As an Englishman does not travel to fee Englishmen, I retired to my room. CALAI S. I Perceived that fomething darken'd the paffage more than myself, as I stepp'd along it to my room; it was effectually Monf. Deffein, the master of the hôtel, who had juft 1eturned from vefpers, and, with his hat under his arm, was moft complaifantly following me, to put me in mind of my wants. I had wrote myself pretty well out of conceit with the Defobligeant; and Monf. Deffein speaking of it, with a fhrug, as if it would no way fuit me, it immediately ftruck my fancy that it belong'd to fome innocent traveller, who, on his return home, had left it to Monf. Deffein's honor to make the moft of. Four months had elapfed fince it had finished its career of Europe in the corner of Monf, Deffein's coach-yard; and having fallied out from thence but a vampt-up bufinefs at the firft, though it had been twice taken to pieces on Mount Sennis, it had not profited much by its adventures - but by none fo little as the ftanding fo many months unpitied in the corner of Monf. Deffein's coachyard. Much indeed was not to be faid for itbut fomething might and when a few words will rescue mifery out of her diftrefs, I hate the man who can be a churl of them. Now was I the mafter of this hôtel, faid I, laying the point of my fore-finger on Mr. Deffein's breast, I would inevitably make a point of getting rid of this unfortunate Defobligeant -it ftands fwinging reproaches at you every time you pass by it. — Mon Dieu! faid Monf. Deffein I have no interest Except the intereft, faid I, which men of a certain turn of mind take, Monf. Deffein, in their own fenfations I'm perfuaded, to a man who feels for others as well as for himself, every rainy night, disguise it as you will, must cast a damp upon your spirits You fuffer, Monf. Deffein, as much as the machine I have always observed, when there is as much four as fweet in a compliment, that an Englishman is eternally at a lofs within himself, whether to take it or let it alone: a Frenchman never is: Monf. Deffein made me a bow. C'est bien vrai, faid he But in this cafe I should only exchange one difquietude for another, and with lofs: figure to yourself, my dear Sir, that in giving you a chaife which would fall to pieces before you had got half way to Paris - figure to yourself how much I should fuffer, in giving an ill impreffion of myself to a man of honor, and lying at the mercy, as I must do, d'un homme d'efprit. The dofe was made up exactly after my own prefcription; fo I could not help taking it and returning Monf. Deffein his bow, without more cafuiftry we walk'd together towards his Remife, to take a view of his magazine of chaifes. IN IN THE STREET. CALA I S. IT muft needs be a hoftile kind of a world, when the buyer (if it be but of a forry poft-chaife) cannot go forth with the feller thereof into the ftreet to terminate the difference betwixt them, but he inftantly falls into the fame frame of mind, and views his conventionist with the fame fort of eye, as if he was going along with him to Hyde-park corner to fight a duel. For my own part, being but a poor fword's-man, and no way a match for Monfieur Deffein, I felt the rotation of all the movements within me, to which the fituation is incid ent - I looked at Monfieur Deffein through and through ey'd him as he walk'd along in profile then, en face thought he look'd like a Jew→→→ then a Turk difliked his wig curfed him by Bafe -And is all this to be lighted fup in the heart for a beggarly account of three or four louisd'or, which is the most I can be overreach'd in? paffion! faid I, turning myself about, as a man naturally does upon a fudden reverfe of fentimentbafe ungentle paffion! thy hand is against every man, and every man's hand against thee Heaven forbid faid fhe, raifing her hand up to her forehead, for I had turned full in front upon the lady whom I had feen in conference with the monk-she had followed us unperceived- Heaven B forbid indeed! faid I, offering her my own-fhe had a black pair of filk gloves open only at the thumb and two fore-fingers, fo accepted it without referve and I led her up to the door of the Remife. Monfieur Deffein had diabled the key above fifty times before he found out he had come with a wrong one in his hand: we were as impatient as himself to have it opened; and fo attentive to the obstacle, that I continued holding her hand almoft without knowing it; fo that Monfieur Deffein left us together with her hand in mine, and with our faces turned towards the door of the Remife, and faid he would be back in five minutes. Now a colloquy of five minutes, in fuch a fituation, is worth one of as many ages, with your faces turned towards the ftreet: in the latter cafe, 'tis drawn from the objects and occurrences without — when your eyes are fixed upon a dead blank-you draw purely from yourfelves. A filence of a fingle moment upon Monf. Deffein's leaving us, had been fatal to the fituation fhe had infallibly turned about fo I begun the converfation inftantly -But what were the temptations, (as I write not to apologize for the weakneffes of my heart in this tour, but to give an account of them) fhall be defcribed with the fame fimplicity, with which I felt them. THE REMISE DOOR. CALAI S. WHEN I told the reader that I did not care to get out of the Defobligeant, because I saw the monk in close conference with a lady juft arrived at the inn I told him the truth; but I did not tell him the whole truth; for I was full as much restrained by the appearance and figure of the lady he was talking to. Sufpicion croffed my brain, and faid, he was telling her what had paffed, fomething jarred upon it within me I wished him at his convent. When the heart flies out before the understanding, it faves the judgment a world of pains-I was certain fhe was of a better order of beings-however, I thought no more of her, but went on and wrote my preface. The impreffion returned, upon my encounter with her in the street; a guarded franknefs with which the gave me her hand, fhewed, I thought, - her good education and her good fenfe; and as I led her on, I felt a pleasurable ductility about her, which spread a calmnefs over all my fpirits - Good God! how a man might lead fuch a creature as this round the world with him! I had not yet feen her face-'twas not material; for the drawing was inftantly fet about, and long |