ance of an evidence; but my pride not fuffering me to enter into any detail of the cafe, I exhorted him to let his foul fleep in peace, as I refolved to let mine do that night, and that I would discharge what I owed him at breakfast.

I SHOULD not have minded, Monfieur, faid he, if you had had twenty girls -'Tis a score more, replied I, interrupting him, than I ever reckoned upon-provided, added he, it had been but in a morning. And does the difference of the time of the day at Paris make a difference in the fin?-It made a difference, he faid, in the fcandal.I like a good diftinction in my heart; and cannot fay I was intolerably out of temper with the man.I own it is neceffary, re-affumed the master of the hotel, that a stranger at Paris should have the opportunities prefented to him of buying lace, and filk Stockings, and ruffles, et tout cela, and 'tis nothing

nothing if a woman comes with a bandbox.O' my conscience, faid I, fhe had one; but I never looked into it. Then Monfieur, faid he, has bought nothing. -Not one earthly thing, replied I.— Because, faid he, I could recommend one to you who would ufe you en confcience. But I must see her this night, faid I. He made me a low bow, and walked down.

Now fhall I triumph over this maitre d' hotel, cried I-and what then? Then I fhall let him fee I know he is a dirty fellow. And what then?-What then!I was too near myself to say it was for the fake of others.-I had no good answer left- -there was more of fpleen than principle in my project, and I was fick of it before the execution.

In a few minutes the Griffet came in

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with her box of lace-I'll buy nothing, however, faid I, within myself.

THE Griffet would fhew me every thing I was hard to please: fhe would not seem to fee it: the opened her little magazine, laid all her laces one after another before me unfolded and folded them up again one by one with the moft patient sweetness-I might buyor not-fhe would let me have every thing at my own price the poor creature feemed anxious to get a penny; and laid herself out to win me, and not fo much in a manner which feemed artful, as in one I felt fimple and careffing.

If there is not a fund of honeft cullibility in man, fo much the worse-my heart relented, and I gave up my fecond

refolution as quietly as the first-- Why fhould I chastise one for the trefpafs of

another?

If thou art tributary to this

tyrant

tyrant of an host, thought I, looking up in her face, fo much harder is thy bread.

IF I had not had more than four Louis d'ors in my purse, there was no fuch thing as rising up and fhewing her the door, till: I had first laid three of them out in a pair of ruffles.

-The master of the hotel will share. the profit with her-no matter-then I have only paid as many a poor foul has paid before me, for an act he could not do, or think of.

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THE RIDDLE

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HEN La Fleur came up to wait upon me at supper, he told me how forry the master of the hotel was for his affront to me in bidding me change my lodging.

A man who values a good night's reft will not lie down with enmity in his heart if he can help it-So I bid La Fleur tell the master of the hotel, that I was forry on my fide for the occafion I had given him-and you may tell him, if you will, La Fleur, added I, that if the young woman fhould call again, I fhall not fee her.

THIS was a facrifice not to him, but myself, having refolved, after fo narrow

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