have been taken ill; in short, that some insuperable obstacle had unluckily interposed, and prevented his happiness, notwithstanding his mistress’s kind intentions towards him.  “But wherefore,” said he, “did she forget me in that cursed garden?  Is it possible that she could not find a single moment to make me at least, some sign or other, if she could neither speak to me nor give me admittance?” He knew not which of these conjectures to rely upon, or how to answer his own questions; but as he flattered himself that everything would succeed better the next night, after having vowed not to set a foot again into that unfortunate garden, he gave orders to be awakened as soon as any person should inquire for him:  then he laid himself down in one of the worst beds in the world, and slept as sound as if he had been in the best:  he supposed that he should not be awakened, but either by a letter or a message from Lady Chesterfield; but he had scarce slept two hours when he was roused by the sound of the horn and the cry of the hounds.  The but which afforded him a retreat, joining, as we before said, to the park wall, he called his host, to know what was the occasion of that hunting, which made a noise as if the whole pack of hounds had been in his bed-chamber.  He was told that it was my lord hunting a hare in his park.  “What lord?” said he, in great surprise.  “The Earl of Chesterfield,” replied the pea sant.  He was so astonished at this that at first he hid his head under the bed-clothes, under the idea that he already saw him entering with all his bounds; but as soon as he had a little recovered himself he began to curse capricious fortune, no longer doubting but this jealous fool’s return had occasioned all his tribulations in the preceding night.

It was not possible for him to sleep again, after such an alarm; he therefore got up, that he might revolve in his mind all the stratagems that are usually employed either to deceive, or to remove out of the way, a jealous scoundrel of a husband, who thought fit to neglect his law-suit in order to plague his wife.  He had just finished dressing himself, and was beginning to question his landlord, when the same servant who had conducted him to the garden delivered him a letter, and disappeared, without waiting for an answer.  This letter was from his relation, and was to this effect: 

“I am extremely sorry that I have innocently been accessary to bringing you to a place, to which you were only invited to be laughed at:  I opposed this journey at first, though I was then persuaded it was wholly suggested by her tenderness; but she has now undeceived me:  she triumphs in the trick she has played you:  her husband has not stirred from hence, but stays at home, out of complaisance to her:  he treats her in the most affectionate manner; and it was upon their reconciliation that she found out that you had advised him to carry her into the country.  She has conceived such hatred and aversion against you for it, that I find, from her