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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: turning about to her, he did it just as well, by asking her if she
had come from Paris? No: she was going that route, she said. -
VOUS N'ETES PAS DE LONDRES? - She was not, she replied. - Then
Madame must have come through Flanders. - APPAREMMENT VOUS ETES
FLAMMANDE? said the French captain. - The lady answered, she was. -
PEUT ETRE DE LISLE? added he. - She said, she was not of Lisle. -
Nor Arras? - nor Cambray? - nor Ghent? - nor Brussels? - She
answered, she was of Brussels.
He had had the honour, he said, to be at the bombardment of it last
war; - that it was finely situated, POUR CELA, - and full of
noblesse when the Imperialists were driven out by the French (the
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