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Updated: May 1, 2025
The arrival of the procaccio had indeed filled the house with stories as it had with guests.
When mine host appeared, there was a smile of triumph on his countenance. "Perhaps," said he, as he cleared away the table, "perhaps the signor has not heard of what has happened." "What?" said the Englishman, drily. "Oh, the procaccio has arrived, and has brought accounts of fresh exploits of the robbers, signor." "Pish!"
As the procaccio was a kind of caravan of travellers, there were people of every class and country, who had come in all kinds of vehicles; and though they kept in some measure in separate parties, yet the being united under one common escort had jumbled them into companionship on the road.
"Santa Maria!" said she to husband as they retired for the night, "what insensible beings these English are!" In the morning all was bustle at the inn at Terracina. The procaccio had departed at day-break, on its route towards Rome, but the Englishman was yet to start, and the departure of an English equipage is always enough to keep an inn in a bustle.
It was, in fact, the procaccio, and its convoy a kind of caravan of merchandise, that sets out on stated days, under an escort of soldiery to protect it from the robbers. Travellers avail themselves of the occasion, and many carriages accompany the procaccio. It was a long time before either landlord or waiter returned, being hurried away by the tempest of new custom.
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