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"From Mechlin I proceeded to Brussels, where, being known, I got
credit for some necessaries, and borrowed twenty guineas to defray
the expense of my journey to Paris. Having consulted with my
friends about the safest method of travelling through Flanders, I
was persuaded to take places in the public voiture; and accordingly
departed, not without fears of finding one part of the country as
much infested with robbers as another. Nor were these apprehensions
assuaged by the conversation of my fellow-travellers, who, being
of the lower sort of people, that delight in exaggerating dangers,
entertained me all the way with an account of all the robberies and
murders which had been committed on that road, with many additional
circumstances of their own invention. After having been two days
exposed to this comfortable conversation, among very disagreeable
company, which is certainly one of the most disagreeable situations
in life, I arrived at Lisle, where, thinking the dangerous part of
the journey was now past, I hired a post-chaise, and in two days
more reached Paris without any further molestation.
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