But wait a little, while I go and light my candle, and I will return immediately and lay my sorrows before you as before one who relieves those of all the world;" and without staying for an answer she quitted the room and left Don Quixote tranquilly meditating while he waited for her. A thousand thoughts at once suggested themselves to him on the subject of this new adventure, and it struck him as being ill done and worse advised in him to expose himself to the danger of breaking his plighted faith to his lady; and said he to himself, "Who knows but that the devil, being wily and cunning, may be trying now to entrap me with a duenna, having failed with empresses, queens, duchesses, marchionesses, and countesses?
Pero espéreme vuestra merced un poco; saldré a encender mi vela, y volveré en un instante a contar mis cuitas, como a remediador de todas las del mundo. Y, sin esperar respuesta, se salió del aposento, donde quedó don Quijote sosegado y pensativo esperándola; pero luego le sobrevinieron mil pensamientos acerca de aquella nueva aventura, y parecíale ser mal hecho y peor pensado ponerse en peligro de romper a su señora la fee prometida, y decíase a sí mismo: -¿Quién sabe si el diablo, que es sutil y mañoso, querrá engañarme agora con una dueña, lo que no ha podido con emperatrices, reinas, duquesas, marquesas ni condesas?