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tenant de Police-The duce take it! faid I-I know the reafon. It is time the reader fhould know it, for in the order of things in which it happened, it was omitted; not that it was out of my head; but that had I told it then, it might have been forgot now-and now is the time I want it.

I had left London with fo much precipitation, that it never enter'd my mind that we were at war with France; and had reach'd Dover, and look'd through my glafs at the hills beyond Boulogne, before the idea prefented itself; and with this in its train, that there was no getting there without a paffport. Go but to the end of a ftreet, I have a mortal averfion for returning back no wiser than I fat out; and as this was one of the greatest efforts I had ever made for knowledge, I could lefs bear the thoughts of it: fo hearing the Count de *** had hired the packet, I begg'd he would take me in his suite. The Count had fome little knowledge of me, fo made little or no difficulty-only faid, his inclination to ferve me could reach no further

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than Calais, as he was to return by way of Bruffels to Paris: however, when I had once pafs'd there, I might get to Paris without interruption; but that in Paris I must make friends and fhift for myself.-Let me get to Paris, Monfieur le Count, faid I, and I fhall do very well. So I embark'd, and never thought more of the matter.

When La Fleur told me the Lieutenant de Police had been enquiring after me-the thing inftantly recurred-and by the time La Fleur had well told me, the mafter of the hôtel came into my room to tell me the fame thing, with this addition to it, that my paffport had been particularly afk'd after: the master of the hôtel concluded with faying, He hoped I had one.Not I, faith! faid I.

The mafter of the hôtel retired three steps from me, as from an infected person, as I declared this and poor La 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;

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and from that fingle trait, I knew his character as perfectly, and could rely upon it as firmly, as if he had served me with fidelity for seven years.

Mon Seigneur! cried the master of the hôtel --but recollecting himself as he made the exclamation, he instantly changed the tone of it -if, Monfieur, said he, has not a passport, apparemment, 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'empêche pas, faid he-you will certainly be sent to the Bastille 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. La Fleur whif per'd in my ear, That no body could oppofe the king of France.

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

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THE HOTEL AT PARIS.

COULD not find in my heart to torture La Fleur's with a serious look upon the fubject of my embarraffinent, which was the reafon I had treated it fo cavalierly: and to fhew him how light it lay upon my mind, I dropt the subject entirely; and whilft he waited upon me at fupper, talk'd to him with more than usual gaiety about Paris, and of the opera comique. -La Fleur had been there himself, and had followed me through the ftreets as far as the bookfeller's fhop; but seeing 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 unnecessary to follow me a ftep further-so making his own reflections upon it, he took a shorter cut-and got to the hôtel in time to be inform'd of the affair of the Police arrival.

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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 pafs'd betwixt us the moment I was going to fet out-I muft tell it here.

Eugenius, knowing that I was as little fubject to be overburthen'd with money as thought, had drawn me afide to interrogate me how much I had taken care for; upon telling him the exact fum, Eugenius fhook his head and faid it would not do; fo pull'd out his purfe in order to empty it into mine.-I've enough in confcience, Eugenius, faid I.-Indeed, Yorick, you have not, replied Eugenius-I know France and Italy better than you. But you don't confider, Eugenius, faid I, refusing his offer, that before I have been three days in Paris, I shall take care to fay or do fomething or other for which I fhall get clapp'd up into the Bastile, and that I fhall live there a couple of months en

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