Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The housekeeper, who had been already well instructed in what she was to

answer, said, "What room or what nothing is it that your worship is

looking for? There are neither room nor books in this house now, for the

devil himself has carried all away."

"It was not the devil," said the niece, "but a magician who came on a

cloud one night after the day your worship left this, and dismounting

from a serpent that he rode he entered the room, and what he did there I

know not, but after a little while he made off, flying through the roof,

and left the house full of smoke; and when we went to see what he had

done we saw neither book nor room: but we remember very well, the

housekeeper and I, that on leaving, the old villain said in a loud voice

that, for a private grudge he owed the owner of the books and the room,

he had done mischief in that house that would be discovered by

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