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 ¬gratified with a sight within the Royal pre- cincts, far more inviting, which would fully ac- count for the solitude that had surprized me; he added, that there would be but little dif- ference between being buried under the turf in those solitary recesses which had filled me with such rapture, or rolling over them in the most costly equipage. — " Now, now," said he, as we rode onward, " now we come to the scene of true splendour and delight." — At this moment, being still galloping from impatience, we turned short round a dead wall, and the wind being very high, my hat was suddenly beat off, and my head entangled in what I took to be a market-woman's basket of flowers, but which turned out to be only the head-dress of a lady that had been blown out of an open car- riage just at the corner we were turning. — As soon as this wreck was cleared away by my friend's assistance, and we were preparing to move forwards, we were involved all at once in a seemingly impenetrable whirlwind of dust and gravel which when mixed with the smoke -driven ¬