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To which Don Quixote replied, "Thou must know, friend Sancho Panza, that it was a practice very much in vogue with the knights-errant of old to make their squires governors of the islands or kingdoms they won, and I am determined that there shall be no failure on my part in so liberal a custom; on the contrary, I mean to improve upon it, for they sometimes, and perhaps most frequently, waited until their squires were old, and then when they had had enough of service and hard days and worse nights, they gave them some title or other, of count, or at the most marquis, of some valley or province more or less; but if thou livest and I live, it may well be that before six days are over, I may have won some kingdom that has others dependent upon it, which will be just the thing to enable thee to be crowned king of one of them.
In the devil's name, marry, marry, and take this kingdom that comes to hand without any trouble, and when you are king make me a marquis or governor of a province, and for the rest let the devil take it all."
Say, scoffer with a viper's tongue, what think you has won this kingdom and cut off this giant's head and made you a marquis (for all this I count as already accomplished and decided), but the might of Dulcinea, employing my arm as the instrument of her achievements?
In particular Don Fernando offered, if he would go back with him, to get his brother the marquis to become godfather at the baptism of Zoraida, and on his own part to provide him with the means of making his appearance in his own country with the credit and comfort he was entitled to.
It was agreed at length that Don Fernando should tell the servants of Don Luis who he was, and that it was his desire that Don Luis should accompany him to Andalusia, where he would receive from the marquis his brother the welcome his quality entitled him to; for, otherwise, it was easy to see from the determination of Don Luis that he would not return to his father at present, though they tore him to pieces.
Captain Boldwig was a little fierce man in a stiff black neckerchief and blue surtout, who, when he did condescend to walk about his property, did it in company with a thick rattan stick with a brass ferrule, and a gardener and sub-gardener with meek faces, to whom (the gardeners, not the stick) Captain Boldwig gave his orders with all due grandeur and ferocity; for Captain Boldwig's wife's sister had married a marquis, and the captain's house was a villa, and his land 'grounds,' and it was all very high, and mighty, and great.
It was a cold, dull evening; the little street looked dreary and dismal; and the mahogany countenance of the noble and gallant marquis seemed to wear a more sad and melancholy expression than it was wont to do, as it swung to and fro, creaking mournfully in the wind.
As to the commencement of an intrigue between her and M. de Wardes, our presumptuous hero gave but little heed to that, although the marquis was young, handsome, rich, and high in the cardinal’s favor.
And it was strange to see him, in shirt-sleeves, with short trousers and muddy shoes, handling this waistcoat of a marquis.
The bohemian followed him, but as he passed in front of the alcove :'Sir Sleeper !' said he, with courtly bows and a clown's diction, 'it's up to you now to wake up and dress like a marquis even though you're only a pot-boy like me, and you will descend to the fancy-dress ball, since that is the good pleasure of these little gentlemen and of these little ladies.'
"I tell you, that 'tis the spirit Sabnac, the grand marquis, the demon of fortifications.
Le marquis, qui avait plus de deux cent mille livres de rente, n’en dépensait pas le quart ; il vivait d’espérances.
Ce triomphe, dont le marquis jouissait avec une insolence rare, ne dura que quelques mois, et fut suivi d’un revers humiliant.
C’était cette parfaite inhabileté de sa part qui la faisait exécrer du vulgaire des courtisans, tous comtes ou marquis, jouissant en général de cinq mille livres de rentes.
Le plus bel homme de la cour, le comte Baldi, s’est présenté et a déplu : l’homme le plus riche des Etats de Son Altesse, le marquis Crescenzi, lui a succédé, elle prétend qu’il ferait son malheur.
Une preuve décisive du mariage c’est que ce marquis, immensément riche et par conséquent fort avare, comme c’est l’usage parmi les gens opulents du nord de l’Italie, faisait des préparatifs immenses, et pourtant il épousait une fille sans dot.
Ces tentures, dont chacune contenait une partie prise dans les armes de la famille Crescenzi, qui, comme l’univers le sait, descend du fameux Crescentius, consul de Rome en 985, devaient meubler les dix-sept salons qui formaient le rez-de-chaussée du palais du marquis.
Elle se croit donc obligée de me donner des motifs pour la place du marquis, comme si son désir exprimé n’était pas pour moi le premier des motifs ?
Cette folie mit la duchesse au désespoir ; elle en pardonna la cause, un fol amour pour Clélia, parce que décidément dans quelques jours elle allait épouser le riche marquis Crescenzi.
Clélia lui écrivait une lettre de dix pages : elle lui avait juré jadis de ne jamais épouser le marquis sans son consentement ; maintenant elle le lui demandait, et Fabrice le lui accorda du fond de sa retraite de Velleja, par une lettre remplie de l’amitié la plus pure.
Mais il suffit que ces détails vous déplaisent ; ils n’existent plus pour moi, qui veux avant tout ne pas choquer mon adorable marquis.
– Je vous procurerai l’absence du marquis pendant cinq ou six jours au moins : quand la voulez-vous ?