damsel's temper on this occasion, it may not be deemed unnecessary to state, that she had just quitted not the most honourable of services, although it was that of an honourable by title, and finding herself by no means flush of cash, she determined upon consigning her charms for one night to the arms of her star-breasted acquaintance, thinking thereby to replenish the nearly exhausted store of her purse.

How far she succeeded, we, are unable to ascertain; but it is more than probable his grace was taken in for a

pretty good sum, as the lady was com .pletely adept in the Cyprian science.

Unfortunately for our hero, he did not reap the fruits of his acquaintance with the lady as peaceably as he could have wished.

A captain of dragoons, well known from the eccentricity of his character, happened to be in the inn at the time that the negociation was going on, and having learned from an officious chamber-maid the propinquity of the dam.

sel's resting-place to that of her temporary protector, he immediately smelt arat, and resolved upon laying a trap.

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In order to forward his design, he procured a chamber adjacent to those of the happy pair, and having retired

to it as for the night, took care to leave

his door in so convenient a position,

that he might have ocular, as well as oral cognizance of every thing that should pass in the gallery, into which most of the chambers opened.

His surmise proved not entirely

groundless.

The lady was first lighted to her apartment, and the gallant, gay Lothario, in a few minutes afterwards, to his.

This done, all was once more darkness and silence; but scarcely had a quarter of an hour elapsed, before the noble duke, attired in a flowered nightgown, blue velvet slippers, and a muslin night-cap, trimmed with lace, holding a taper in his hand, was seen by

the vigilant captain, to step cautiously towards the door of his fair neighbour.

A gentle tap announced his arrival at the seat of bliss; the door was quickly opened, and his grace admitted into the chamber of the lovely impure.

The captain perceiving all that had occurred, left his chamber with the utmost precaution, gently locked the. door after him, and put the key into his pocket: then advancing on tiptoe, he gained the chamber which had