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 disrelish left by it on the reader's taste may perhaps be found to lie in the curiously undisguised and exuberant admiration with which his creator dilates and expatiates on the charm and perfection of the good Colonel's unquestionable goodness; displaying as it were with insistent ostentation a frankness of sympathy and irrepressible effusion of demonstrative esteem for magnanimity and virtue, which in time of afterthought may or may not make us like all the better and respect all the more the personality and manhood of the workman, but which in either case must needs to some extent impair rather than enhance the actual and present impression of his work.

For the creator of Don Quixote we need make no such allowance; we need make no