Here,
Too, I Found A Young Irish Recollet, In His Way From Rome To His
Own Country.
He complained, that he was almost starved by the
inhospitable disposition of the French people; and that the
regular clergy, in particular, had treated him with the most
cruel disdain.
I relieved his necessities, and gave him a letter
to a gentleman of his own country at Montpellier.
When I rose in the morning, and opened a window that looked into
the garden, I thought myself either in a dream, or bewitched. All
the trees were cloathed with snow, and all the country covered at
least a foot thick. "This cannot be the south of France, (said I
to myself) it must be the Highlands of Scotland!" At a wretched
town called Muy, where we dined, I had a warm dispute with our
landlord, which, however, did not terminate to my satisfaction. I
sent on the mules before, to the next stage, resolving to take
post-horses, and bespoke them accordingly of the aubergiste, who
was, at the same time, inn-keeper and post-master. We were
ushered into the common eating-room, and had a very indifferent
dinner; after which, I sent a loui'dore to be changed, in order
to pay the reckoning. The landlord, instead of giving the full
change, deducted three livres a head for dinner, and sent in the
rest of the money by my servant. Provoked more at his ill
manners, than at his extortion, I ferreted him out of a bed-chamber,
where he had concealed himself, and obliged him to
restore the full change, from which I paid him at the rate of two
livres a head.
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