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-You have broke the treaty, Monfieur, faid the lady, who had no more flept than myfelf. I begg'd a thoufand pardons- but infifted it was no more than an ejaculationfhe maintain'd 'twas an entire infraction of the treaty- I maintain'd it was provided for in the clause of the third article.

The lady would by no means give up her point, tho' fhe weakened her barrier by it; for in the warmth of the difpute, I could hear two or three corking pins fall out of the curtain to the ground.

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Upon my word and honour, Madame, faid I-ftretching my arm out of bed by way of affeveration

-I was going to have added, that I would not have trefpafs'd against the remotest idea of decorum for the world

-But the Fille de Chambre hearing there were words between us, and fearing that hofti

lites would enfue in courfe, had crept filently out of her closet, and it being totally dark, had ftolen fo close to our beds, that she had got herself into the narrow paffage which fseparated them, and had advanc'd so far up as to be in a line betwixt her miftrefs and me

So that when I ftretch'd out my hand, I caught hold of the Fille de Chambre's

END OF VOL. II.

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