parcel of crowns in my hand to pay for Shakespeare; and, as fhe had let go the purse entirely, I put a fingle one in; and tying up the riband in a bow-knot, returned it to her.

The young girl made me more a humble courtesy than a low one'twas one of thofe quiet, thankful finkings, where the spirit bows itself down-the body does no more than tell it. I never gave a girl a crown in my life which gave me half the pleasure,

My advice, my dear, would not have been worth a pin to you, faid I, if I had not given this along with

it but now, when

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you

fee the crown,

you'll

you'll remember it-fo don't, my dear, lay it out in ribands.

Upon my word, Sir, faid the girl, earnestly, I am incapable-in faying which, as is ufual in little bargains of honour, fhe gave me her hand-En verité, Monfieur, je mettrai cet argent apart, faid fhe.

When a virtuous convention is made betwixt man and woman, it fanctifies their most private walks : fo notwithstanding it was dusky, yet, as both our roads lay the fame way, we made no fcruple of walking along the Quai de Conti together.

She

She made me a fecond courtesy in fetting off, and before we got twenty yards from the door, as if fhe had not done enough before, fhe made a fort of a little ftop to tell me again fhe thank'd me.

It was a fmall tribute, I told her, which I could not avoid paying to virtue, and would not be mistaken in the perfon I had been rendering it to for the world-but I fee innocence, my dear, in your face--and foul befal the man who ever lays a snare in its way!

The girl feem'd affected fome way or other with what I faid-she gave a low figh-I found I was not empowered

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powered to inquire at all after it-fo faid nothing more till I got to the corner of the Rue de Nevers, where we were to part.

-But is this the way, my dear, faid I, to the Hotel de Modene? fhe told me it was--or, that I might go by the Rue de Gueneguault, which was the next turn. Then I'll go, my dear, by the Rue de Gueneguault, faid I, for two reasons; first I fhall please myself, and next I fhall give you the protection of my company as far on your way as I can. The girl was fenfible I was civil -and faid, fhe wifh'd the Hotel de Modene was in the Rue de St. Pierre-You live there? faid I-She told me fhe was fille de chambre to Madame R***

R***-Good God! faid I, 'tis the very lady for whom I have brought a letter from Amiens-The girl told me that Madame R****, fhe believed expected a stranger with a letter, and was impatient to fee him-fo I defired the girl to prefent my compliments to Madame R ****, and fay I would certainly wait upon her in the morn

ing.

We ftood ftill at the corner of the Rue de Nevers whilft this pafs'd-We then stopped a moment whilft fhe difpofed of her Egarements du Cœur, &c. more commodiously than carrying them in her hand-they were two volumes; fo I held the fecond for her whilft fhe put the first into her pocket;

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