Sterne's ghost at the Hôtel d'Angleterre (1862) [ Residences & Lodgings ]
… 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 school, who has welcomed the finest … Mary of blessed memory, a holy woman. Eh, but Sire Gautier of Mauny was a good knight, a valiant captain, gentle and courteous withal! Do you remember his ransoming the ——?” “What is the old fellow twaddlin' about?” cries Brummell. “He is …
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