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are not to fall short through your fickleness———
———O by heavens! cried I—if fickleness is taxable in France—we have nothing to do but to make the best peace with you we can———
AND SO THE PEACE WAS MADE;
———And if it is a bad one—as Tristram Shandy laid the corner stone of it—nobody but Tristram Shandy ought to be hanged.
CHAP. XXXVII.
Though I was sensible I had said as many clever things to the commissary as came to six livres four sous, yet I was determined to note down the imposition amongst my remarks before I retir'd
