complaisance to step in, it will be ready in a moment, and he shall attend you to the place. So I walked in with her to the far fide of the shop, and taking up the ruffle in my hand, which she laid upon the chair, as if I had a mind to fit, she fat down herself in her low chair, and I inftantly fat myself down beside her.

-He will be ready, Monfieur, faid she, in a moment-And in that moment, replied I, most willingly would I fay fomething very civil to you for all these courtesies. Any one may do a cafual act of good nature, but a continuation of them thews it is a part of the temperature; and certainly, added I, if it is the fame blood which comes from the heart, which descends, to the extremes (touching her wrist) I am fure you must have one of the best pulfes of any woman in the world -Feel it, faid the, holding out her arm. So laying down my hat, I took hold of her

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her fingers in one hand, and applied the two fore-fingers of my other to the artery

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-WOULD to heaven! my dear Eugenius, thou hadst passed by and beheld me fitting in my black coat, and in my lacka-day-fical manner, counting the throbs of it, one by one, with as much true devotion as if I had been watching the critical ebb or flow of her fever. How

wouldst thou have laughed and moralized upon my new profession? - and thou shouldst have laughed and moralized on -Trust me, my dear Eugenius, I should have faid, "there are worse occupations in this world, than feeling a woman's pulfe" -But a Griffet's! thou would have faid -and in an open shop! Yorick!

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-So much the better: for when my

views are direct, Eugenius, I care not if

all the world faw me feel it.

THE HUSBAN

PARIS.

HAD counted twenty pulsations,, and was going on fast toward the fortieth, when her husband coming unexpected from a back parlour into the shop, put me a little out in my reckoning.--"Twas no body but her husband, she said, -fo I began a fresh score-Monfieur is so good, quoth she, as he paffed. by us, as to give himself the trouble of feeling my pulfe-The husband took off his hat, and making me a bow, faid, I did him too much honour-and having faid that, he put on his hat and walked

out.

GOOD God! faid I to myself, as he

went out

and can this man be the

husband of this woman?

LET

LET it not torment the few who know

what must have been the grounds of this exclamation, if I explain it to those who do not.

-IN London, a shop-keeper and a fhop keeper's wife feem to be one bone and one flesh: in the several endowments of mind and body, fometimes the one, fometimes the other has it, so as in general to be upon a par, and to tally with each other as nearly as man and wife need to do..

In Paris, there are scarce two orders of beings more different: for the legiflative and executive powers of the shop not resting in the husband, he feldom comes therein some dark and dismal room behind he fits commerceless in his thrum night cap, the fame rough fon of Nature that Nature left him.

THE genius of a people where nothing but the monarchy is falique, having ceded this department, with fundry others, totally to the women-by a continual higgling with customers of all ranks and fizes from morning to night, like fo many rough pebbles shook long together in a bag, by amicable collisions, they have worn down their afperities and sharp angles, and not only become round and smooth, but will receive, some of them, a polish like a brilliant. Monfieur le Mari is little better than the stone under your feet

-SURELY-furely man! it is not good for thee to fit alone-thou wast made for focial intercourse and gentle greetings, and this improvement of our natures from it, I appeal to as my evidence.

-AND how, how does it beat Monfieur? faid she. - With all the benig