⸺Now this is the most puzzled skein of all⸺for in this last chapter, as far at least as it has help’d me through Auxerre , I have been getting forwards in two different journies together, and with the same dash of the pen—for I have got entirely out of Auxerre in this journey which I am writing now, and I am got halfway out of Auxerre in that which I shall write hereafter⸺There is but a certain degree of perfection in everything; and by pushing at something beyond that, I have brought myself into such a situation, as no traveller ever stood before me; for I am this moment walking across the marketplace of Auxerre with my father and my uncle Toby , in our way back to dinner⸺and I am this moment also entering Lyons with my post-chaise broke into a thousand pieces—and I am moreover this moment in a handsome pavillion built by Pringello , upon the banks of the Garonne , which Mons. Sligniac has lent me, and where I now sit rhapsodising all these affairs.
⸺Let me collect myself, and pursue my journey.