her hotel, and ordered two of her women to attend particularly on me, and my child; she requested that I would get the better of my air triste, and appointed a music-master and a dancing-master to instruct and fashion me.



Southfield.
AS I have now happily set the fair narrator down safe, at the hotel de Fribourg, you will give us both leave to rest ourselves, a little; for though I am still, you perceive, running on, yet I find that a change of subjects relieves the fatigue of writing.
While she was relating her story, I felt infinitely more than you can possibly do in reading it; the seeing the very object of distress before us, is a vast improvement to the pathetic; besides that along with my compassion towards her, and my resentment against her husband, there was mixed up a certain sensation of horror

at being lodged under the roof of such a villain.
I honour Shakespeare, for asking by the mouth of Lear,
"Can there be any cause in nature for these hard hearts?"
And am charmed with Sadi, the great Indian philosopher, for saying that Il ne faut qu'un soupir de l'innocence opprimée, pour remeur le monde. The extravagance of the eastern manner of expression cannot hurt the nobleness of the sentiment.

We have heard nothing from any of the party since they left us, nor have we been encumbered with neighbourly visits, since our return home—But our weather is fair, our woods are dry, our hearth and hearts are warm, and Harriet, Lucy, and I, find sufficient society

in ourselves, to shorten the day and lengthen the evening, being too loth to part at night.
The next post I shall resume my narrative, which may serve to divert us both from too close an attention to our own unhappiness—Till then,
Adieu,


Southfield.
MY story is already prefaced; so I need but proceed, repeating as before, after Mrs. Walter.
For the first ten or twelve days that I passed at Paris, the novelty of the scene, with the grandeur and brilliancy of the objects that surrounded me, lifted me, as it were, out of myself, and helped me for that time almost to forget my misfortunes. The marchioness made me several very

considerable presents, and ordered her trade's people to attend me, that I might chuse my own cloaths, only desiring they might be handsome enough to appear in along with her.
Madame de Fribourg received a vast deal of company, and kept very late hours; monsieur de Lovaine was seldom