ment vous êtes Flammande? faid the French captainThe lady answered fhe was- Peut-être de Lisle ? added he-She faid, fhe was not of Lifle.- Nor Arras? nor Cambray? nor Ghent? - Nor Bruffels? She answered, she was of Bruffels.

He had had the honor, he faid, to be at the bombardment of it laft war-that it was finely fituated, pour cela and full of nobleffe when the Imperialists were driven out by the French (the lady made a flight curtfy) - fo giving her an account of the affair, and of the fhare he had had in it-he begg'd the honor to know her name- fo made his bow.

Et Madame a fon Mari? faid he, looking back when he had made two steps-and without ftaying for an answer- danced down the street.

Had I ferved feven years apprenticeship to goodbreeding, I could not have done as much.

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CALAI S.

As the little French captain left us, Monfieur Deffein came up with the key of the Remife in his hand, and forthwith let us into his magazine of chaises.

The first object which caught my eye, as Monfieur

Deffein open'd the door of the Remife, was another old tatter'd Defobligeant: and notwithstanding it was the exact picture of that which had hit my fancy fo much in the coach-yard but an hour before-the very fight of it stirr'd up a difagreeable fenfation within me now; and I thought 'twas a churlish beast into whofe heart the idea could firft enter, to conftruct fuch a machine; nor had I much more charity for the man who could think of using it.

I observed the lady was as little taken with it as myself: fo Monfieur Deffein led us on to a couple of chaifes which ftood abreaft, telling us, as he recommended them, that they had been purchased by my Lord A. and B. to go the grand tour, but had gone no further than Paris, fo were in all refpects as good as new-They were too good-fo I pafs'd on to a third, which stood behind, and forth with began to chaffer for the price. But 'twill scarce hold two, faid I, opening the door and getting inHave the goodness, Madam, faid Monfieur Deffein, offering his arm, to step in -The lady hesitated. half a fecond, and stepp'd in; and the waiter that moment beckoning to speak to Monfieur Dessein, he fhut the door of the chaife upon us, and left us.

THE REMISE DOOR.

C'EST

CALAI S.

EST bien comique, 'tis very droll, faid the lady fmiling, from the reflection that this was the fecond time we had been left together by a parcel of nonfenfical contingencies-c'est bien comique, faid fhe

There wants nothing, faid I, to make it fo, but the comic ufe which the gallantry of a Frenchman would put it to to make love the firft mo

ment, and an offer of his perfon the fecond.

"Tis their fort, replied the lady.

and how it has come

It is fuppofed fo at least to pass, continued I, I know not; but they have certainly got the credit of understanding more of love, and making it better than any other nation upon earth; but for my own part, I think them errant bunglers, and in truth the worst set of marksmen that ever tried Cupid's patience.

To think of making love by fentiments!

I fhould as foon think of making a genteel fuit of cloaths out of remnants: and to do it

pop

at first fight by declaration is fubmitting the offer and themselves, with it, to be fifted with all their pours and contres, by an unheated mind.

The

The lady attended as if fhe expected I fhould go on.

Confider then, madam, continued I, laying my hand upon her's—

That grave people hate Love for the name's

fake

That selfish people hate it for their own—
Hypocrites for heaven's-

And that all of us, both old and young, being ten times worse frighten'd than hurt by the very report

What a want of knowledge in this branch of commerce a man betrays, whoever lets the word come out of his lips, till an hour or two at least after the time, that his filence upon it becomes tormenting. A courfe of fmall, quiet attentions, not fa pointed as to alarm nor fo vague as to be mifunderstood with now and then a look of kindnefs, and little or nothing faid upon it leaves nature for your miftrefs, and fhe fafhions it to her mind

Then I folemnly declare, faid the lady, blufhing -you have been making love to me all this while,

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MONSIEUR Deffein came back to let us out

of the chaife, and acquaint the lady, the Count de Lher brother, was juft arrived at the hôtel. Though I had infinite good will for the lady, I cannot say that I rejoiced in my heart at the event-and could not help telling her fo-for it is fatal to a propofal, Madam, faid I, that I was going to make to you

You need not tell me what the propofal was, faid fhe, laying her hand upon both mine, as she interrupted me.A man, my good Sir, has feldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman, but she has a prefentiment of it fome moments before

Nature arms her with it, faid I, for immediate prefervation-But I think, faid fhe, looking in my face, I had no evil to apprehend and to deal frankly with you, had determined to accept it. If I had-(fhe ftopped a moment) I believe your good will would have drawn a story from me, which would have made pity the only dangerous thing in the journey.

In faying this, fhe fuffered me to kifs her hand twice, and with a look of fenfibility mixed with a concern, the got out of the chaife-and bid adieu.