open the way-the mounting was too expenfive-and fimple œconomy was not a match for it-there was no refource but

commerce.

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In any other province in France, fave Britany, this was fmiting the root for ever of the little tree his pride and affection wifhed to fee re-bloffom-But in Britany, there being a provifion for this, he availed himself of it; and taking an occafion when the ftates were affembled at Rennes, the Marquis attended with his two boys, entered the court; and having pleaded the right of an ancient law of the duchy, which, though feldom claimed, he faid, was no lefs in force, he took his fword from his fideHere, faid he, take it; and be trufty guardians of it, till better times put me in condition to relaim:it.

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THE prefident accepted the Marquis's Tword he ftaid a few minutes to fee it deposited in the archives of his house, and departed.

THE Marquis and his whole family embarked the next day for Martinico, and in about nineteen or twenty years of fuccefsful application to business, with fome unlooked for bequests from diftant branches of his houfe, returned home to reclaim his nobility, and to fupport it.

Ir was an incident of good fortune which will never happen to any traveller, but a fentimental one, that I should be at Rennes at the very time of this folemn requifition: I call it folemn-it was fo to me.

THE Marquis entered the court with his whole family: he fupported his Lady

his eldest fon fupported his fifter, and his youngest was at the other extreme of the line next his mother he put his handkerchief to his face twice

-THERE was a dead filence. When the Marquis had approached within fix paces of the tribunal, he gave the Marchioness to his youngest son, and advancing three fteps before his family-he reclaimed his Tword. His fword was given him, and the moment he got it into his hand, he drew it almoft out of the cabbard-twas the fhining face of a friend he had once given up--he looked attentively along it, beginning at the hilt, as if to fee whether it was the famewhen obferving a little rust which it had contracted near the point, he brought it near his eye, and bending his head down over it---I think I faw a tear fall upon the place. I could not be deceived by what followed:

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"I SHALL find, faid he, fome other <6 way to get it off."

WHEN the Marquis had faid this, he returned his fword into its fcabbard, made a bow to the guardians of it and, with his wife and daughter, and his two fons following him, walked out.

→ How I envied him his feelings!

VOL. II.

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THE PASSPORT.

VERSAILLES.

FOUND no difficulty in getting admittance to Monfieur le Count de B****. The fet of Shakespeare's was laid upon the table, and he was tumbling them over. I walked up clofe to the table, and giving firft fuch a look at the books as to make him conceive I knew what they were---I told him I had come without any one to present me, knowing

should meet with a friend in his apartment, who, I trufted, would do it for me

it is my countryman the great Shakefpeare, faid I, pointing to his workset avez la bonét, mon cher ami, apostrophi

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