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CH. IV. 
horse and galloping off. Whereupon we were 
confidentially informed that the only individual 
possessing a carriage in Freiburg who had re- 
refused to contribute it to the day’s excursion 
was his Eminence the Prince Archbishop. 
Some time having elapsed in dismal silence, 
we concluded that we had lost our intended 
excursion, and grieved more especially for 
the fair bride’s disappointment. It was getting 
near eight o’clock, when we suddenly heard the 
clatter of hoofs and the sound of carriage wheels, 
and there drew up at the Town Hall a grand 
capacious coach, with four fine long-tailed black 
horses, a corpulent coachman in purple livery, 
and, hanging on behind, a footman in the same, 
and a chasseur in green and gold ! 
‘ The two latter descended ; one threw open 
the coach door, the other rattled down the steps, 
and in we went as directed. I thought Madame 
Eschricht would have vanished in the depth of 
the purple cushion on which she sank! No 
sooner were we all seated than the steps were put 
up, the door banged to, clack went the coach- 
man’s whip, and we were rattling over the town 
pavement in a style that brought all the remaining 
residents, as it seemed, to be spectators. 
‘ Now the solution of this unexpected phe- 
nomenon, as the cavalier Professor afterwards 
explained to me, was as follows : — 
‘ Deeply Impressed by the disgrace which he 
