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fung now-and-then a little to the tunethen intermitted—and joined her old man again as their children and grandchildren danced before them.

IT was not till the middle of the fecond dance, when, from fome pauses in the movement, wherein they all feemed to look up, I fancied I could diftinguish an elevation of spirit different from that which is the cause or the effect of fimple jollity.In a word, I thought I beheld Religion mixing in the dancebut as I had never feen her fo engaged, I fhould have looked upon it now as one of the illufions of an imagination which is eternally misleading me, had not the old man, as foon as the dance ended, faid that this was their conftant way: and that all his life long he had made it a rule, after fupper was over, to call out his family to dance and rejoice; believing, he faid, that a chearful and contented mind

was

was the best fort of thanks to heaven

that an illiterate peafant could pay

-OR a learned prelate either, faid I.

THE CASE OF DELICACY.

WH

THEN you have gained the top of mount Taurira, you run prefently down to Lyons-adieu then to all rapid movements!

'Tis a journey of

caution; and it fares better with fentiments not to be in a hurry with them; fo I contracted with a Voiturin to take his time with a couple of mules, and

in convey me my own chaise safe to Turin through Savoy.

POOR, patient, quiet, honeft people! fear not; your poverty, the treasure of

your fimple virtues, will not be envied

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you by the world, nor will your vallies be invaded by it. -Nature! in the

midst of thy disorders, thou art ftill friendly to the fcantiness thou hast created with all thy great works about thee, little haft thou left to give, either to the scythe or to the fickle-but to that little thou grantest safety and protection; and sweet are the dwellings which stand fo fheltered.

LET the way-worn traveller vent his complaints upon the fudden turns and dangers of your roads

your precipices

-your rocksthe difficulties of get

ting up the horrors of getting down -mountains impracticable— -and ca taracts, which roll down great stones from their fummits, and block his road up. -The peasants had been all day at work in removing a fragment of this between St. Michael and Madame; and by the time my Voiturin got to the place,

it

it wanted full two hours of completing, before a paffage could any how be gained: there was nothing but to wait with. patience 'twas a wet and tempeftuous night; fo that by the delay, and that together, the Voiturin found himself obliged to take up five miles fhort of his. ftage, at a little decent kind of an inn by the road fide..

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I FORTHWITH took poffeffion of my bed chamber- -got a good fire dered fupper; and was thanking heaven. it was no worse

when a voiture arri

ved with a lady in it and her fervantmaid.

As there was no other bed-chamber in the house, the hostess, without much. nicety, led them into mine, telling them. as she ushered them in, that there was nobody in it but an English gentleman— that there were two good beds in it,. and

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and a closet within the room which held another-the accent in which she spoke of this third bed did not fay much for it

I left

however, the faid there were three beds, and but three people—and she durft fay, the gentleman would do any thing to accommodate matters. not the lady a moment to make a conjecture about it— so instantly made a declaration I would do any thing in my power.

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As this did not amount to an abfolute furrender of my bed-chamber, I ftill felt myself so much the proprietor, as to have a right to do the honours of it fo I defired the lady to fit down-preffed her into the warmest feat--- called for more wood-defired the hoftefs to enlarge the plan of the fupper, and to fa vour us with the very best wine..

THE lady had fearce warmed herself

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