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I dismissed my old man here, and stayed incognito for three or four days in Colchester, and then took a
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in a waggon, because I would not venture being seen in the Harwich coaches.
He smiled at that part, and said he should like the last the best of the two, for he had a kind of horror upon his mind at his being sent over to the plantations, as Romans sent condemned slaves to work in the mines; that he thought the
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into another state, let it be what it would, much more tolerable at the gallows, and that this was the general notion of all the gentlemen who were driven by the exigence of their fortunes to take the road; that at the place of execution there was at least an end of all the miseries of the present state, and as for what was to follow, a man was, in his opinion, as likely to repent sincerely in the last fortnight of his life, under the pressures and agonies of a jail and the condemned hole, as he would ever be in the woods and wilderness of America; that servitude and hard labour were things gentlemen could never stoop to; that it was but the way to force them to be their own executioners afterwards, which was much worse; and that therefore he could not have any patience when he did but think of being transported.
It is true he was not ordered to be sold when he came there, as we were, and for that reason he was obliged to pay for his
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to the captain, which we were not; as to the rest, he was as much at a loss as a child what to do with himself, or with what he had, but by directions.
After some little pause to recover himself, my husband came up with me, and gave the mate thanks for the kindness, which he had expressed to us, and sent suitable acknowledgment by him to the captain, offering to pay him by advance, whatever he demanded for our passage, and for the conveniences he had helped us to.
Nor were his conditions exorbitant, or the man craving and eager to make a prey of us, but for fifteen guineas we had our whole
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and provisions and cabin, ate at the captain's table, and were very handsomely entertained.
This was a disappointment; but, however, I, that was to be discouraged with nothing, told my husband that since we could not get
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to Caroline, and that the country we was in was very fertile and good, we would, if he liked of it, see if we could find out anything for our tune where we was, and that if he liked things we would settle here.
The married couple entered their room, which had a second door opening on a staircase that communicated with the arcade by an obscure narrow
passage.
The sweetheart would pass by the
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which ran into the arcade, and Therese would open the door on the staircase to him.
The dealer in imitation jewelry was seated just opposite the door of the passage, and he had to wait until she was busy, until some young work-girl came to purchase a ring or a brooch made of brass.
Then, rapidly entering the passage, he ascended the narrow, dark staircase, leaning against the walls which were clammy with damp.
One evening while shutting up the shop, Laurent spoke to Therese in the
passage.
He inhaled the sickly odour of the passage, he touched the sticky walls, he saw the dirty shadow that hung about there.
She made superhuman efforts to raise the weight crushing her, to clear her throat and thus give
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to her flood of despair.
From there, he began to examine the persons who issued from the
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on to the pavement of the Rue Mazarine.
But he determined to retain his seat a little longer, and just as he was growing impatient he suddenly saw Therese come rapidly from the
passage.
CHAPTER VIN WHICH THE NARRATIVE OF OUR KNIGHT'S MISHAP IS CONTINUEDFinding, then, that, in fact he could not move, he thought himself of having recourse to his usual remedy, which was to think of some
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in his books, and his craze brought to his mind that about Baldwin and the Marquis of Mantua, when Carloto left him wounded on the mountain side, a story known by heart by the children, not forgotten by the young men, and lauded and even believed by the old folk; and for all that not a whit truer than the miracles of Mahomet.
In the coach there was, as afterwards appeared, a Biscay lady on her way to Seville, where her husband was about to take
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for the Indies with an appointment of high honour.
"All that may be," replied Sancho, "but I know that as to my story, all that can be said is that it ends there where the mistake in the count of the
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of the goats begins."
Be content, Anselmo, and refrain from making further proof; and as thou hast passed dryshod through the sea of those doubts and suspicions that are and may be entertained of women, seek not to plunge again into the deep ocean of new embarrassments, or with another pilot make trial of the goodness and strength of the bark that Heaven has granted thee for thy
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across the sea of this world; but reckon thyself now safe in port, moor thyself with the anchor of sound reflection, and rest in peace until thou art called upon to pay that debt which no nobility on earth can escape paying."
Then they agreed that the captain and Zoraida should return with his brother to Seville, and send news to his father of his having been delivered and found, so as to enable him to come and be present at the marriage and baptism of Zoraida, for it was impossible for the Judge to put off his journey, as he was informed that in a month from that time the fleet was to sail from Seville for New Spain, and to miss the
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would have been a great inconvenience to him.
It is to be observed, that on coming to this passage, the author of this veracious history breaks out into exclamations.
Basilio and Quiteria having thus joined hands, the priest, deeply moved and with tears in his eyes, pronounced the blessing upon them, and implored heaven to grant an easy
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to the soul of the newly wedded man, who, the instant he received the blessing, started nimbly to his feet and with unparalleled effrontery pulled out the rapier that had been sheathed in his body.
With these words he approached the cavern, and perceived that it was impossible to let himself down or effect an entrance except by sheer force or cleaving a passage; so drawing his sword he began to demolish and cut away the brambles at the mouth of the cave, at the noise of which a vast multitude of crows and choughs flew out of it so thick and so fast that they knocked Don Quixote down; and if he had been as much of a believer in augury as he was a Catholic Christian he would have taken it as a bad omen and declined to bury himself in such a place.
"Well then I say," said Sancho, "that of this man they should let pass the part that has sworn truly, and hang the part that has lied; and in this way the conditions of the
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will be fully complied with."
'Sir!' said the doctor, in an awful voice, producing a card, and retiring into an angle of the passage, 'my name is Slammer, Doctor Slammer, sir--97th Regiment--Chatham Barracks--my card, Sir, my card.'
He rushed to the gate, and grasping the iron rails with the energy of desperation, shook it till it rang again, and threw himself against the thick wall as if to force a
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through the stone; but the strong building mocked his feeble efforts, and he beat his hands together and wept like a child.
Heavy footsteps were heard in the passage; the parlour door was suddenly burst open; and the man who had cleaned Mr. Pickwick's boots on his first arrival, rushed into the room, followed by the fat boy and all the domestics.
'Rum old girl,' said Mr. Jingle, as he walked down the
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Sam threw the painted tops into a corner, and led the way through a dark passage, and up a wide staircase.
He paused at the end of a second passage, and held out his hand.
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