him how he liked the station; he gave me one
of the old looks, shrugged his shoulders, but said nothing--it was,
however, a shrug condemnatory. I then asked him would he ever make
another pilgrimage? He answered me by another shrug, a grave look, dryly
raising his eye-brows, and a second appeal to his feet, all of which
I easily translated into strong negatives. We refreshed ourselves in
Petigo.

When we were on the way home, I observed that, although the singular
and fatal accident which befell the young man in the prison excited very
little interest at the time of its occurrence, yet no sooner had they
who witnessed it got clear of the island, than it was given with every
possible ornament; so that it would be as easy to recognize the
plain fact, when decked out by their elucidations, as it would be to
understand the sense of an original author, after it has come through
the hands of half a hundred commentators. But human nature is a darker
enigma than any you could find, in the "Lady's Magazine." Who would
suppose, for instance, that it was the same motive which set their
tongues wagging now, that had chained their spirits by the strong force
of the marvellous and the terrible, while they were in prison! Yet this
was the fact; but their influence hung while there, like the tyrant's
sword, over each individual head; and until the danger of falling asleep
in the "Prison" was past, they could feel no interest for anything
beyond themselves. In both cases, however, they were governed by the
force of the marvellous and the terrible.

When we had finished our journey for the day, I was glad to find a
tolerable bed; and never did man enjoy such a luxury of sweet sleep as I
did that night. My old companion, too, evinced an attention to me seldom
experienced in an accidental traveller. She made them get down water and
bathe my feet, and asked me at what hour I would set out in the morning,
telling me that she would see my clothes brushed, and everything done
herself--so minute was the honest creature in her little attentions. I
told her I would certainly take a nap in the morning, as I had slept so
little for the last three nights, and was besides so fatigued. "Musha to
be sure, and why not, agra! afther the hard bout you had in that blessed
Island! betoken that you're tinder and too soft rared to bear it
like them that the work hardens; sleep!--to be sure you'll sleep your
fill--you want it, in coorse; and now go to bed, an