with so little industry, that your order should wish to procure them by pressing 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, languishes also for his share 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 cheerfully should it have been opened to you for the ransom of the unfortunate The monk made me a bow- but of all others, resumed I, the unfortunate of our own country surely have the first rights; and I have left thousands in distress upon our own shore

- The monk gave a cordial wave with his head - as much as to say: No doubt, there is misery enough in every corner of the world as well as within our convent. – But we distinguish, said I, laying my hand upon the sleeve of his tunick, in return for his appeal we distinguish, 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 it in sloth and ignorance, for the love of God.

The poor Franciscan made no reply: a hectic of a moment passed across his cheek, but could not tarrynature seemed to have had done with her resentments in him; he shewed none - but letting his staff fall within his arm,

he pressed

both his hands with resignation upon his breast,

and retired.

V.

THE MONK.

CALAI S.

M Y heart smote me the moment he shut the door.-Psha! said I, with an air of carelessness, three several times but it would not do; every ungracious syllable I had uttered, crowded back into my imagination: I reflected I had no right over the poor Franciscan, but to deny him; and that the punishment of that was enough to the disappointed, without the addition of unkind language-I considered his grey hair-his courteous figure seemed to re-enter and gently ask me what injury he had done me? - and why I could use him thus?—I would have given twenty livres for an advocate- I have behaved very ill, said I within myself; but I have only just set out upon my travels, and shall learn better manners as I get along.

VI. THE DESOBLIGEANTE.

CALA I S.

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WHEN a man is discontented with himself, has one advantage however, that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. Now there being no travelling through France

and Italy without a chaise-and nature generally prompting us to the thing we are fittest for, I walked out into the coach-yard, to buy or hire something of that kind to my purpose an old désobligeante in the furthest corner of the court, hit my fancy at first sight, so I instantly got intó it, and finding it in tolerable good harmony with my feelings, I ordered the waiter to call monsieur Dessein, the master of the hotel — but monsieur Dessein being gone to vespers; and not caring tỏ face the Franciscan, whom I saw on the opposite side of the court, in conference with a lady just arrived at the inn - I drew the taffeta curtain betwixt us, and being determined to write my journey, I took out my pen and ink, and wrote the preface to it in the désobligeante.

IN THE DÉS OBLIGEANTE.

Ir must have been observed by many a peripatetic philosopher, that nature has set up by her own unquestionable authority certain boundaries and fences to circumscribe the discontent of man : she has effected her purpose in the quietest and easiest manner, by laying him under almost insuperable obligations to work out his ease, and to

A chaise so called in France, from its holding but one person.