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 turn: even our servants convinced us, by their gestures, that they did not much admire our prudence. Every thing was, besides, in a confusion to which we were not accustomed, and which we had not yet experienced on our excursion. The horses had bad stabling, and not yet got their fodder: no supper was to be seen; and having, at length, put the people of the house in motion, our meal turned out so meagre and miserable, that we went to bed with empty stomachs. We now began, almost at one time, to rail at the people of the house, instead of looking for the cause of our disappointment in our conduct; and were so much infatuated as to curse and to threaten our host, to quarrel with our servants, to beat cats and dogs, and several times were very near falling out with each other before we went to our apartment.

On coming to our bed-chamber, an additional cause of dissatisfaction threw itself in our way; only one spare bed being,