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** not to be informed, that there is no charity in 

 ** pariflies for us miferable Jews." At thefe words, 

 her tears began to flow more copioufly, and (lie 

 arofe to go on her way. I tendered her a fmall 

 pittance toward her prefent relief, which I befought 

 her to accept, at lead as a mark of my good-will. 

 She received it, and returned me more reverences 

 and thanks, and loaded me with more benedic- 

 tions, than if I had re-eftabliflied her hufband's 

 credit. How many delicious banquets might that 

 man enjoy, who would thus lay out three or four 

 hundred pounds a year ! , 



My different eftablilhments, fcattered over the 

 Capital and the vicinity, variegate my life moft in- 

 nocently and moft agreeably. In Winter, I take 

 up my refidence in that which is expofed com- 

 pletely to the noon-day Sun; in Summer, I re- 

 move to that which has a northern afpeâ:, and 

 hangs over the cooling ftream. At another time, 

 I pitch my tent in the neighbourhood of the Rue 

 d'Artois, among piles of hewn ftone, where I fee 

 palaces rifing around me, pediments decorated 

 with fphynxes, domes, kiofques. I take care never 

 to enquire to whom they belong. Ignorance h 

 the mother of pleafure and of admiration. I am 

 in Egypt, at Babylon, in China. To-day I fup 

 under an acacia, and am in America : to-morrow, 

 I Ihall dine in the midft pf a kitchen-garden, 



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