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Excerpt from Spain Revisited, Vol. 2 of 2
Many of the passengers in our own and the other diligences, moreover, were young students in the solemn professional garb in which alone sci ence may be acquired in Spain. Most of them had come directly from the masquerade, at the Theatre of the Prince, to the diligence, 'instead of preparing themselves, as would better have he seemed clerical aspirants, by hearing mass. They were talking of various women whom they had entertained, and recounting their respective adven tures in a ?ippant tone. The postilion happened to ask one of them for his ?int and steel. He lifted his cassock, and drew forth a leather pouch containing his smoking apparatus, which be de livered up with the remark I am one of those who always carry the most necessary things with them is there any thing else in which I can serve you? You have only to command! This house is very much at your service l Thus giving him to understand, that, like the student in the masque rade, he carried all his worldly goods with him, and, at the same time, ridiculing the pompous customary profession of service with which a Spa niard places his habitation, and all which it con tains, at the service of the first comer.
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