A novel, 1768
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Yorick travels through France toward Italy with his servant La Fleur, seeking human connection while contending with impatience, attraction, social hypocrisy, and the threat of imprisonment.
How it begins
—Et le bon Dieu vous bénisse encore, said the old soldier, the dwarf, &c. The pauvre honteux could say nothing;—he pull’d out a little handkerchief, and wiped his face as he turned away—and I thought he thanked me more than them all.
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