business at the first, though it had been twice taken to pieces on Mount Sennis, it had not profited much by its adventures - but by none so little as the ftanding so many months unpitied in the corner of Monf. Dessein's coachyard. Much indeed was not to be faid for it - but something might - and when a few words will rescue mifery out of her distress, I hate the man who can be a churl of them.

- Now was I the master of this hôtel, said I, laying the point of my forefinger on Monf. Dessein's breast, I would inevitably make a point of getting rid of this unfortunate Desobligeant-it stands swinging reproaches at you every time you pass by it->

-Mon Dieu! faid Monf. Dessein I have no interest - Except the interest, faid I, which men of a certain turn of mind take, Monf. Dessein, in their own sensations - I'm perfuaded, to a man who feels for others as well as for himself, every rainy night, disguise it as you will, must cast a damp upon your fpirits You suffer, Monf. Dessein, as much as the machine

I have always 'observed, when there is as much four as sweet in a compliment, that an Englishman is eternally at a lofs within himfelf, whether to take it, or let it alone: a Frenchman never is: Monf.

Dessein made me a bow.

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C'est bien vrai, said he - But in this cafe I should only exchange one disquietude for another, and with loss: figure to yourself, my dear Sir, that in giving you a chaise which would fall to pieces before you had got half way to Paris figure to yourself how much I should fuffer, in giving an ill impression of myself to a man of honour, and lying at the mercy, as I must do, d'un homine d'esprit.

The dose was made up exactly after my own

prescription; so I could not help taking it and returning Monf. Dessein his bow, without more casuistry we walk'd together towards his Remise, to take a view of his magazine of chaises,

IN THE STREET.

CALAIS.

It must needs be a hostile kind of a world, when the buyer (if it be but of a forry post-chaise) cannot go forth with the seller thereof into the street to terminate the difference betwixt them, but he instantly falls into the same frame of mind and views his conventionist with the fame fort of eye, as if he was going along with him to Hydepark corner to fight a duel.

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duel. For my own part, being but a poor fword'sman, and no way a match for Monfieur Dessein, I felt the rotation of all the movements within me, to which the situation is incident

I looked at Mon

ey'd him as he

sieur Dessein through and through walked along in profile - then, en face - thought he look'd like a Jew then a Turk - difliked his wig-cursed him by my gods - wished him at the devil

- And is all this to be lighted up in the hear for a beggarly account of three or four Louisd'ors which is the most I can be overreach'd in? Bafe paffion! faid 1, turning myself about, as a man naturally does upon a fudden reverse of fentiment base, ungentle passion! thy hand is against every man, and every man's hand against thee - Heaven forbid! faid she, raising her hand up to her forehead, for I had turned full in front upon the lady whom I had seen in conference with the monk - she had followed us unpercieved Heaven forbid indeed! faid I, offering her my own she had a black pair of filk gloves open only at the thumb and two forefingers, so accepted it without referve - and I led her, up to the door of the Remise.

Monfieur Dessein had diabled the key above fifty times before he found out he had come with a wrong one in his hand: we were as impatient as himself to have

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have it open'd; and so attentive to the obstacle, that I continued holding her hand almost without knowing it; so that Monfieur Dessein left us together with her hand in mine, and with our faces turned towards the door of the Remise, and faid he would be back in five minutes,

Now a colloquy of five minutes, in such a fituation, is worth one of as many ages, with your faces turned towards the street: in the latter cafe, 'tis drawn from the objects and occurrences without - when your eyes are fixed upon a dead blank you draw purely from yourselves. A filence of a fingle moment upon Monfieur Dessein's leaving us, had been fatal to the situation she had infallibly so I begun the conversation in

turned about stantly.

But what were the temptations, (as I write not to apologize for the weaknesses of my heart in this tour, but to give an account of them) shall be described with the fame fimplicity, with which I felt them,

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THE REMISE DOOR.
CALAIS.

When I told the reader that I did not care to get out of the Desobligeant, because I saw the monk in close conference with a lady just arrived at the inn I told him the truth; but I did not tell him the whole truth; for I was full as much restrained by the appearance and figure of the lady he was talking to. Sufpicion crossed my brain, and faid, he was telling her what had passed: something jarred upon it within me- I wished him at his convent.

I was cer

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains tain she was of a better order of beings - however, I thought no more of her, but went on and wrote my preface,

The impreffion returned, upon my encounter with her in the street; a guarded frankness with which she gave me her hand, shewed, I thought, her good education and her good sense; and as I led her on, I felt a pleasurable ductility about her, which spread a calmness over all my spirits