afk'd her-nor drew her-nor did I think of the bed-but so it did happen, we both fat down.

I'll just fhew you, faid the fair fille de chambre, the little purfe I have been making to-day to hold your

crown.

So he put her hand into her right pocket, which was next me, and felt for it for fome time-then into the left-" She had loft it."-I never bore expectation more quietly

it was in her right pocket at last— The pull'd it out; it was of green taffeta, lined with a little bit of white quilted fattin, and juft big enough to hold the crown-fhe put it into my hand; it was pretty; and I held it

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refting upon her lap-looking fometimes at the purse, sometimes on one fide of it.

A ftitch or two had broke out in the gathers of my ftock-the fair fille de chambre, without faying a word, took out her little huffive, threaded a finall needle, and few'd it upI forefaw it would hazard the glory of the day; and as fhe pass'd her hand in filence acrofs and acrofs my neck in the manoeuvre, I felt the laurels fhake which fancy had wreath'd about my head.

A ftrap had given way in her walk, and the buckle of her shoe was juft falling off-See, faid the fille de

chambre,

chambre, holding up her foot-I could not from my foul but fasten the buckle in return, and putting in the ftrap-and lifting up the other foot with it, when I had done, to see both were right-in doing it too fuddenly -it unavoidably threw the fair fille de chambre off her center-and then

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claycold heads and lukewarm hearts can argue down or mafk your paffions, tell me, what trefpafs is it that man fhould have them? or how his fpirit ftands anfwerable to the Father of fpirits but for his conduct under them?

If Nature has fo wove her web of kindness, that fome threads of love and defire are entangled with the piece-must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?-Whip me fuch ftoics, great Governor of nature?

faid I to myself-Wherever thy Providence fhall place me for the trials of my virtue-whatever is my danger -whatever is my fituation-let me feel the movements which rife out of it, and which belong to me as a man -and if I govern them as a good one, I will truft the iffues to thy juftice; for thou haft made us, and not we ourselves.

As I finish'd my addrefs, I raised the fair fille de chambre up by the hand, and led her out of the room -fhe ftood by me till I lock'd the door and put the key in my pocket -and then the victory being quite decifive-and not till then, I prefs'd

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