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Then, addreffing himfelf to me, he fhewed me his 

 two wriils, galled to the quick by the iron ma- 

 nacles with which he had been confined. 



" You fee. Sir," faid he to me, " in what man- 

 ** ner I am treated !" I turned to the monk, with 

 an expreffion of indignation at a conduct fo bar- 

 barous. He coolly replied : *' Oh ! I can put an 

 " end to all his fine reafoning in a moment." I 

 addrefl'ed, however, a few words of confolation to 

 the unfortunate man, who, looking at me with an 

 air of confidence, faid, *' I think, Sir, 1 have feen 

 *' you at S. Hubert, at the houfe of M. the Mare- 

 ** fchal de Broglio^ " You muft be miftaken, 

 *' Sir," replied I, ** 1 never had the honour of 

 *^ being at the Marefchal de Broglio's,.^' Upon 

 that, he inftituted a procefs of recolledion, re- 

 fpeding the different places where he thought he 

 had feen me, with circumftances fo accurately de- 

 tailed, and clothed with fiich appearances of pro- 

 bability, that the monk, nettled at his well-me- 

 rited reproaches, and at the good fenfe which he 

 difplayed, thought proper to interrupt his conver- 

 fation, by introducing a difcourfe about marriage, 

 the purchafe of horfes, and fo on. The moment 

 that the chord of his infanity was touched, his head 

 was gone. On going out, the monk told me, that 

 this poor lunatic was a man of very conliderablc 

 birth. Some time afterward, I had the pleafure of 



being 



