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Excerpt from Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha, Vol. 1
Yesterday they gave me extreme unction, and to-day I write this letter. M y time is short; my sufl'erings increase, hope fades; and with all this to deplore, I am tain existence from a wish that I have to retain life a little longer, and to stay the progress of my disease, till I can approach to kiss the feet of your excellency. Perhaps the joy of seeing you well and in Spain again, would be so great that it would restore me to health. But if it is decreed that I should lay down my life, why then let heaven' 8 will be accomplished. May your excellency be made acquainted with this wish of mine, and know that you had in me a slave so desirous of serving, that he would even come from beyond the grave to evince his attachment. I rejoice at the return of your excellency; I rejoice to see you everywhere successfully com. Mand: and I rej01ce still more that my hopes are accomplished, established on the fame of your virtues. Cervantes now sank into a state of insensibility, and expired on Saturday, the 2ard of April, 1627, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
