"Having thus undergone pillage, and being reduced to the extremity
of indigence in a foreign land, it is not to be supposed that my
reflections were very comfortable; and yet, though I sustained the
whole damage, I was the only person in the company who bore the
accident with any resolution and presence of mind. My coachman
and valet seemed quite petrified with fear; and it was not till I
had repeated my directions that the former drove farther into the
wood, and took the first turning to the right, in order to regain
the road, according to the command of the robbers, which I did not
choose to disobey.
"This misfortune I suffered by the misinformation I received at
Antwerp, where I would have provided myself with an escort, had
not I been assured that there was not the least occasion to put
myself to such extraordinary expense. And, indeed, the robbers took
the only half-hour in which they could have had an opportunity of
plundering us; for we no sooner returned into the highway, than
we met with the French artillery coming from Brussels, which was a
security to us during the rest of our journey.
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