She Had Scarce Got Twenty Paces Distant From Me, Ere Something Within Me Called Out For A More Particular Enquiry; - It Brought On The Idea Of A Further Separation:

- I might possibly never see her more:

- The heart is for saving what it can; and I wanted the traces through which my wishes might find their way to her, in case I should never rejoin her myself; in a word, I wished to know her name, - her family's - her condition; and as I knew the place to which she was going, I wanted to know from whence she came: but there was no coming at all this intelligence; a hundred little delicacies stood in the way. I form'd a score different plans. - There was no such thing as a man's asking her directly; - the thing was impossible.

A little French debonnaire captain, who came dancing down the street, showed me it was the easiest thing in the world: for, popping in betwixt us, just as the lady was returning back to the door of the Remise, he introduced himself to my acquaintance, and before he had well got announced, begg'd I would do him the honour to present him to the lady. - I had not been presented myself; - so turning about to her, he did it just as well, by asking her if she had come from Paris? No: she was going that route, she said. - Vous n'etes pas de Londres? - She was not, she replied. - Then Madame must have come through Flanders.

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