Make the most of it you can, said I to myself, the Bastile is but another word for a tower ;— and a tower is but another word for a house you can't get out of. — Mercy on the gouty ! for they are in it twice a year. — But with nine livres a day,... The Works of Laurence Sterne ... - Seite 132von Laurence Sterne - 1783Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...tower — and a tower is but another word for a house you can't get out of — Mercy on the gouty!2 for they are in it twice a year — but with nine...man can't get out, he may do very well within — at least for a month or six weeks; at the end of which, if he is a harmless fellow his innocence appears,... | |
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