us, juft as the lady was returning back to the door of the Remife, he introduced himself to my acquaintance, and before he had well got announced, begg'd I would do him the honour to present him to the lady I had not been prefented myfelffo turning about to her, he did it just as well by afking her, if the had come from Paris? -No: fhe was going that rout, fhe faid, pas de Londre?

-Vous n'etez She was not, fhe replied.Then Madame must have come through Flanders. Apparemment vous etez Flammande ? faid the French. captain. The lady answered fhe was.-Peut-être, de Life? added he-She faid, fhe was not of Lifle. Nor Arras? -nor Cambray ?-Nor Ghent ? -nor Bruffels? She answered, she was of Bruffels,

He had had the honour, he faid, to be at the bonbardment of it laft war-that it was finely fir tuated, pour cela-and full of nobleffe when the Imperialists were driven out by the French (the lady made a flight curtly)-fo giving her an account of the affair, and of the fhare he had had in it-he begg'd the honour to know her name--so

made his bow.

Et Madame a fon Mari?—-said he, looking back when he had made two steps-and without ftaying for an answer-danced down the Atreet.

Had I ferved feven years apprenticeship to goods: breeding, I could not have done as much.

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S the little French captain left us, Monf. Deffein came up with the key of the Remife in his hand, and forthwith let us into his magazine of chaifes.

The firft object which caught my eye, as Monf. Deffein open'd the door of the Remife, was another old tatter'd Defobligeant; and notwithstanding it was the exact picture which had hit my fancy in the coach-yard but an hour before--the very fight of it ftirr'd up a difagreeable fenfation within me now; and I thought 'twas a churlish beaft into whofe heart the idea could firft enter, to conftruct fuch a machine; nor had I much more charity for the man who could think of using it.

I obferved the lady was as little taken with it as myfelf: fo Monfieur Deffein led us on to a couple of chaifes which ftood abreaft, telling us as he recommended them, that they had been purchased by my Lord A. and B., to go the grand tour, but had gone no further than Paris, fo were in all respects as good as new-They were too good-fo I pafs'd on to a third, which ftood behind, and forthwith began to chaffer for the price-But 'twill fcarce hold two, faid I opening the door and getting in-Have the goodnefs, Madam, faid Monf. Deffein, offering his arm, to ftep in-The lady hefitated half a fecond, and ftepp'd in; and the wait er that moment beckoning to fpeak to Monf. Def fein, he shut the door of the chaife upon us, and Jeft us. THE

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C'EST bein comique, 'tis very droll, faid the lady fmiling, from the reflection that this was the fecond time we had been left together by a parcel of nonfenfical contingencies-c'eft bein comique, faid fhe.

-There wants nothing, faid I, to make it fo, but the comic ufe which the gallantry of a Frenchman would put to it-to make love the first moment, and an offer of his perfon the fecond.

'Tis their fort: replied the lady.

It it fuppofed fo at least-and how it has come to país, continued I, I know not; but they have certainly got the credit of understanding more of love, and making it better than any other nation upon earth but for my own part, I think them erfant bunglers, and in truth the worft fet of markfmen that ever tried Cupid's patience.

-To think of making love by fentiments !

I should as foon think of making a genteel fuit of clothes out of remnants :-and to do it-pop-at first fight by declaration-is fubmiting the offer and themselves with it, to be fifted, with all their pours and contres, by an unheated mind.

The lady attended as if the expected I fhould go

Confider

Confider then, Madam, continued I, laying my hand upon hers—

That grave people hate love for the name's fake

That felfish people hate it for their own-

Hypocrites for heaven's→

And that all of us, both old and young, being ten times worse frighten'd than hurt by the very report-What a want of knowledge in this branch of commerce a man betrays, whoever lets the word come out of his lips, till an hour or two at least after the time, that his filence upon it becomes tormenting. A course of small, quiet attentions, not fo pointed as to alarm-nor fo vague as to be misunderstood, with now and then a look of kindness, and little or nothing faid upon it-leaves Nature for your mistress, and fhe fashions it to her mind.

Then I folemnly declare, faid the lady, blushing -you have been making love to me all this while.

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CONSIEUR Deffein came back to let us out of the chaise, and acquaint the lady the Count de L- her brother was just arrived at the hôtel. Though I had infinite good-will for the lady, I cannot fay that 1 rejoiced in my heart at the event-and could not help telling her fo-for

it is fatal to a propofal, Madam, faid I, that I was going to make to you

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-You need not tell me what the propofal was, faid fhe, laying her hand upon both mine, as she interrupted me. A man, my good Sir, has feldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman, but fhe has a prefentiment of it fome moments before.

Nature arms her with it, faid I, for immediate prefervation-But I think, faid the, looking in my face, I had no evil to apprehend-and to deal frankly with you, had determined to accept it-If I had-(fhe ftopp'd a moment)-1 believe your good-will would have drawn a story from me which would have made pity the only dangerous thing in the journey.

In faying this, the fuffered me to kifs her hand twice, and with a look of fenfibility mixed with a concern, fhe got out of the chaife—and bid adieu.

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CALAIS.

NEVER finished a twelve-guinea bargain fo ex-pediously in my life; my time feemed heavy upon the lofs of the lady, and knowing every moment of it would be as two, till I put myfelt into motion-I ordered poít-horses directly, and walked towards the hôtel.

Lord! faid I, hearing the town clock`strike four, and recollecting that I had been little more than a fingle hour in Calais

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