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, entreating him to give himself and me quarter, I obtain'd at length a short suspension of arms, but not before he had exultingly satisfy'd me that he gave out standing.

The remainder of the night, with what we borrow'd upon the day, we employ'd with unweary'd fervour, in celebrating thus the festival of our re-meeting; and got up pretty late in the morning, gay, brisk, and alert, though rest had been a stranger to us, but the pleasures of love had been to us, what the joy at victory is to an army, repose, refreshment: every thing.

The journey into the country being now intirely out of the question, and orders having been given over-night for turning the horses heads towards London, we left the inn as soon as we had breakfasted, not without a liberal distribution of the tokens of my grateful sense of the happiness I had met with in it.

Charles and I were in my coach, the captain and my companion in a chaise hir'd