Don Quixote — Chapter 68 in Spanish
By Miguel de Cervantes
Con la alegría, contento y ufanidad que se ha dicho, seguía don Quijote su jornada, imaginándose por la pasada vitoria ser el caballero andante más valiente que tenía en aquella edad el mundo; daba por acabadas y a felice fin conducidas cuantas aventuras pudiesen sucederle de allí adelante; tenía en poco a los encantos y a los encantadores; no se acordaba de los inumerables palos que en el discurso de sus caballerías le habían dado, ni de la pedrada que le derribó la mitad de los dientes, ni del desagradecimiento de los galeotes, ni del atrevimiento y lluvia de estacas de los yangüeses. Don Quixote pursued his journey in the high spirits, satisfaction, and self-complacency already described, fancying himself the most valorous knight-errant of the age in the world because of his late victory. All the adventures that could befall him from that time forth he regarded as already done and brought to a happy issue; he made light of enchantments and enchanters; he thought no more of the countless drubbings that had been administered to him in the course of his knight-errantry, nor of the volley of stones that had levelled half his teeth, nor of the ingratitude of the galley slaves, nor of the audacity of the Yanguesans and the shower of stakes that fell upon him; in short, he said to himself that could he discover any means, mode, or way of disenchanting his lady Dulcinea, he would not envy the highest fortune that the most fortunate knight-errant of yore ever reached or could reach.
En estas imaginaciones iba todo ocupado, cuando Sancho le dijo: — ¿No es bueno, señor, que aun todavía traigo entre los ojos las desaforadas narices, y mayores de marca, de mi compadre Tomé Cecial? He was going along entirely absorbed in these fancies, when Sancho said to him, "Isn't it odd, senor, that I have still before my eyes that monstrous enormous nose of my gossip, Tom Cecial?"
— Y ¿crees tú, Sancho, por ventura, que el Caballero de los Espejos era el bachiller Carrasco; y su escudero, Tomé Cecial, tu compadre? "And dost thou, then, believe, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that the Knight of the Mirrors was the bachelor Carrasco, and his squire Tom Cecial thy gossip?"
— No sé qué me diga a eso —respondió Sancho—; sólo sé que las señas que me dio de mi casa, mujer y hijos no me las podría dar otro que él mesmo; y la cara, quitadas las narices, era la misma de Tomé Cecial, como yo se la he visto muchas veces en mi pueblo y pared en medio de mi misma casa; y el tono de la habla era todo uno. "I don't know what to say to that," replied Sancho; "all I know is that the tokens he gave me about my own house, wife and children, nobody else but himself could have given me; and the face, once the nose was off, was the very face of Tom Cecial, as I have seen it many a time in my town and next door to my own house; and the sound of the voice was just the same."