How thankful I was when
it was all over, and I was driven away and out of sight. Would that I
could have felt that it was out of mind also! Pray heaven that it is so
now, and that she is married happily among her own people, and has
forgotten me!
And now began a long and tedious journey with which I should hardly
trouble the reader if I could. He is safe, however, for the simple
reason that I was blindfolded during the greater part of the time. A
bandage was put upon my eyes every morning, and was only removed at night
when I reached the inn at which we were to pass the night. We travelled
slowly, although the roads were good. We drove but one horse, which took
us our day's journey from morning till evening, about six hours,
exclusive of two hours' rest in the middle of the day. I do not suppose
we made above thirty or thirty-five miles on an average. Each day we had
a fresh horse. As I have said already, I could see nothing of the
country. I only know that it was level, and that several times we had to
cross large rivers in ferry-boats. The inns were clean and comfortable.
In one or two of the larger towns they were quite sumptuous, and the food
was good and well cooked.
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