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OF THE INTERVIEW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE ABOUT HIS

MALADY

Cide Haeli, in the Second Part of this history, and third

sally of Don Quixote, says that the curate and the barber re hi back to his

recollection what had taken place They did not, however, oe theive hiood for the heart and the brain, whence, it was plain to see, all his

misfortune proceeded The niece and housekeeper replied that they did so,

and meant to do so with all possible care and assiduity, for they could

perceive that theirin his right reat satisfaction to the curate and

the barber, for they concluded they had taken the right course in

carrying him off enchanted on the ox-cart, as has been described in the

First Part of this great as well as accurate history, in the last chapter

thereof So they resolved to pay hih they thought it alreed not to touch upon any point connected with

knight-errantry so as not to run the risk of reopening wounds which were

still so tender

They ca up in bed in a

green baize waistcoat and a red Toledo cap, and so withered and dried up

that he looked as if he had been turned into a mummy They were very

cordially received by him; they asked him after his health, and he talked

to thee In

the course of their conversation they fell to discussing what they call