When I Got To My Inn, I Received From The Ill-Tempered Maid, Who
Seemed To Have Been Stationed There On Purpose To Plague And Vex Me,
The Polite Welcome, That On No Account Should I Sleep Another Night
There.
Luckily, that was not my intention.
I now write to you in
the coffee room, where two Germans are talking together, who
certainly little suspect how well I understand them; if I were to
make myself known to them, as a German, most probably, even these
fellows would not speak to me, because I travel on foot. I fancy
they are Hanoverians! The weather is so fine that, notwithstanding
the inconveniences I have hitherto experienced on this account, I
think I shall continue my journey in the same manner.
CHAPTER X.
Oxford, June 25.
To what various, singular, and unaccountable fatalities and
adventures are not foot-travellers exposed, in this land of
carriages and horses! But, I will begin my relation in form and
order.
In Windsor, I was obliged to pay for an old fowl I had for supper,
for a bedroom which I procured with some difficulty, and not without
murmurs, and in which, to complete my misadventures, I was disturbed
by a drunken fellow; and for a couple of dishes of tea, nine
shillings, of which the fowl alone was charged six shillings.
As I was going away the waiter, who had served me with so very ill a
grace, placed himself on the stairs and said, "Pray remember the
waiter." I gave him three halfpence, on which he saluted me with
the heartiest "G-d d-n you, sir!" I had ever heard.
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