A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyAlan Rodgers Books LLC, 2005 - 108 Seiten
CALAIS When I had fished my dinner, and drank the King of France's health, to satisfy my mind that I bore him no spleen, but, on the contrary, high honor for the humanity of his temper, -- I rose up an inch taller for the accommodation. -- No -- said I -- the Bourbon is by no means a cruel race: they may be misled, like other people; but there is a mildness in their blood. As I acknowledged this, I felt a suffusion of a finer kind upon my cheek -- more warm and friendly to man, than what Burgundy (at least of two livres a bottle, which was such as I had been drinking) could have produced. -- Just God! said I, kicking my portmanteau aside, what is there in this world's goods which should sharpen our spirits, and make so many kind-hearted brethren of us fall out so cruelly as we do by the way? |
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... chaises . It mu IN THE STREET . CALAIS . _t must needs be a hostile kind of a world , when the buyer ( if it be but of a sorry post - chaise ) cannot go forth with the seller thereof into the street to terminate the difference betwixt ...
... chaises . The first object which caught my eye , as Mons . Dessein open'd the door of the Remise , was another old ... chaise upon us , and left us . - - THE REMISE . CALAIS . C'est - ' est bien LAURENCE STERNE 23 THE REMISE. CALAIS. ...
... chaise , and acquaint the lady , the count de L ——— , her brother , was just arrived at the hotel . Though I had infinite good will for the lady , I cannot say that I rejoiced in my heart at the event and could not help telling her so ...