eived
his lady, attended by her spouse, who at sight of our hero changed
colour and looked another way, in order to discourage any communication
between them. But the young man, who was not so easily repulsed,
advanced with great assurance to his fellow-traveller, and taking him by
the hand, expressed his satisfaction at this unexpected meeting; kindly
upbraiding him for his precipitate retreat from Chantilly. Before
Hornbeck could make any reply he went up to his wife, whom he
complimented in the same manner; assuring her, with some significant
glances, he ass extremely mortified that she had put it out of his power
to pay his respects to her on his first arrival at Paris; and then,
turning to her husband, who thought proper to keep close to him in this
conference, begged to know where he could have the honour of waiting
upon him; observing at the same time, that he himself lived a l'Academie
de Palfrenier.

Mr. Hornbeck, without making any apology for his elopement on the road,
thanked Mr. Pickle for his complaisance in a very cool and disobliging
manner; saying that as he intended to shift his lodgings in a day or
two, he could not expect the pleasure of seeing him, until he should be
settled, when he would call at the academy, and conduct him to his new
habitation.

Pickle, who was not unacquainted with the sentiments of this jealous
gentleman, did not put much confidence in his promise, and therefore
made divers efforts to enjoy a little private conversation with his
wife; but he was baffled in all his attempts by the indefatigable
vigilance of her keeper, and reaped no other immediate pleasure from
this accidental meeting, than that of a kind squeeze while he handed her
into the coach. However, as he had been witness to some instances of
her invention, and was no stranger to the favourable disposition of
her heart, he entertained some faint hopes of profiting by her
understanding, and was not deceived in his expectation; for the very
next forenoon, a Savoyard called at the academy, and put the following
billet in his hand:--

"Coind Sur,--Heaving the playsure of meating with you at the
osspital of awilheads, I take this lubbertea of latin you
know, that I lotch at the hottail de May cong dangle rouy
Doghouseten, with two postis at the gait, naytheir of um very
hole, ware I shall be at the windore, if in kais you will be
so good as to pass that way at sicks a cloak in the heavening