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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: dining with him before I set out for Italy; - so took my leave.
THE TEMPTATION. PARIS.
WHEN I alighted at the hotel, the porter told me a young woman with
a bandbox had been that moment enquiring for me. - I do not know,
said the porter, whether she is gone away or not. I took the key
of my chamber of him, and went upstairs; and when I had got within
ten steps of the top of the landing before my door, I met her
coming easily down.
It was the fair FILLE DE CHAMBRE I had walked along the Quai de
Conti with; Madame de R- had sent her upon some commission to a
MARCHANDE DES MODES within a step or two of the Hotel de Modene;
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