standing. I had still hold of her handsand how it happened I can give no account; but I neither asked her-nor drew her-nor did I think of the bed-but so it did happen, we both sat down.

So

I will just shew you, said the fair fille de chambre, the little purse I have been making to-day to hold your crown. she put her hand into her right pocket, which was next me, and felt for it for some time-then into the left." She had lost it."-I never bore expectation more quietly-it was in her right pocket at last she pulled it out; it was of green taffetta, lined with a little bit of white quilted sattin, and just big enough to hold the crown-she put it into my hand --it was pretty; and I held it ten minutes with the back of my hand resting upon her lap-looking sometimes at the purse, sometimes on one side of it.

A stitch or two had broke out in the gathers of my stock the fair fille de

chambre, without saying a word, took out her little housewife, threaded a small necdle, and sewed it up. I foresaw it would hazard the glory of the day; and as she passed her hand in silence across and across my neck in the manoeuvre, I felt the laurels shake which fancy had wreathed about my head.

A strap had given way in her walk, and the buckle of her shoe was just falling off See, said the fille de chambre, holding up her foot-I could not for my soul but fasten the buckle in return, and putting in the strap-and lifting up the other foot with it, when I had done, to see both were right-in doing it too suddenly it unavoidably threw the fair fille de chambre off her centre-and then-

THE CONQUEST.

PARIS.

YES and then-Ye whose clay-cold heads and lukewarm hearts can argue down or mask your passions-tell me, what trespass is it that man should have them? or how his spirit stands answerable to the father of spirits, but for his conduct under them?

If Nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece— must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?-Whip me such stoics, great Governor of nature! said I to myselfWherever thy providence shall place me for the trials of my virtue-whatever is my danger-whatever is my situation

let me feel the movements which rise out of it, and which belong to me as a man; and if I govern them as a good one, I will trust the issues to thy justice; for thou hast made us, and not we ourselves.

As I finished my address, I raised the fair fille de chambre up by the hand, and led her out of the room-she stood by me till I locked the door and put the key in my pocket-and then-the victory being quite decisive, and not till then, I pressed my lips to her cheek, and taking her by the hand again, led her safe to the gate of the hotel.

THE MYSTERY.

IF

PARIS.

F a man knows the heart, he will know it was impossible to go back instantly to my chamber-it was touching a cold key with a flat third to it, upon the close of a piece of music, which had called forth my affections; therefore, when I let go the hand of the fille de chambre, I remained at the gate of the hotel for some time, looking at every one that passed by, and form ing conjectures upon them, till my atten tion got fixed upon a single object which confounded all kind of reasoning upon him.

It was a tall figure of a philosophic, serious, adust look, which passed and repassed sedately along the street, making a