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imend a fervant to you—a faithful domeftic
—a prudent, fober fellow in one word, a
n of my own making. Purchafe a couple of
les, one for yourfelf, .and another for him, and
•out as foon as poffible.”
This advice was too much to my own tafte to
negledled : I therefore, next morning, bought
handfome mules, and hired the fervant he
recommended : he was a fellow thirty years
of a limple religious afpecl, bom, as he faid,
the kingdom of Galicia ; his name was Am-
fe de Lamela. Far from being felhili like
er fervants, he made no words about his wages,
afi’ured me he would be contented with what
ny goodnefs I fhould think proper to bellow,
ving provided myfelf likewife with boots, and
(ortmanteau to hold my linen and calh, I
ired with my landlord, and early next morn-
fet out for Burgos, on my way to Madrid.
CHAP. XVI.
\wf that u'0 ought not to tru/l fo much to prof-
frity.
'WJ E llept the firll night at Duennas, and
IV arriving at Valladolid the day following
lint four o’clock in the afternoon, alighted at
ij:nn, which feemed one of the bell in town,
rt the care of my mules to my lacquey, and
ig up Hairs into a chamber, whether I order-
I fervant of the houfe to bring my portman-
|i, felt myfclf a little fatigued, and without
ung off my boots, threw myfelf on the bed,
i'c I fell alleep infenfibly, It being alinoft
it when I waked, I called for Ambrofe, who
H 2 was
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