of his tunick-I felt the full force of the appeal-I acknowledge it, faid I -a coarfe habit, and that but once in three years, with meagre diet are no great matters; and the true point of pity is, as they can be earn'd in the world with fo little industry, that your order fhould wish to procure them by preffing upon a fund which is the property of the lame, the blind, the aged, and the infirm the captive who lies down counting over and over again the days of his afflictions, languifhes alfo for his fhare of it; and had you been of the order of mercy, instead of the order of St. Francis, poor as I am, continued I, pointing at my portmanteau, full chearfully should it have been open'd to to you, for the ransom of the unfortunate-The monk made me a bow -but of all others, refumed I, the unfortunate of our own country, furely, have the firft rights; and I have left thousands in diftrefs upon our own fhore-The monk gave a cordial wave with his head-as much as to fay, No doubt, there is misery enough in every corner of the world, as well as within our convent-But we diftinguish, faid I, laying my hand upon the fleeve of his tunick, în return for his appeal-we distinguifh, my good father! betwixt those who wish only to eat the bread of their own labour-and those who eat the bread of other people's, and have no other plan in life, but to get through through it in floth and ignorance, for the love of God. The Francifcan made no re poor ply a hectic of a moment pafs'd across his cheek, but could not tarry -Nature seemed to have had done with her refentments in him; he fhewed none-but letting his staff fall within his arm, he prefs'd both his hands with refignation upon his breast, and retired. M THE MON K. CALAIS. y heart fmote me the moment he fhut the door-Pfha! faid I with an air of careleffness, three feveral times-but it would not do: every ungracious fyllable I had utter'd, crouded back into my imagination: I reflected, I had no right over the poor Francifcan, but to deny him; and that the punishment of that was enough to the disappointed without the addition of unkind language-I confider'd his grey hairshis courteous figure feem'd to reenter and gently ask me what injury he had done me?-and why I could ufe |