"I thank you, sirs," said Don Quixote; "but I cannot stop for an instant, for sad thoughts and unhappy circumstances force me to seem discourteous and to travel apace;" and spurring Rocinante he pushed on, leaving them wondering at what they had seen and heard, at his own strange figure and at the shrewdness of his servant, for such they took Sancho to be; and another of them observed, "If the servant is so clever, what must the master be?
-Yo, señores -respondió don Quijote-, os lo agradezco, pero no puedo detenerme un punto, porque pensamientos y sucesos tristes me hacen parecer descortés y caminar más que de paso. Y así, dando de las espuelas a Rocinante, pasó adelante, dejándolos admirados de haber visto y notado así su estraña figura como la discreción de su criado, que por tal juzgaron a Sancho.