About this story
The whole of both parts is here. The dukes stage your governorship of Barataria, a town with a river at both ends; the Knight of the White Moon beats your master on Barcelona sand and turns out to be a scholar from home; a fever gives the knight his own name back. One hundred and ten chapters carry a farmer from thirty windmills to a sane man's deathbed.
Who you’ll meet
The neighbour come home bruised under borrowed armour to offer a farmer an island, and Teresa Panza in her own doorway doing the arithmetic on it.
How it opens
Your neighbour returned from an unexplained journey bruised beneath borrowed armour.
Sancho, fortune has delayed my victories, not cancelled them.
He stood in your yard at dusk while one cracked visor leaned against his chest.
Teresa PanzaFortune should first explain who trampled his ribs.
He has come to ask something, or he would have chosen daylight.
I have come to offer advancement beyond daylight's poor imagination.