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Being got out of town in the road to Penaflor, master of my own action, and forty good ducats; the first thing I did was to give my mule her head, and to go at what pace she pleased.
I left them in the inn, and continued my journey; I was hardly got half-a-mile farther, when I met a cavalier very genteel, -- Gil Blas.