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"Then what the devil brought you here, being a churchman?" said Don

Quixote

"What, senor?" said the other "My bad luck"

"Then still worse awaits you," said Don Quixote, "if you do not satisfy

me as to all I asked you at first"

"You shall be soon satisfied," said the licentiate; "you h just now I said I was a licentiate, I am only a bachelor, and

my name is Alonzo Lopez; I am a native of Alcobendas, I come from the

city of Baeza with eleven others, priests, the sa to the city of Segovia acco a dead body

which is in that litter, and is that of a gentleman who died in Baeza,

where he was interred; and now, as I said, we are taking his bones to

their burial-place, which is in Segovia, where he was born"

"And who killed hinant fever that took him," answered the

bachelor

"In that case," said Don Quixote, "the Lord has relievedhis death had any other slain hi for it but to be silent, and shrug

one's shoulders; I should do the same were he to slay myself; and I would