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"Still, for all that," said one of those who had entered on horseback,

"rooe here"

At this name the landlady was taken aback, and said, "Senor, the fact is

I have no beds; but if his lordship the Judge carries one with him, as no

doubt he does, let hiive up our rooood, so be it," said the squire; but in the ot

out of the coach whose dress indicated at a glance the office and post he

held, for the long robe with ruffled sleeves that he wore showed that he

was, as his servant said, a Judge of appeal He led by the hand a young

girl in a travelling dress, apparently about sixteen years of age, and of

such a high-bred air, so beautiful and so graceful, that all were filled

with ad seen

Dorothea, Luscinda, and Zoraida, ere there in the inn, they would

have fancied that a beauty like that of this maiden's would have been

hard to find Don Quixote was present at the entrance of the Judge with

the young lady, and as soon as he saw him he said, "Your worship may with

confidence enter and take your ease in this castle; for though the

accommodation be scanty and poor, there are no quarters so cramped or

inconvenient that they cannot make room for arms and letters; above all

if aruide and leader, as letters

represented by your worship have in this fair ht castles to throw themselves open and yield themselves up, but rocks

should rend themselves asunder and ive her a reception Enter, your worship, I say, into this

paradise, for here you will find stars and suns to accos with you, here you will find arhest perfection"