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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: --They were the sweetest notes I ever heard; and I instantly let down the
fore-glass to hear them more distinctly--'Tis Maria; said the postillion,
observing I was listening--Poor Maria, continued he (leaning his body on
one side to let me see her, for he was in a line betwixt us), is sitting
upon a bank playing her vespers upon her pipe, with her little goat beside
her.
The young fellow utter'd this with an accent and a look so perfectly in
tune to a feeling heart, that I instantly made a vow, I would give him a
four-and-twenty sous piece, when I got to Moulins--
--And who is poor Maria? said I.
The love and piety of all the villages around us; said the postillion--it
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