ago; but the question is of no great importance, nor does it affect or

make any alteration in the truth or substance of the story."

"That is true," said the cousin; "continue, Senor Don Quixote, for I

am listening to you with the greatest pleasure in the world."

"And with no less do I tell the tale," said Don Quixote; "and so, to

proceed- the venerable Montesinos led me into the palace of crystal,

where, in a lower chamber, strangely cool and entirely of alabaster,

was an elaborately wrought marble tomb, upon which I beheld, stretched