A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY. THE FILLE DE CHAMBRE. PARIS. HAT the old French officer had delivered upon travelling, bringing Polonius's advice to his son, upon the same subject, into my head,and that bringing in Hamlet,-and Hamlet the rest of Shakespeare's Works, I stopt at the Quai de Conti, in my return home, to purchase the whole set. The bookseller said he had not a set in the world.Comment! said I, taking one up out of a set which lay upon the counter betwixt us.- -He said, they were sent him only to be got bound; and were to be sent back to Versailles in the morning to the Count de B****. -And does the Count de B****, said I, read Shakespeare? C'est un esprit fort, replied the bookseller.-He loves English books; and what is more to his honour, Monsieur, he loves the English too.-You speak this so 932 |