"I will lay a wager," cried the spirit who sat next him, "there
is not one in the coach able to guess my distemper." I desired
the favor of him to acquaint us with it, if it was so uncommon.
"Why, sir," said he, "I died of honor."-- "Of honor, sir!"
repeated I, with some surprise. "Yes, sir," answered the spirit,
"of honor, for I was killed in a duel."

"For my part," said a fair spirit, "I was inoculated last summer,
and had the good fortune to escape with a very few marks on my
face. I esteemed myself now perfectly happy, as I imagined I had
no restraint to a full enjoyment of the diversions of the town;
but within a few days after my coming up I caught cold by
overdancing myself at a ball, and last night died of a violent
fever."

After a short silence which now ensued, the fair spirit who spoke
last, it being now daylight, addressed herself to a female who
sat next her, and asked her to what chance they owed the
happiness of her company. She answered, she apprehended to a
consumption, but the physicians were not agreed concerning her
distemper, for she left two of them in a very hot dispute about
it when she came out of her body. "And pray, madam," said the
same spirit to the sixth passenger, "How came you to leave the
other world?" But that female spirit, screwing up her mouth,
answered, she wondered at the curiosity of some people; that
perhaps persons had already heard some reports of her death,
which were far from being true; that, whatever was the occasion
of it, she was glad at being delivered from a world in which she
had no pleasure, and where there was nothing but nonsense and
impertinence; particularly among her own sex, whose loose conduct