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`` It is easy to see , Sancho , '' replied the duchess , `` that you have learned to be polite in the school of politeness itself ; I mean to say it is easy to see that you have been nursed in the bosom of Senor Don Quixote , who is , of course , the cream of good breeding and flower of ceremony -- or cirimony , as you would say yourself . Fair be the fortunes of such a master and such a servant , the one the cynosure of knight-errantry , the other the star of squirely fidelity ! Rise , Sancho , my friend ; I will repay your courtesy by taking care that my lord the duke makes good to you the promised gift of the government as soon as possible . '' With this , the conversation came to an end , and Don Quixote retired to take his midday sleep ; but the duchess begged Sancho , unless he had a very great desire to go to sleep , to come and spend the afternoon with her and her damsels in a very cool chamber . Sancho replied that , though he certainly had the habit of sleeping four or five hours in the heat of the day in summer , to serve her excellence he would try with all his might not to sleep even one that day , and that he would come in obedience to her command , and with that he went off . The duke gave fresh orders with respect to treating Don Quixote as a knight-errant , without departing even in smallest particular from the style in which , as the stories tell us , they used to treat the knights of old . The history records that Sancho did not sleep that afternoon , but in order to keep his word came , before he had well done dinner , to visit the duchess , who , finding enjoyment in listening to him , made him sit down beside her on a low seat , though Sancho , out of pure good breeding , wanted not to sit down ; the duchess , however , told him he was to sit down as governor and talk as squire , as in both respects he was worthy of even the chair of the Cid Ruy Diaz the Campeador .