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"I have been under a mistake all this tiht it was a castle, and not a bad one; but since it

appears that it is not a castle but an inn, all that can be done now is

that you should excuse the payhts-errant, of whom I know as a fact (and up to the present I have

read nothing to the contrary) that they never paid for lodging or

anything else in the inn where they ht be offered theht in return for the

insufferable toil they endure in seeking adventures by night and by day,

in suer and thirst,

cold and heat, exposed to all the inclemencies of heaven and all the

hardships of earth"

"I have little to do with that," replied the innkeeper; "pay me what you

owe me, and let us have no et my money"

"You are a stupid, scurvy innkeeper," said Don Quixote, and putting spurs

to Rocinante and bringing his pike to the slope he rode out of the inn

before anyone could stop hi

to see if his squire was following him