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larly afk'd after: the mafter of the hotel concluded with faying, He hoped I had one.-Not I, faith! faid I.

The mafter of the hotel retired three steps from me, as from an infected perfon, as I declared this-and poor Le Fleur advanced three fteps towards me, and with that fort of movement which a good foul makes to fuccour a diftrefs'd one-the fellow won my heart by it; and from that fingle trait, I knew his character as perfectly, and could rely upon it as

firmly, as if he had ferved me with

fidelity for feven years.

Mon

Mon feignior! cried the master of the hotel-but recollecting himself as he made the exclamation, he inftantly changed the tone of it-If Monfieur, faid he, has not a paffport (apparament) in all likelihood he has friends in Paris who can procure him one. Not that I know of, quoth I, with an air of indifference.-Then certes, replied he, you'll be fent to the Baftile or the Chatelet, au moins. Poo! faid I, the king of France is a good natured foul-he'll hurt no body.-Cela n'empeche pas, faid he-you will certainly be fent to the Baftile to-morrow morning. But I've taken your lodgings for a month, answer'd I, and I'll not quit them a day before the time for all the kings of France in the world.

world. La Fleur whisper'd in my ear, That no body could oppose the king of France.

Pardi! faid my hoft, ces Meffieurs Anglois font des gens tres extraordinaires-and having both faid and fworn it-he went out.

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THE PASSPORT.

The Hotel at Paris.

ICOULD not find in my heart

to torture La Fleur's with a ferious look upon the fubject of my embarrassment, which was the reafon I had treated it fo cavalierly: and to fhew him how light it lay upon my mind, I dropt the fubject entirely; and whilst he waited upon me at fupper, talk'd to him with more than ufual gaiety about Paris, and of the opera comique.-La Fleur had been there himself, and had followed me through the streets as far as the bookfeller's fhop; but feeing me come

out with the young fille de chambre, and that we walk'd down the Quai de Conti together, La Fleur deem'd it unneceffary to follow me a step further-so making his own reflections upon it, he took a fhorter cut

and got to the hotel in time to be inform'd of the affair of the Police against my arrival.

As foon as the honeft creature had taken away, and gone down to fup himself, I then began to think a little seriously, about my fituation.

-And here, I know, Eugenius, thou wilt fmile at the remembrance of a fhort dialogue which pass'd be

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