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"Being got out of town, the first thing I did was to give my mule her head. " -- /Gil Blas/.
ALTHOUGH the character of Maltravers was gradually becoming more hard and severe, -- although as his reason grew more muscular, his imagination lost something of its early bloom, and he was already very different from the wild boy who had set the German youths in a blaze, and had changed into a Castle of Indolence the little cottage tenanted with Poetry and Alice, -- he still preserved many of his old habits; he loved, at frequent intervals, to disappear from the great world -- to get rid of books and friends, and luxury and wealth, and make solitary excursions, sometimes on foot, sometimes on horseback, through this fair garden of England.