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    A Traveller Accommodated with a Robber. ...

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    A Traveller , Accommodated With A Robber

    manifested a very decided uneasiness in his aspect at our new acquaintance . I own his appearance struck me as remarkable , and I fell into a train of thought not much to the credit of his character .

    But see what books do for us ! A strange desire and hope came over me , that he was actually a robber , and ( mention it not in the metropolis !) that

    I might be robbed by him ! so that it were done genteely : abstracting only the eight dollars then in my pocket , and respecting my watch and certain trinkets . Fortune

    accommodated me in a manner singularly considerate , yet as if bantering , and with an arch determination to deprive me of all the romance of my adventure : we approach a house by the road-side , and our new friend invites us to partake of some wine . I did so , but told

    Francisco that he should pay . I took this occasion to ask our companion if he had left Granada that morning ; but he said " No—the night before . " Why then , thought I , so long on the road ? But we resumed our journey .

    We now came to the dry bed of the river Xenil , that flows from the Sierra Nevada into the Guaclalquivar at Seville , and thence into the sea ; and passed more than one of those

    A Traveller , Accommodated With A Robber

    deep fissures or clefts in the soil caused by the mountain torrents in the vicinity of this mountainous region , and the road was gradually ascending . I found our new companion was going to stop at Lajar , where I understood we were

    to sleep . The evening had now been closing in , and at the foot of one of these small ascents I saw the stranger spur his horse into a swifter pace and advance before Francisco . I also pressed forward , and was passing

    Francisco when , with much caution , he stopped me with his hand , not removing his eyes from the proceedings of the stranger . Him I saw ride up to two men who sprang from the ground at his approach , and enter into quick and earnest conversation with them . As

    we drew near I could perceive the shining barrels of two muskets partly hid in the folds of the cloaks on the ground . Francisco approached with much caution . The horseman

    spoke to him . At length Francisco unwound the long * red sash , at the end of which was his purse , and he paid some money to these men .

    We were then permitted ( oh , anti-climax of indifference and security ?) to proceed ; and so ended my realization of the robbers of Gil Bias .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 61, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/59/