d thought they looked like true Sicariiready to kill anyone for a little money.
They started in a quarter of an hourand half an hour later we set outwith a peasant to guide usand so struck
into a cross road. The mules went at a sharp paceand in seven hours we had done eleven leagues. At ten
o'clock we stopped at an inn in a French villageand we had no more to fear. I gave our guide a doubloon
with which he was well pleasedand I enjoyed once more a peaceful night in a French bedfor nowhere will
you find such soft beds or such delicious wines as in the good land of France.
The next day I arrived at the posting-inn at Perpignan in time for dinner. I endeavoured in vain to think who
could have paid my assassinsbut the reader will see the explanation when we get twenty days farther.
At Perpignan I dismissed my driver and my servantrewarding them according to my ability. I wrote to my
brother at Paristelling him I had had a fortunate escape from the dagger of the assassin. I begged him to
direct his answer to Aixwhere I intended to spend a fortnightin the hope of seeing the Marquis d'Argens. I
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left Perpignan the day after my arrivaland slept at Narbonneand the day after at Beziers.
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