380 RETURN TO QUARTERS. 



If our bodies were exhausted from the severe labour we 

 had undergone, our spirits were sufficiently elevated ; not, it 

 is true, with wine, or rather finkel, of which the dilatory 

 movements of our attendant had deprived us, but with the 

 reflection that a good day's work had been accomplished ; 

 and though the way was long,- yet as we put the best foot 

 forward, we succeeded in reaching quarters three or four 

 hours after sunset. 



