Chapter Six, The Festivities: Pages 232-254 Summary

The emptying of the Thieves Quarter continues until thirty-six days before the wedding and only a few unruly criminals are left. Yellin instructs a quiet brute and a noisy brute to take care of a drunken but feisty fencer. The noisy brute tries to trick Inigo into coming out of the Quarter, but as Inigo responds, the quiet brute begins rhyming with Inigo's sentences. Fezzik bonks the noisy brute on the head and hides him beneath a blanket. Fezzik hides Inigo in a house and take the unconscious body of the other brute to be counted in Inigo's place. Fezzik returns to the house and nurses Inigo out of his drunken stupor. Fezzik tells Inigo that the six-fingered man is right in Florin City and that Vizzini is dead. As Inigo recuperates he...