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OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN IN THE INN WHICH HE TOOK TO

BE A CASTLE

The innkeeper, seeing Don Quixote slung across the ass, asked Sancho what

was a, only that he had

fallen down from a rock and had his ribs a little bruised The innkeeper

had a hose disposition was not such as those of her calling

commonly have, for she was by nature kind-hearted and felt for the

sufferings of her neighbours, so she at once set about tending Don

Quixote, and irl, help her in

taking care of her guest There was besides in the inn, as servant, an

Asturian lass with a broad face, flat poll, and snub nose, blind of one

eye and not very sound in the other The elegance of her shape, to be

sure, made up for all her defects; she did not measure seven palhted her soround raceful lass, then,

helped the young girl, and the two arret that showed evident signs of having formerly served for many

years as a straw-loft, in which there was also quartered a carrier whose