41& TRAVELS IN 
The man and his wife embraced my offef 
With thofe expreffions of gratitude which an 
important fervice is fare to draw from fufcep- 
tible minds ; and I concluded with telling 
them, that to arrive at the valley and the 
houfe in queftion would be a bufmefs attended 
with little difficulty, as they would only have 
to follow the traces of my waggons. 
This converfation had occupied a confider- 
able portion of my evening. Before v/e fepa* 
rated for the night, I treated the travellers with 
tea and coffee ; and they retired to their beds, 
joy fparkling in their countenances as they quit- 
ted me, at which I confefs I was fenfiblyaffeded. 
For my part, I w^ent and threw myfelf again 
on the mattrefs in the waggon. My illnefs and 
lieadach however weie fo increafed, that I could 
not fleep for afingle moment during the whole, 
night. I ought to have felt fome anxiety 
about the caufe of this fleepleffnefs ; but I ftill 
deceived myfelf, and afcribed it to the emotion 
this fmgular adventure had occafioned me. 
The next morning, my vifitors came to tell 
me that, ftill more confirmed in their refolution 
of embracing my propofal than on the pre- 
ceding evening, they were about to prepare 
for 
