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<dTitle type=main>A Sentimental Journey</dTitle>
<dTitle type=sub>through France and Italy</dTitle>
<byLine>by
<dAuthor>Laurence Sterne</dAuthor> </byLine>
<dImprint>A. L. Burt, Publisher, New York [Not Dated, circa 1890].</dImprint>
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<head> <hi> A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy </hi> </head>
<p>THEY order, said I, this matter better in
France—You have been in France? said my gentleman,
turning quick upon me with the most civil triumph in the world.—Strange!
quoth I, debating the matter with myself, That one
and twenty miles sailing, for 'tis absolutely no further from Dover to
Calais, should give a man these rights—I'll look into
them: so giving up the argument—I went straight to my
lodgings, put up half a dozen shirts and a black pair of silk
breeches—'the coat I have on,' said I, looking at the
sleeve, 'will do'—took a place in the Dover stage; and . . .