{5} At eleven o'clock on the same night we reached PRAGUE.
As it was my intention to pursue my journey after two days, my first walk on the following morning was to the police-office, to procure a passport and the all-important pass-warrant; my next to the custom-house, to take possession of a small chest, which I had delivered up five days before my departure, and which, as the expeditor affirmed, I should find ready for me on my arrival at Prague.

{6} Ah, Mr.Expeditor! my chest was not there.

After Saturday comes Sunday; but on Sunday the custom-house is closed.

So here was a day lost, a day in which I might have gone to Dresden, and even visited the opera.
On Monday morning I once more hastened to the office in anxious expectation; the box was not yet there.

An array of loaded wagons had, however, arrived, and in one of these it might be.