Tristram Shandy

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1900 Excerpt: ... A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY Bv MR. YORICK A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY--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 the packet sailing at nine the next morning--by three I had got sat down to my dinner upon a fricaseed chicken, so incontestably in France, that had I died that night of an indigestion, the whole world could not have suspended the effects of the Droits d'aubaine1--my shirts, and black pair of silk breeches--portmanteau and all must have gone to the King of France--even the little picture which I have so long worn, and so often have told thee, Eliza, I would carry with me into my grave, would have been torn from my neck.--Ungenerous!--to seize upon the wreck of an unwary passenger, whom your subjects had beckoned to their coast--by heaven! Sire, it 1 All the effects of strangers (Swiss and Scotch excepted) dying in France, are seized by virtue of this law, though the heir be upon the spot--the profit of these contingencies being farmed, there is no redress. is not well done; and much does it grieve me, 'tis the monarch of a people so civilized and courteous, and so renowned for sentiment and fine feelings, that I have to reason with--But I have scarce set foot in your dominions--CALAIS W...