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Chapter 63 She cannot, quoth my uncle Toby, halting, when they had marchd up to within twenty paces of Mrs. Wadmans doorshe cannot, corporal, take it amiss. She will take it, an please your honour, said the corporal, just as the Jews widow at Lisbon took it of my brother Tom. And how was that? quoth my uncle Toby, facing quite about to the corporal. Your honour, replied the corporal, knows of Toms misfortunes; but this affair has nothing to do with them any further than this, That if Tom had not married the widowor had it pleased God after their marriage, that they had but put pork into their sausages, the honest soul had never been taken out of his warm bed, and draggd to the inquisitionTis a cursed placeadded the corporal, shaking his head,when once a poor creature is in, he is in, an please your honour, for ever. Tis very true; said my uncle Toby, looking gravely at Mrs. Wadmans house, as he spoke. Nothing, continued the corporal, can be so sad as confinement for lifeor so sweet, an please your honour, as liberty. Nothing, Trimsaid my uncle Toby, musing Whilst a man is free,cried the corporal, giving a flourish with his stick thus A thousand of my fathers most subtle syllogisms could not have said more for celibacy. My uncle Toby lookd earnestly towards his cottage and his bowling-green. The corporal had unwarily conjured up the Spirit of calculation with his wand; and he had nothing to do, but to conjure him down again with his story, and in this form of Exorcism, most un-ecclesiastically did the corporal do it. |
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