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A few days after the circumstance which I have last commemorated, it chanced that, as I was standing at the door of the inn, one of the numerous stagecoaches which were in the habit of stopping there, drove up, and several passengers got down. I had assisted a woman with a couple of children to dismount, and had just delivered to her a bandbox, which appeared to be her only property, which she had begged me to fetch down from the roof, when I felt a hand laid upon my shoulder, and heard a voice exclaim: "Is it possible, old fellow, that I find you in this place? " I turned round, and, wrapped in a large blue cloak, I beheld my good friend Francis Ardry. I shook him most warmly by the hand, and said: "If you are surprised to see me, I am no less so to see you; where are you bound to?"
"I am bound for L -- -- ; [274] at any rate, I am booked for that seaport," said my friend in reply.