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_Par_. You give me most egregious indignity. _Laf_. Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy of it. "_All's Well that Ends Well_. "
Naturally anxious to behold a country from which we had hitherto been excluded for so many years, we all applied for leave to go on shore, and obtained it. Even the seamen were allowed the same indulgence, and went in parties of twenty and thirty at a time. We were followed and gaped at by the people; but shunned at the same time as "hereticos. " The inns of the town, like all the rest of them in Spain, have not improved since the days of the immortal Santillana -- they were all more or less filled with the lowest of the rabble, and a set of bravos, whose calling was robbery, and who cared little if murder were its accompaniment. The cookery was execrable. Garlic and oil were its principal ingredients. The olla podrida, and its constant attendant, the tomato sauce, were intolerable, but the wine was very well for a midshipman.