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But in order to put a stop to the practice of any unfair play on the part of my mother, which a marriage-article of this nature too manifestly opened a door to, and which indeed had never been thought of at all, but for my uncle Toby Shandy; a clause was added in security of my father which was this: 'That in case my mother hereafter should, at any time, put my father to the trouble and expence of a London journey, upon false cries and tokens; that for every such instance, she should forfeit all the right and title which the covenant gave her to the next turn; but to no more, and so on, toties quoties, in as effectual a manner, as if such a covenant betwixt them had not been made. This, by the way, was no more than what was reasonable; and yet, as reasonable as it was, I have ever thought it hard that the whole weight of the article should have fallen entirely, as it did, upon myself.
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