- He Never Stopp'd A Woman,
But She Pull'd Out Her Purse, And Immediately Gave Him Something.
I could form no system to explain the phenomenon.
I had got a riddle to amuse me for the rest of the evening; so I
walk'd upstairs to my chamber.
THE CASE OF CONSCIENCE. PARIS.
I was immediately followed up by the master of the hotel, who came
into my room to tell me I must provide lodgings elsewhere. - How so,
friend? said I. - He answered, I had had a young woman lock'd up
with me two hours that evening in my bedchamber, and 'twas against
the rules of his house. - Very well, said I, we'll all part friends
then, - for the girl is no worse, - and I am no worse, - and you will
be just as I found you. - It was enough, he said, to overthrow the
credit of his hotel. - Voyez vous, Monsieur, said he, pointing to
the foot of the bed we had been sitting upon. - I own it had
something of the appearance of an evidence; but my pride not
suffering me to enter into any detail of the case, I exhorted him
to let his soul sleep in peace, as I resolved to let mine do that
night, and that I would discharge what I owed him at breakfast.
I should not have minded, Monsieur, said he, if you had had twenty
girls - 'Tis a score more, replied I, interrupting him, than I ever
reckon'd upon - Provided, added he, it had been but in a morning.
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