The French officer told me it was an illiberal farcafm at the church, which had begun in the theatre about the time the Tartuffe was given in it, by Moliere-but, like other remains of Gothic manners, was decliningEvery nation, continued he, have their refinements and groffiertés, in which they take the lead, and lose it of one another by turns-that he had been in most countries, but never in one where he found not fome delicacies, which others feemed to want. Le POUR, et le CONTRE, fe trouvent en chaque nation; there is a balance, faid he, of good and bad every where; and nothing but the knowing it is fo can emancipate one half of the world

from

from the prepoffeffion which it holds against the other-that the advantage of travel, as it regarded the fçavoir vivre, was by feeing a great deal both of men and manners: it taught us mutual toleration; and mutual toleration, concluded he, making me a bow, taught us mutual love.

The old French officer delivered this with an air of fuch candour and good fenfe, as coincided with my first favourable impreffions of his character-I thought I loved the man; but I fear I miftook the object-'twas my own way of thinking-the difference was, I could not have expreffed it half fo well.

It

It is alike troublesome to both the rider and his beast-if the latter goes pricking up his ears, and starting all the way at every object which he never faw before-I have as little torment of this kind as any creature alive; and yet I honestly confess, that many a thing gave me pain, and that I blush'd at many a word the first month--which I found inconfequent and perfectly innocent the fecond.

Madame de Rambouliet, after an acquaintance of about fix weeks with her, had done me the honour to take me in her coach about two leagues out of town-Of all women, Madame de Rambouliet is the most correct; and I never wish to see one of

more

more virtues and purity of heart-In our return back, Madame de Rambouliet defired me to pull the cord -I asked her if she wanted any thing ·Rien que piffer, faid Madame de Rambouliet.

Grieve not, gentle traveller, to let Madame de Rambouliet p--fs onAnd, ye fair myftic nymphs! go each one pluck your rose, and scatter them in your path-for Madame de Rambouliet did no more-I handed Madame de Rambouliet out of the coach; and had I been the priest of the chaste CASTALIA, I could not have ferved at her fountain with a more respectful deco

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