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pity it should be stolen: 'tis a little treafure to thee, and gives a better air to your face, thân if it was dress'd out with pearls.

The young girl listened with a fubmiffive attention, holding her fattin purse by its ribband in her hand all the time - 'Tis a very finall one, said I, taking hold of the bottom of it she held it towards me and there is very little in it, my dear, faid 1; but be but as good as thou art handsome, and heaven will fill it: I had a parcel of crowns in my hand to pay for Shakespear; and as she had let go the purse entirely, I put a single one in; and tying up the ribband in a bowknot, returned it to hery

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So The young girl made me more a humble courtesy than a low one'twas one of those quiet, thankful finkings where the spirit bows the body does no more than tell it. I never gave a girl a crown in my life which gave me half the pleasure.

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Upon my word, Sir, faid the girl, earnestly, I am incapable - in saying which, as is usual in little bargains of honour, she gave me her hand En verité, Monsieur, je mettrai cet argent à part, said the Llod his

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When a virtuous convention is made betwixt man and woman, it fanctifies their most private Walks: fo notwithstanding it was dusky, yet, as both our roads lay the fame way, we made no scruple of walking along the Quai de Conti togethersSHO

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were to part. 11--But is this the way, my dear, faid I, to the hotel de Modene? she told ine it was or, that I might go by the Rue de Guineygaude, which was the next turn. - Then, I'll go, my dear, by the Rue de Guineygaude, faid I, for two reasons; first I shall please inyself, and next I shall give you the protection of my company as far on your way as I can. The girl was sensible I was civil - and faid, the wish'd, the hotel de Modene was in the Rue de St. Pierre You live there? faid I. -- She told ine the was fille de chambre to Madame R -- Good God! faid I, 'tis the very lady for whom I have brought a letter from Amiens The girl told me that Madame R--, she believed, expected a stranger with a letter, and was impatient to see hiin -- fo I defired the girl to present my compliments to Madame Rand fay I would certainly wait upon her in the morning

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We stood still at the corner of the Rue de Nevers whillt this pass'd -- We then stopp'd a anoment whilft she disposed of her Egarements du Coeur &c. more commodioufly than carrying them in her hand - they were two volumes; so I held the second for her whilst she put the first into her pocket; and then she held her pocket, and I put in the other after it.

'Tis sweet to feel by what fine-spun threads our affections are drawn together.

101 We fet off aftesh, and as she took her third step, the girl put her hand within my arm I was just bidding her -- but she did it of herself with that undeliberating fimplicity, which shew'd it was out of her head that she had never feen me before. For my own part, I felt the conviction of confanguinity so strongly, that I could not help turning half round to look in her face, and fee if I could trace out any thing in it of a family likeness - Tut! faid I, are we not all relations?

When we arrived at the turning up of the Rue de Guineygaude, I stopp'd to bid her adieu for good an all: the girl would thank me again for my company and kindness She bid me adieu adieu twice I repeated it as often; and fo cordial was the parting between us, that had it happen'd any where else, I'm not fure but I should have figned it with a kiss of charity, as warın and holy as an apostle.

But in Paris, as none kiss each other but the men --I did, what amounted to the fame thing.

-I bid God bless her.

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When I got home to my hotel, La Fleur told me I had been enquired after by the Lieu tenant de Police The duce take it! faid I I know the reason. It is time the reader should know it, for in the order of things in which it happened, it was omitted; not that it was out of my head; but that had I told it then, it might have been forgot now -- and now is the time I want item bler

I had left London with so much precipitation, that it never enter'd my mind that we were at war with France; and had reach'd Dover, and look'd

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