All this matter-of-course and temperate deportment, during the infringement of those sacred hours in which our Saviour rose from the dead, shows the evil to be the more deeply rooted and irretrievable. I understand, however, that with genuine Christians the Sabbath is kept holy; and that theatricals and dubious amusements are by them rigidly abstained from as in Scotland, even on ordinary week days.

Amid the handsome and modest-looking groups of English females in the congregation, I did not perceive my worthy little Sabbath-schooler; so that what I had conjectured proved true, notwithstanding my written directions. Gustave had failed to discover for her the retreat of the Salle d'Ecole. If it had been to any of the boulevards or theatres, no doubt he would have been a surer guide; and he had just tossed her from street to street, among tumultuous and gay throngs, probably without much object beyond his own amusement, and the franc he was to receive for his pilotage. On returning to dinner between five and six o'clock, therefore, I found her in a woful plight. She was quite abimé; for she said she had not spoken so much as one word to a mortal since I left the café at eleven o'clock. Along with a wonderful portion of genuine goodness of character, Mrs. P. possessed a dash of British fierté, which displayed itself at the present time, in looks and exclamations where fierceness and benevolence strove

for the mastery. She never had expected to see and spend a Sabbath-day like this, no, not in the world. She would sooner have died than come to France, if she had known this; and would start to-morrow, and get out of this awful country, as fast as horses or steam could carry her.

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The rest of the dinner-party were at a loss, I presume, to divine the true cause of her perturbation and affliction; probably they could not have believed that all this arose from disappointment in not hearing divine service, and from grief of heart to see the mode of a foreign Sabbath-day. However, they made much of her, and helped her to sundry comfortable viands; which, it must be confessed, had by degrees a wonderful effect in reconciling her to her situation. My Scots friends will perhaps a little maliciously insinuate, that a good dinner will reconcile an English man or woman to any thing; and no doubt they do in the south consider more idolatry due to the stomach than we on the other bank of the Tweed. I remember once that a most excellent English lady of my acquaintance expected to receive a letter, containing tidings that might be painfully disagreeable. She did receive such a letter, just immediately before dinner; but the epistle she would not unseal till she had laid in a comfortable and strengthening meal. She then ascended to her own chamber; said her prayers; entered into the secrets of the vexatious com

munication; cried for about ten minutes, and returned down stairs to the company, in a moderately satisfied state both of body and mind. Now this was all very proper and judicious; but I doubt if any Scotswoman would have followed out a similar line of proceeding. I further furnished Mrs. P. my mite of consolation, by lending her a tract of Mr. Irving's upon the state of the Scotch church, which I met with in passing through London; for she had no books except her Bible, which, however, is the best. I promised also to take her, on the morrow evening, to a Protestant Missionary Meeting. "A Protestant Missionary Meeting in Paris!"

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the same place that I heard sermon.' put my friend in tolerable good spirits, so that she thought she would stay another day or two; and it inspired her with such gratitude to me, that she declared she would remember me the longest day she had to live. So cheap is popularity where favourable circumstances all conspire. But such another day as this she hoped she would never spend--such discomfort. But, then, she is so comfortable in all respects in England; she has such an agreeable mother. At this stroke of old maidish independency on husband or children for a channel of the virtuous affections, I was a little inclined to smile; but, to tell the truth, I have seldom seen such an example of plainness in face and person, as my new acquaintance exhibited; yet there was a

propitious and open-hearted worth about her, that engaged the good-will of all around, as I afterwards learnt, notwithstanding the French put an inordinate value on female mein and appearance.

This afternoon, lest I should witness the acmé and essence of French folly in the degrading, guilty amusements of the Champs Elysées and other resorts, I res treated to my chamber, grateful, but not sufficiently so, that there had been accorded to me, the privileges of a Christian Sabbath, although I had not heard officiate the well beloved Oto whose ministrations I was afterwards to become indebted. Would that the eternal right hand of the Lord might be lifted up in kindness upon this city, devoted at present to the Prince of the power of the air! The outward aspect of the spacious scenes I have surveyed this day, are at the passing moment covered with splendour, and agitated with festivity. But were they to be regarded in the mirror of truth, each beautiful chesnut blossom ought to be a sepulchral chaplet, emblematical of death in trespasses and sins the walks should be carpeted in crape; the swans ought to be birds of evil omen; the statues fiends; the jets, cascades of fire. Can charity itself presume that less than this shall be the fate of that place that lives without God in the world. Alas! this thought is searching. Shall more privileged, and therefore more guilty, Scotland escape? Till now she hath

not been hitherto backward to contend with France, in wars of hate and extermination: is she and her inhabitants not called upon now to wage a war of love with the powers of darkness on behalf of France? Let each traveller bethink himself of this, and O! my heart, what hast thou yet done in this honourable combat?→→ Thoughts of this kind, (would I could say deeds!) and some private religious exercises, passed the evening of my first Sabbath in Paris.

Monday, May 5.

This morning M. Joinville, according to appointment, came. I was ready for him at seven; and having mentioned the necessity of Fournier's Grammar, we went out among the booksellers' shops to procure it. After a long tour, which proved unsuccessful, we returned, and merely parlez-vous'd for the present occasion. The shops were mostly open at this early hour, and would have been universally so; but the fatigues of Sunday keeps the trades people longer abed to-day. Thus folks are Mondayish in the Palais Royal, like the clergymen of the Church of England.

: I find considerable variation in understanding the oral language, according as the individual I converse with has been accustomed to talk regularly and grammatically. Mr. O, a public speaker, is plainness itself