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Updated: June 4, 2025
After that they went in procession, two banners being carried before them, in one of which was the picture of Virtue, and that of Fortune in the other. The last went before, carried by a semi-quavering friar, at whose heels was another, with the shadow or image of Virtue in one hand and an holy-water sprinkle in the other I mean of that holy mercurial water which Ovid describes in his Fasti.
"I was about to ask how far it was to " "The Wells!" said he. "Why yes, to be sure, but how did you know that?" "It's use!" said he. "What do you mean?" "They all ask!" said he. "Who do?" "Tramps!" said he. "Oh! so you take me for a tramp?" "Ah!" said he. "And you," said I, "put me in mind of a certain Semi-quavering Friar." "Eh?" said he, frowning a little at the hill.
Before the inn there stood a yellow-wheeled stanhope with a horse which, from his manner of trembling all over for no conceivable reason, and manifest desire to stand upon his hind legs, I conceived to be a thorough-bred; and, hanging grimly to the bridle, now in the air, now on terra firma, alternately coaxing and cursing, was my friend the Semi-quavering Ostler.
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