Sterne's ghost at the Hôtel d'Angleterre (1862) [ Residences & Lodgings ]
… dearest, one of the most comfortable hotels on the continent of Europe. There is no town more French than Calais. That charming old “Hotel Dessein,” with its court, its gardens, its lordly kitchen, its princely waiter—a gentleman of the old … to be no other than the notorious, nay, celebrated Mr. Laurence Sterne. “Does not the sight of a beautiful infant charm and melt you, mon ami? If not, I pity you. Yes, he was beautiful. I was in London the year he was born. I used to …
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