Spirit bows itself down-the body does no more than tell it. I never gave å girl a crown in my life which gave me half the pleasure. My advice, my dear, would not have been worth a pin to you, said I, if I had not given this along with it: but now, 'when you see the crown, you'll remember it-fo do not, my dear, lay it out in ribbands. Upon my word, Sir, faid the girl, earneftly, I am incapable-in saying which, as is usual in little bargains of honour, she gave me her hand - En vérité, Monfieur, je mettrai cet argent apart, faid fhe. When a virtuous convention is made betwixt man and woman, it fanctifies their moft private walks: fo, notwith-. ftanding it was dusky, yet as both our roads lay the fame way, we made no fcruple of walking along the Quai de Conti together. She made me a fecond courtesy in setting off, and before we got twenty yards from the door, as if she had not done enough before, fhe made a fort of a little ftop, to tell me again— she thanked me. It was a small tribute, I told her, which I could not avoid paying to virtue, and would not be mistaken in the person I had been rendering it to for the worldbut I fee innocence, my dear, in your face and foul befal the man who ever lays a fnare in its way! The girl feemed affected fome way or other with what I said — she gave a low figh-I found I was not empowered to inquire at all after it-fo faid nothing more till I got to the corner of the Rue de Nevers, where we were to part. turn. - But is this the way, my dear, said I, to the Hôtel de Modene? she told me it was-or, that I might go by the Rue de Guineygaude, which was the next Then I will go, my dear, by the Rue de Guineygaude, faid I, for two reasons; firft I fhall please myself, and next I shall give you the protection of my company as far on your way as I can.The girl was fenfible I was civil-and faid, fhe wifhed the Hôtel de Modene I was in the Rue de St. Pierre-You live there? faid I-She told me fhe was fille de chambre to Madame R*** Good Vol. II. N God! faid I, it is the very lady for whom I have brought a letter from Amiens The girl told me that Madame R***, fhe believed, expected a ftranger with a letter, and was impatient to see him fo I defired the girl to prefent my compliments to Madame R***, and fay I would certainly wait upon her in the morning. We food fill at the corner of the Rue de Nevers whilft this passed- We then ftopped a moment, whilft she disposed of her Egarements du Coeur, etc. more commodiously than carrying them in her hand they were two volumes; fo I held the fecond for her, whilft fhe put the firft into her pocket; and then fhe held her pocket, and I put in the other after it. It is fweet to feel by what fine-spun threads our affections are drawn together. We let off afresh, and as she took her third ftep, the girl put her hand within my arm I was juft bidding her- but fhe did it of herself, with that undeliberating fimplicity, which showed it was out of her head that she had never feen me before. For my own part, I felt the con viction of confanguinity fo ftrongly, that I could not help turning g half round to look in her face, and fee if I could trace out any thing in it of a family likeness →→ Tut! faid I, are we not all relations? When we arrived at the turning up of the Rue de Guineygaude, I ftopped to bid her 'adieu for good and all: the girl would thank me again for my company and kindhefs-She bid me adieu twice-I repeated it as often; and fo cordial was the parting between us, that, had it happened any where else, I am not fure but I fhould have figned it with a kiss of charity, as warm and holy as an apoftle. But in Paris, as none kifs each other but the men- -I did, what amounted to the fame thing -I bid God bless her. THE PASSPORT PARIS. WHEN I got home to my hotel, La Fleur told me I had been inquired after by the Lieutenant de Police - The deuce take it! faid I-I know the reafon. It is time the reader fhould know it; for, in the order of things in which it happened, it was omitted; not that it was out of my head; but that, had I told it then, it might have been forgot now and now is the time I want it. I had left London with so much precipitation, that it never entered into my mind that we were at war with France; and had reached Dover, and looked through my glass at the hills beyond Boulogne, before the idea presented itself; and with this in its train, that there was no getting there without a passport. Go but to the end of a ftreet, I have a mortal averfion for returning back no wiser than I set out; and as this was one of the greatest efforts I had ever made for knowledge, I could lefs bear the thoughts of it; fo hearing the Count de *** had hired the packet, I begged he would take me in his fuite. The Count had fome little knowledge of me, fo made little or no difficulty-only faid, his inclination to ferve me could reach no farther than Calais, as he was to return by way of Bruf |