The greatest injury could not have oppreffed the heart of Le Fever, more than my uncle Toby's paternal kindnefs;-he parted from my uncle Toby, as the best of fons from the best of fathers both dropped tears. -and as my uncle Toby gave him his laft kifs, he flipped fixty guineas, tied up in an old purfe of his father's, in which was his mother's ring, into his hand,and bid God bless him.

Le Fever got up to the Imperial army just time enough to try what metal his fword was made of, at the defeat of the Turks before Belgrade; but a feries of unmerited mifchances had purfued him from that moment, and trod clofe upon his heels for four years together after he had withstood these buffetings to the last, till fickness overtook him at Marseilles, from whence he wrote my uncle Toby word, he had lost his time, his fervices, his health, and, in fhort, every thing but his fword;-and was waiting for the first ship to return back to him.

Le Fever was hourly expected; and was uppermost in my uncle Toby's mind all the time my father was giving him and Yorick a defcription of what kind of a perfon he would choofe for a preceptor to me: but as my uncle Toby thought my father at first fomewhat fanciful in the accomplishments he required, he forebore menti

oning Le Fever's name,-till the character, by Yorick's interpofition, ending unexpectedly, in one, who should be gentle tempered, and generous, and good, it impreffed the image of LeFever, and his interest upon my uncle Toby fo forcibly, he rose inftantly off his chair; and laying down his pipe, in order to take hold of both my father's hands-I beg, brother Shandy, faid my uncle Toby, I may recommend poor Le Fever's fon to you- befeech you, do, added TorickHe has a good heart, faid my uncle Toby-And a brave one too, an't please your honour, said the Corporal.

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--The best hearts, Trim, are ever the braveft, replied my uncle Toby.

T. SHANDY, VOL. III, CHAP. 49.

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FAIL, ye small sweet courtefies of life, for fmooth do ye make the road of it! like grace and beauty which begat inclinations to love at first fight: 'tis ye who open this door and let the stranger in.

-Pray, Madame, faid I, have the goodness to tell me which way I must turn to go to the Opera Comique :-Moft willingly,Monfieur, faid she, laying afide her work

I had given a caft with my eye into half a dozen shops as I came along in fearch of a face not likely to be difordered by fuch an interruption;. till at last, this hitting my fancy, I had walked in.

She was working a pair of ruffles as the fat in a low chair on the far fide of the fhop facing the door

-Tres volontiers: moft willingly, faid fhe, laying her work down upon a chair next her, and rifing up from the low chair fhe was fitting in, with fo cheerful a movement and fo cheerful a look, that had I been laying out fifty louis d'ors with her, I should have faid-" This woman is grateful."

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You must turn, Monfieur, faid fhe, going with me to the door of the fhop, and pointing the way down the street I was to take-you must turn first to your left hand-mais prenez garde-there are two turns; and be fo good as to take the fecondthen go down a little way and you'll fee a church, and when you are paft it, give your felf the trouble to turn directly to the right, and that will lead you to the foot of the pont neuf, which you must crofs and there any one will do himself the pleafure to fhew you

She repeated her inftru&tions three times over to me with the fame good-natured patience the third time as the firft;-and if tones and manners have a meaning,which certainly they have;unless to hearts which fhut them out-she feemed really interested, that I should not lose myself.

I will not fuppofe it was the woman's beauty, notwithstanding she was the handfomet Griffet, I think, I ever faw, which had much to do with the fenfe I had of her courtefy; only I remember, when I told her how much I was obliged to her, that I looked very full in her eyes, and that I repeated my thanks as often as he had done her instructions.

I had not got ten paces from the door, before I found I had forgot every tittle of what she had faid--

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faid-fo looking back, and feeing her ftill ftanding in the door of the fhopas if to look whether I went right or not-I returned back to ask her whether the first turn was to my right or leftfor that I had abfolutely forgot.-Is it poffible ! faid fhe, half laughing.-'Tis very poffible, replied I, when a man is thinking more of a woman than of her good advice.

As this was the real truth-fhe took it, as every woman takes a matter of right, with a flight courtefy.

-Attendez, faid fhe, laying her hand upon my arm to detain me, whilst she called a lad out of the back fhop to get ready a parcel of gloves. I am just going to fend,him, faid fhe, with a packet into that quarter, and if you will have the complaifance to step in, it will be ready in a moment, and he fhall attend you to the place. So I walked in with her to the far fide of the shop, and taking up the ruffle in my hand which fhe laid upon the chair, as if I had a mind to fit, fhe fat down herfelf in her low chair, and I instantly fat myself down befide her.

He will be ready, Monfieur, faid she, in a moment- -And in that moment, replied I, mot willingly would I fay fomething very civil to you for all thefe courtefies. Any one may do a cafual act of good-nature, but a continuation of them

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