Page:Armatafragment00ersk.djvu/255

 ¬hour in our clay's progress? the country seems delightful, and we must see it to great disad- vantage by passing so rapidly through it." " I feel the force of what you say," answered my youthful friend, " and we certainly are by no means tasked to anj- time; on the contrary, we shall reach our destination long before night; but it is far better we should linger in an inn, however irksome it may be, than not travel in the style and fashion of gentlemen — If we went slower we should be taken to be low people of some description or other, and we should lose all the respect with which it is my desire you should be everywhere received." ¬" You must certainly be the best judge," I replied, " of the manners and customs of your own country ; but I cannot possibly comprehend how, when we are masters of our time, it could at all detract from our consequence, that we should appear to consider the health and comfort of those poor animals, without whose strength and willingness to serve us we could not travel at all — ¬you ¬ /n