Eled her up to the door of the Remife.

MONSIEUR Dessein had diabled the key about fifty times before he found out he had come with a wrong one in his hand: we were as impatient as himself to have it opened; and so attentive to the obstacle, I continued holding her hand, almost without knowing it; so that. Monfieur Deffein 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 withoutwhen your eyes are fixed upon a dead

blank-you draw purely from yourselves. A filence of a fingle moment upon Monfieur Deffein's leaving us, had been fatal to the fituation-she had infallibly turned about fo I begun the conversation instantly.

-But what are the temptations, (as I write not to apologize for the weaknesses of my heart in this tour, -butto give an account of them) - shall be defcribed with the same simplicity with which I felt them.

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THE REMISE DOOR.

CALAIS.

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HEN I told the reader that I did not care to get out of the Defobligeant, 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 pafsed: something jarred upon it within me -I wished him at his convent.

WHEN the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains-I was certain she was of however, L

a better order of beings 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 fpirits

-GOOD God! how a man might lead such a creature as this round the world with him!

I HAD not yet seen her face-'twas: not material; for the drawing was instantly fet about, and long before we had. got to the door of the Remife, Fancy had finished the whole head, and pleafed her

self as much with its fitting her goodness,

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as if she had dived into the TIBER for it-but thou art a feduced, and a feducing flut; and albeit thou cheatest us seven times a day with thy pictures and images, yet with so many charms doft thou do it, and thou deckest out thy pictures in the shapes of fo many angels of light, 'tis a shame to break with thee.

WHEN we had got to the door of the Remise, she withdrew her hand from a-.. crofs her forehead, and let me fee the original it was a face of about fix and twenty-of a clear transparent brown, fimply set off without rouge or powder -it was not critically handsome, but there was that in it, which in the frame of mind I was in, attached me much more to it it was interesting; I fancied it wore the characters of a widow'd look, and in that state of its declenfion, which had passed the two first paroxysins of forrow, and was quietly be

ginning