[Gutenberg 804] • A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
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- Authors
- Sterne, Laurence
- Publisher
- Wildside Press
- Tags
- travelers -- fiction , clergy -- fiction , british -- italy -- fiction , psychological fiction , classics , france -- fiction , italy -- fiction , travel , british -- france -- fiction , humorous stories
- ISBN
- 9780809567324
- Date
- 1768-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.14 MB
- Lang
- en
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?