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 ¬a state of the utmost impatience, as our carriage being broken, we had places in another that- stopped the way, when we were detained for half an hour by an accident too ludicrous to be passed over. — The old woman, whom we had been stopped by at the first house going up stairs, was now just before us going down, and before she had limped half way to the street, our coachman was obliged to drive off, and we had near a quarter of a mile to walk to it in the dark. ¬Not wishing; to distress mv friend any fur- ther, who was always devoted to oblige me, nor ignorantly perhaps to interfere with his sister's advancement in the world, I suffered myself to be still carried onward, from house to house, until the sun, so odious to fashion, most rudely broke in upon us. ¬On my return home, I had, for the first time in my life, an opportunity of comparing the effect of fatigue from useful labour, or cheerful recreation, with the lassitude arising from such ¬ a night ¬
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