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The Guest.
Quis novus hic hospes?
Dido apud Virgilium.
Ch’am-maid! The Gemman in the front parlour!
BOOTS’S free Translation of the ?neid.
It was on a fine summer’s day that a solitary2 traveller rode under the old-fashioned archway, and alighted in the court-yard of Meg Dods’s inn, and delivered the bridle3 of his horse to the humpbacked postilion. “Bring my saddle-bags,” he said, “into the house — or stay — I am abler, I think, to carry them than you.” He then assisted the poor meagre groom4 to unbuckle the straps5 which secured the humble6 and now despised convenience, and meantime gave strict charges that his horse should be unbridled, and put into a clean and comfortable stall, the girths slacked, and a cloth cast over his loins; but that the saddle should not be removed until he himself came to see him dressed.
The companion of his travels seemed in the hostler’s eye deserving of his care, being a strong active horse, fit either for the road or field, but rather high in bone from a long journey, though from the state of his skin it appeared the utmost care had been bestowed8 to keep him in condition. While the groom obeyed the stranger’s directions, the latter, with the saddle-bags laid over his arm, entered the kitchen of the inn.
Here he found the landlady10 herself in none of her most blessed humours. The cook-maid was abroad on some errand, and Meg, in a close review of the kitchen apparatus11, was making the unpleasant discovery, that trenchers had been broken or cracked, pots and saucepans not so accurately13
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