that she looked into my very heart and reins Itmay seem strange, but I could actually feel she did =

It is no matter, said I, taking up a couple of the pairs next me, and putting them into my pocket. I was sensible, the beautiful grisette had not asked above a single livre above the price I wished she had asked a livre more, and was puzzling my brains how to bring the matter about Do you think, my dear Sir, said she, mistaking my embarrassment, that I could ask a sous too much of a stranger and of a stranger whose politeness, more than his want of gloves, has done me the honour to lay himself at my mercy? Menroyez-vous capable? Faith! not I, said I; and if you were, you are welcome counting the money into her hand and with a lower bow than one generally makes to a shopkeeper's wife, I went out, and her lad with his parcel follow ed me.

THERE was no body in the box I was let into, but a kindly old French officer. I love the character, not only because I honour the man whose manners are softened by a profession which makes bad men worse; but that I once knew one for he is no more

and why should I not rescue one page from violation by writing his name in it, and telling the world it was captain Tobias Shandy, the dearest of my flock and friends, whose philanthropy I never think of, at this long distance from his death but my eyes gush out with tears. For his sake, I have a predilection for the whole corps of veterans; and so I strode over the two back rows of benches and placed myself beside him.

The old officer was reading attentively a small pamphlet, it might be the book of the opera, with a large pair of spectacles. As soon as I sat down, he took his spectacles off, and putting them into a shágreen case, returned them and the book into his pocket together. I half rose up, and made him a bow, Translate this into any civilized language in the world the sense is this notam cult gand of won Here's a poor stranger come come into the box seems as if he knew no body and is never likely, 2 was he to be seven years in Paris, if every man he « comes near keeps his spectacles on his nose «tis shutting the door of conversation absolutely in « his face → and using him worse than a Gerinan ».

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The French officer might as well Have said it áll aloud; and if he had, I should in course have pur the bow I made him into renew too, and tcd him, I was sensible of his attention, and returned him a thousand thanks for it ».

There is not a secret so aiding to the progress of sociality, as to get master of this short hand, and be quick in rendering the several turns of looks and limbs, with all their inflections and delineations, into plain words. For my own part, by long habitude, I do it so mechanically that, when I walk the streets of London, I go translating all the way; and have more than once stood behind in the circle, where not three words have been said, and have brought which I could off twenty different dialogues with me, have fairly wrote down and sworn to.

I was going one evening to Martine's concert at Milan, and was just entering the door of the hall, when the marchesina di was coming out in a sort of a hurry—she was a most upon me before I saw her; so I gave a spring to one side to let her pass =She had done the same, and on the same side too, so we ran our heads together; she instantly got to

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the other side to get out; I was just as unfortunate as she had been, for I had sprung to that side, and opposed her passage again We both flew together to the other side, and then back-and so on it was ridiculous; we both blushed intolerably; so I did, at last, the thing I should have done at first I stood stock still, and the marchesina had no more difficul I had no power to go into the room, till I had made her so much reparation as to wait and follow her with my eye to the end of the passage She looked back twice, and walked along it rather side= ways, as if she would make room for any one com= up stairs to pass her=No, said I that's a vile translation: the marchesina has a right to the best apology I can make her and that opening is left for me to do it in=so Iran and begged pardon for the embarrassment I had given her, saying it was my intention to have made her way. She answered, she was guided by the same intention towards me we reciprocally thanked each other. She was at the top of the stairs; and seeing no cicisbeo near her, I begged to hand her to her coach-so we went down the stairs, stopping at every third step to to talk of the concert and the adventure = Upon my word, madame, said I, when I had handed her in, I made six different efforts to let you go out And I made six efforts, replied she, to let you enter I wish to heaven you would make a seventh, said I With all my heart, said she, making room Life is too short to be long about the forms of it so I instantly stepped in, and she carried me home. with her what became of the concert, St. Cecilia, who, I suppose, was at it, knows more than I.

And

I will only add that the connection which arose out of that translation gave me more pleasure than any one I had the honour to make in Italy.

en teppewa I, tuo log of sile, redio, als

THE DWARF.

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PARIS.

I never heard the remark made by any one in I HAD never heard the end who that was will promy life, except by one

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-No doubt, she sports at certain times in almost every corner of the world : but in Paris, there is no end to her amusements=The goddess seems almost as merry as she is wise.

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As I carried my idea out of the opeART TRADE S with me, I measured 1 measured every body I saw walking in

the streets by it Melancholy application! espe cially where the size was extremely little = the face extremely dark=the eyes quick=the nose long= the teeth white = the jaw prominent to see so many 13 suticals een out of their miserables, by force of accidents, driven Harge of own proper class into the very verge

which it gives me pain to write down another,

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third pigmy!—some by ricketty heads and hump backs = others by bandy legs=a third set arre arrested by the hand of nature in the sixth and seventh years of their growth a fourth, in their perfect and natural state, like dwarf apple-trees, from the first rudiments and stamina of of their existence, never meant

to grow higher.

A medical traveller might say, 'tis owing to undue bandages—a =a splenetick one, to want of air and an inquisitive traveller, to fortify the syst system, may measure the height of their houses the narrowness

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of their streets, and in how few feet square in the sixth and seventh stories such numbers of the Bourgeoisie cat and sleep together; but I remember, Mr. Shandy the elder, who accounted for nothing like any body else, in speaking one evening of these matters, averred that children, like other animals, might be encreased almost to any size, provided they came right into the world; but the misery was, the citizens of Paris were so cooped up, t that they had not actually room eto get them I do not call it getting any thing, he = 'tis getting nothing = Nay, con= "Ainued be, rising in his argument, 'tis getting worse than nothing, when all you have got, after twenty, or five and twenty years of the tenderest care and most nutricious aliment bestowed upon it, shall not at last be as high as my leg. Now, Mr. Chandy being very short, there could be nothing more said upon it.

As this is not a work of reasoning, I leave the solution as I found it, and content myself with the truth only of the remark, which is verified in every lane and by-lane of Paris. I was walking down that which leads from the Carousel to the Palais-royal, and observing a little boy in some distress at the side of the gutter, which ran down the middle of it, I took hold of his hand, and helped him over. Upon turning up his face to look at him after, I perceived he was about forty-Never mind, sid I; some good body will do as much for me when I am ninety.

I feel some little principles within me, which in cline me to be merciful towards this poor blighted part of my species, who have neither size or strength to get on in the world I cannot bear to see one of them trod upon; and had scarce got seated beside my old French officer, ere the disgust was exercised, by seeing the very thing happen under the box we sat into