The good steed, grievously fatigued with so long a day's journey under a rider cased in mail, had no sooner found, by the slackened reins, that he was abandoned to his own guidance, than he seemed to assume new strength and spirit; and whereas, formerly he had scarce replied to the spur, otherwise than by a groan, he now, as if proud of the confidence reposed in him, pricked up his ears, and assumed, of his own accord, a more lively motion.
De amint a gyeplő lazulásából megértette, hogy szabadjára engedték, egészen felvidult, szinte új erőre kapott. Eddig még a sarkantyúval sem törődött, legfeljebb nyögéssel-horkan­tás­sal hederített rá - de most már nem volt szükség sarkantyúra.