25/33 Don Quixote did not do Sancho the honour to explain himself to him every day." "Ah, I beg of you, let us talk a little of the man-monkey," he observed, in a rather more pliant tone than he had at first assumed. "That is a question that has the advantage of being neither Russian nor Polish." "You will not succeed that way in throwing me off the track. I mean to tell you all the evil I think of you, no matter how it may incense you. You are not only a Polish patriot; you are an idealist, a true disciple of Plato, and you do not know how I always have detested this man. In all these sixty years that I have been in this world, I have seen nothing but selfishness, and grasping after self-gratification. |