against the Turks, kindling a spark of fire in his bofom, he left his Greek and Latin without leave, and throwing himself upon his knees before my uncle Toby, begged his father's fword, and my uncle Toby's leave along with it, to go and try his fortune under Eugene

Twice did my uncle Toby forget his wound, and cry out, Le Fevre! I will go with thee, and thou shalt fight befide me And twice he laid his hand upon his groin, hung down his head in forrow and difconfolation.

My uncle Toby took down the fword from the crook, where it had hung untouched ever fince the Lieutenant's death, and delivered it to the Corporal to brighten up; and having detained Le Fevre a single fortnight to equip him, and contract for his passage to Leghorn, he put the fword into his hand :— -If thou art brave, Le Fevre, faid my uncle Toby, this will not fail thee;but Fortune, said he, musing a little-Fortune may -And if he does, added my uncle Toby, embracing him, come back again to me, Le Fure, and we will fhape thee another courfe.

The greateft injury could not have oppressed the heart of Le Fevre, more than my uncle Toby's paternal kindness; he parted from my uncle Toby, as the best of fons from the beft of fathers-both dropped tearsand as my uncle Toby gave him his last kifs, he flipped fixty guineas, tied up in an old purse of his father's, in which was his mother's ring, into his hand, and bid God bless him.

Le Fevre got up to the Imperial army just time.

enough to try what metal his fword was made of at the defeat of the Turks before Belgrade; but a feries of unmerited mifchances had pursued him from that moment, and trod close upon his heels for four years together after: he had withstood thefe buffetings to the laft, 'till fickness overtook him at Marfeilles from whence he wrote my uncle Toby word, he had loft his time, his services, his health, and, in fhort, every thing but his fword;—and was waiting for the first fhip to return back to him.

Le Fevre was hourly expected, and was uppermoft in my uncle Toly's mind all the time my father was giving him and Yorick a description of what kind of a perfon he would choose for a preceptor to me: but as my uncle Toby thought my father at first somewhat fanciful in the accomplishments he required, he forbore mentioning Le Fevre's name, till the character by Yorick's interpofition, ending unexpectedly in one, who fhould be gentle-tempered, and generous, and good, it impreffed the image of Le Fevre and his intereft upon my uncle Toby, fo forcibly, he rofe inftantly off his chair; and laying down his pipe, in order to take hold of both my father's hands-I beg, brother Shandy, faid my uncle Toby, I may recom mend poor Le Fevre's fon to you-I beseech you do, added Yorick-He has a good heart, faid my uncle Toby And a brave one too, an't please your honour, faid the Corporal-The best hearts, Trim, are ever the braveft, replied my uncle Toby.

T. SHANDY, VOL. III. CHAP. 49.

THE PULSE.

PARIS.

HAIL, ye fmall fweet courtefies of life, for smooth

do ye make the road of it: like grace and

beauty which beget inclinations to love at first sight÷ tis ye who open this door, and let the stranger in.

-Pray, Madam, faid I, have the goodness to tell me which way I must turn to go to the Opera Comique. -Moft willingly, Monfieur, faid fhe, laying afide her work

I had given a caft with my eye into half a dozen fhops, as I came along, in fearch of a face not likely to be disordered by such an interruption; 'till at last, this hitting my fancy, I had walked in.

She was working a pair of ruffles as the fat in a low chair on the far fide of the fhop, facing the door

-Très-volontiers, moft willingly, faid fhe, laying her work down upon a chair next her, and rifing up from the low chair fhe was fitting in, with fo cheerful a movement, and fo cheerful a look, that had I been laying out fifty louis d'ors with her, I fhould have faid "This woman is grateful."

You must turn, Monfieur, faid fhe, going with me to the door of the fhop, and pointing the way down the ftreet I was to take-you must turn first to your left hand-mais prenez garde-there are two turns;

and be fo good as to take the fecond-then go down a little way and you'll fee a church, and when you are past it, give yourself the trouble to turn directly to the right, and that will lead you to the foot of the Pont neuf, which you must crofs--and there any body will do himself the pleasure to fhew you→→→

She repeated her instructions three times over to> me, with the fame good-natured patience the third time as the first ;-and if tones and manners have a meaning, which certainly they have, unless to hearts which fhut them out-fhe feemed really interefted,. that I fhould not lose myself.

I will not fuppose it was the woman's beauty, notwithstanding she was the handfomeft Griffet, I think,Lever faw, which had much to do with the fense I had: of her courtesy; only I remember, when I told her how much I was obliged to her, that I looked very full in her eyes, and that I repeated my thanks, asoften as fhe had done her inftructions.

I had not got ten paces from the door, before I found I had forgot every tittle of what fhe had faid ;-fo looking back, and feeing her still standing at the door of the shop, as if to look whether I went right or not-I returned back, to ask her whether the first turn was to my right or left-for that I had abfolutely forgot. Is it poffible? faid fle, half laughing.—'Tis very poffible, replied I, when a man is thinking more of a woman than of her good advice..

As this was the real truth-fhe took it, as every woman takes a matter of right, with a flight courtsey.

--At:endez, faid fhe, laying her hand upon my arm to detain me, while fhe called a lad out of the back shop to get ready a parcel of gloves-I am just going to fend him, said she, with a packet into that quarter; and if you will have the complaifance to step in, it will be ready in a moment, and he fhall attend you to the place. So I walked in with her to the far fide of the shop, and taking up the ruffle in my hand which the laid upon the chair, as if I had a mind to fit, fhe fat down herself in her low chair, and I inftantly fat myself down befide her.

He will be ready, Monfieur, faid she, in a moment--And in that moment, replied I, most willingly would I fay fomething very civil to you for all these courtefies. Any one may do a cafual act of good-nature, but a continuation of them fhews it is a part of the temperature; and certainly, added I, if it is the fame blood which comes from the heart, which defcends to the extremes (touching her wrist), I am fure you must have one of the best pulses of any woman in the world-Feel it, faid fhe, holding out her arm. So laying down my hat, I took hold of her fingers in one hand, and applied the two fore-fingers of the other to the artery.

-Would to Heaven, my dear Eugenius, thou hadft paffed by, and beheld me fitting in my black coat, and in my laek-a-day-fical manner, counting the throbs of it, one by one, with as much true devotion as if I had been watching the critical ebb or flow of her fever-How wouldst thou have laughed and