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While this conversation passed between Sancho Panza and his wife, Don

Quixote's housekeeper and niece took him in and undressed him and laid

him in his old bed He eyed them askance, and could not ed his niece to be very careful to make her uncle

comfortable and to keep a watch over hi her what they had been obliged to do to bring

him home On this the pair once more lifted up their voices and renewed

their maledictions upon the books of chivalry, and implored heaven to

plunge the authors of such lies and nonsense into the midst of the

bottomless pit They were, in short, kept in anxiety and dread lest their

uncle and ive them the slip the moment he found himself

somewhat better, and as they feared so it fell out

But the author of this history, though he has devoted research and

industry to the discovery of the deeds achieved by Don Quixote in his

third sally, has been unable to obtain any infor them,

at any rate derived from authentic documents; tradition has merely

preserved in the memory of La Mancha the fact that Don Quixote, the third

tiossa, where

he was present at some famous jousts which came off in that city, and