and then she held her pocket, and I put in the other after it.

'Tis fweet to feel by what finefpun threads our affections are drawn together.

We set off afresh, and as she took her third ftep, the girl put her hand within my arm-I was just bidding her-but she did it of herself with that undeliberating fimplicity, which fhew'd it was out of her head that she had never feen me before. For my own part, I felt the conviction of confanguinity fo ftrongly, that I could not help turning half round to look in her face, and fee if I could trace out

any

any thing in it of a family likenefsTut! faid I, are we not all relations?

When we arrived at the turning up of the Rue de Gueneguault, I stopp'd to bid her adieu for good and all: the girl would thank me again for my company and kindness-She bid me adieu twice-I repeated it as often ; and fo cordial was the parting between us, that had it happened any where elfe, I'm not fure but I fhould have figned it with a kifs of charity, as warm and holy as an apostle.

But in Paris, as none kifs each other but the men-I did, what amounted to the fame thing

I bid God bless her.

THE

WHEN

PASSPORT.

PARIS.

HEN I got home to my hotel, La Fleur told me I had been enquired after by the Lieutenant de Police-The deuce take it! faid II 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 reached Dover, and looked through my glass 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 fet 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 fuite. The Count had fome little knowledge of me, fo made little or no difficultyonly faid, his inclination to ferve me could reach no farther than Calais,

as

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 shift for myself.- Let me go 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 hotel came into my room to tell me the fame thing, with this addition to it,

that