"It is strange," said he to Martin, "very strange that I should have time to sail from Surinam to Bordeaux; to travel thence to Paris, to Dieppe, to Portsmouth; to sail along the coast of Portugal and Spain, and up the Mediterranean to spend some months at Venice; and that my lovely Cunegund should not have arrived. Instead of her, I only met with a Parisian impostor, and a rascally abbe of Perigord.
¡Con que he tenido yo lugar, le decía á Martin, para pasar de Surinam á Burdeos, para ir de Burdeos á Paris, de Paris á Diepe, de Diepeá Portsmúa, para costear á Portugal y á España, para atravesar todo el Mediterráneo, y pasar algunos meses en Venecia, y aun no ha llegado la hermosa Cunegunda, y en su lugar he topado una buscona y un abate!