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"So it is, I believe," said Sancho, "except the affair of the blanket,

which came to pass in reality by ordinary means"

"Believe it not," said Don Quixote, "for had it been so, I would have

avenged thee that instant, or even now; but neither then nor now could I,

nor have I seen anyone upon whoer to knohat the affair of the blanket was, and the

landlord gave thehed not a little, and at which Sancho would have been no less out of

countenance had not his master once more assured him it was all

enchanth a pitch

that he could persuade himself it was not the plain and simple truth,

without any deception whatever about it, that he had been blanketed by

beings of flesh and blood, and not by visionary and iinary phantoms,

as his master believed and protested

The illustrious company had now been two days in the inn; and as it

seemed to theiving Dorothea and Don Fernando the trouble of going back with Don

Quixote to his village under pretence of restoring Queen Micoht carry him aith them as they proposed,

and the curate be able to take his madness in hand at hoed with the owner of an oxcart who

happened to be passing that way to carry hie ooden bars, large enough to hold Don