In
This Manner Did We Travel Three Long Miles, Making Almost An
Intire Circuit Of The City-Wall, Without Seeing
The face of a
human creature, and at length reached the gate, where we were
examined by the guard, and
Allowed to pass, after they had told
us it was a long mile from thence to the house of Vanini, where
we proposed to lodge. No matter, being now fairly within the
city, I plucked up my spirits, and performed the rest of the
journey with such ease, that I am persuaded, I could have walked
at the same pace all night long, without being very much
fatigued. It was near ten at night, when we entered the auberge
in such a draggled and miserable condition, that Mrs. Vanini
almost fainted at sight of us, on the supposition that we had met
with some terrible disaster, and that the rest of the company
were killed. My wife and I were immediately accommodated with dry
stockings and shoes, a warm apartment, and a good supper, which I
ate with great satisfaction, arising not only from our having
happily survived the adventure, but also from a conviction that
my strength and constitution were wonderfully repaired: not but
that I still expected a severe cold, attended with a terrible fit
of the asthma: but in this I was luckily disappointed. I now for
the first time drank to the health of my physician Barazzi, fully
persuaded that the hardships and violent exercise I underwent by
following his advice, had greatly contributed to the re-establishment
of my health.
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