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created to learn and serve the wisdom they had acquired, and that
for all his mental incoherency and stumbling behaviour he must have
courage and do his best to learn, and at that all the people in the
door-way murmured encouragingly. He said the night--for the blind
call their day night--was now far gone, and it behooved everyone to
go back to sleep. He asked Nunez if he knew how to sleep, and
Nunez said he did, but that before sleep he wanted food. They
brought him food, llama's milk in a bowl and rough salted bread,
and led him into a lonely place to eat out of their hearing, and
afterwards to slumber until the chill of the mountain evening
roused them to begin their day again. But Nunez slumbered not at
all.
Instead, he sat up in the place where they had left him,
resting his limbs and turning the unanticipated circumstances of
his arrival over and over in his mind.
Every now and then he laughed, sometimes with amusement and
sometimes with indignation.
"Unformed mind!" he said. "Got no senses yet! They little
know they've been insulting their Heaven-sent King and master . .
.
. .
"I see I must bring them to reason.
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