Iled her up to the door of the Remife.

MONSIEUR Deffein 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, almoft without knowing it; fo that. Monfieur Deffein left us together with. her hand in mine, and with our faces turned towards the door of the Remife, and faid he would be back in five minutes..

Now a colloquy of five minutes, in fuch 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-fhe had infallibly turn-. ed about fo I begun the conversation. inftantly.

But what are the temptations, (as I write not to apologize for the weakneffes of my heart in this tour,- -butto give an account of them)— -fhall be defcribed with the fame fimplicity with which I felt them.

THE

THE REMISE DOOR.

CALAIS.

W

HEN I told the reader that I. did not care to get out of the Defobligeant, because I saw the Monk in clofe conference with a lady just arrived. at the inn- -I told him the truth; but 1 I did not tell him the whole truth; for

I was full as much reftrained by the appearance and figure of the lady he was talking to. Sufpicion croffed my brain, and faid, he was telling her what had paffed: fomething jarred upon it within me -I wifhed him at his convent.

WHEN the heart flies out before the understanding, it faves the judgment a world of pains-I was certain fhe was of

a better order of beings

however, L

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, fhewed, I thought, her good education and her good fenfe; 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 fuch a creature as this round the world with him!

-'twas

I HAD not yet feen her facenot material; for the drawing was instantly set about, and long before we had got to the door of the Remife, Fancy had. finished the whole head, and pleafed her felf as much with its fitting her goodness,

as..

as if fhe 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 fo many charms__ doft thou do it, and thou deckeft out thy pictures in the fhapes of fo many angels of light, 'tis a fhame to break with thee.

WHEN WE had got to the door of the Remife, fhe withdrew her hand from acrofs her forehead, and let me fee the ori-. ginal 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 handfome, but there was that in it, which in the frame of mind I was in, attached me much more to it it was interefting; I fancied it wore the characters of a widow'd look, and in that state of its declenfion, which had paffed the two first paroxyfmns of forrow, and was quietly beginning