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quarter of an hour, had not my bon ami left me, pour chercher Madame sa femme.

"This is really a little extraordinary," said I to myself -but jealousy is certainly not to be ranked among the failings of the French. Had this man lived in Sparta, how happy must he have been!

La Fontaine, speaking of a woman's infidelity, says,Quand on le sait, c'est peu de chose

Quand on ne le sait pas, ce n'est rien.

Admirable doctrine !—Rare philosophy!

ADVICE.

ROAD TO HAARLEM.

THE Frenchman presently returned with his wife. She looked enchantingly; there was an air of simplicity and innocence about her. I was in a moralizing mood, and modelled my conversation accordingly.

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"You have told me, Madame," said I, laying my hand upon hers, with a chaste and gentle pressureyou have told me, Madame, that your husband is wholly without suspicion that jealousy is an absolute stranger to his breast." She fixed her large bright eyes upon me for a moment, as if at a loss to comprehend my meaning. I returned her glance, and thus proceeded :

"This, I presume, arises not from any insensibility on his part, but from a thorough reliance on the prudence and virtue of his wife-(the lady inclined her head) still, however, he is wrong; and the sentiment of a celebrated Roman on this matter should never be forgotten- The wife of Cæsar must not even be suspected.'

"Yet, surely," replied she, in the true spirit of a Frenchwoman, "I may make a petit voyage with a friend, without being suspected by any one."

"I don't know that," returned I: "it is an envious and malicious world: a woman cannot be too chary of her reputation and good name-now, the love I bear towards you"

"Mon Dieu!" exclaimed she, attempting to open the door of the chaise, and calling to the postillion to stop

"Hold!” cried I, "be not frightened by the name"we will call it friendship, if you please."

She was silent

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"Now, this very friendship," continued I, induces me to admonish you with freedom. You are young and handsome. Your husband is not a Cæsar; on the contrary, he subjects you to-But I will say no more -you understand me, and will profit, I hope, by my

hints."

I saw a tear in the corner of her eye.

This woman, said I to myself, hath an excellent heart-she has virtue; and the prejudices of education are all she has to struggle with. What pity! that the man who ought to be her protector, should—

Leave her fair side thus all unguarded.

-But he is a Frenchman.

I felt more true pleasure in reflecting on the advice I had given to her, than if I had employed my "gayest rhetoric" for her seduction. I thought myself another Scipio in self-command; and when we arrived at Haarlem, I conducted the lady to the hotel with all the attention and respect to which her merit, in my opinion, had very justly entitled her. That night, however, I dreamt that the petite Bourgeoise rested her head on--but no matter, I am not a believer in dreams.

THE ORGAN.

HAARLEM.

WE arrived at Haarlem a little before noon. The following day was settled for my return to the Hague; and as the business which had brought the petite Bourgeoise to Haarlem would necessarily detain her for several hours, I requested that she would give me her company in going back.

I was her Cavaliere for the day. So we went immediately to the great church, in order to hear the very capital organ there.

But oh! what art can teach,
What human voice can reach,
The sacred organ's praise?*

If this be said of the ordinary organ, how shall we find words to describe the instrument built by Christian Mullar? Language 'fails: I shall therefore content myself with observing of this masterpiece in musicscience, that it breathes such "divine enchanting harmony," there could be little wonder, were "an angel to appear-mistaking earth for heaven."+

Twenty or thirty Dutchmen were sauntering about the church, and yet seemingly unmoved!—

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Next morning we returned in safety to the Hague; and when I alighted at the hotel, I found that Monsieur De M--was waiting for me, with some degree of anxiety. He had been summoned to Amsterdam: he knew I purposed going thither; and as we had travelled together from Helvoet to the Hague, he was desirous of having my company into the North.

* Dryden.

+ This organ imitates the sounds of various instruments; as the violin, hautboy, kettle-drum, &c. &c., the notes of several birds; and finally, the human voice; and all with such exquisite truth and delicacy, that the nicest ear may be deceived.

I had every reason to be pleased with him. So having delivered the petite Bourgeoise into the hands of her husband-at the same time hinting to him, that he was in possession of a very excellent wife-Monsieur De M and I, after a few necessary adjustments, bade a final adieu to the Hague.

THE TRAVELLING TUTOR.

LEYDEN.

I LEFT the Hague with regret. It is, without question, one of the most beautiful places on earth; and as the manners of the people are much more elegant and refined than in any other town of Holland, it is impossible not to be delighted with it.

We were to make some little stay at Leyden; and as Leyden is at no great distance from the Hague, we resolved on going thither in the treckschute. When about to enter, I saw the figure of a female mirrored in the water. I looked into her face, and heaved a sigh; it was not the petite Bourgeoise.

Never, I believe, was there a more motley assembly. The company consisted of about thirty persons: among the most distinguished of whom were, a burgomaster and his lady; a player and his mistress; an officer in the Dutch service; a fiddler; a female dancer; and a maudlin tutor, attending the "hopes of a family" (who had been sent from Cambridge, in order to rub off his rust), and leading him about as a proper spectacle for Europe.

What a confusion of tongues! The burgomaster and the officer were deeply engaged in politics: the players

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See those excellent designs by Mr. Bunbury-" The Hopes of the Family"-"The Bear Leader," &c.

were declaiming with vehemence: the fiddler and dancer were talking of musical expression and the graces-while the young Cantab, in imitation of the Nephew in the Comedy of the Gamesters, was continually" throwing a little Greek at us," in order to show his parts.

I was astonished at the noise! In all my former journeyings, the silence observed in a treckschute had given me an idea of the court of Areopagus, among the Greeks; or the monastery of La Trappe, among the French.-Now, however, I could think of nothing but the Tower of Babel.

In about three hours, we arrived at the city of Leyden, celebrated as the birth-place of several eminent men. All our fellow-travellers proceeded immediately to Amsterdam, the tutor and his pupil excepted: we therefore requested them to give us their company.

No man, I think, could surpass the governor in pomposity, or his disciple in dulness. We had scarcely sat down to table, when the former ostentatiously demanded of me, to what college I belonged? "To the college of wit-crackers," said I.-" You are pleasant, Sir," said he; "but I could wish to know in what university you have been bred ?" "In Nature's,” replied I—

66 'Nature, a mother kind alike to all.

She, Sir, has been my teacher; and a charming old woman she is."

"You have no very high opinion, then," said he, somewhat peevishly, "of an university education?" "Why 'faith," said I, with respect to Alma Materbut my Lord Shaftesbury shall answer for me: I would not willingly offend.†

* The whole college of wit-crackers, &c.-SHAKSPEARE.
+ See Dialogues on the Uses of Foreign Travel.

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