Don Fernando contrived always to read the letters I sent to Luscinda and her answers to me, under the pretence that he enjoyed the wit and sense of both. It so happened, then, that Luscinda having begged of me a book of chivalry to read, one that she was very fond of, Amadís of Gaul⁠—”

Don Quixote no sooner heard a book of chivalry mentioned, than he said:

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