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Chapter 48 I am half distracted, captain Shandy, said Mrs. Wadman, holding up her cambrick handkerchief to her left eye, as she approachd the door of my uncle Tobys sentry-boxa moteor sandor somethingI know not what, has got into this eye of minedo look into itit is not in the white In saying which, Mrs. Wadman edged herself close in beside my uncle Toby, and squeezing herself down upon the corner of his bench, she gave him an opportunity of doing it without rising upDo look into itsaid she. Honest soul! thou didst look into it with as much innocency of heart, as ever child lookd into a raree- shew-box; and twere as much a sin to have hurt thee. If a man will be peeping of his own accord into things of that nature Ive nothing to say to it My uncle Toby never did: and I will answer for him, that he would have sat quietly upon a sofa from June to January (which, you know, takes in both the hot and cold months), with an eye as fine as the Thracian Rodopes (Rodope Thracia tam inevitabili fascino instructa, tam exacte oculus intuens attraxit, ut si in illam quis incidisset, fieri non posset, quin caperetur.I know not who.) besides him, without being able to tell, whether it was a black or blue one. The difficulty was to get my uncle Toby, to look at one at all. Tis surmounted. And I see him yonder with his pipe pendulous in his hand, and the ashes falling out of itlookingand lookingthen rubbing his eyesand looking again, with twice the good-nature that ever Galileo lookd for a spot in the sun. In vain! for by all the powers which animate the organWidow Wadmans left eye shines this moment as lucid as her rightthere is neither mote, or sand, or dust, or chaff, or speck, or particle of opake matter floating in itThere is nothing, my dear paternal uncle! but one lambent delicious fire, furtively shooting out from every part of it, in all directions, into thine If thou lookest, uncle Toby, in search of this mote one moment longer, thou art undone. |
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