ld be very unfriendly to offer it; and still all
this while he declined making the proposal, as he called it, and so for
that time we ended our discourse, turning it off to other things. So
that, in short, I began to think he might have met with some disaster in
his business, and might have come away from Paris in some discredit, or
had had some blow on his affairs in general; and as really I had
kindness enough to have parted with a good sum to have helped him, and
was in gratitude bound to have done so, he having so effectually saved
to me all I had, so I resolved to make him the offer the first time I
had an opportunity, which two or three days after offered itself, very
much to my satisfaction.

He had told me at large, though on several occasions, the treatment he
had met with from the Jew, and what expense he had put him to; how at
length he had cast him, as above, and had recovered good damage of him,
but that the rogue was unable to make him any considerable reparation.
He had told me also how the Prince de ----'s gentleman had resented his
treatment of his master, and how he had caused him to be used upon the
Pont Neuf, &c., as I have mentioned above, which I laughed at most
heartily.

"It is a pity," said I, "that I should sit here and make that gentleman
no amends; if you would direct me, sir," said I, "how to do it, I would
make him a handsome present, and acknowledge the justice he had done to
me, as well as to the prince, his master." He said he would do what I
directed in it; so I told him I would send him five hundred crowns.
"That's too much," said he, "for you are but half interested in the
usage of the Jew; it was on his master's account he corrected him, not
on yours." Well, however, we were obliged to do nothing in it, for
neither of us knew how to direct a letter to him, or to direct anybody
to him; so I told him I would leave it till I came to England, for that
my woman, Amy, corresponded with him, and that he had made love to her.

"Well, but, sir," said I, "as, in requital for his generous concern for
me, I am careful to think of him, it is but just that what expense you
have been obliged to be at, which was all on my account, should be
repaid you; and therefore," said I, "let me see--." And there I paused,
and began to reckon up what I had observed, from his own discourse, it
had cost him in the several disputes and hearings which he had with that
dog of a Jew, and I cast them up at something