Uncaptioned Vignette: "Yorick and the Lady in the Remise." — Forty-seventh illustration for "A Sentimental Journey" (1841)

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Yorick and the Lady in the Remise.

Jacque and Fussell

Bastin and G. Nichols

1841

Engraving on wood

7.6 cm high by 6.5 cm wide, vignetted

Forty-seventh illustration for A Sentimental Journey (1841 edition), page 40.

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Passage Illustrated

"You need not tell me what the proposal was," said she, laying her hand upon both mine, as she interrupted me. "A man, my good sir, has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman, but she has a presentiment of it some moments before."

"Nature arms her with it," said I, "for immediate preservation." "But I think," said she, looking in my face, "I had no evil to apprehend, and, to deal frankly with you, had determined to accept it. If I had (she stopped a moment), I believe your good will would have drawn a story from me, which would have made Pity the only dangerous thing in the journey."

In saying this, she suffered me to kiss her hand twice, and with a look of sensibility mixed with concern, she got out of the chaise, and bid adieu. ["The Remise. Calais," pp. 39-40]

Bibliography

Sterne, Laurence. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. Illustrated with one hundred engravings on wood, by Bastin and G. Nichols, from original designs by Jacque and Fussell. London: Joseph Thomas, 1841.

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