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 "I grew, at length, so tranquil and cool, that I was capable of making observations on the company. At first, a general, profound, and anxious silence prevailed amongst us, and was only now and then interrupted by a solitary sigh, which escaped some of our companions. Don Antonio uttered, at length, the greatest oath he could find in the visible agony of his mind. His fair neighbour (for he had carefully avoided to offer his arm to one of the ladies, in order to be at full liberty to take to his heels in case of necessity) conjured him to be quiet. However, he probably mistook this for a challenge to regale the company with some more of his fine exclamations, and repeated every oath he knew, to protest that he was impatient to have the pleasure of engaging a ghost. Yet, notwithstanding these strong protestations, he could not help looking fearfully around now and then, and keeping carefully between the two servants who closed the train. He even made, at