She gave me to understand that a young merchant, one M.Geneve, seemed to wish to obtain her hand.

I saw him once or twice at her lodgings; he appeared to me to be an honest man, and this was his general character.

Persuaded she would be happy with him, I was desirous he should marry her, which he afterwards did; and that I might not disturb their innocent love, I hastened my departure; offering up, for the happiness of that charming woman, prayers, which, here below were not long heard.

Alas! her time was very short, for I afterwards heard she died in the second or third year after her marriage.

My mind, during the journey, was wholly absorbed in tender regret.