heart fo full of truft and confidence-fo good, fo gentle and unreproaching?

I WILL not go to Bruffels, replied I, interrupting myself-but my imagination went on-I recalled her looks at that crifis of our feparation, when neither of us had power to fay, Adieu! I looked at the picture fhe had tied in a black ribband about my neck- and blufhed as I look'd at it I would have given the world to have kiffed it--but afhamedAnd fhall this tender flower, faid I, pref

fing it between my hands-fhall it be fmitten to its very root

and smitten, Yorick! by thee, who haft promised to fhelter it in thy breaft?

ETERNAL fountain of happinefs! faid I, kneeling down upon the ground-be thou my witnefs-and every pure fpirit which taftes it, be my witnefs alfo. That I would not travel to Bruffels, unless Eliza

Eliza went along with me, did the road lead me towards heaven?

IN tranfports of this kind, the heart, in fpite of the understanding, will always fay too much.

THE LETTER.

A MIE N S.

ORTUNE had not fmiled upon

Fo

La Fleur; for he had been unfuccefsful in his feats of chivalry-and nặt one thing had offered to signalize his zeal for my service from the time he had entered into it, which was almost four and twenty hours. The poor foul burned with impatience; and the Count de L***'s fervant coming with the letter, being the first practicable occafion which offered, La Fleur had laid hold of it, and VOL. I. H

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in order to do honour to his master, hað taken him into a back parlour in the Auberge, and treated him with a cup or two of the beft wine in Picardy; and the Count de L***'s fervant in return, and not to be behind hand in politenefs with La Fleur, had taken him back with him to the Count's hotel. La Fleur's prevenancy (for there was a paffport in his very looks) foon fet every fervant in the kitchen at eafe with him; and as a Frenchman, whatever be his talents, has no fort of prudery in fhewing them, La Fleur, in less than five minutes, had pulled out his fife, and leading off the dance himself with the first note, set the fille de chambre, the maitre d'hotel, the cook, the fcullion, and all the household, dogs and cats, befides an old monkey, a dancing: I fuppofe there never was a merrier kitchen fince the flood.

MADAME de L***, in paffing from

.her

her brother's apartments to her own, hearing fo much jollity, rung up her fille de chambre to ask about it; and hearing it was the English gentleman's fervant who had fet the whole houfe merry with his pipe, the ordered him up.

As the poor fellow could not préfent himself empty, he had loaden himself in going up stairs with a thousand compli ments to Madame de L***, on the part of his master-added a long apocrypha of inquiries after Madame de L***'s health-told her, that Monfieur his mafter was an defefpoir for her re-establishment from the fatigues of her journeyand, to close all, that Monfieur had received the letter which Madame had done him the honour-And he has done me the honour, faid Madame de L***, interrupting La Fleur, to fend a billet in re

turn.

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MADAME

MADAME de L*** had faid this with fuch a tone of reliance upon the fact, that La Fleur had not power to difappoint her expectations he trembled for my honour-and poffibly might not altogether be unconcerned for his own, as a man capable of being attached to a mafter who could be a wanting en egards vis-a-vis d'une femme; fo that when Madame de L*** afked La Fleur, if he had brought a letter, O qu'oui, faid La Fleur: fo.laying down his hat upon the ground, and taking hold of the flap of his right fide pocket with his left hand, he began to fearch for the letter with his right,-then contrariwife-Diable!then fought every pocket-pocket by pocket, round, not forgetting his fob-Pefte!-then La Fleur emptied them upon the floor-pulled out a dirty cravat-a handkerchief-a comb-a whip-lafh-night-cap-then gave a peep into his hat- Quelle etourderie! He had left the letter upon the

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