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 For this reason a great many chuse to go by Beauvais.

before I quit Calais," a travel-writer would say, "it would not be amiss to give some account of it."—now I think it very much amiss—that a man cannot go quietly through a town, and let it alone, when it does not meddle with him, but that he must be turning about and drawing his pen at every kennel he crosses over, merely o' my conscience, for the sake of drawing it; because, if we may judge from what has been wrote of these things, by all who have wrote and gallop'd—or who have gallop'd and wrote, which is a different way still; or who for more expedition