Wall, after we got on the cars agin, bag and baggage, and I thought, my soul, owin’ to the utter shiftlessness and slowness, that we never should git fairly to goin’.
After Josiah wuz set at rest agin concernin’ his dressin’-gown, and I settled down about my nightcap, little did I think that we should have to go through the hull performance agin in a few hours.
But we did—the hull seen was enacted agin, my pardner’s anxiety and all. Only these new officials hadn’t the sense to appreciate my nightcaps—they turned ’em over as if they wuz common apparel.
Martin and Alice took everything of the sort with composure and good nater; they wuz ust to it, I spoze, travellin’ round all the time. And Al Faizi looked on the faces of the men with that searchin’, enquirin’ gaze of hisen, and didn’t say nothin’. Adrian wuz tired, I could see, and when we got into the carriage to take us to our hotel, he kinder laid down in my lap and went to sleep.
Good, pretty little creeter!
San Sebastian is situated on sech a beautiful little bay that they have named it the Concha, or shell, as we would call it. It is a noted waterin’-place, and Queen Isabella ust to come here summers and water herself, and bathe, and act. If I’d been here I should have gin her a talkin’ to; I dare presoom to say I could have got her to turn right round in her tracts and got her to behavin’; I presoom, in all the crowds around her, there wuzn’t one well-wisher to walk up and tell her what wuz what. No; praise to her face and back-bitein’ to her back.
I’d ort to been there! She had a hard time all her life, and I’m real sorry for her, and she would have read it in my mean, and took my advice as it wuz meant to be took.
Wall, we stayed here two days, and I wuz glad, indeed, of the rest. I wuz willin’ to spend my time with St. Sebastian, while the rest spent their time a-meanderin’.
Martin and Josiah and the rest made lots of excursions to all the castles and cathedrals in the vicinity, but I felt middlin’ satisfied to see the most on ’em from the outside. The ruffs of ’em, viewed from my bedroom winder, seemed to satisfy my mind as I looked out on ’em dreamily, as I applied arnaky to my knee jints. I wuz real lame, but recooperated a good deal while here.
I did take one or two drives, when I wuz charmed with the strange and picteresque scenery. In some places to see the mountains a-standin’ up all round us in the fur blue distance, and the queer little hamlets nestled down in the deep green valleys.