"Alas! by some degree of woe,
We every bliss obtain;"
So we found a good fire and good cheer an ample recompence for our wet jackets. It was so very dark, that though I led my horse by the head above a league, I could but seldom see him: nor do I remember in my whole life to have met with any difficulty which so agitated my mind:—no: not even at the bar of the House of Lords, I did not dread the danger so much, as the idea of tumbling my family over a precipice, without the power to assist them; or, if they were gone, resolution enough to follow them.
END of the FIRST VOLUME.
Footnotes
[A] The Bishops in Spain are attended and waited upon by inferior clergy.
[B] Bath.
[C] The arms of the Abbey are—A saw in the middle of a rock.
[D] Mr. Thalditzer.