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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes

The age of this gentleman of ours was bordering on fifty. He was of a hardy habit, spare, gaunt-featured, a very early riser and a great sportsman. They will have it his last name was Quixada or Quesada (for here there is some difference of opinion among the authors who write on the subject), although from reasonable conclusions it seems plain that he was called Quexana. This, however, is of but little importance to our tale. It will be enough not to stray a hair's breadth from the truth in the telling of it.

You must know that the above-named gentleman whenever he was at leisure (which was mostly all the year round) gave himself up to reading books of chivalry with such ardor and enthusiasm that he almost entirely neglected the pursuit of his field-sports, and even the management of his property. And to such a degree did his eagerness and infatuation go that he sold many an acre of tillage land to buy books of chivalry to read, and brought home as many of them as he could get.

His wits being gone, he hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he fancied it was right and necessary, as well for the support of his own honor as for the service of his country, that he should make a knight-errant 1 of himself. He would roam the world over in full armor and on horseback in quest of adventures. He would put in practice all that he had read of as being the usual practices of knights-errant: righting every kind of wrong and exposing himself to peril and danger from which, in the issue, he was to reap eternal renown and fame. Already the poor man saw himself crowned by the might of his arm Emperor of Trebizond at least; and so, led away by the intense enjoyment he found in these pleasant fancies, he set himself forth to put his scheme into execution.

So then, his armor being furbished, his motion turned into a helmet, his hack christened, and he himself confirmed, he came to the conclusion that nothing more was needed now but to look out for a lady to be in love with; for a knight-errant without love was like a tree without leaves or fruit, or a body without a soul.

1. knight-errant: a medieval knight wandering in search of chivalrous adventures

What best describes the author’s tone in the last paragraph?

A.
uninterested
B.
ironic
C.
angry
D.
sincere

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