Things being thus adjusted, and all the company dressed, they
went to breakfast about five in the morning; and in less than an
hour after were seated in the diligence, where a profound silence
prevailed. Peregrine, who used to be the life of the society, was
extremely pensive and melancholy on account of his mishap, the
Israelite and his dulcinea dejected in consequence of their disgrace,
the poet absorbed in lofty meditation, the painter in schemes of
revenge; while Jolter, rocked by the motion of the carriage, made
himself amends for the want of rest he had sustained; and the
mendicant, with his fair charge, were infected by the cloudy aspect
of our youth, in whose disappointment each of them, for different
reasons, bore no inconsiderable share. This general languor and
recess from all bodily exercise disposed them all to receive the
gentle yoke of slumber; and in half-an-hour after they had embarked,
there was not one of them awake, except our hero and his mistress,
unless the Capuchin was pleased to counterfeit sleep, in order to
indulge our young gentleman with an opportunity of enjoying some
private conversation with his beauteous ward.
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