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A YEAR'S JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE, AND PART OF SPAIN.
by
PHILIP THICKNESSE.
VOLUME II
Dublin
Printed by J. Williams, (No. 21.) Skinner-Row.
M,DCC,LXXVII.
A
JOURNEY, &c.
LETTER XXXIV.
NISMES
SIR,
I am very certain that a man may travel twice through Spain, and half
through France, before he sees a woman of so much beauty, elegance, and
breeding, as the mistress of the house I lodge in near this city. I was
directed to the house, and recommended to the lady, as a lodger; but
both were so fine, and superior in all respects to any thing I had seen
out of Paris, that I began to suspect I had been imposed upon. The lady
who received me appeared to be (it was candle-light) about eighteen, a
tall, elegant figure, a beautiful face, and an address inferior to none:
I concluded she was the daughter, till she informed me, that _Mons.
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