosed wenchthan a roan-nosed one; and who knows but this privacy, thipportunity, this silence, ay awaken y sleepg desires, and lead these y latter years to fall where i have never tripped? cases of this rt it is better to flee than to await the battlebut i t be out of y senses to thk and utter such nonsense; forit is ipossible that a long, white-hooded spectacled duenna uldstir up or excite a wanton thought the ost graceless bo the world is th