Trip 3164 of 4950 collection book66
These compliments being passed the two knights sat down by one another and Sir Stentorbook62 being asked by his neighbour upon what errand he had crossed the seabook72 gave him to understand that he had come to France in consequence of a wager with Squire Snaffle who had laid a thousand pounds that he Sir Stentor would not travel to Paris by himself and for a whole month appear every day at a certain hour in the public walks without wearing any other dress than that in which he saw him. So speaking he thrust out his right hand across the table and shook our hero by the fist with such violence of civility as proved very grievous to a French marquis who in helping himself to soup was jostled in such a manner as to overturn the dividingspoon in his own bosom.... read all
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