an escape, to run no more risks, but to leave Paris, if it was poffible, with all the virtue I entered in.

C'eft deroger a nobleffe, Monfieur, faid La Fleur, making me a bow down to the ground as he faid it---Et encore, Monfieur, faid he, may change his fentiments--and if, (par hazard), he fhould like to amufe himfelf---I find no amusement in it, faid I interrupting him.

Mon Dieu! faid La Fleur and took. away.

IN an hour's time he came to put me to bed, and was more than commonly of ficious-fomething hung upon his lips to fay to me, or ask me, which he could not get off: I could not conceive what it was; and indeed, gave myself little trouble to find it out, as I had another riddle fo much more interefting upon my mind,

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which was that of the man's asking cha❤ rity before the door of the hotel would have given any thing to have got to the bottom of it; 'and 'that, not out of curiofity--'tis fo low a principle of inquiry, in general, I would not purchase the gratification of it with a two fous piece ---but a fecret, I thought, which fo foon and fo certainly foftened the heart of every woman you came near, was a fecret, at leaft equal to the philofopher's ftone: had I had both the Indies, I would have given up one to have been master of it.

I TOSSED and turned it almost all night long in my brains to no manner of purpofe: and when I awoke in the morning, I found my fpirit as much troubled with my dreams, as ever the king of Babylon had been with his and I will not hesitate to affirm, it would have puzzled all the wife men of Paris, as much as those of Chaldea, tohave given its interpretation.

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LE DIMANCHE.

PARI S.

Twas Sunday; and when La Fleur came in, in the morning, with my coffee, and roll, and butter, he had got himself fo gallantly arrayed, I scarce knew him.

I HAD Covenanted at Montreal to give him a new hat with a filver button and loop, and four Louis d'ors pour s'adonifer, when we got to Paris; and the fellow, to do him justice, had done wonders with it.

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He had bought a bright, clean, good fcarlet coat, and a pair of breeches of the fame.---They were not a crown worse, he faid, for the wearing---I wished him hanged for telling me--They looked fo fresh,

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-that though I knew the thing could not be done, yet I would rather have impofed upon my fancy with thinking I had bought them new for the fellow, than that they had come out of the Rue de friperie.

THIS is a nicety which makes not the heart fore at Paris.

He had purchafed moreover a handfome blue fattin waistcoat, fancifully enough embroidered this was indeed fomething the worfe for the fervices it had done, but 'twas clean scoured--the gold had been touched up, and upon the whole was rather fhowy than otherwife----and as the blue was not violet, it fuited with the coat and breeches very well: he had fqueezed out of the money, moreover, a new bag and a folitaire; and had infifted with the fripier, upon a gold pair of gar"ters to his breeches knees---He had purchafed muflin-ruffles, bien brodees, with

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four livres of his own money---and a pair of white filk stockings for five more----and, to top all, nature had given him a handfome figure without cofting him a fous.

He entered the room thus fet off, with his hair dreffed in the first style, and with a handfome bouquet in his breaft-----in a word, there was that look of festivity in every thing about him, which at once put me in mind it was Sunday--and by combining both together, it instantly ftruck me, that the favour he wished to afk of me the night before, was to spend the day, as every body in Paris spent it, befides. I had fcarce made the conjecture, when La Fleur, with infinite humility, but with a look of trust, as if I should not refuse him, begged I would grant him the day, poor faire le galant vis-a-vis de fa maitreffe.

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