Stories from Don Quixote . gaze without flinching, desiring nothing but thatthe lion would spring from his cage and come to closequarters, that he might hew him in pieces. So far did his unexampled frenzy go : but the noblelion, with true kingly dignity, paid no attention to thisboyish bluster, and after looking about him in every direc-tion, turned slowly round, displaying his back parts to DonQuixote, and with great coolness and indifference flunghimself down again in the cage. Upon this Don Quixotebade the keeper to take a stick, and provoke him by blowsto come out. I shall do no such thing
Stories from Don Quixote . gaze without flinching, desiring nothing but thatthe lion would spring from his cage and come to closequarters, that he might hew him in pieces. So far did his unexampled frenzy go : but the noblelion, with true kingly dignity, paid no attention to thisboyish bluster, and after looking about him in every direc-tion, turned slowly round, displaying his back parts to DonQuixote, and with great coolness and indifference flunghimself down again in the cage. Upon this Don Quixotebade the keeper to take a stick, and provoke him by blowsto come out. I shall do no such thing, replied the man,11 for if I irritate him, the first whom he will rend in pieceswill be myself. Your grace has done all that honour re-quires : you have defied your adversary, face to face, andhe has declined the encounter; the victory is thereforeyours, and you may rest on your laurels without temptingFortune further. Tis well said, answered Don Quixote : close thecage, my friend, and bear me witness that I have done my. The Adventure with the Lions 165 devoir. Shut him up, I say, and I will signal to the run-aways, that they may come back and learn from thy lipshow I have borne myself in this great adventure. The keeper did as he was ordered, and Don Quixote,fixing on the point of his lance the towel with which hehad wiped his face after the shower of curds, waved italoft, and shouted to the party, who were still in full re-treat, Sancho and the mule-driver leading, and the GreenKnight bringing up the rear. Sancho, who turned hishead at every step, saw the signal, and cried out: Mylife for it, if my master has not killed those fierce beasts,for he is calling us. They drew rein, and seeing that Don Quixote was stillwaving the cloth, ventured slowly back to the cart. Whenthey came up, Don Quixote said to the driver: Yokeyour mules again, good fellow, and drive on ; and dothou, Sancho, give him two gold crowns for himself andthe keeper, for the time which they have lost on myac
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