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384 » THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. | | tents, where bedding was stretched | everything as comfortable af, confidering .the Shon the ground and thore the two women who, limited and, rude nature of the arrangements r spoko French, desired me to reposc myeelf. This | could, have expected. When I had given a 8 ital ° invitation I gratefully accepted. Hot coffeo, egg ; response, declaring my gratitude for the res mi nt biscuits, and butter, together with some cold meat, | I had received, he intimated ¢that if I thoug was spoedily served up; and I made a copious meal. | give any explanation relative, to the circumstances — Tle women then bade me rest myself as ne . I which hed brought me gating peas pre tarbed, for th Prthe eetunpenent would ‘remnai in + iningled frankness and delicacy, assured me that. if urbed, for that the os , he that spot for somo days. 1 thanked them for their ! I preferred romainitty alent har ay teantenent kindness; and they left me, closing the canvass o | would . not Pre tenge - long as I might chooso to wT slept soundly for soveral hours, Indeod, it |romeit with the bend, Tall nothing fk to enter _ i ep soundly —— shat I ke: : d I; full particulars relative to the jewels? but I mas not tl late im te eureke, Pevernth; the md him to understand that I had fled precipitately then I was completely safreshed. : rsecii« handauome sountenance of one of the women peeped | from Barcelona mn ores noe ater Porsoet tal Hh tent; and peroeiving onte "hich she thad family t hed ‘occupied the position of a governess. Ointed to certain ar.angements which she an a +h tht in slumber. On a rudely coustructed table “all the natioa; and _ ’ hat object was to return to meressary wiatcrials for ablutions and the toilet me? I replie a 7 ny . bis intention to re- were spread; and as these details are not without F mance. me “ ares oe present neighbourhood, oeatt scone. nail and sooth Bracken. ol seakaals | but that afterwards he and his band vould be puss ac 9 : ’ \ : , , at i perfumed oi] fur the hair. There was likewise a‘ tho ” he would himself conduct me across the change ot linen; and, in short, every care had been | interva ‘e ; W day into France. 1 aceopted this taken to attaser 06 tay Wane abierrnedirn she th oie, cod several tuasons. In tho first this was cheoring enough; and * could not help ot ‘ . I had ot sufficient mone to travel by any le eed metering fallen into such comfort: bli ance unde did not like to expose my able quarters. The y ene WOIneE, whose narge wes : s eniatinnn position to Don Diego, or receive pecu- Zsabolla, ussisted mo in my toilet = nucwhen it was ansistance from hinf. In tho second place, even completed, ahe invited me to join Hing ens ai part ak if ik d secesed ample funds, Ishould not havo liked ing of tho afternoon meal. On issuing forth from | s = Pe sceeed aco oe eyanco: fur I knew not tle tent, I found a complete banquet spread upon aehens At Jame Knight's malignity might havo tho grass the wholo Dee ae are, cavonn veached "and I thought it quite probable that he would of an English pie-nic. Thero we rt vm suc ici ho incident of the jewels that mnsgos of smoked ham, piles of sausages, huge | givosuch publicity to the i , rine pieces of cheese, vegetables, bread, biscuits, and should s to ee secbaiend. a Seoseaan quantities of grapes and other fruits. Tho cauldron tion I " BCC ssible to travel without a passport ; Was aguin siinmering over the fire; and this huge | would be rould betray me to the authorities as tho iron vessel contained tho favourite Spanish comes- and mine wo vie Barcélon, supposing that lible, called pochero—a sort of soup with quantities a nen nes malty made 7 matter public. of various kinds of meat, pouty: ia ae In the third lace, I was sufficiently interested Plates, dishes, and all the requisite articles of | In - sotomnicns to entertain the wish of bo- crockery aud cutlery were likewiso at ee holdin, somowhat more of their mode of life, in there was no deficiency of wine and spirits. The ry ( Pa oon was & certain romantic charm for such men and women of the band were already seated sie ‘tion as mine. «These wore the principal al the banquet, which they had not however com- | @ tinea tl t at once prompted me to accept Chris- menced, courteously waiting for my appearance. | mo Ys. ‘ sal that I should remain for a fow Don Diego Christoval, rising up from the grass, ae vith bis ben a ve dotfed his, cap*in graceful salutation; and teking ays a thus pans ed. Kvery morning at day- mo by the hand, invited me to place inyself noxt bre k the men of the band, headed by Lon Diego, to him. We accordingly nat down—an . the fes- ve t from®*he encampment, and did not returu tival commenced. But little corfversation took | s¢ ae o oe aftornoon,-when they ound the place during the repast, every one having an appo- ba t ready prepared for then by the women Lito 80, Keen as to causo ample justice to be wone Those on were the wives, ur perbaps the mis- (o the good things abiVve enumerated. When it ; +4cse " ef cartein members of the band: but neither avas over, the mep lighted their pipes, and lounging setae oO ertained to Dun Diego. Their conduct upon the grass, smoked and drank at their veel i inexee rtionably correct; and if they were not hut Don Diego, wlio, it appeared, was, not addicted really wives, they at all events behaved with tho 1o the use of tubacco, proposed to me, if I were not | really wives, a Aee sey of married women. When still too much fatigued, to walk with him along the | discretion aoe ed Pe day, they were invariably hank of the streamlet, “Supposing that ho wished | The a with: rovisions of all kinds; and I noticed lo apeak to me relative to my circumstancos, I ac- inden re p ening, they all assembled in Don cepted the invitation, and we rambled away from Diego's a ry sal here they 1 mained for ebout the encampment. : . ion or els4 in “At free he expressed a hope that I was satisfied action ath “aie necurnaa’ ad obtained with the attention shown me, and that I had found | dividing other gS eo: S be gee ee P _ é mage gg gE IR PT a a a msc gE mp ET I a a a a AE CET, arte ES | Ee Eager COMIC OOS 7 SS (CO)