All other scenes of earth -- even that village of rural England, where happy infancy and stainless
maidenhood seemed yet to be in her mother's keeping, like garments put off long ago -- were foreign to her, in comparison.
While at supper Don Juan asked Don Quixote what news he had of the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, was she married, had she been brought to bed, or was she with child, or did she in
maidenhood, still preserving her modesty and delicacy, cherish the remembrance of the tender passion of Senor Don Quixote?
Altogether she was very beautiful in her own estimation and even in the estimation of the men of Mbonga's tribe, though she was of another people--a trophy of war seized in her
maidenhood by one of Mbonga's fighting men.