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( 17 ) egrity as I entertained myſelf, and diſmiſſed them all well ſatisfied.

'Being one day at dinner with monſieur Nervin, my notary, one of his gueſts, on hearing me ſpeak of my journey into Holland, aſked me, with ſome degree of ill humour and contempt, whether I had never happened to meet with one Oliver Salvary n that country. As it was eaſy to recognize in his looks a ſentiment of malevolence, ſtood on my guard, and anſwered, “that my tour into Holland having been a mere party of pleaſure, I had not had leiſure to acquire information respecting the French that I might have teen there; but that through my connections, it would be very poſſible to get ſome account of the perſon he had named."-"No," ſaid he “it is not worth while. He has given me too much vexation already. He has poſſibly died of want or ſhame, as it was but fit he ſhould. He we would have done much better ſtill, if he had died before he married my daughter, and brought himſelf to ruin. After that." continued he, depend upon the fine promiſes which a young man makes you.---In eighteen months, fifty thouſand crowns in debt; and, to complete the whole, exile, and diſgrace!" "Ah! ſir," ſaid he to the notary, you marry your daughter, be upon your guard. An inſolvent and diſgraced ſon-in-law is but a ſorry piece of furniture."