something like the entrance to a grot discovered itself below, and if
I had not already been disappointed on the score of the fount, I
won't answer but that I should have flung myself adventurously down,
and tried whether I might not have seen such wonders as appeared to
Bradamante, when cast by Pinnabel, rather impolitely, into Merlin's
cave. But no propitious light beaming from the cavity, I concluded
times were changed; and searching about me, found at last a shelving
steep, which it was just possible to descend without goat's heels,
and that's all.

In my way home, I passed the redoute, and seeing a vast glare of
lustres in its apartments, I ran upstairs and found the gamblers all
eager in storming the Pharaoh Bank: a young Englishman of
distinction seemed the most likely to raise the siege, which
increased every instant in turbulence; but not feeling the least
inclination to protract or to shorten its fate, I left the knights to
their adventures, and returned ingloriously to my inn.

All languages are chattering at the Table d'Hote, and all sorts of
business transacted under my very windows. The racket and perfume of
this place make me resolve to get out of it to-morrow; as that is the
case, you won't hear from me till I reach Munich. Adieu! May we
meet in our dreams by the fountain of Merlin, and from thence take
our flight with Astolpho to the moon; for I shrewdly suspect the best
part of our senses are bottled up there; and then, you know, it will
be a delightful novelty to wake up with a clear understanding.

"Indeed, Sir, no Monsieur comme il faut, ever left Spa in such
dudgeon before, unless jilted by a Polish princess, or stripped by an
itinerant Count! You have neither breakfasted at the Vauxhall, nor