THERE MI SE.

C A LA I S.

A

S the little French captain left us, Monfieur Deffein came up with the key of the Remife in his hand, and forthwith let us into his magazine of chaifes.

THE firft object which caught my eye, as Monfieur Deffein opened the door of the Remife, was another old tattered Defobligeant; and notwithstanding it was the exact picture which had hit my fancy in the coach-yard but an hour before*the very fight of it ftirrid up a difagreeable fenfation within me now; and I thought 'twas a churlish breaft in whofe

heart

heart the idea could firft enter, to conftruct fuch a machine; nor had I much charity for the man who could think of ufing it.

I OBSERVED the lady was as little taken with it as myfelf; fo Monsieur Deffein led us on to a couple of chaifes which ftood abreaft, telling us as he recommended them, that they had been purchased by my Lord A. and B. to go the grand tour, but had gone no further than Paris, fo were in all respects as good as new

They were too good-fo I paffed on to a third, which stood behind, and forthwith began to chaffer for the priceBut 'twill scarce hold two, faid I, opening the door and getting in-Have the goodness, Madam, faid Monfieur Deffein, offering his arm, to step in; The lady hesitated half a second, and stepped in; and the waiter that moment beckoning to fpeak to Monfieur Deffein, fhut

the

the door of the chaife upon us, and

left us.

THERE MISE

CALA I S.

C'EST being comique, 'tis very droll,

faid the lady fmiling, from the reflection that this was the fecond time we had been left together by a parcel of nonfenfical contingencies-c'eft bein comique, faid fhe.

-THERE wants nothing, faid I, to make it fo, but the comic ufe which the gallantry of a Frenchman would put it to-to make love the first moment, and an offer of his perfon the fecond.

'Tis their fort, replied the lady.

IT is fuppofed fo at least-and how it has come to pass, continued I, I know not; but they have certainly got the credit of understanding more of love, and making it better than any other nation upon earth: but for my own part, I think them errant bunglers, and, in truth, the worft fet of marksmen that ever tried Cupid's patience.

--To think of making love by fen

timents!

I SHOULD as foon think of making a genteel fuit of clothes out of remnants:

and to do it-pop-at first fight by declaration--is fubmitting the offer and themselves with it, to be fifted, with all their pours and contrès, by an unheated mind.

VOL. I.

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THE

THE lady attended as if the expected I fhould go on.

CONSIDER then, Madam, continued 1, laying my hand upon hers-

THAT grave people hate love for the name's fake

THAT selfish people hate it for their

own

HYPOCRITES for heaven's

AND that all of us, both old and young, being ten times worse frightened than hurt by the very report

What

a want of knowledge in this branch of commerce a man betrays, whoever lets the word come out of his lips, till an hour or two at least after the time, that his filence upon it becomes torment

ing.