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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: trusted, would do it for me: - it is my countryman, the great
Shakespeare, said I, pointing to his works - ET AYEZ LA BOUTE, MON
CHER AMI, apostrophizing his spirit, added I, DE ME FAIRE CET
HONNEUR-LE. -
The Count smiled at the singularity of the introduction; and seeing
I look'd a little pale and sickly, insisted upon my taking an arm-
chair; so I sat down; and to save him conjectures upon a visit so
out of all rule, I told him simply of the incident in the
bookseller's shop, and how that had impelled me rather to go to him
with the story of a little embarrassment I was under, than to any
other man in France. - And what is your embarrassment? let me hear
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