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SICILY AND MALTA. 131
fcers; First, because it always makes them
longer;—Secondly,—Hey-day ! where are
we going now ?—To return then to our
subje£t. We had no sooner left the Capu-
chin convent, than our carriage broke
down, long before we reached the city:
and as walking (at Palermo as well as
Naples) is of all things the moil disgrace-
ful, we Hiked by this unfortunate acci-
dent to have our characters blasted for
ever, However, Philip, our Sicilian ser-
vant, took care to make such a noise about
it, that our dignity did not much suffer.
He kept a little distance before us, pesting
and blading all the way at their cursed
Crazy carriages ;—and swearing that there
never was any thing in the world so in-
famous : that in a city like Palermo, the
capital of all Sicily, Signori of our rank
and dignity mould be obliged to walk
on foot; that it must be an eternal ressec-
tion against the place,—and bawled out
to every person he met, if there was no
K 2 coaches
fcers; First, because it always makes them
longer;—Secondly,—Hey-day ! where are
we going now ?—To return then to our
subje£t. We had no sooner left the Capu-
chin convent, than our carriage broke
down, long before we reached the city:
and as walking (at Palermo as well as
Naples) is of all things the moil disgrace-
ful, we Hiked by this unfortunate acci-
dent to have our characters blasted for
ever, However, Philip, our Sicilian ser-
vant, took care to make such a noise about
it, that our dignity did not much suffer.
He kept a little distance before us, pesting
and blading all the way at their cursed
Crazy carriages ;—and swearing that there
never was any thing in the world so in-
famous : that in a city like Palermo, the
capital of all Sicily, Signori of our rank
and dignity mould be obliged to walk
on foot; that it must be an eternal ressec-
tion against the place,—and bawled out
to every person he met, if there was no
K 2 coaches