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Am glad of it, said I, settling the account with myself as I walk'd into Lyons—my chaise being all laid higgledy-piggledy with my baggage in a cart, which was moving slowly before me—I am heartily glad, said I, that 'tis all broke to pieces; for now I can go directly by water to Avignon, which will carry me on a hundred and twenty miles of my journey, and not cost me seven livres—and from thence, continued I, bringing forwards the account, I can hire a couple of mules—or asses, if I like, (for no body knows me) and cross the plains of Languedoc, for almost nothing—I shall gain four hundred livres by the misfortune clear into my purse;