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fhews it is a part of the temperature; and certainly, added 1, if it is the fame blood which comes from the heart, which defcends to the extremes (touching her wrift). I am fure you must have one of the beft pulfes of any woman in the worldFeel it, faid fle. holding out her arm. So laying down my hat, I took hold of her fingers in one hand, and applied the two fore-fingers of my other to the artery

Would to Heaven! my dear Eugenius, thou hadft paffed by, and beheld me fitting in my black coat, and in my lack-a-day-fical manner, counting the throbs ofit, one by one, with as much true devotion as if I had been watching the critical ebb or flow of her fever-How wouldst thou have laugh'd and moralized upon my new profeflion and thou shouldst have laugh'd and moralized on—' -Trust me, my dear Eugenius, I fhould have faid, "there are worfe occupations in this world" than feeling a woman's puife.". -But a Griffet's ! thou wouldst have

faidand in an open fhop! Yorick

-So much the better: for when my views are direct, Eugenius, I care not if all the world faw me feel it.

I had counted twenty pulfations, and was going on faft towards the fortieth, when her hufband coming unexpected from a back parlour

into the shop, put me a little oat of my reckoning. 'Twas nobody but her husband, fhe faid,-fo I began a fresh score-Monfieur is fo good, quoth she, as he pafs'd by us, to give himself the trouble of feeling my pulfe-The husband took off his hat, and making me a bow, said I did him too much honour-and having said that, he put on his hat and walked out.

Good God! faid I to myself, as he went outand can this man be the husband of this woman?

Let it not torment the few who know what must have been the grounds of this exclamation, if I explain it to those who do not.

In London a fhop-keeper and a fhop-keeper's wife feem to be one bone and one flesh: in the feveral endowments of mind and body, fometimes the one, fometimes the other has it, fo as in general to be upon a par, and to tally with each other as nearly as man and wife need to do.

In Paris, there are fcarce two orders of beings more different; for the legislative and executive powers of the fhop not refting in the husband, he feldom comes there-in fome dark and difmal room behind, he fits commercelefs in his thrum night-cap, the fame rough son of Nature that Nature left him.

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The genius of a people where nothing but the monarchy is falique, having ceded this depart ment, with fundry others, totally to the womenby a continual higgling with customers of all ranks and fizes from morning to night, like so many rough pebbles shook long together in a bag, by amicable collifions they have worn down their afperities and sharp angles, and not only become round and fmooth, but will receive, fome of them a polish like a brilliant-Monfieur Le Marli is little better than the ftone under your foot

-Surely-furely, man! it is not good for thee to fit alone-thou waft made for focial intercourse and gentle greetings, and this improvement of our natures from it, I appeal to, as my evidence.

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-And how does it beat, Monfieur ? faid fhe. With all the benignity, faid I, looking quietly in her eyes, that I expected-She was going to fay fomething civil in return-but the lad came into the fhop with the gloves-A propos, faid I, I want a couple of pair myself.

The beautiful Griffet rofe up when I faid this, and going behind the counter, reached down a parcel and untied it: I advanced to the fide over against her they were all too large. The beautiful Griffet measured them one by one across my hand-It would not alter the dimenfions-She begged

begged I would try a fingle pair, which feemed to be the least-She held it open-my hand slipped into it at once-It will not do, faid I, fhaking my head a little-No, said she, doing the fame thing.

There are certain combined looks of fimple fubtlety where whim, and sense, and serious nefs, and nonfenfe, are so blended, that all the languages of Babel fet loofe together could not exprefs them they are communicated and caught so instantaneously, that you can scarce fay which party is the infect or. I leave it to your men of words to fwell pages about it--it is enough in the present to fay again, the gloves would not do; fo folding our hands within our arms, we both loll'd upon the counter-it was narrow, and there was just room for the parcel to lay between

us.

The beautiful Griffet looked fometimes at the gloves, then fide-ways to the window, then at the gloves-and then at me. I was not difpofed to break filence-I followed her example. So I looked at the gloves, then at the window, then at the gloves, and then at her-and fo on alternately.

I found I loft confiderably in every attackfhe had a quick black eye, and fhot through two fuch long and filken eye-lashes with fuch penetration,

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tration, that she looked into my very heart and reins-It may feem strange, but I could actual ly feel she did

It is no matter, faid I, taking up a couple of the pairs next me, and putting them into my pocket.

I was fenfible the beautiful Griffet had not afk'd above a single livre above the price--I wish'd she had ask'd a livre more, and was puzzling my brains how to bring the matter about- -Do you think, my dear Sir, faid fhe, mistaking my embarrassment, that I could afk a fous too much of a stranger-and of a stranger whofe politeness, more than his want of gloves, has done me the honour to lay himself at my mercy ?—M'en croyez.capable?-Faith! not I, faid I; and if you” were, you are welcome-So counting the money into her hand, and with a lower bow than one generally makes to a fhop-keeper's wife, I went out, and her lad with his parcel followed

me.

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