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MONTRIUL

As La Fleur went the whole tour of France and Italy with me, and will be often upon the stage, I must interest the reader a little further in his behalf, by saying that I had never less reason to repent of the impulses which generally do determine me than in regard to this fellow;-he was a faithful, affectionate, simple soul as ever trudged after the heels of a philosopher; and notwithstanding his talents of drum-beating and spatterdash-making, which, though very good in themselves, happened to be of no great service to me, yet was I hourly recompensed by the festivity of his temper; - it supplied all defects—I had a constant resource in his looks in all difficulties and distresses of my own -I was going to have added of his too; but La Fleur was out of the reach of everything; for whether it was hunger or thirst, or cold, or nakedness, or watchings, or whatever stripes of ill-luck La Fleur met with in our journeyings, there was no index in his physiognomy to point them out by, -- he was

eternally the same; so, if I am a piece of a philosopher, which Satan now and then puts it into my head I am,-it always mortifies the pride of the conceit, by reflecting how much I owe to the complexional philosophy of this poor fellow, for shaming me into one of a better kind. With all this, La Fleur had a small cast of the coxcomb;

- but he seemed, at first sight, to be more a coxcomb of nature than of art; and, before I had been three days in Paris with him, he seemed to be no coxcomb at all.

Montriul

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