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These equipages adorned the yard of the hotel at Martigny, on the return

of the family from their mountain excursion Other vehicles were there,

on the road, fro frolish fair put upon a wooden tray on

wheels, and having another wooden tray without wheels put atop of it--to

the trie But there was another adornained for Two strange travellers

embellished one of his rooms

The Innkeeper, hat in hand in the yard, swore to the courier that he was

blighted, that he was desolated, that he was profoundly afflicted, that

he was the most miserable and unfortunate of beasts, that he had the

head of a wooden pig He ought never to have enteel lady had so passionately prayed him for the

accommodation of that room to dine in, only for a little half-hour, that

he had been vanquished The little half-hour was expired, the lady and

gentle their little dessert and half-cup of coffee, the

note was paid, the horses were ordered, they would depart i to an unhappy destiny and the curse of Heaven, they were not

yet gone Nothing could exceed Mr Dorrit's indignation, as he turned at the foot