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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ... even then to go only more north instead of south, almost cast me into despair. But redress there was none, and I was forced to secure myself a place to Juliers, whence, I was told, I might get on. At any more tranquil period I should have seized this interval for visiting the famous old cathedral and the tomb of Charlemagne; but now I thought not of them; I did not even recollect that Aix-la-Chapelle had been the capital of that Emperor. I merely saw the town through a misty, mizzling rain, and that the. road all around it was sandy and heavy, or that all was discoloured by my own disturbed view. I laid down, in a scarcely furnished apartment, without undressing. 1 suffered no shutter or curtain to be closed, lest I should lose my vehicle; and such was my anxiety, that at three o'clock, by my own watch, I descended to inquire if we were not to set off. 1 wandered about by the twilight of a season that is never quite dark, but met no one. I returned to my chamber, but, always in terror of being forgotten, descended again in a quarter of an hour, though still without success. An hour, says Dr. Johnson, may be tedious, but it cannot be long: four o'clock at last struck, and I ran into a vehicle then ready in the court-yard of the Auberge. I found myself alone, which, at first, was a great relief to my mind, that was overburthened with care and apprehension, and glad of utter silence. Ere long, however, I found it fed my melancholy, which it was my business rather to combat; and I was not, therefore, sorry when a poor woman with a child was admitted from the outside through the charity of the coachman, as the rain grew heavier. At Juliers we stopped at a rather large inn, at the head of an immensely long market-place. It was nearly empty, except where occupied...

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