FULL STORY OF A COPY OF HEINECCIUS The place found was in the upper part of a house backed on a canal.

We had two rooms, the second entering from the first; each had a chimney built out into the floor in the Dutch manner; and being alongside, each had the same prospect from the window of the top of a tree below us in a little court, of a piece of the canal, and of houses in the Hollands architecture and a church spire upon the further side.

A full set of bells hung in that spire and made delightful music; and when there was any sun at all, it shone direct in our two chambers.

From a tavern hard by we had good meals sent in.
The first night we were both pretty weary, and she extremely so.

There was little talk between us, and I packed her off to her bed as soon as she had eaten.