MY THE MONK CALAIS Y heart smote me the moment he shut the door-Psha! said I, with an air of carelessness, three several times-but it would not do every ungracious syllable I had utter'd, crowded back into my imagination: I reflected, I had no right over the poor Franciscan but to deny him; and that the punishment of that was enough to the disappointed, without the addition of unkind language I considered his grey hairs—his courteous figure seem'd to re-enter and gently ask me what injury he had done me ?—and why I could use him thus?-I would have given twenty livres for an advocate-I have behaved very ill, said I within myself; but I have only just set out upon my travels; and shall learn better manners as I get along. W THE DESOBLIGEANT CALAIS HEN a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. Now there being no travelling |