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Chapter 62 My uncle Toby turnd his head more than once behind him, to see how he was supported by the corporal; and the corporal as oft as he did it, gave a slight flourish with his stickbut not vapouringly; and with the sweetest accent of most respectful encouragement, bid his honour never fear. Now my uncle Toby did fear; and grievously too; he knew not (as my father had reproachd him) so much as the right end of a Woman from the wrong, and therefore was never altogether at his ease near any one of themunless in sorrow or distress; then infinite was his pity; nor would the most courteous knight of romance have gone further, at least upon one leg, to have wiped away a tear from a womans eye; and yet excepting once that he was beguiled into it by Mrs. Wadman, he had never looked stedfastly into one; and would often tell my father in the simplicity of his heart, that it was almost (if not about) as bad as taking bawdy. And suppose it is? my father would say. |
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