I travel by water --I am going down the _Rhne_ this very afternoon--my baggage is in the boat--and I have actually paid nine livres for my passage----
_C'est tout egal_--'tis all one; said he.
_Bon Dieu!_ what, pay for the way I go! and for the way I do _not_ go!
----_C'est tout egal_; replied the commissary----
----The devil it is! said I--but I will go to ten thousand Bastiles first----
_O England! England!_ thou land of liberty, and climate of good sense, thou tenderest of mothers--and gentlest of nurses, cried I, kneeling upon one knee, as I was beginning my apostrophe.
When the director of Madam _Le Blanc's_ conscience coming in at that instant, and seeing a person in black, with a face as pale as ashes, at his devotions--looking still paler by the contrast and distress of his drapery--ask'd, if I stood in want of the aids of the church----

'I travel by water - I am going down the Rhne this very afternoon - my baggage is in the boat - and I have actually paid nine livres for my passage.'
''Tis all one,' said he.
'Mon Dieu! what, pay for the way I go! and for the way I do not go!'
''Tis all one.'
'The devil it is!' said I - 'but I will go to ten thousand Bastilles first - O England! England! thou land of liberty and good sense, thou tenderest of mothers and gentlest of nurses,' cried I, falling upon one knee.
The priest coming in at that instant, and seeing a person in black, kneeling, with a face as pale as ashes, asked if I needed the aid of the church-
