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The stranger rode on communing in this manner with his mule and Julia till he arrived at his inn, where, as soon as he arrived, he alighted saw his mule, as he had promised it, taken good care of took off his cloak-bag, with his crimson-sattin breeches, &c. in it called for an omelet to his supper, went to his bed about twelve o'clock, and in five minutes fell fast asleep.
It was one cool refreshing evening, at the close of a very sultry day, in the latter end of the month of August, when a stranger, mounted upon a dark mule, with a small cloak-bag behind him, containing a few shirts, a pair of shoes, and a crimson-sattin pair of breeches, entered the town of Strasburg.
Poor devil, thou'rt sadly tired with thy journey! come get on a little faster there's nothing in my cloak-bag but two shirts a crimson-sattin pair of breeches, and a fringed Dear Julia! But why to Frankfort? is it that there is a hand unfelt, which secretly is conducting me through these meanders and unsuspected tracts?
From his first parley with the centinel, to his leaving the city of Strasburg, after pulling off his crimson-sattin pair of breeches, is the Protasis or first entrance where the characters of the Personae Dramatis are just touched in, and the subject slightly begun.
The stranger had just taken three turns upon the parade, when he perceived the trumpeter's wife at the opposite side of it so turning short, in pain lest his nose should be attempted, he instantly went back to his inn undressed himself, packed up his crimson-sattin breeches, &c. in his cloak-bag, and called for his mule.
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