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singular and pleasant, that I found it impossible to sustain the conversation any longer. I rose to leave her; she called me with a feeble voice, telling me, at the same time, she was going to close her eyes, faint, and fall into dreadful convulsions. I got away, and went to relate my adventure to the sylph and the philosopher.

You pretend, said I, to Gelanor, this palace can only give me pain, and that it can never be of use to me, while I am attached to the world; that, in a word, it is only fit for one who is already undeceived by reason, and freed from the power of the passions; but do you not now see its use? For, had not I brought Arpalisa hither, I should have married a woman at once old, ugly, deceitful, ambitious, and wicked.

But, my lord, replied Gelanor, you might, without setting foot in this palace, have easily sera this was nearly as she is, had you been fess subject to take things on trust, and had you less vanity. Learn to see with your own eyes, to judge from facts, and not from

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