Dessein and his hotel (1768) [ Places ]
… struck my fancy that it belong’d to some Innocent Traveller , who, on his return home, had left it to Mons. Dessein’s honour to make the most of. Four months had elapsed since it had finished its career of Europe in the corner of Mons. … got half-way to Paris,—figure to yourself how much I should suffer, in giving an ill impression of myself to a man of honour, and lying at the mercy, as I must do, d’un homme d’esprit . The dose was made up exactly after my own …
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