nothing however, faid I, within myfelf.

The Griffet would fhew me every thing I was hard to please: fhe would not feem to fee it; fhe open'd her little magazine, laid all her laces one after another before me-unfolded and folded them up again one by one with the most patient sweetness -I might buy-or not-fhe would let me have every thing at my own price -the poor poor creature feem'd anxious to get a penny; and laid herself out to win me, and not fo much in a manner which feem'd artful, as in one I felt fimple and careffing.

If

If there is not a fund of honest cullibility in man, fo much the worfe -my heart relented, and I gave up

my second resolution as quietly as the firft-Why fhould I chastise one for the trespass of another? If thou art tributary to this tyrant of an hoft, thought I, looking up in her face, fo much harder is thy bread.

If I had not had more than four Louis d'ors in my purse, there was no fuch thing as rifing up and fhewing her the door, till I had firft laid three of them out in a pair of ruffles.

-The mafter of the hotel will fhare the profit with her-no mat

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ter-then I have only paid as many a poor foul has paid before me for an act he could not do, or think of.

THE RIDDLE.

PARIS.

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HEN La Fleur came up to wait upon me at fupper, he told me how forry the mafter of the hotel was for his affront to me in bidding me change my lodgings.

A man who values a good night's reft will not lay down with enmity in his heart if he can help it-So 1 bid La Fleur tell the mafter of the hotel, that I was forry on my fide for the occafion I had given him

and you may tell him, if you will, La Fleur, added I, that if the young woman fhould call again, I fhall not fee her.

This was a facrifice not to him, but myself, having resolved, after so narrow an escape, to run no more rifks, but to leave Paris, if it was poffible, with all the virtue I enter'd

it.

C'eft deroger à nobleffe, Monfieur, faid La Fleur, making me a bow down to the ground as he said it-Et encore Monfieur, faid he, may change his fentiments-and if (per hazard) he fhould like to amufe himselfI find