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WHICH TREATS OF WHAT FURTHER TOOK PLACE IN THE INN, AND OF SEVERAL OTHER

THINGS WORTH KNOWING

With these words the captive held his peace, and Don Fernando said to

him, "In truth, captain, the manner in which you have related this

remarkable adventure has been such as befitted the novelty and

strangeness of the matter The whole story is curious and uncommon, and

abounds with incidents that fill the hearers onder and

astonish to

it that we should be glad if it were to begin again, even though

to-morroere to find us still occupied with the same tale" And while

he said this Cardenio and the rest of them offered to be of service to

hie so

kindly and sincere that the captain was ood-will In particular Don Fernando offered, if he would go back with

hiodfather at the baptism of

Zoraida, and on his own part to provide hi his

appearance in his own country with the credit and comfort he was entitled

to For all this the captive returned thanks very courteously, although

he would not accept any of their generous offers

By this tiht closed in, and as it did, there came up to the inn a

coach attended by some men on horseback, who demanded accommodation; to

which the landlady replied that there was not a hand's breadth of the

whole inn unoccupied