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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: when your eyes are fixed upon a dead blank, - you draw purely from
yourselves. A silence of a single moment upon Mons. Dessein's
leaving us, had been fatal to the situation - she had infallibly
turned about; - so I begun the conversation instantly. -
- But what were the temptations (as I write not to apologize for
the weaknesses of my heart in this tour, - but to give an account
of them) - shall be described with the same simplicity with which I
felt them.
THE REMISE DOOR. CALAIS.
WHEN I told the reader that I did not care to get out of the
DESOBLIGEANT, because I saw the monk in close conference with a
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