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 are not to fall short through your fickleness

O by heavens! cried I—if fickleness is taxable in France—we have nothing to do but to make the best peace with you we can

And if it is a bad one—as Tristram Shandy laid the corner stone of it—nobody but Tristram Shandy ought to be hanged.

I was sensible I had said as many clever things to the commissary as came to six livres four sous, yet I was determined to note down the imposition amongst my remarks before I