I told the woman that the coin was a French one, but that it was worth about the same as an English guinea.

I advised them to put it away, for the present, and not to try and change it for a few weeks, as enquiries might be made as to how they had obtained it.
"I had no difficulty on my way up to London.

I avoided the main road till I got to Colchester, and after that walked boldly on, having money to pay for victuals.

When I got to town, I changed another of my louis at a money changer's.

He asked me where I had got it, and when I said that it was no business of his, but that it had been paid me by a French Huguenot gentleman, who had lately arrived, and for whom I had been doing some work; and as there are many of these Huguenots in London, he was satisfied, and changed it for me.
"I then fell across the Irish porter I told you of.