poor woman had a dislocated hip; so it could not be well upon any
other motive.

Mon cher et tres-charitable Monsieur.--There's no opposing this,
said I.

Milord Anglois--the very sound was worth the money;--so I gave MY
LAST SOUS FOR IT. But in the eagerness of giving, I had overlooked
a pauvre honteux, who had had no one to ask a sous for him, and
who, I believe, would have perished, ere he could have ask'd one
for himself: he stood by the chaise a little without the circle,
and wiped a tear from a face which I thought had seen better days.-
-Good God! said I--and I have not one single sous left to give
him.--But you have a thousand! cried all the powers of nature,
stirring within me;--so I gave him--no matter what--I am ashamed to
say HOW MUCH now,--and was ashamed to think how little, then: so,
if the reader can form any conjecture of my disposition, as these
two fixed points are given him, he may judge within a livre or two
what was the precise sum.

I could afford nothing for the rest, but Dieu vous benisse!

- Et le bon Dieu vous benisse encore, said the old soldier, the
dwarf, &c. The pauvre honteux could say nothing;--he pull'd out a
little handkerchief, and wiped his face as he turned away--and I
thought he thanked me more than them all.


THE BIDET.