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Chapter 56 Well! dear brother Toby, said my father, upon his first seeing him after he fell in loveand how goes it with your Asse? Now my uncle Toby thinking more of the part where he had had the blister, than of Hilarions metaphorand our preconceptions having (you know) as great a power over the sounds of words as the shapes of things, he had imagined, that my father, who was not very ceremonious in his choice of words, had enquired after the part by its proper name: so notwithstanding my mother, doctor Slop, and Mr. Yorick, were sitting in the parlour, he thought it rather civil to conform to the term my father had made use of than not. When a man is hemmd in by two indecorums, and must commit one of emI always observelet him chuse which he will, the world will blame himso I should not be astonished if it blames my uncle Toby. My A..e, quoth my uncle Toby, is much betterbrother ShandyMy father had formed great expectations from his Asse in this onset; and would have brought him on again; but doctor Slop setting up an intemperate laughand my mother crying out L... bless us!it drove my fathers Asse off the fieldand the laugh then becoming generalthere was no bringing him back to the charge, for some time And so the discourse went on without him. Every body, said my mother, says you are in love, brother Toby,and we hope it is true. I am as much in love, sister, I believe, replied my uncle Toby, as any man usually isHumph! said my fatherand when did you know it? quoth my mother When the blister broke; replied my uncle Toby. My uncle Tobys reply put my father into good temperso he chargd o foot. |
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