season his majesty king george the third was present with all the and royal while upwards of three of the general nobility and other persons of distinction were also in the town at the time carriages and other were arriving every minute from london and elsewhere and when among the rest a shabby stage coach came in by a by route along the coast from and drew up at a second rate tavern it attracted comparatively little notice from this dusty vehicle a man alighted left his small quantity of luggage temporarily at the office and walked along the street as if to look for lodgings he was about forty five � possibly fifty � and wore a long coat of faded cloth with a heavy collar and a up he seemed to desire obscurity but the display appeared presently to strike him and he asked of a rustic he met in the street what was going on his accent being that of one to whom english was difficult the looked at him with a slight surprise and said is here and his royal the stranger inquired if they were going to stay long don t know sir same as they always do i suppose how long is that till some time in october they ve come here every since eighty nine stranger moved onward down st thomas street and approached the bridge over the harbour that then as now connected the old town with the more modem portion the spot was swept a committee man op the terror with the rays of a low sun which lit up the harbour and shone under the brim of the man s hat and into his eyes as he looked westward against the radiance figures were crossing in the opposite direction to his own among them this lady of my mother s later acquaintance v she was the daughter of a good old french family and at that date a pale woman twenty eight or thirty years of age tall and elegant io figure but plainly dressed and wearing that evening she said a small muslin shawl crossed over the bosom in the fashion of the time and tied behind at sight of his face which as she used to tell us was distinct in the peering sunlight she could not help giving a little shriek of horror for a terrible reason connected with her history and after walking a few steps further she sank down against the of the bridge in a fainting fit in his the foreign gentleman had hardly noticed her but her strange immediately attracted his attention he quickly crossed the picked her up and carried her into the first op adjoining the bridge explaining that she was a lady who had been taken ill outside she soon revived but clearly much puzzled her perceived that she still had a dread of him which was to hinder her complete recovery of self command she spoke in a quick and nervous way to the asking him to call a coach this the did v and the stranger remaining in constrained silence while he was gone the coach came up and giving the man the address she entered it and drove away who is that lady said the newly arrived gentleman she s of your nation as i should make bold to suppose said the and he told the other that she was v at general s in the same town a committee man op the terror i you have many foreigners here the stranger inquired yes though mostly but since the peace they are learning french a good deal in genteel society and french are rather in demand yes i teach it said the visitor i am looking for a in an academy the information given by the to the frenchman seemed to explain to the latter nothing of his s conduct � which indeed was the case � and he left the shop taking his course again over the bridge and along the south to the old rooms inn where he engaged a thoughts of the woman who had betrayed such agitation at sight of him lingered naturally enough with the though as i stated not less than thirty years of age v one of his own nation and of highly refined and delicate appearance had kindled a singular interest in the middle aged gentleman s breast and her large dark eyes as they had opened and shrunk from wm exhibited a pathetic beauty to which hardly any man could have been insensible the next day having written some letters he went out and made known at the office of the town guide and of the newspaper that a teacher of french and had arrived leaving a card at the s to the same effect he then walked on but at length inquired the way to general s at the door without giving his name he asked to see v and was shown into a little back parlour where she came to him with a gaze of my god why do you intrude here she gasped in french as soon as she saw his face you were taken ill yesterday i helped you you might have been run over if i had not picked you up it was an act of simple humanity certainly but i thought i might come to ask if you had recovered hi i n a committee man op the terror she had aside and had scarcely heard a word of his speech i hate you infamous man i she said i cannot bear your helping me go away but you are a stranger to me i know you too well you have the advantage then i am a here i never have seen you before to my knowledge and i certainly do not could not hate you are you not b he i am � in paris he said but here i am 