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Then, when he agaiu resumed his journey, the 

 coachmen who drove by called out now and again to 

 ask him if he would not ride on the outside of their 

 coaches ; and the farmers riding past on horseback 

 said, with an air of pity, " 'Tis warm walking, sir;" 

 and, more than all, as he passed through the villages, 

 every old woman would come to her door and cry 

 pitifully, " Good God ! " 



And so he came to "Windsor, where, as he entered 

 an inn and desired to have something to eat, the 

 countenances of the waiters soon gave him to under- 

 stand that they thought our pedestrian little, if 

 anything, better than a Ijeggar. In this contempt- 

 uous manner they served him, but, to do them 

 justice, they allowed him to pay like a gentleman. 

 " Perhaps," says Pastor Moritz, " this was the first 

 time these pert, be-powdered puppies had ever been 

 called on to wait on a poor devil who entered the 

 place on foot." To add to this indignity, they showed 

 him into a bedroom which more resembled a cell for 

 malefactors than aught else, and when he desired a 

 better room, told him, with scant ceremony, to go 

 back to Slough, This, by the way, *^\as at the 

 " Christopher," at Eton. Crossing the bridge into 

 Windsor agaiu, he found himself opposite the Castle, 

 and at the gates of a very capital inn, with several 

 officers and persons of distinction going in and out. 

 Here the landlord received him with civility, but the 

 chambermaid who conducted him to his room did 

 nothing but mutter and grumble. After an evening 

 walk he returned, at peace with all men ; but the 

 waiters received him gruffly, and the chambermaid, 



