CHAPTER XCI
By every word that Sancho uttered, the duchess was as much delighted as Don Quixote was driven to desperation. He bade him hold his tongue, and the Distressed One went on to say: “At length, after much questioning and answering, as the princess held to her story, without changing or varying her previous declaration, the Vicar gave his decision in favour of Don Clavijo, and she was delivered over to him as his lawful wife; which the Queen Doña Maguncia, the Princess Antonomasia’s mother, so took to heart, that within the space of three days we buried her.”
“ She died, no doubt,” said Sancho.
“ Of course,” said Trifaldin; “they don’t bury living people in Kandy, only the dead.”
“ Señor Squire,” said Sancho, “a man in a swoon has been known to be buried before now, in the b
