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 ers and could tell me nothing. The waiters did the same."

"But," exclaimed I peevishly, "you certainly must know where he comes from, could not you ask his servants?"

"The servants," answered the waiter, "are as mute as their master. He is supposed to be an English Lord, that is all what I know."

"I was of the same opinion, when I first saw him; having met, on my travels, with many Englishmen, who had behaved in the same sullen and reserved manner. His melancholy mood I fancied to be the effect of the spleen, and did not trouble myself any more about him."

"I had not been above three days at F when I lost my purse: At first I fancied I had dropped it somewhere in a shop, or my pocket had been picked in the street, and